As reported

Oval over Fair Oaks, CA

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The report, as filed

5 ufo's very bright then turned dark and flew directly over us having no sound.

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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October 4, 2023 · 3:10 PM · OTHER

Fair Oaks, CA

I just made a report of what I saw 2 days ago, come out to the backyard and see them again, but only about 5. They seem to be flying very high, because they appear in the middle of the blue sky, do some circles, and vanish again in the blue sky. They were about 5 white dots. They could be birds, but I don't see where they come from or where they go. It just looks like they come from a high altitude and go back vary high.

October 2, 2023 · 4:04 PM · UNKNOWN

Fair Oaks, CA

Laying down on lounge by the pool and looking at the mostly clear blue sky, I saw a white dot (could not identify shape) doing circles high above (it seemed to be at high altitude where planes navigate or higher). While trying to identify it (at first I assumed it was a bird, although the height was unusual), I saw two more dots appear from the blue sky (as if altitude was reduced, therefore making them visible to my eyes), also going in circular motion and then in undulated paths, then back to circles. As I was watching the 3 dots, more began appearing, as if materializing in the blue sky. The amount kept increasing rapidly, and I began counting them. When the count got to 20, I noticed more dots were already appearing high in the sky, in in what I estimate twice the amount I had counted or more. I estimate between 60 and 80 dots flying in circles, and then I assumed they were drones. Most of the dots were visible for about a minute, leaving about 7 that kept doing circles and undulated paths for about 4 minutes. As I tried to identify what they were, they began fading in the blue sky as if their altitude was increasing and my eyes slowly lost them in the blue. At the end of the sighting, I saw an airplane passing and it seemed to go underneath the altitude of the dots, I also saw some birds at much lower altitude, which is when I decided they could not be either planes or birds. They did not take off from the ground nor did they land: They appeared from the blue sky and vanished in the blue sky, which led me to think they were not commercial drones. I look at the sky daily t clear my mind, and it's the only time I have seen a phenomena like this. If they were drones, I would certainly like to know which kind flies so high, to the point of giving the illusion that they come from high in the atmosphere and go back to it, as if leaving away towards the space. When they began disappearing, I followed just one (the total amount was overwhelming to my eyes and very hard to follow) to see where they were headed, but it simply became smaller and smaller in the blue sky. Sometimes they circled at slow speed, which made me think initially of birds. But they would accelerate suddenly to which seem like faster than an airplane. One more person was with me and saw them as well, without being able to identify their nature. I took video, however my phone captured mostly blue sky, and two blurry dots, so something is visible in the images yet very blurry (I assume because of the altitude at which they flew) and the images don't give an idea of what are the blurry white dots in the sky.

June 4, 2016 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE

Fair Oaks, CA

While walking my dog, I observed a circular object at 1945 hrs in the sky that was stationary. It was a dark metallic color. It struck me as odd that the shape was not moving. The object was just below the cloud deck. I thought maybe it was a raptor riding thermal currents; but I thought this was not possible do to the stationary status of the object. Besides, this object did not behaving like raptors I have viewed before over my neighborhood. I observed the object for a full five minutes; after which I went to my house to retrieve my bird watching binoculars (@ 1950 hrs). When I returned to the same vantage point to view the object it was still staionary, in they sky, below the cloud deck, not having moved. By this time it was 1952 hrs. As I viewed the object with my binoculars I could see a slight glint or light on the western side of the object. Suddenly the object vanished. I had the strange feeling that the object knew I was observing it when it dissapeared. I continued the watch in and around the same area of the sky for another five minutes ... it never reappeared. If I were to pinpoint the location I would have to say the object was over the city of Folsom, Ca, north and slightly east by Folsom lake. One thought that crossed my mind was that this may have been a mylar balloon, however at the height which I observed it, I don't believe that to be the case.

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