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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
14,194 entries
October 7, 2018 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Salinas, CA
facing North-North East towards Reno Nevada, clear night, single blue fireball with tail, had a halo but might just be clouds. There was a planet to the upper left, possibly Venus. We suspect witness was looking south, watching a missile launch. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Richmond, CA
It was night. Object started as a bright white light behind light cloud coverage. Soon it became more clear as an object that seemed to be entering the atmosphere/ falling. The object seemed to be burning white asvit fell and had two long tails on either side at an angle making a triangular shape. The object fell for several minutes and disapeared at distant hills/houses. We were on the freeway (I wasn't the driver) and I was using my phone so the video didn't catch as much as the naked eye did.
October 7, 2018 · 7:44 PM · OTHER
Rohnert Park, CA
We have cell video. Walked out to dump trash looked at stars saw one that looked like you would see on a foggy night blury and hazy. I looked and watched it was moving with three trails hehind it got my attention because it looked like a cross. I looked at other stars they were clear. Thought it might be a comet as it changed and had two large vapor trails behind it. It moved too fast for that. It kept moving south the trails stopped and it disappeared. This moved to slow for a fallout no star and if it was a comet how did it disappear. I have about a minute on cell phone footage but did not keep it running to show it disappear. I can send it to you if you want it. I was in military this was no rocket launch something entering the atmosphere leaving a trail I would guess unless it was a comet but I have yet to hear of one or read about it and it moved too fast. I will send cell footage via email as it’s on wife’s phone
October 7, 2018 · 7:33 PM · OTHER
Eldorado Hills, CA
After the craft itself disappeared, it left a black circle in the sky where it initially had been. The stars then began to return, but it looked almost as if they were flickering. After a few minutes of this phenomena, the beams slowly began to dissapeared, and a flashing white and blue dot was left in the center of the black circle.
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Santa Rosa, CA
A glowing stationary light seen in the sky emitted contrail like light swirl of white light similar to starlight. The lights lasted approx. 20 mins. The lights Seemed to switch from the light source facing toward earth and then in a v shape upwards. When observed it was apporox 25,000 ft altitude and approx 50 ft in diameter. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Walnut Creek, CA
1) it was not a plane or a heliocopter. It was not a star. Started out as two extremely bright lights shining and creating a circular nebula (like the moon lighting up part of the sky behind clouds. 2) pulled over the car with son to watch. now only one light left. extremely bight like it would be a very large meteor, but seemed stationary. Then moved low in the horizon. 3) I am a skeptical science guy, and have never seen anything ever like this. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM
Cathedral City, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Oxnard, CA
The source of the light was round and the cone of light emanating from it was very bright...as that of a searchlight. There was a light cloud formation above the area of the parking lot that we were all parked in at the time. Even though the UFO/Light source was a distance away from the cloud formation, the light was intense enough to illuminate clearly the cloud material. The object moved as if it were silently drifting across the night sky. And as it moved further away, who could see the cone of light being beamed from its circular source. The actual object creating the light could not be seen...ONLY the light and it's circular source. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Auburn, CA
Craft that looked.like a bright star was seen in the sky stationary and unmoving for appox 3 minutes with starlike rays of light eminateing a great distance from the center in all directions (360) similar to headlights in a fog bank but there is only crystal clear sky at dusk. the intensity of the light began to diminish and the craft slowly lowered.almost. imperceptibly below tree line. i.ran to another location to. get a better view and it was gone but you couls. still see the dissipating rays of light in the sky.
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Willows, CA
Witnessed a light that went up surrounded by fog in a v shape hovered for 12-15 minutes then descended with fog taking the opposite shape and light abruptly went out
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sebastopol, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:27 PM · TRIANGLE
La Quinta, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:26 PM
San Pedro, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket at 7:22 p.m.. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Hayward/San Lorenzo, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:25 PM · OTHER
Stockton, CA
looks like SpaceX rocket but it was able to maneuver and made no sound. Launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. We have amended the time. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:22 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
On this Sunday evening, I returned home about 8:20 p.m. Above my house, looking south-to-southeast, I saw a bright white light, that appeared to be flaring upward. This light sat stationary just above the roof of my house and appeared to change shape, as it slowly descended until the main portion of the light dissolved and flared out. This bright light measured approximately one-half inch between thumb and index finger with arms extended. The light sat between two planetary objects, which were also captured in my iPhone still image and video (attached in an email). The principal light source did not appear to be a craft of any sort. But the high luminosity suggests it was something very unusual, especially as it flared and then dissolved in night sky, below my roof line. Several minutes later, I walked around the corner, but could not spot it anywhere in the southern sky. (Thanks for all your work in this area over the years, Peter!) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:22 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
I walked out of Trader Joe's to the parking lot and saw at least a dozen people pointing up to the sky; pointing and gasping looking due north toward/above Palos Verdes from Long Beach. I have never made any such report before but this was truly a strange event. The sky was cloudless but for only a few miles square in this northern part of the sky; and in the middle of this "clearing" there was a large spotlight- like a flashlight around 1/2 the size of the moon shining eastward. The power of this perfectly focused and precise light was extremely intense and appeared to cover at least 50 miles shining parallel to the ground at, and I'm guessing of course, a height of around 20,000 feet? This enormous spotlight/flashlight was not moving whatsoever; it was transfixed in the night sky. Witnesses were absolutely freaked out, and although I am not too excited about much of anything, I will admit that this was quite creepy and without obvious, logic! al explanation. My 9 yr old daughter will not stop talking about it. We took photos. It lasted full strength for around 20 minutes and then abruptly tapered off, and close shut, in around 15 seconds. Then all the witnesses started talking together, comparing notes, trying to figure out what we'd seen. It was a professional crowd and yes there was some anxiety among everyone. I cannot find a single report anywhere of this event but then again I am not part of the UFO community.
October 7, 2018 · 7:20 PM · CONE
Lake California (Cottonwood), CA
10/7/18 - About 7:20 p.m. Clear night sky. Not cloudy. Cottonwood, CA near Redding, CA. Actually sited up over Lake California out of Cottonwood. Saw bright, object flying over sky North to South with downward pattern, then upward, then seeming to be still. Would change directions. It had two cone shaped white spray like things coming out of it in back of its trajectory. Stopped car and watched it for a couple of minutes - then went home close by to get binoculars for closer look. Could not see it from house - either behind trees across street or was gone. Really strange looking and moving in abnormal pattern resembling flight. Very bright white light. Was shocked to see many similar reporting when Googled it. Found this reporting sight. Seen by elderly couple driving home from Bible Study. One has Master's Degree and the others has some college education. This was very unsettling. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Cloverdate, CA
Sunday Evening – 10/7/2018 Highway 128 coming from Mendocino County travelling towards Sonoma County. As you approach Cloverdale the road becomes a twisty mountain road with hairpin turns. Towards the beginning of this stretch of road I spotted a large orb made of “strings” of light. I remember thinking that it looked spiderweb-like. It was very large like when the moon is close to the earth. Initially, I thought that it was some kind of natural phenomena like the Northern Lights. There was no shoulder to pull off on and it was dark. I kept driving in hopes of getting another glimpse of it. I made many more turns and didn’t see anything. I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to see it again but soon again I did. The next time that I saw it. It looked like the beam of a huge flashlight. It began in a large circle and the bottom of the beam looked it when a spotlight is directed at a floor with a disc-shaped bottom. It was very bright and well-defined. Its beam ended well above the top of the mountain; much closer to the beginning of the beam than to land. Then, again, it was obscured from my view by a mountaintop. When I next saw it next it appeared to be separate beams of light coming from a star. Very bright white light. Kind of like the beams coming from the Eastern Star on Christmas cards. The next couple of times I spotted it it was as above. When I was just about at the end of this torturous stretch of road I spotted it again and now there was a shoulder on the road and more light. I stepped outside of my car to take a picture. Once outside it had moved behind the mountainside to the right. I walked across the road to take a picture. I could visualize it but it was a if a dimmer switch had turned down the intensity. I snapped a pic. Not impressive but it was there. As I headed down the access road to highway 101 the only thing I could see in the area it had been was what looked like a bright star lower in the sky than you would expect it to be. To my left there was another “light” at about the same height in the sky but it was yellowish in color and less intense. I’m not sure if these last two items were related to the orb and the beams of light. There were no other stars that I could see looking briefly. Once home late afternoon on Monday I looked again at/for the picture I had taken along the way. It wasn’t what I remembered. It wasn’t discernable at all. I’m not sure if it was even the same picture because of this. If it’s not the pic I took, it was no longer on my phone. On Monday I googled “light orb spheres” and found a pic that was similar to what I had seen and I’ll include it here. I couldn’t find anything else close enough to the flashlight-like beam and beam streams to include. Background of observer: 58 y/o female, registered nurse. No previous sightings or particular interest.
October 7, 2018 · 6:10 PM · FORMATION
Petaluma, CA
Another set of 4 circle-like ufo figures are suddenly birthed and summoned to follow the previous set of 4 rectangle like formation to near exact motion of direction of the ones prior. In the mean time the orb within the sky has grown dramatically and is clearly vivid and non moving of its location until suddenly is vanished. This is a very rare phenomen here; meaning that even if there has been ufo sightings here in a minuscule manner that this is out of the ordinary. There have been multiple witnesses known via social media outlets that have witnessed and Recorded this phenomenon in multiple different angles within this given location.
October 6, 2018 · 7:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Gilroy, CA
Rocket launch. PD
October 6, 2018 · 7:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Hawthorne, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 6, 2018 · 12:00 AM · DIAMOND
Castro Valley, CA
A strange craft in the night sky with white and colored lights is just hanging over southern Alameda county. It is not moving but high in the sky.