Other over Claremont, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137984). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-19 → 2018-01-05
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May 16, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Claremont, CA
Overhead blinking object, about 1 Hz cycle, alternating red and green. Videos (3) attached, hopefully. One object, rapid positional movement, appeared to be actively surveilling. Oblique views were captured, but direct overhead views were not. (The two companion linked lights which appear in the video were possibly artifacts. They were not visible to me.) NB: One 5 minute video file is too large. It is available …
June 9, 2020 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Claremont, CA
me and my partner witnessed two triangular shaped aircraft, one flying up front, the other a few seconds behind, yellow and red lights flashing, but something about the flashing/lights seemed odd, flying very fast, looked weird, not like a regular plane, flying low about 500 feet in the air, flying over residential area, headed West, we live in a very quiet neighborhood and we had just commented on how quiet it was, when we saw the aircraft, we waited for the sound to hit but neither of them made any sound. Both were completely silent. We also witness one triangular shaped aircraft about two months ago. Pretty much the same description, greyish, only we saw it much later in the night. No lights except it had a V-formation of lights beneath (most probably reflectors). Also completely silent. SO DAMN FREAKY! Not sure if this is related, but about 25 minutes before we saw these two aircraft, we witnessed, two planes possibly "escorting" another plane. One plane up front, the other plane at the back and in the middle another plane. Could not make out is shape except that it was black or grey, with no lights. That's what made it so strange as well as three planes flying in a line. The regular planes had lights but no light at all from plane in the middle. We left a report on this website but due to the backup of sightings, have yet to be contacted. Thank you for your time.
April 26, 2020 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Claremont, CA
RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN AREA. SITTING ON BALCONY AT 11:30PM. IT WAS A HOT DAY SO ME AND PARTNER ENJOYING A CHAT IN THE COOL OF THE NIGHT. WE WERE STAR GAZING. I HAVE VERY GOOD EYE SIGHT AND SUDDENLY SAW A TRIANGULAR SHAPED AIRCRAFT IN THE DISTANCE TO THE WEST FLYING EAST TOWARD US. THE AIRCRAFT WAS GREYISH/WHITISH IN THE NIGHT SKY AND WAS SMOOTH AND SOLID. NO WINGS OR JAGGED EDGES VISIBLE. LOOKED LIKE A MANTA RAY. VERY OVERWHELMING TO SEE. IT WAS DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING THAT WANTED TO BE SEEN. ALMOST INVISIBLE. NO EXHAUST TRAIL. IT WAS NOT MOVING FAST, SEEMED MUCH SLOWER THAN JET OR EVEN PROPELLER PLANE. WAS NOT FLYING HIGH. APPROX.500-700 FEET AWAY. NO LIGHTS AT FIRST UNTIL IT FLEW OVER US WE SAW THERE WERE LIGHTS IN A V-FORMATION. THEY WERE NOT SHINING OR FLICKERING, THEY ALMOST SEEMED LIKE REFLECTORS. COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING ELSE BENEATH THE CRAFT BESIDES THE V-FORMATION. WHAT FREAKED US OUT WAS THAT IT WAS EERILY SILENT. NO SOUND AT ALL. FLEW PRETTY MUCH IN A STRAIGHT LINE THEN LOST SIGHT OF IT OVER OUR ROOF.
November 21, 2019 · 5:20 AM · LIGHT
Claremont, CA
I woke up to let my dogs out this morning around 5:20 am. I looked up at the sky and thought to myself how beautiful all the stars were this morning when I noticed one of the lights that I thought was a star started moving. I stood there wondering if it was maybe a plane, but an actual plane flew at a much lower altitude right beneath it. That’s when it faded away. Judging from the passing plane, I estimated that this light moved about 3-4 times faster and at a much higher altitude. Then, about 10 seconds later, another light started moving in the same path. I watched that one eventually faded away also. It almost looked like it flew in the direction of the moon. I must add that the night before we noticed some lights up in the sky that we’ve never seen before. If you would like to see a recoding of that, please contact me. It’s possible that these crafts may have been investigating what’s happening in this area because of that light in the sky.
October 20, 2018 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Claremont, CA
I was driving with my girlfriend down Foothill Blvd in Claremont, California. We saw 3 fire balls in the sky maneuvering far in the distance. From how far they looked from our position, these aircrafts must have been extremely quick. They would hover in place, then move left/right extremely quickly considering their distance from us. I did not capture video of this sight but I did happen to find someone else's video coverage of the incident that I will post a link of at the end of this description. The fireballs had a light trail that followed them when maneuvering and disappeared behind them. They went side to side and eventually maneuvered down to the Earth's surface I assume. Please see the link attached. Below is an extremely similar event with the same fire balls but captured in Miami, Florida. Opposite side of the country on the SAME NIGHT. Please note, I only witnessed the occurrence in the FIRST link's video. https://twitter.com/xklsvsolis/status/1054072651365330944?s=21 https://twitter.com/alisboundglobal/status/1055336313589825536?s=21
February 13, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Claremont, CA
My wife and I were in our back yard on Tuesday, February 13, at about 10:00 p.m. We both noticed a white cloud or light which resembled the exhaust from a jet plane across the sky. However, neither my wife nor I had noticed that type of plane exhaust across a night sky. The object remained in the sky for more that 15 minutes and so I decided to take a picture of the streak across the sky. It was to our amazement to see the bright light as the source of the “cloud” phenomenon in the picture I took with my iPhone 7. Neither my wife or I ever saw the bright light with out naked eyes; it was only in the photo that the bright source light appeared. Because we did not notice the source light at the time the photo was taken, it seems strange that it was not visible at the time of the picture was taken.My wife is retired and I am a college professor.