Oval over Citrus Heights, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Slowly floating object with strange lights, moving across the city.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-03-03 → 2012-03-20
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April 29, 2020 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Citrus Heights, CA
We saw an object that looked like a star vibrating in place and after a minute it went vertical into the sky. Then a minute later another one appeared in same area and dissipated then showed up again seconds later in the same vertical pattern going the same direction then dissipated into nothing.
April 16, 2020 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Citrus Heights, CA
Starting at 9:00PM us 4 saw 3 star looking formations in shape of an acute triangle moving over the sky in unison perfectly spaced from each other. Then following the triangle came about 20 more star formations followed in a straight line perfectly spaced. Then a pattern of straight ufos move along with triangles. It happened for 20 minutes in one direction then they would start in another direction. They kept coming like they were in orbit together lasting an hour. We found out they were not satellites.
April 15, 2020 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Citrus Heights, CA
I was on the phone, I went outside to smoke and this huge bright orange/red orb seemed to be hovering above my neighbors house. It seemed so low, but I thought this can't be, this huge orange blinking orb right here? I was telling my cousin on the phone what I was witnessing. It scared me, so I went back inside. I never even thought about taking a picture. Here's where it gets really weird. The following day I had zig zag scratches on my back and a mass near my spine. The scratches are gone, the mass is still there. I'm not sure if related, but they weren't there that night and were the next day. Scary.
November 24, 2019 · 5:25 AM · OTHER
Citrus Heights, CA
I woke up early and took my dog outside, it was still dark and I was looking at the night sky when I though I saw a satellite, I watched it for a few seconds before it disappeared, I then noticed several more following in the same direction, all equal distant apart except for one which was flying to the right of the group, I counted ten in a row that were going North to South. The all looked like satelittes or stars (very high), no flickering from lights and they were moving too fast for an aircraft. I was an aviator in the US military for 30 years and have never seen anything like this.
September 21, 2019 · 12:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Citrus Heights, CA
Partner and I having cigarette just after midnight. Clear sky but a considerable amount of light pollution. After we sat down I looked south into the night sky and saw what looked like a star at first but upon focusing my eyes better it looked like a dim fireball very far off in the distance at about 30* up from southern horizon. Looked like tiny fireball boosting leaving a tracer, breaking or slowing for an instant and then boosting again as if some kind of pulse propulsion. Had a tiny decline between pulses. It "boosted" about 6 times. So distant I had to look away and blink a few times to make sure I wasn't seeing a bug under a lamp etc. Incident occurred quickly over about 15-20 seconds and was gone. My partner watched the whole thing too. We both questioned our vision at first before I actually spoke up.
July 3, 2018 · 10:05 PM · CIRCLE
Citrus Heights, CA
Sitting on back patio of apartment with husband. We looked up and saw an orange globe flying through the sky at a very fast rate. It was not a drone, helicopter or plane. The shape was a perfect circle and about the size of lime from our distance. So it would be much larger up close. Neither my husband or myself have ever seen a craft like this before. We live near two aircraft runways and a local airport so sky crafts are common and we would be very able to tell if this were any of those more common crafts.