Formation over Dixon, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking East/Southeast clearly seen from some distance away a line of 10 or so balls of light that descended at a 45 degree angle to the horizon line, each was equal distance from the other. Almost like they were fired from a stationary object since they were perfectly aligned and did not vary in their trajectory downward. Strangest thing I have ever seen. From that distance and location, I am presuming they were tests from the China Lake Naval Weapons Testing area some 200 miles away from my location and located in the same direction, but that is only a hunch
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #153387). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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November 10, 2023 · 6:44 PM · OTHER
Dixon, CA
Firstly, this is fresh. This literally just happened 1 hour ago. 4 adults and one 7 year old child saw the following. My wife, daughter and I were dropping off her friend at her house in the country by Dixon, CA. We arrived at approximately 6:45PM on 11/10/2023. It was dark and the sky was mostly clear with some scattered clouds. They live in the country and there is very little light pollution. My daughters friend ran in the house as soon as we arrived. However, we stay on the porch talking we her parents for 10 minutes or so like we always do. Suddenly, we heard the oscillating rumble of an aircraft coming from the northeast (more east than north). I immediately noticed the rumble was deep but I assumed it was just a low flying life flight helicopter coming to land at its home at the Nut Tree Airport which was just a few miles away. However, as it got closer the house literally began to shake (Windows, glasses on their laundry room table tops, etc.) Still thinking that it was a helicopter I instinctively looked up as it began to fly over. At first I couldn't make out what I was seeing. It happened all at once and it was a wave of visual mathematics that my mind was working to solve. The is the exact sequence of events as I observed it. It may seem haphazard and arrhythmic but this is the exact sequence in which I saw the aircraft. So imagine you are looking through your own eyes when you read this. 1) Whatever it was was flying slow. 75 MPH or less. 2) I saw a really dim pair of lights. At first, I thought they were they were part of a helicopter, then my brain quickly realized they were on the rear of some sort of aircraft. 3) I saw a laser dot about 200 yards immediately to the left of the pair of lights referenced in part "2". The laser dot was red or orange, extremely dim and literally looked like someone from the ground was shinning a laser pointer at something in the sky. At this point I literally thought that is exactly what someone was doing. 4) Suddenly, as my eyes were focused on the faint laser dot, a cloud immerged in the background of the dot way off in the distance. It picked up just enough light pollution from the nearby city of Vacaville that it momentarily revealed that the laser point I was staring at was on the front end of the nose of an air craft. The cloud was illuminated just enough to backlight the nose of the air craft. The air craft moved forward and as quickly as the outline appeared on the cloud it was gone. 5) Immediately my thought was that "Oh, there IS as a second aircraft leading the one following to the right. 6) When the nose cone moved past the cloud and back into darkness my peripheral vision suddenly became heightened and out of the corner of my eye I saw a laser beam that was as feint as the dot on the nose. However, the laser beam stretched from the point where I saw it all the way back to the pair of dim lights 200 yards to the right. It looked like someone was shining a cheap laser pointer from a helicopter, straight forward in its path. 7) A patch of scattered clouds back light approximately 60-70% of the body of the aircraft and I suddenly realized the entire thing was connected. The outline was only visible for a few seconds. It looked like a commination of surf board and He-Man's sword and at least 150-200 yards long. That's literally the best way I can describe it. We all started freaking out when the outline revealed itself. My wife and I immediately said "Don't discuss it! We need to draw what we see independently and then show each other. It's the only way we will know we aren't lying to ourselves. If we are wrong and all see different things then we know it was nothing". Attached are the pics we each made of the object.
August 16, 2020 · 8:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Dixon, CA
This is 2nd sighting of same craft traveling the same path in 1 week. It moved over us like an airplane but the lights were flashing out of sequence compared the normal plane we see from Travis etc. Very brite red and green flashes with intermittent spot light flash pointed downward. It traveled off into the horizon much like the speed of a low aircraft ( no moise) for about 2 or 3 minutes then from quite a distance it shot back to basicly rite over us in about 2 seconds warp speed it appeared.it turned brite red at hi speed. This was real upclose and obvious. All lights went out and I saw it was a grey triangle. No doubt.
November 20, 2017 · 2:15 AM · FIREBALL
Dixon, CA
On the morning of Nov. 20, 2017, I woke up at about 2:15 am to let my cat out. I looked up and through the neighbor’s trees I saw what I thought was the moon only orange-ish...like it was smoked covered. I was facing east. I then noticed this was not the moon but an orange light. It looked like an orange ball of fire. This ‘light’ started to move slowly, like at small plane speed, going north. It stayed on a fairly horizontal course, just quite slow. I kept listening for the sound of an airplane engine but it was dead silent. I followed the light (still at my back door) until it went out of my range of sight and behind more trees on our street, so I ran to the front of my house and looked out the front window – now facing north. The light appeared to be going even slower now – I could see it through the tree tops for about a minute, then it came into plain sight. It appeared to just hover, then move slowly, then hover...I couldn’t tell if it was the ! atmosphere that made it look like it was moving oddly, or if it actually was moving oddly. A few times it looked like it was getting larger, like an object on fire gets larger. I was expecting it to fall to the ground and crash, but it just slowly moved, hovering oddly. The light then seemed to move upward in elevation, like it was moving north, and slowed a few times in its ascent. It became smaller and a few times disappeared, showed again, and then finally faded out. The oddest thing was there was absolutely no sound. This all lasted about 7 minutes. I went back to bed and a few minutes later I did hear a small plane fly overhead – this made the absence of sound with this ‘light’ all the more obvious. I was going to ask a friend who was in the Air Force if he knew of drones or something that would explain this, but I haven’t had the chance yet.
November 19, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Dixon, CA
I kept watching as we approached them, looking for a tower of some sort that they would be attached to. I assumed they were farming lights of some sort, but I kept my eyes on them for five minutes straight at one point. As soon as we got close enough, almost right under them, and I realized they were not farm lights and that they were not attached to any type of tower.. They disappeared.
December 9, 2010 · 5:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Dixon, CA
Object entering atmosphere, moving lights.