Fireball over Turlock, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Fireball like object moving slowly down and east then pausing and bouncing then to decrease in mass and to then drop low out of sight.
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 2014-03-02 → 2014-03-19
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October 11, 2022 · 10:33 PM · TRIANGLE
Turlock, CA
This is the third time I’ve seen this thing but this time it was smaller and had 3 white lights on each of the triangle corners versus the last two sightings that had 3 on one side and two on the other side that were warm in color also this time it was a fly by the other times it hovered then lights flickered then disappeared much smaller this thime as it flew really fast with apselutly no sound what so ever only reason I knowticed it is I was on my knees hooking up electrical Christmas lights that were not wired in to electricity and I saw a flash turned both ways there was no car there was nothing around I looked up and saw 3 round white lights in a triangle form that were kinda holographic of some sort very smooth and fast nothing like the last two the just appeared to just flicker then disappear like the same way the appeard
December 10, 2017 · 5:37 PM · OTHER
Turlock, CA
I don’t think this was a ufo, but rather some secret VERY quiet aircraft of some sort that passed near overhead at around 5:35 pm. (Dec 10. '17 ) heading northwest. I went outside to grab a smoke, and almost immediately I saw off to the north east a craft rather low but seemed much larger then a Cessna and this made me curious about it, and I listen for the engine noise, NONE! No sooner then that I began to feel a pressure wave in cycles ( about 2 per sec ) but NO NOISE, and here’s where it got strange, I live 300 yards from a major highway and the sound from the traffic also was muffled during these cycles …. Quiet – then normal –quiet – normal repeatedly, I could feel a pressure on my ear drums very similar to going deep in a swimming pool, the same kind of pressure the same deadening of sound….. I estimate that the sound of the highway traffic dropped by 80% during these cycles so it was very evident this craft was doing something to cause it. I watched the aircraft head away with my ears paying close attention to the traffic noise and after the craft was ¼ ~ ½ mile away the normal traffic noise returned and the pressure on the ear drums went away. Its speed was that of a Cessna, but there was enough visual indicters showing that this was larger, a helicopter of some sort, Drone?
August 25, 2017 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
I awoke at about 4:00 a.m. ( Aug – 25 ) and knew I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I got up and decided to read and perhaps grab a smoke out side, which is what I did. At 4:30 a.m., I went outside and began to smoke, and as usual, I face north and star gaze and it was very clear, a little fire smoke haze but nothing bad. An airliner was crossing the sky from W-NW to E-SE and was north of my location, I enjoyed the stars as it headed to the Eastern horizon and I turned my head to look toward the western part of the sky for several seconds and turned my head back facing northerly again and saw a very bright satellite slightly north east of my location and headed the same path as the airliner, but the opposite direction. It surprised me I hadn’t seen the hint of the satellite before I turned my head away, it was very bright and I watched it for ~ 10 seconds, and it began to fade in brightness, as is typical. I took my eye’s off of it to smoke and quickly decided it might flare up again, so I decided to attempt to quickly find it again, so I followed the path I had just seen, and saw a very dim satellite, slightly more north of the assumed path. Here my brain is thinking how the satellite jumped off the straight line path if it was the same satellite, but very quickly, I notice this satellite is in a medium size turn, and not traveling straight. I thought that this thing was going to head north now in view of this turn, (the turn can be best described as less then ¼ the circumference of a dinner plate at arm's length), and then the most fascinating thing happened, this very dim satellite brightened up and did what athletes call “the button hook“ maneuver… it accelerated rapidly in a very tight turn and shot back the direction in which it had come from. I wondered if it was going to trail that airliner. This was no jet or satellite, this craft was moving at an astonishing speed at the end, and I will surely keep a closer watch on satellites from now on. Are ufo’s now mimicking satellites so as to be less noticeable, it sure seems like it to me. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
Multiple lights in the skies flashing red/green moving at fast speeds. Two lights stayed behind briefly and proceeded after the rest of the moving lights afterward. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 14, 2017 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
My son and I saw a light as bright as the moon. It was large, I observed it to be 1/5 to 1/4 of the moon's diameter. It seemed to be moving South to North. We saw it for 15-20 seconds, and then it seemed to just blink out. I looked like there were smoke trails coming from where it went dark. It was still very dark, so the smoke trails may have just been after effects from seeing such a bright light.
June 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
It was 1:40 am around June I was outside waiting for my girlfriend Outside by the car when in the corner of my eye I see something moving horizontally from the right to the left then when I focused on it it made a sharp almost zig zag maneuver and instantly disappeared all within a second or less. (( Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)