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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
April 12, 2018 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
San Diego, CA
4-5 bright yellow lights in the sky. Occasionally disappearing, and then reappearing in different formations across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 11, 2018 · 8:03 PM · OTHER
Stockton, CA
I was taking pictures that day and night. I stopped on the side of the road to get a picture of a tree in silhouette of some lighted clouds behind it. It was not until the next day that I was able to see what it was that move across the sky. There are three pictures of something first taken at 20:03:22 a blur can be seen flying into the cloud, the 2nd taken at 20:03:23 the blur is gone now there is a shape in the cloud that resembles a reptile with wings silhouetted. Then I seen something move and took the 3rd picture at 20:03:27 and something is flying into another cloud. And that the only thing I seen that night was movement from one cloud to another against the storm gust of 25mphr. I can vaguely remember talking to someone there and in 8 pictures later I can see car tail lights can be seen in the 8th picture 30 secs from the first. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 10, 2018 · 9:55 PM · CIRCLE
Oxnard, CA
I have two videos with a total of 27 seconds the second video shows the circle object vanish and fade away. The videos were recorded on a iPhone 7. The object caught my interest as I have never witnessed an object of this origin and characteristics in the sky
April 10, 2018 · 5:20 AM · LIGHT
Dunnigan, CA
I was able to pull over in a wide spot and observe it closer this went on for approximately 20 minutes. I took my phone and tried to do a video but unfortunately it was too dark. I have been driving truck for 23 years and 16 years as a deputy sheriff. I have never seen anything like this before… I did call California Highway Patrol and they took a report of the event. Just estimating from my location it was probably 30,000 feet in the air and what appeared to be over Sacramento. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and we found him to be unusually eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a skilled witness, and a highly reliable source of information. He described himself as a former law enforcement officer. PD
April 8, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Santa Rosa, CA
My wife and I were on our back patio having a cigarette around 10pm, and i saw a commercial aircraft and i joked "it's a ufo" and we laughed. But just then a chevron shape appeared coming north to south..bottom seemed illuminated. No flashing lights. Moving 4-5 times as fast as the jet...lower though maybe 10,000 ft. This lasted 5-8 seconds and we have a big property with extensive views. A little stunned we went back inside. No sound. Not the first time i have seen unusual craft. 4-5 other sightings.
April 8, 2018 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Fortuna, CA
So this sighting may be a bit unique because it is current and ongoing. The sighting I have entered in is the most significant one. It actually goes back to April 3, 2018, until this morning (April 19, 2018). On April 3, I was letting my dog out the side garage door facing east. Up about 30 degrees in the sky was seemingly a very bright star which began to move. It was very bright and did slow circles and a triangle pattern. I watched for about ten minutes and went to let the chickens out and went around to the backyard and spotted another southwest a bit higher in angle in the sky. I had to go to work so the sighting ended. That night there were objects in the same location in the sky and one more due west. It was a very clear night and star filled. These stick out because of how bright they are. White hot light that sparkles. As I scanned the sky I noticed 4 more in other locations. I didn't pay attention to the others however because of the significance of ! the other 3. Every clear night and early morning since then I have spotted these and have spoken to a close friend and a few other people that have seen them. The significant report that I have filled into the boxes is the Sunday night following the incident. We contacted one another via text message and updated on what we were seeing. The three main ones were in the same positions in the sky plus I spotted 9 more. The three main ones have stayed in the same locations only deviating by a few miles sometimes getting sort of close and sometimes out towards the ocean. They appear daily from approximately 20:00 to 6:00. The pattern changed last night and they are no longer in the same locations. I spotted one east and one west that seemed very close to town. The flying patterns don't deviate much from circles to dipping up and down, sometimes dipping down and back up in a teardrop shape. They seemingly look like they are scanning around or signaling something. My parents live 12 miles south, and they have been seeing them west over the mountains towards the ocean. These sightings are picking up attention in the area. I didn't file a report at first because the photos and videos I have are only like stars in appearance and don't do them justice. They should be seen in person.
April 4, 2018 · 10:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Vacaville, CA
We were on freeway 80 heading west, at first we think was a drone. But when we close to it, it was big whit lights shape blue and yellow . Stop and after move fast up and down. Left and right. And then stop again. Then just despair
April 4, 2018 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Blythe, CA
Without using word processor. On this date, I was video taping geese in the sky and after reviewing my video, I have on the video one ball of "light" that came across the sky and when it left it created a haze around it and then left. It is not a lens flare, it is not a drone, it is a UFO for sure. When pausing the video the light has a haze around it similar to a saucer shape. Someone with special equipment could certainly enlarge this to see exactly what it is.
April 3, 2018 · 12:05 AM · OTHER
Antioch, CA
Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 12:05 AM. Twilight. My fiancé were driving on a popular road in our city. As we are driving we see an orange ball in the skies headed towards us. Literally seconds later, the object is hovering above us at least 100 feet from landing. It made no sound at all. The object resembled like orange octopus shaped light with 3 legs/tentacles on each side up close. Its motion and movements as it hovered were as graceful as a jellyfish. Seconds later it ascends back into the sky flying in all sorts of spontaneous angles. We follow it for a few seconds, and then poof like magic, it disappears into the night sky. Something I will never forget in life. Amazing and chilling all in one.
April 1, 2018 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Fresno, CA
Looking up at the sky, we were watching planes fly in different directions. Looking out into the northeast we saw a bright light that we thought to be a bright star. It kept on shining with different intensities of light and randomly. It didn’t have any sort of pattern like a plane or satellite have. It would shine a white light softly then a couple seconds later the light would intensify, brighter than any of the stars or planes in the night sky. It continued this cycle of lights traveling east across the sky for about 20 minutes until it disappeared. It maintained the same color of light the whole time, but the amount of light seemed to be different every time.
April 1, 2018 · 12:42 PM · OTHER
Pleasanton, CA
Hello, I find that taking photos when the planes are spraying, often reveals anomalous images. I took this with my cell phone camera. There were no birds flying in the area at which the camera was pointed. Also, I did not see this Being/Creature/Object with my eyes when I took the photos – I could only see the plane. Less than 2 seconds later, I took another shot, and the strange Being/Creature/Object is not visible, but the plane is, and from my viewing point, it has not moved very far from where it was in the first photo.
March 30, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Garden Grove, CA
The incident occurred on 3/30/18. I was lying on my couch facing the large windows (which face west) in our living room (curtains were open). It was after 8:30pm. I saw a glowing orb in the night sky. I had seen the full moon that night but I knew it was on the other side of the house. Still, I thought, “That’s not the moon is it?” and went up to the window for a better look. I’m skeptical of UFO sightings but had to take a closer look. I ran outside. There were some wispy clouds in the east but in the west the night sky was perfectly clear. There were big trees in the way so I walked onto the sidewalk and saw a dirigible shaped aircraft that was completely glowing or lit up. The entire thing was lit up or glowing, much like the moon. In the low center of the aircraft, off to the right, was a blinking red light. The craft was flying low (although well above the trees) and traveling at a steady pace and headed north. I saw no exhaust or smoke. I walked up the street and followed it for a bit wishing I had my camera. I was completely sober. I had just come back from a Good Friday program at my church. At the closest range it was probably a little smaller than the size of my palm if held up away from me. It seemed to be going away from me so was probably on a northwest course. As I followed it I thought, “It’s probably a dirigible.” But I’ve never seen anything like it. The blinking red light has made me think it’s something from earth, since that’s what all of our airplanes have on them. But I’ve never seen anything like it. Of course, I had never seen a stealth fighter before I actually saw one. But why would the government make something that glows?
March 30, 2018 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Stockton, CA
Looked out my window and saw a triangular shaped object flying silently thru the sky from the west moving south east. Moving very fast and did not make a sound. Kinda looked like flames coming out of the top. After about 3 minutes it flashed and than flashed a few more times and than it was gone.
March 28, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Joshua Tree, CA
I was looking at the stars for a few minutes at 10 and just letting my mind wander, when I saw a blue light that was far away so that it looked like a bright star, or very distant plane. But immediately, the blue light moved so quickly through the sky and began making sharp turns such as a backwards zee and then back down. It went on like this for maybe 20 seconds and then it traveled some distance and stopped moving and the light became red. I watched it for a few minutes but eventually went back to get my phone as my wife and I had been texting. When I came back out it was in the same spot but blinking. It went on for maybe another minute, 5 minutes total max, but one of the times i looked down at my phone to text and when I looked back up it was gone. I saw a plane fly by a few minutes later and the speed was many many times slower than the object I had just seen. Totally random but I received my first reiki session today. We our right next to 29 Palms Marine Base so there is that too. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 26, 2018 · 8:10 PM · FORMATION
Sonoma, CA
Group of up to around 20 orange spots of light. Looking Southeast. Travelling slowly in same direction at first, but varying distances between them, then some reversing direction, then reducing in number to around 5, then all disappearing. Not moving at all like a helo or jet. Could not gauge altitude or speed but no reports from ATC.
March 26, 2018 · 12:01 AM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
On March 26, 2018, about 1 minute after midnight a very loud explosion was heard & felt in the southern portion of san jose, ca (Robertsville area ). Video was taken by a Nest camera. An object crosses the sky from left and then ~ 1 minute later explodes and appears to fall. The explosion/report was heard and felt by many neightborhoods on the NextDoor App.
March 25, 2018 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Visalia, CA
My wife and I observed an orange colored illuminated "object" moving from southwest to the east in the night sky. The object did not produce any audible sound, like rotors, engines, drone hum, or jet roar. The object moved relatively slowly, not unlike a high flying aircraft. However, no red or green blinking lines or tail lights could be observed. Most oddly, the object would flare brightly and then seem to snuff out, like a dying ember, only to flair bright orange again. There was no pattern or rhythm to the flaring or diminishing of the light and no color change was observed. It remained a steady orange color. My wife described it as "on fire" and I would not disagree. I have studied astronomy all my life in Scouts, college courses, and as an astronomy enthusiast volunteering in our National Park. I have spent a great deal of time in the wilderness backpacking and such, watching the night sky from remote places. I have seen Iridium flares and regularly watch the ISS and other objects in the night sky, thanks to smartphone apps. I have seen drones, shooting stars (including big ones) and watched meteor showers. I have watched rocket launches from Vandenburg AFB in the night sky. This was something new to me and something outside of anything easily explanable based on my experience. The object was observed from my side patio where we were eating dinner, then we moved to the backyard to watch it further until it faded somewhere over the Sierra Nevada mountains.
March 25, 2018 · 10:00 AM · TRIANGLE
El Cajon, CA
I was in my backyard and looked up to the sky when I heard a passenger airliner flying overhead, I soon noticed a very light gray in color triangle shaped object moving quite quickly in a south direction... There was no sign of a vapor any kind of trail following it as one would see on most jets, military of commercial... I also noticed that the lines did not seem to be sharp angles but almost a roundness to them at the points, one other thing I recall is the body seemed to have a bit of a metallic finish... The object was lost in the high cloud formations...
March 24, 2018 · 9:03 PM · LIGHT
Merced, CA
I was locking my gate as I do every night around the same time. As I'm locking I look into the sky only to see a light resembling a star slowly getting brighter as if it was descending. I felt this was clearly not an airplane or helicopter. I ran up my stairs into my apartment to retrieve my phone. I stepped out to the top of my steps, facing to the West, and began recording. As I adjust my aperture on my phone the object goes out of focus then back into focus. There is an airplane in the background heading South-SouthEast. As I proceed to record the object changes direction to the North and it ascends at an unprecedented speed into the stars. During the sighting I was motionless and amazed at the sighting. Almost in disbelief that what I was witnessing was truly happening. Upon reentering my apartment where my girlfriend was watching television. I remained speechless as I tried to gather the words to describe to her what I had seen. I had a euphoric sensati! on and I was extremely happy and excited. An absolutely remarkable experience.
March 23, 2018 · 7:56 PM · CIRCLE
Coto De Caza, CA
Saw them as I turned down a road in our community. 3 spheres in a triangle formation not moving. Then one started to slowly move up and away. I pulled over behind a couple of other cars that had stopped. The first one was gone when I got my camera out. The second one then started to rise . I tried to drive home to get my binoculars as I lived close. Gone when I got in position again. I did get one picture (attached). They were white and seemed kind of fuzzy changed to slight orangish as the rose away.
March 23, 2018 · 3:30 AM · CHANGING
Roseville, CA
Wight, red, green, and blue pulsing orb terned tryangle that was bigger than an airplane that passed by i got my binoclers out be fore the airplain passed by and it started to dance but i think my hands were shaking i was staring at it for a bout an hr when i whent back in my house i felt the need to sit on the floor i passed out We telephoned the witness, in order to confirm whether the report was a serious-minded account of a real event, and were left uncertain as to its real nature. PD
March 23, 2018 · 2:40 AM · LIGHT
Clearlake, CA
As they fell, they split into four, and separated then moved back together, then fell behind the horizon. This happened about 2:40 am.
March 22, 2018 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Anderson, CA
It was traveling at a good rate of speed, and then just evaporated and you couldn't see it any longer.
March 18, 2018 · 9:15 AM · OTHER
Modesto, CA
On 3/18/18, at approx. 9:15am, my wife and I were traveling eastbound from Modesto, Ca to Oakdale Ca. I noticed an object in the horizon hovering with a short vapor trail. As I focused on the object I then noticed about 8 more similar objects lined up horizontally. I could not tell what the object looked like. As we traveled further eastward and about 5-8 min later the first object thrust upward rapidly and disappeared. Seconds later the 2nd and 3rd objects did the same thing. As they moved upward the vapor trail still was short but resembled an eye of a needle. They others that were still left were further away but continued to hover for another 5-10 min and were gone. We have looked at the photos, and the white objects appear to us to be contrails behind high-altitude aircraft, perhaps approaching an airport to the west of Modesto, perhaps SFO. PD