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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
July 24, 2018 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Arcadia, CA
While driving on I-210 from Pasadena, CA, to Arcadia, CA, I witnessed a white star-like object (in size, brightness, and color) drop in a straight line from an apparent high altitude to almost ground level. I say “almost” because it was dark out, and I could not clearly discern distance to the object, or where the ground would be. I did not detect an impact. I felt that the object was at least 10 to 15 miles away, in other words, quite a ways away. However, I cannot rule out that it was quite close. The object did not change color or shape, nor did it have a tail. I immediately thought it might be a meteor, which is entirely possible, but it did not look like the many other meteors I have seen. It was more reminiscent of a bright satellite. I saw something extremely similar on 5 January 2007 in Huntsville, AL.
July 22, 2018 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Vacaville, CA
Went outside looked up towards the moon and moving slowly across sky were three bright lights in a triangle formation. Then all lights dimmed out simultaneously. This had to be a cloaked TR3B! I am a believer. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2018 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Martinez, CA
My boyfriend and I were stargazing the southern sky when simultaneously, we both saw 3 bright white lights forming a large triangle. The lights were the brightest objects in the sky besides the half moon, and brighter than either of the two planets visible low in the southern and eastern skies, respectively, that night. The triangle was stationary as we watched but the interior area was either exactly the same color of the sky or otherwise completely transparent. Within a few seconds, the corner lights began dimming down until they only had the intensity of the surrounding stars. Then while holding its shape, the triangle slowly moved upwards until it became stationary for several minutes and the lights dimmed to the point that they were no longer visible.
July 21, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ontario, CA
Turned my head and saw a orange circle object fade into the night sky
July 21, 2018 · 2:21 AM · UNKNOWN
Phelan, CA
From West to North East toward Las Vegas, NV.
July 20, 2018 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Kelseyville, CA
Saw a super bright white light with a green light in the rear traveling slowly east to west around 1,500 ft. Couldnt see the shape and made Zero noise. It also made every dog in the neighborhood bark.
July 20, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lakeport, CA
At around 9pm my boyfriend and I were sitting on the shore of the lake facing Mount Konocti, enjoying my boyfriend's birthday evening. What I thought was the first star to appear that night seemed odd to me, my boyfriend suspected it was just Mars. It sat next to the mountain for about an hour before I notice it start to have a large blue-violet bubble-like glow then drift slowly over Kekseyville, Ca. I noticed it was moving only because there was a bright white light, that I also thought was a star and am now suspecting it's a government aircraft, that was far below but directly under it. It was still in the same spot while the orange object was much farther away. It kept moving until I saw a plane fly closly past it, then the plane proceeded towards Cobb Mountain. Then the orange object seemed to stay in the same spot. The white object that was also by the mountain then started flying away towards Cobb Mountain like the plane did. I saw a helicopter and a drone pass by, I didn't see what happened after because I had the urge to go home.
July 19, 2018 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Standish, CA
While on an evening walk, I observed, what I initially thought; was an aircraft approaching from the west, with its landing-lights on. It appeared to be gradually descending, at an altitude of approx. 5,000-7,000 ft, AGL. I found this odd, since there are no airports, in this immediate area. As it came closer, I noticed that had approx. 4-5 non-strobing white-lights, placed at roughly equal distances, along the leading-edge of each wing. It had no stobing lights, or red and green wing-tip lights, as typical aircraft do. Then, it gradually turned north, allowing me to get a side-view of the craft, against a clear, sun-setting sky, at dusk. I saw no tail, or fuselage. It appeared to be a "flying-swept-wing",approx. the wingspan of a Boeing 737, with a boomerang-shape, moving at approx. the same speed, as civilian prop-driven aircraft, that is typically seen, at that altitude. As it moved away from me, to the north, I noticed a circular- cluster of s! tationary white lights, in the middle of the rear of the object. I could hear no engine noise, as it departed my sight, over a mountain. Also, I am a subscriber to an online flight-tracking service. I immediately checked that website, on my phone, and it showed NO air-traffic, anywhere near that area. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 19, 2018 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Clear Lake, CA
Around 1 am on 07/19/2018 I was outside having a smoke with my kids father when we saw a large round bright green light shoot across the sky. It started rather slow and then it picked up a sudden pace and headed off toward Hidden Valley Lake area. It was a distance away from where we stood but it made no noises and as the speed picked up the green light flickered. The speed was to fast for a helicopter and to big to be an air plane. We talked about what it might be and decided possible a falling star but now as of 07/20/2018 many others have reported a similar sighting with someone reporting their house cameras caught it all on film.
July 18, 2018 · 3:34 PM · FORMATION
In-flight (California), CA
We are on a direct Alaska Airline flight 3377 from Albuquerque to San Francisco and during the trip I like to take pictures of clouds. My wife then tell me have you seen those lights I said no but look back and there 3 objects each one with 2 bright lights that were above ground and were all line up. I took pictures with my phone. During the observation at one point one of the object would disappear, its lights were no longer be visible then it will reappear after no ore than 10-15 seconds. This happened twice during the observation, the second time it was a different object than the first time. The objects seems to remain in the same position not moving from one other. I have recorded a 4 minutes clip until I couldn't see any longer the objects from the plane window. We didn't advertised our observation to any flight personnel to avoid creating chaos on the plane. No one on our side of the plane seemed to have their window shade up to look outside (couldn't see all the way to the back of the airplane). We were sitting in seat A and B.
July 18, 2018 · 3:39 AM · SPHERE
South cal, CA
After mapping a fire using a flir sensor from an airplane, an object crossed the field of view in the far distance. Caught up with and recorded a high quality video. Video was dismissed as us technology. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
July 17, 2018 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Castro Valley, CA
Tonight while driving home from work, I spotted a Big Triangle shaped object. I saw three lights, green, white, maybe yellow moving slowly by Hwy 580/238.
July 15, 2018 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Carlotta, CA
I walked out to the back porch to dance to the moon like I do every night. As I looked up at the almost full moon, I noticed to the right a cloud which had a circular craft with three red lights around it (which didn't look like an airplane) heading to the left from the cloud towards the moons direction, then the lights disappeared and I saw this silhouette of the craft glideing towards the moon. Just before it was supposed to cross in front of the moon, it vanished in front of my eyes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2018 · 4:30 PM · DISK
Lathrop, CA
I was in stop and go traffic Southbound I-5 approaching the 205 Freeway. The sky was clear blue and I saw a shiny silver disk object in the sky. I sat up in my seat to try to get a better look because I was thinking, is that an airplane? But the shape was long and flat with a raised top and it was so shiny. It seemed to be in the same place, hovering in the same spot in the sky. I blinked and it was gone. I looked around the sky in every direction but there was nothing.
July 15, 2018 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Montgomery Creek, CA
Just sat there plain sight for about 6-7 hours. As big as the space station looks but didn’t move. white, lit like a light bulb....not visible 30 miles away when I called a friend but was visible to someone two miles aWay.
July 13, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Palm Springs, CA
We had come back from dinner, and I noticed a 5 point stick figure star over the San Jacinto Mountains. When we got in, I went into the back yard with my ipad and started filming it. It just looked like a bright light that changed in its brilliance. My husband came out with his canon hd vixia HFM31 camera, and started filming it. The object did not move, as in the video. That was his movement. He had it on zoom and did not alter the setting. The object seemed to come closer and retreat. You can see on the video, the shape and changing shape and color of it. When he went inside, several minutes later, I observed it to just disappear. It did not fly off.
July 13, 2018 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Grass Valley, CA
I just got into astronomy and I got 20x80 binoculars scanning to the north the first object darting past really really fast but I kept on it at first I thought a shooting star until it stopped dead.it then disappeared.thinking i lost it I glanced not using the binoculars not believing what i just saw .and then I seen in the same path a slower object bigger and dimmer then the other it actually disappeared then reappeared further down where I lost the first. then I seen the which looked to be the first object just appeared like waiting for the slower bigger and dimmer object.as soon as it caught up they both flew off very quickly and flew behind trees in the distance which was high and looked to be pretty far but close enough to see with the naked eye.just amazing. I'm so happy I took this hobby up. I can't even sleep now. I'm still so excited.
July 11, 2018 · 4:30 PM · CIRCLE
Los Feliz, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2018 · 11:30 AM · FORMATION
Rohnert Park, CA
Looked West into sky at 11:30 a.m. today and noticed what I thought was a flock of white birds. Their movement wasn't bird-like and they didn't form into any sort of distinct patterns together. The way they moved seemed as if in all directions including backwards and sideways and they sort of swarmed around like kites but independent of anything holding them. They were all white and shaped like boomerangs and kept moving in a swarm and all of a sudden simply disappeared. My friend and I both watched them trying to figure out what they could be. No idea. As for background, I have no scientific training and we were simply standing out by my car. I wish I had thought to take a photo.
July 8, 2018 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Salinas, CA
Driving home from Salinas late around 2 am, not any cars coming towards us but two in front. Saw a green light flash in the sky and looked like it was coming down out of the sky and then just vanished out. We were not around any civilization, just fields. The two cars in front of us pulled over and i saw the drivers peering up into the sky as well. It was crazy and i couldn't believe my eyes but seeing the other cars look up and my boyfriend saw it too so it was definitely something!!!! ((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Hi there! I thought it could have been a meteor as well but it was far too big and far too green!! It was like a green orb but the inside was bright! It was just crazy how to two cars in front of us immediately pulled over as well and i saw the drivers and passengers looking into the sky so I felt like they saw something as well and it wasn’t an ordinary meteor, but I’m open for speculation! Hahaha it was just SUPER COOL! I feel like I’ve waiting my whole life to see something like that!! ((END ADDENDUM #1)) ((ADDENDUM #2)) It was around 2:00 AM on Sunday the 8th! Coming home from the movies in Salinas coming to Watsonville! ((END ADDENDUM #2)) Thanks!!
July 7, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Antelope, CA
tonight i seen a orange cirlcle thing hovering in the sky about 6 storys high and half a mile away perfectly still for about 20 min then all of a sudden it disapears then about 3-4min later it reappears again only higher and about 1000ft to the left hovered for 20min again then disapears and repeats about 4 Times getting higher and more to the middle of the sky. and this is the same orange circle thing i seen on the 4th of july in the same starting place but i didint pay attention to it the first time but today i did and i want to know what is it.
July 7, 2018 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
antelope, CA
and also tonight was the first time i have seen a fleet of drones or what ever it was in the sky at this scale blinking red and some with red and green also red and white. super quite i couldnt hear a single one of them. it started around 10pm i see one flying in a big radius circle then i spot 3 more doing the same thing just a little bit further then all of a sudden i started seeing 4 more then 8 then everywhere all over the sky spaning 8 miles in all directions like its sum survalince mission then 4 start heading twoards McClellan base and 4 coming from there like they are trading off to go re charge while the fully charged go for there turn and it repeated about 8 times and i have never seen such a long duration of flight from a drone like that.. im glad i was looking in the sky tonight because if i didn't i wouldn't notice a thing like the majority of people because they are very stealthy and its dark out and the lights are very dim on them making them! very hard to see if u dont look in the sky for more then 5 min. does anyone know what the heck is going on because i am very interested.
July 7, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Santa Maria, CA
While sitting outside enjoying the night sky a flash came from what I thought was a comm sat in the area I observed the planet alignment the year before, or so. The time when Mars, Venus, Saturn closest to this report date. I saw what looked like an anomaly, like a rolling distortion in the star field, then the field began to roll back on itself and a opening occurred. This was at some distance as that the craft that I observed coming through were large and different shapes. Because of the distance, altitude, and angle size was distorted, but not with the sizes I observed. These were transport size looking vessels the biggest would pale any aircraft carrier we have. My home back yard runs North / South. I observed the event looking to the South and at about a 45 degree up angle. Ships were crossing the N/S line heading towards the East. The formation I saw traveled with several smaller ships in the lead, what looked like several larger ships alongside the large one one then several different sizes in formation above it’s line of travel. They just came through and kept going. A battle group, US Navy type would take some time, hours to do this. Their speed would have been very great, Space Shuttle times 3. Oh, this was a very clear night.
July 7, 2018 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Oakland, CA
i was blowing bubbles with my son around 7:45 pm tonight and looked up and saw a light that appeared too high to be an airplane. i thought perhaps it was a planet as it was glowing brightly. I could tell it was moving, but quite slowly and could make out six less bright lights glowing around it. They were traveling southeast all in tandem, though the six lesser lights seemed to move slightly as well, but all seemed to be traveling around the main star. I called my partner to see it and he confirmed and saw it too. i cannot say for certain it was a ufo, but it certainly was unlike anything I've ever seen in the sky.