Cylinder over Grand Terrace, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148216). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-06 → 2019-08-23
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August 7, 2019 · 9:45 PM · CYLINDER
Grand Terrace, CA
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July 23, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Grand Terrace, CA
Looking to the east, toward the banning pass, Mt. San Jacinto area, I saw a glowing orange orb like a fireball hovering constant in the sky. While other air traffic with flashing lights passed, the orb stayed in place and began dropping what looked like flares of the same color straight down out of it. Dozens dropped out and they disappeared as if disintegrating toward the ground. The event lasted about a minute, and the orb then faded from view.
March 10, 2017 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Grand Terrace, CA
On the evening of 3/10/17, I had walked out of my home with our dogs and noticed a large group of lights in the northwest, towards the Cajon Pass. I quickly told my wife to come out and see this. During the next several minutes (the entire period of observation was approximately 5 to 7 minutes) we observed the formation, see attached UFO 1, which started out in the pattern as illustrated in UFO 1. As the formation moved from the northwest to my location in Grand Terrace, Ca. ( 34.025839 N, -117.319688 W), the center section (items #2 and #3 in UFO 1) started to move from a line of 4 or 5 objects each to a random grouping in the center of the “C” pattern, Item #1. Within the “C” pattern the objects appeared to consist of groups of 2 objects (see Pic 1) forming the arc. While the arc seem to face East all the time the arc moved toward the South. The picture, while not very good, was the best I could get with my cell phone, and then I had to zoom in just to get this. Even though they seemed very bright to the eye, I couldn’t get the entire group in a photo. My wife sent the photo to the NBC 4 station in LA. However, we didn’t see anything on the news or on the web about this sighting.
November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CIGAR
Grand Terrace, CA
I was driving over the 215 overpass headed from Redlands to Riverside (at the 215/I10 junction) when I saw a cigar shaped object moving from south to north, parallel to the earths surface in the western sky. The object initially looked like a blow torch flame, or the after burn out of a jet engine. I initially thought it was a rocket, but it looked nothing like the rockets I have seen launched from Cape Canaveral ( I live across the river from the JFK space center in Florida and have seen many launches). The flame/after burn died out and left only a white dot of light. This light slowed and there was a large conical white light that emitted from where the initial white dot was. I thought it could have been a spot light reflecting off clouds but it was a cloudless night, and it didn't look like a spot light. I also thought it was a search light from a helicopter, but it was totally different. The conical light stayed for about a minute or two then started to ! dim, and a green blob of haze started to form adjacent to where the white conical light had been. The green haze was fairly bright for another minute or two then it too slowly started to dim. This was all seen over the lights of the inland empire. I could see planes with landing lights, and what I saw was not a plane. I could also see stars through the light pollution, and this was not a star. I have no idea what this was, but would like to hear from someone else (other than myself and my three children) who saw this. It was mind boggling. I am not a big believer in UFO's but I felt obliged to submit this because I don't know what else to do. Very interesting stuff tonight. US Navy missile launch. PD
March 15, 2013 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Grand Terrace, CA
Fireball realeases two blinking lights and disappears over San Bernardino, CA.