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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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November 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Palm Desert, CA
The phone really doesn't capture since the object appears much larger and hovered over the hills. You can tell it was technology not from this world I did some research and this isn't far from Joshua Tree that lays on the 33rd parallel the same as the great priamids.
November 23, 2017 · 5:20 PM · SPHERE
Stockton, CA
On Thanksgiving dusk, I was with my inlaws in the back yard of their house in Stockton Ca. I was telling them oddly enough about a documentary about aliens - when I stopped mid sentence having noticed the orange orb in the sky that seemed to appear out of nowhere. I alerted my inlaws and they got up and saw the same thing. It was glowing brightly and was orange red. It was maybe 15000 feet, silently moved across the sky for about 1 minute. My inlaws and myself watched it until it suddenly disappeared. It seemed to be heading south west. I fumbled trying to get my phone out and take a picture or video, but I couldn’t get it out in time before the Orb was gone.
November 23, 2017 · 3:50 AM · LIGHT
Alameda, CA
I live in Alameda, California. I saw something in the middle of the night last night that I feel compelled to report to you. I have been unable to sleep at night this past month, and have become used to lying awake in bed while it is dark, and then falling asleep as day breaks. I have attributed this to stress, as my stress levels this past few months have been off the charts. I have recently started sleeping with the windows open, since the cooling breeze off San Francisco Bay comes through my bedroom window. As I live on the third floor of the building, it is uncomfortably warm most of the day, so I welcome the cool breeze. There is another building approximately 20 feet away out this same window that is about 4 feet taller than this one, I am thus afforded a bare horizontal “strip” of sky, starting above the building next door, ending with the top boundary of the window, covering a span of approx 10 degrees of sky, as the primary view out my bedroom window. Most nights I simply lie there and stare at that strip of sky, which, frankly, is quite dull. At most, I catch a plane or two slowly circling in its low-altitube path toward the Oakland International Airport, which is about five minutes from my apartment building. There is the occasional star that will break through the haze, or be plainly visible on clear nights, but I have never seen anything unusual, until last night/this morning. During the wee hours (approx 3:50am) this morning (11-23-17), I was lying there, staring out the window, unable to sleep again. It was fairly overcast last night, with a faint star sometimes shining through the overcast haze as it would thin at times, and then becoming invisible again. This is usually what I see, other than the occasional plane on its low-altitude path to OAK airport. At approx 3:50am, my jaw dropped open as I saw a single bright white light ZOOM past, completely in my view. It went by in literally a split second, but I clearly saw it. My window faces a few degrees NW of true West, so this object would have been travelling a few degrees NE of true North. Its path was completely horizontal, ie: it went in a line parallel with the top of the next building. There was NO sound. It was completely silent. It was obviously low enough to be below the overcast haze. It was uncharacteriscally bright. It also travelled faster than anything I have seen before. It literally ZIPPED past my window, flying horizontally, in the span of a second . It was there, coming into my view from the left, travelling to the right, and was gone. This is only the second sighting of something I had no explanation for in my life. It was flying faster than any aircraft I have ever seen, including fighter jets. Much faster. And there was no sound as it went past, ruling out a fighter jet. And it was a single, bright white dot of light. No red, no blue, no green, no blinking. Just a steady white light travelling horizontally, faster than anything I’ve ever seen before. As far as altitude or distance, my only frame of reference is that it was below the layer of haze, but above the roof of the building next door, obviously. And it was brilliantly bright white. My overall impression was that it was flying fairly “low”, compared to how high the planes coming into OAK usually fly. I have not seen any other reports from early this morning, so I have no idea if anyone else saw it and said anything about it. It was gone before I could even begin to clamber out of bed to see if I could see it off to the right. Thank you for taking the time to read this. As I said, this is only the second time in my life that I have seen something in the sky that could not be explained away by conventional explanations. The only other time I’ve seen something inexplicable was entirely different. It happened in 1999, when I lived in Austin, Texas. I lived in the country at the time, and was taking a walk down our long dirt driveway to make sure our front gate was closed. It had to have been between 10pm and midnight, but I do not remember the exact month and day. I want to say it was in the middle of summer. Our property was oriented squarely on the East/West axis, so our driveway was a 400 foot straight dirt road along our North border, running exactly East-West, with the gate at the road being on the Eastern boundary. It was an overcast night, so the cloud ceiling was obvious, as the city lights a few miles away bounced off the haze and created bit of a pinkish glow to the clouds. Glancing up slightly so my eyes took in the Eastern horizon I saw a large, unmistakeably rigid “V” shaped bank of oddly cohesive clouds moving directly from North to South, about 15 degrees above the horizon. It was like watching a “fuzzy pink V of clouds” move silently in a straight line. It was not moving fast, but steadily and silently. It disappeared behind a bank of trees on our property and i was not able to follow it any further. No sound, no lights emanating from it, but rather a true “V” that seemed to be made of clouds, moving silently and steadily, and what seemed purposefully, from North to South, at a consistent rate of speed. This was not “clouds being blown aimlessly by the breeze”…there were no other “low” clouds below the ceiling of the overcast sky. There were absolutely no “lower” clouds present at all, besides this “V”. This thing moved steadily, as if propelled at a consistent rate of speed. I remember thinking, “Cloaked craft made to look like clouds?” at the time. I was heavily into UFO research during that period of my life, and had, of course, read/seen the reports of “V-shaped craft”, but this thing was not your typical “big black V”…it had no lights, and it had to have been huge…covering at least several city blocks in the span between the “tips” of the ends of the “V” shape. It was not a solid triangle, but instead a “V” or “boomerang” of pinkish fuzzy clouds moving below the obvious cloud ceiling above. I never saw it nor anything like it again. Sorry to have squeezed two sightings into one report, but actually remembered the Austin sighting after detailing the one. Thank you again. I check your site regularly for new reports. Yours is the most measured and least “hyped and sensationalized” of all the “ufo reporting” sites out there, and I commend you on your method of reporting.
November 22, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CROSS
Santa Paula, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 22, 2017 · 7:42 PM · UNKNOWN
Capitola, CA
Was facing SW and seen a dim patch of glow with haze around it. From where I was standing it seemed far and near. Observing it at first was like trying to look at a star when it's cloudy out. It started out small and white then it grew and expanded to bright white light and looked like a very large comet. Then it slowly faded back to a small glow haze, almost completely invisible. Within thirty seconds it started glowing again and more intense into a bright orange, and red color. Had a rounded blot shape which split into, which I could best describe as, "two odd shaped balls of energy." It got harder to see as it seemed it was getting farther away repeating the dim/high glow pattern. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 22, 2017 · 4:44 PM · DISK
Sacramento, CA
Driving on freeway and captured at least 4 saucers that resemble the "tic tac" ufo and a mother's hip in theclouds.
November 22, 2017 · 4:44 PM · DISK
Sacramento, CA
Driving on freeway and captured at least 4 saucers that resemble the "tic tac" ufo and a mother's hip in theclouds.
November 22, 2017 · 4:44 PM · DISK
Carmichael, CA
I forgot to tell you guys I was emailing pictures to you after I sent my report.
November 22, 2017 · 5:35 AM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
I was walking back to my car ending my early AM exercise routine in Griffith Park. I looked in the sky and saw a light slowly moving from the southwest to the southeast. It looked like a large light and a very dim small light. I watched and after about 30 seconds it got brighter. This usually indicates a satellite because it is spinning. About 5 seconds it got dim again. I continued watching it until it disappeared behind some trees. I got in my car and came back to my apartment. When I was driving back, I saw the same light moving at the same speed in the same direction. I was pretty sure at this time it was a satellite. When I got back into my apartment I went to my computer and opened up Stellarium (a very good program to see the night sky at any particular time). Stellarium also views major satellites at the time. I looked up the time at 5:35 and the direction that the object was moving. The unidentified object turned out to be the Hubble Telescope. Stellarium is a free program to download.
November 22, 2017 · 4:44 AM · DISK
Carmichael, CA
So i took the first couple pictures at 4:44pm and then the last 2 at 4:50pm and never saw what i captured until a week later when i was getting ready to send them to my girlfriend at the time.. I was driving back from Lincoln on 80 west and at the time I was talking to this girl that really liked taking pictures of sunsets and while I was driving the sky looked really crazy that day so I had my phone mounted on the dash board and starting snapping pictures as I was driving down 80 west and in several of the pictures i saw at least 3to5 UFOs in the pictures and the only thing I've done to the pictures was watermark them.
November 21, 2017 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles/Arts District, CA
All six spheres were flying together, at first, and then two started flying west. Three flew north in a triangle formation, and I lost the other one in the clouds. Photo submitted by witness shows several objects in the daytime sky. PD
November 20, 2017 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
San Clemente, CA
At 4:00PM on Monday 11/20/2017, I was driving through San Clemente, CA. on US Highway 5. Passing Exit 78 (Camino de Estrella), I noticed an aerial object in the northwest sky, brightly reflecting the soon to be setting sun. The object was northwest of me, at about 30 degrees above the horizon, perhaps over San Juan Capistrano. I observed this object without interruption for about three seconds, during which time it appeared motionless in front of the distant clouds. The apparent shape was like a brilliant white bb with an apparent diameter of about 2mm. My viewing was interrupted by a tree passing through the line of sight, after which the object was nowhere to be seen. The nearest METAR data from John Wayne airport (about 25 miles northwest of my position) recorded visibility as 10 statute miles and a few clouds at 15000 feet. If the line-of-sight distance to the object was 5 miles, then it would have had a diameter of about 75 feet and been at an elevation somewhat above 10,000 feet. Its near-instantaneous disappearance eliminates the possibility of either a reflective balloon or aircraft.
November 20, 2017 · 2:15 AM · FIREBALL
Dixon, CA
On the morning of Nov. 20, 2017, I woke up at about 2:15 am to let my cat out. I looked up and through the neighbor’s trees I saw what I thought was the moon only orange-ish...like it was smoked covered. I was facing east. I then noticed this was not the moon but an orange light. It looked like an orange ball of fire. This ‘light’ started to move slowly, like at small plane speed, going north. It stayed on a fairly horizontal course, just quite slow. I kept listening for the sound of an airplane engine but it was dead silent. I followed the light (still at my back door) until it went out of my range of sight and behind more trees on our street, so I ran to the front of my house and looked out the front window – now facing north. The light appeared to be going even slower now – I could see it through the tree tops for about a minute, then it came into plain sight. It appeared to just hover, then move slowly, then hover...I couldn’t tell if it was the ! atmosphere that made it look like it was moving oddly, or if it actually was moving oddly. A few times it looked like it was getting larger, like an object on fire gets larger. I was expecting it to fall to the ground and crash, but it just slowly moved, hovering oddly. The light then seemed to move upward in elevation, like it was moving north, and slowed a few times in its ascent. It became smaller and a few times disappeared, showed again, and then finally faded out. The oddest thing was there was absolutely no sound. This all lasted about 7 minutes. I went back to bed and a few minutes later I did hear a small plane fly overhead – this made the absence of sound with this ‘light’ all the more obvious. I was going to ask a friend who was in the Air Force if he knew of drones or something that would explain this, but I haven’t had the chance yet.
November 19, 2017 · 9:32 PM · CIRCLE
East Los Angeles, CA
The skies were super clear tonight. I saw 3 circular flying objects all of them were orange and hovering slowly moving east bound, almost looked like they were stopped because of how slow they were going. The whole object was lit up orange, then they disappeared into thin air, didn't fly away, they were just gone.
November 19, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Dixon, CA
I kept watching as we approached them, looking for a tower of some sort that they would be attached to. I assumed they were farming lights of some sort, but I kept my eyes on them for five minutes straight at one point. As soon as we got close enough, almost right under them, and I realized they were not farm lights and that they were not attached to any type of tower.. They disappeared.
November 19, 2017 · 12:00 PM · CIRCLE
Marysville, CA
I was in a parking lot in Marysville, CA with 2 friends when one of them noticed a few objects in the sky. They were quite high up in altitude and north of Marysville. I saw 4 circular objects moving very slowly in all directions. They were dark in color and depending on how they moved, they would turn shiny. Then there were 6 and the most I saw were 8 flying objects. The objects would flash a bright blue light occasionally. I had my phone and took a video but in order to see them you have to enlarge the video. The objects would fade in and out as they would slowly move around. The event lasted for about 4 minutes. The sky had some whispy clouds in it but otherwise a nice sunny day.
November 19, 2017 · 2:39 AM · OVAL
Anaheim, CA
Oblong shape with lights moving slowly across the sky at times it just sets there
November 18, 2017 · 7:26 PM · CIRCLE
Ventura, CA
The front of the dish shape object had different color lights on it and three or four red strips of lights on the top of it... hovered for a long time. My wife got some pictures. They are only of the red glow from the object. A plane flew near one of the objects and the craft flew away from it…
November 18, 2017 · 5:29 PM · LIGHT
Simi Valley, CA
Me and my mom were driving to the store and saw what looked like a shooting star but realized it wasn't since it was very slow moving and as it got closer to the mountains it got very large and very bright! It landed and made a bright flash near the building in the mountain that used to be Atomics International (there was a nuclear meltdown years ago).
November 18, 2017 · 1:50 AM · LIGHT
Agoura Hills, CA
Was driving westbound on the 101 through Agoura Hills and saw what appeared to be an enormous shooting star coming downward, due west, toward Ventura. Instead of fading away like every other shooting star I've ever seen, it jumped across the sky, seemingly several miles in less than a second, southwest, then froze somewhere just above the Santa Monica Mountains. I've never seen anything accelerate, cover that much distance, and then come to a halt so fast. It defied logic. I kept my eye on it for about two more minutes and exited the freeway at Kanan Road. It looked like a really bright star. It was moving ever-so-slightly over what looked like the middle of the Malibu Hills, maybe near Sandstone Peak, then disappeared behind them.
November 18, 2017 · 1:45 AM · TRIANGLE
San Gabriel, CA
Driving down 10 west freeway, multiple vehicles on the road (includes a big rig in front of me). What I thought was a helicopter N. of the freeway doing its circular motion, all of a sudden was drifting in a Southward motion, also had a streak of light behind it which in no way appeared to be a spotlight. I would like to say it was a triangle, but it looked more as a half triangle. Other vehicles noticed as well, since they started to slow down almost to a full stop on the freeway as well as myself, I would say anywhere from 10 to 15 vehicles on the road,. The object was getting more and more visible as it proceeded to hover over us. The big rig in front of me was somewhat panicked and pulled over in such a way that I thought there was going to be a pileup collision. The object was hovering faster, and brighter, then poof, the light dimmed suddenly, it took a mild SW bound turn and headed toward the clouds but it could still be seen as a faint light wit! hin the clouds. Hopeful there are more reports regarding this matter, and in NO WAY was this a plane heading for LAX.
November 18, 2017 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Long Beach, CA
I was walking home (West) after watching a movie, there was a marine layer over head so I could not see any stars. Out of the right corner of my eye there was a what appeared to be a street light high about. I didn't think much other then a helicopter was approaching. As the light started to get bigger. As soon as I focused in the light jumped a crossed the sky under the marine layer about a mile in 1 second. In the process what actually caught my attention was when it moved across it lit up bright green, what appeared to be green flames with small sparks at the bottom. I could not make out a shape of the craft other then an orb. It then stopped becoming stationary, that's when my mind was trying to figure out what had just happened. I pulled my iPhone out and filmed. The object was no longer green but yellowish/white moving slowly south west. When it suddenly vaporized as if it went behind a curtain in the sky.
November 17, 2017 · 5:51 PM · UNKNOWN
Newman, CA
Lights faded down to look like just another star. Then, headed on a path towards dim white light. Both then disaaperaed.
November 17, 2017 · 1:17 PM · FORMATION
Martinez, CA
Friday, 11-17-2017 at 13:17, I heard a loud, low flying helicopter, which prompted me to go outdoors & observe. The day is sunny, clear blue skies, wind NE prox. 8mph. The ‘chopper’ is flying north bound, about 45 degrees above the horizon, & is white with some black markings. High above the chopper, about 15k-20k feet, is a tight group of 8 white spherical objects, some dark underneath, about 1/8inch diameter as viewed from ground. The formation is not moving except for 3 which are moving in various directions, then the entire group proceeds to move slowly SW. I ran to get my camera, which took under 5-seconds, I fired up the camera & the objects disappeared. Gone, before my eyes, & unable to snap a picture. The chopper had passed, still heard distantly, however, I could not see the objects anywhere in the clear blue skies. They were not birds nor balloons. Sighting lasted about 1-2 mins. My background: 66yrs., careers in medicine, & construction/engineering.