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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
December 22, 2017 · 5:35 PM · CIRCLE
Temecula, CA
There was a large, gigantic white light and streak that was left behind by two rapid moving unidentified flying objects. They were bright white lights moving as fast if not faster than a jet. They moved to the left of the initial starting position and then parted ways, with one continuing east while the other moved south until they both slowly disappeared. The large white light that they initially emitted stayed for at least 20 minutes after initial release. Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:35 PM · LIGHT
San Pedro (port of Los Angeles), CA
We have amended the time above, to reflect the 5:26 p.m. launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:35 PM · CIRCLE
Huntington Beach, CA
Rocket launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:35 PM · LIGHT
Hesperia, CA
We suspect a missile launch sighting. We have corrected the time and date above. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:35 PM · SPHERE
Agoura Hills, CA
Agoura Hills, over Santa Monica Mtns. South of Kanan Road two white orbs traveling south west toward Malibu and ocean. Leaving diffusing contrail/puffy white cloud backlit by moon. Cloud/contrail appears as puff of smoke left as exhaust when car suddenly accelerates. You and I have spoken before re saucers appearing clearly over Federal Way WA a decade ago. See photo file sent separately under WALLACH.
December 22, 2017 · 5:35 PM · LIGHT
Escondido, CA
Glowing vapor trail. 2 moving slow objects in sky going two separate directions. Rocket launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:34 PM · TRIANGLE
Westminster, CA
My son and I were doing last minute Christmas shopping at jc penny here at the Westminster Mall. When we got out of the truck, we noticed the vapor trail from the spacex launch, so I was taking pictures of it to send to my wife, and I noticed in the picture three white lights in the shape of a triangle, so I looked back up to see them hovering and as I went to take another picture they simply vanished. I would say I saw the object for about 8 seconds. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:33 PM · FIREBALL
Rancho Bernado, CA
After dropping my daughter off at Rancho Bernado High School for swim team practice, we were exiting the parking lot facing south-west and encountered a large contrail apparently created by two glowing objects. The first almost appeared as if it could have been leading the second, was larges and throwing off light both forward and behind. After a few minutes, the second object deviated its flight path away from the first, disappearing below the horizon. The first object continued its trajectory (perhaps 90 degrees apart from the second, and eventually disappeared below the horizon also. I captured this event on my cell video. Witnessed by my wife, who was in the car with me. Another car had stopped in front of me to observe the event.
December 22, 2017 · 5:33 PM · FIREBALL
Rancho Bernado, CA
After dropping my daughter off at Rancho Bernado High School for swim team practice, we were exiting the parking lot facing south-west and encountered a large contrail apparently created by two glowing objects. The first almost appeared as if it could have been leading the second, was larges and throwing off light both forward and behind. After a few minutes, the second object deviated its flight path away from the first, disappearing below the horizon. The first object continued its trajectory (perhaps 90 degrees apart from the second, and eventually disappeared below the horizon also. I captured this event on my cell video. Witnessed by my wife, who was in the car with me. Another car had stopped in front of me to observe the event.
December 22, 2017 · 5:33 PM · CHANGING
San Bernardino, CA
Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:32 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:32 PM · OVAL
Palm Desert, CA
Saw a really bright light outside my house. I went outside to investigate and in the sky was a bright glowing cloud. Flying away from the cloud were two glowing objects. They were travelling in the same direction, but the trailing one was emitting light that pulsed out in semi circles behind it. They both seemed to be emitting light, like shining fog. The leading circle was faster and continued to the south, the trailing light turned and went south west. I took photos and video. Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:32 PM · OVAL
Murrieta, CA
Somebody just passed a BS story of a missile test at 1807. You don't test missiles over a dam residential neighborhood. Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:31 PM · FLASH
El Cajon, CA
Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB at 17:26 hrs.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:31 PM · SPHERE
Palm Springs, CA
Just watched several lights in the sky over Palm Springs, CA, moving north to south. Two very bright lights, each with splay of light behind. At one point a smaller light shot straight up into the sky after the two other lights went past it. One large light continued on until it disappeared over mountains. Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
On December 22, 2017. My family and I had just landed in San Diego, California, for Christmas with my grandmother. After landing at about 5:30 pm PST, we started driving north towards La Jolla and saw what looked like a plane’s smoke trail. The smoke started expanding and had a luminescent glow to it. That’s where two lights sources that appeared to be parts of the rocket. But at about 1 minute and 52 seconds of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UaZFDmLbLE two light anomalies occurred. The first is a quick light that appears on the left side of the screen and the second is a bright light that travels from the left of the screen, first decelerating and then quickly accelerating and disappearing off the right hand of the screen. Both my brother and I saw the light anomaly and you can hear our reaction upon seeing it. The cars window, from which we were filming, was down. This bright light went at a speed that cannot be seen on Earth. This appearance is unexplainable and has left many people speechless and with doubts about what they saw. Possible second stage rocket? PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Seaside, CA
Initially visibly as a red to orange glow near the eastern horizon, this object left a visible contrail, initially orange, which gradually became white. The diameter of the contrail varied. It closed at very high speed until it covered about two thirds of the distance between us and the eastern horizon- at which point it appeared to explode. I have watched a number of meteor showers- and this did not resemble any meteor I have ever seen. We initially thought it was probably an aircraft catching light from the sun, which was at that time not far below the horizon. At the point where it appeared to explode, the contrail abruptly flared into a very large white cloud covering about 20 degrees, from which two glowing spherical objects with visible discs emerged with no further trails. One went northeast at a high rate of speed and rapidly vanished; the other hung in the sky for about three minutes and then moved southeast, with less acceleration than the first ob! ject. Efforts to take pictures (we were catching a sunset with a P-900 and a D-5500, both Nikons) yielded fair shots of the cloud, but not the spheres- there were no discernable details visible by eye or digital images. There were no sonic booms or other noises associated with this sighting. Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Torrance, CA
It was Friday, December 22, in Torrance, California, around 5:30 pm. The sky was already dark (just after twilight). I was stuck in pre-Christmas traffic driving North on Crenshaw Boulevard just east of a local Torrance Airport. I looked toward west from my car window and saw a bright light which appeared to be a small airplane emitting contrails, but it looked odd since it was much brighter. As I stared, what appeared to be contrails got thicker, and as the airplane (or what I thought was an airplane) gained its altitude, contrails became massive almost exploding, leaving a bright white gas in the air. As I observed the object which kept moving in the direction of south east, it looked like it split into two separate objects which moved together. It almost looked like the object in front was pulling the object in the back. It was difficult to identify since both objects were super bright or surrounded like some kind of energy field. The object which appear! ed to be being pulled kept emitting something because whatever it was, it was shooting out some kind of white gas or energy, making circular ripples in the air. Other drivers were also looking up and taking videos or pictures (turning around by this time, since we were heading north in the opposite direction). Since traffic began moving, I could not see what happened after that, but my husband and I both witnessed the incident along with many other drivers, and the objects were not airplanes. They almost looked like they were floating, and no sound of engine or jets could be heard. Missile launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Palm Springs, CA
Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Ramona, CA
Update on last post same day same time. It was a ballistic missile launched by the air force.
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Ramona, CA
We are in a 99 cent store parking lot in Ramona, CA, and we notice everyone in the parking lot had stopped and was looking to the sky i looked out and it look like light energy moving very quickly to the east that left a cloud of light that luminated the dark night sky that is still there as i write this on my phone a mere 10 minutes later i also caught video of it i dont know if it will be link in this report though. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Hemet and San Jacinto, CA
Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · FIREBALL
Irvine, CA
I and two other witnesses saw a fireball with a triangular smoke trail, with two smaller bright objects breaking off from front larger object. There was a smoke trail that is lingering in the air in front of the moon. Flew over John Wayne airport from Northeast to Southeast direction. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. We have corrected the time. PD