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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

November 17, 2017 · 11:20 AM · UNKNOWN

Los Altos, CA

Walking down my driveway, facing N/nw, I just happened to look up and saw what I thought was a large flock of birds circling, but seemed very high I could not make out size or type of bird. Than I began to notice that they would go from a dark to light color, but it was not reflective of sun, most of group was circling clockwise, but either side would turn whitish, not just group at “9 o’clock” position as if that how angled in turn, the 3 o’clock side would also go white. I pulled out my phone to record, and continued watching and the objects were fading in/out, then after about 2 minutes they all vanished. I went to watch the video and stupid me didn’t record!!! I did see a very high altitude plane fly over, maybe over 20,000 ft (lots of planes fly over to sfo, that pattern puts at 6000 over my house, so this plane much higher) but the object were definitely below this plane.

November 15, 2017 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION

San Diego, CA

4 bright white lights in sky Seemed to be over Black Mountain, Rancho Penasquitos One light zoomed into place, then stayed still, a second light zoomed across it then stayed still, right beside the first. A third light did the same, and then a fourth. After they were all lined up in a row, the lights quickly went out, one after another, starting with the first. They didn’t seem to come from anywhere. We didn’t see them flying from a distance to land in this space. It was like they appeared, moved into place, and then disappeared just as quickly. Two moms taking our two teenage daughters to a concert. Both moms and one daughter saw the lights.

November 15, 2017 · 4:30 PM · OTHER

Perris, CA

I thought it was a Cessna at first with wings up and down flying sideways but was too fast. no lights or colors.

November 15, 2017 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE

San Diego, CA

Color of the Sun Light like another Sun in the Sky almost reflective translucent and in the clouds, easily noticed I was in La Jolla around 4pm beautiful glowing object like a huge mirror of the Sun.

November 15, 2017 · 12:05 AM · CHEVRON

Modesto, CA

Was outside smoking. Very dim light blue lights (angled) on 2 sides were observed. Craft was not more than 3000 to 5000 foot elevation and ran totally silent. Speed about 200 to 250 mph. Moved from east to west. Would love to take a ride. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

November 14, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE

Sacramento, CA

Just after 8:00pm Pacific time, I was walking to my car, when I noticed a bright stationary orange ball of light. It stayed in one spot for approximately 30 seconds. I ran inside to get my wife and kids. They came out and were able to see the light briefly before it seemed to just disappear out of existence. I just thought it was a little weird but nothing more. I got into my car, went to grab some groceries about a mile from the house. About 10 minutes after the original sighting, I was able to see an estimated 20-30 bright orange lights in the exact same area! Almost in the shape of a flower petal, stretching maybe across 2 miles of sky. I flew into the driveway honking. My family ran out. Unfortunately, my wife and kids only saw the last 2 bright orange balls “blink”out of existence for about 10 seconds and then they were gone. Within a minute there were 2 airplanes circling the area where we had seen the odd lights. We hopped in the car to get out of the suburb lights and chase what we saw. They did not appear in any capacity again. For the record I’m a huge skeptic when it comes to any type of UFO talk. That being said I have no way to explain what we saw in the sky tonight.

November 14, 2017 · 5:35 PM · OTHER

Sunnyvale, CA

Location details: Driver seat of my car facing south, stop at the intersection of I-101 and Lawrence Blvd in Sunnyvale, CA. Observation Details: While stopped at the intersection a split second vertical streak of light in the distant horizon caught my eye. The light resembled a falling star. It started above the horizon and ended at about the horizon. The thin light was constant in shape and red/orange in color. The odd thing was the path of the light. As the light traveled down vertically, it made a 90 degree turn to the west followed immediately by another 90 degree turn down (toward the ground) then disappeared. The whole event lasted a split second but the path was clearly visible. Background of observer: Kansas native with aviation manufacturing background. Commercial Multi-Engine Instrument Pilot.

November 13, 2017 · 11:34 PM · SPHERE

Vacaville, CA

On porch facing Mount Vaca I see a white orb I turn to open screen door to get my binoculars which two one second I turn around and the orb is now in the city limits glowing red-hot above nut tree Airport which is seven and a half miles from Mount Vaca then hovers for 20 minutes changing to White bright white with three lights lighting up on bottom with no beams then red moving Stripes through the center yelled at Neighbors come outside took turns with binoculars finally the orb became dim and became a fluorescent dark violet and slowly lifted and left towards Sacramento.

November 11, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER

Glendale/Pasadena, CA

I was driving around 8 pm or so east on the 134 freeway toward Pasadena, CA, on Saturday 11/11/17. Around Glendale area before heading into Eagle Rock or so, I noticed on the left hand side up above the horizon above hills an object in the air that struck me as strange. At first it was going in and out behind things. The lights were strange, and movement strange. Nothing like that has ever caught my attention before. I watched it intently as best I could while driving on the freeway. It then began following along the freeway the entire way I was going in a basically straight line, perhaps 10 miles? At times I thought maybe it could be a blimp. But it moved very unusually, not at all like a blimp moves -- gliding easily at high speed. It kept pace in a straight firm line gliding along the freeway way too fast for a blimp, and somewhat farther down (lower) than you would expect on the horizon, for several miles. It seemed almost like it was partially sh! rouded or camaflouged, like it was intentionally trying to be non-descript in its appearance/color, deflecting light. For some reason I had an instinct or sense like the object usually has camaflouge not expecting to be seen, but that wasn't fully working at that moment for some reason. It struck me that if I was a UFO, I would not want to be seen and would want to be camaflouged rather than flashy and conspicuous, so the non-descript quality seemed reasonable to me. I wanted to take a picture or video, but I could not safely do so while driving on the freeway. I kept watching it as a drove the whole way. I then exited LAKE avenue off the 134/210 freeway into Pasadena, turning left and heading north. The object appeared to change directions almost like it was following me. It too turned left and started heading north parallel to the direction of my car, just as it had been heading in a straight line along the freeway east before I exited and turned. I know this sounds od! d and strange, but it almost felt like it could somehow sense ! that it knew I saw it and was intent and curious about that. It caught my attention because it definitely did not seem normal or quite like anything I had seen before, and I could not explain what it was. It did not move like any aircraft I know about. Too smooth and fast, not a typical flight path, speed or positioning vis-a-vis the horizon. It seemed almost casual, like it was observing and didn't think it could be seen, and then somehow noticed I noticed it (though I don't know how that could be the case). I'm thinking possible Jacques Vallée resonant, a subjective, different order component to it. I then pulled over on the road on Lake Blvd. in Pasadena so I could try to photograph it, and took the pictures attached here with my phone. The first pic is a ZOOM IN on the second pic so you can see it better/closer up. You can see where it is in the sky in the second because the perspective is stepped/angled back. In the first zoomed in pic, the object looks like a shaded circle/orb shape titled partly 3/4 back with 3 round glowing lights on the bottom. It continued to "follow" along side on the horizon up Lake Blvd. parallel to my car for a couple of miles. I then turned off right to a side street going toward a residence and lost sight of it. It held my attention as something strange I observed for around 15 minutes in total, a pretty long duration. This is the first time I have ever felt like I might have seen a UFO. It did feel instinctively like it was something unusual, and was something I could not explain or recognize. I would like to know if there were other sightings reported at this same time and area. This is reported anonymously, to add discovery and investigation. You can feel free to freely contact me with questions, information, or follow up, however.

November 11, 2017 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE

San Diego, CA

Triangle shaped. Four lights circulating on each point. Flew from North/East to southwest out towards the ocean.

November 10, 2017 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE

Folsom, CA

On November 10th, at approximately 22:45 hours, I was looking up into the night sky, while talking to someone who was in a elevated position. As I was talking to them, I noticed a dark shadow move over their head. I focused my attention into the object and observed a large triangle object, moving in a southernly direction. The object was approximately 2500 feet about the ground moving at a slow pace. The object had no lights or markings and was about the size of a football field and blended into the night sky. The area I was standing in was lit up with powerful night time lighting and the light was reflecting off the metal material of the object. As I watched the object it was moving in a slow manner in a southernly direction. The thing that was the most amazing was that the object made no sound at all. Source of report describes himself as a public employee. PD

November 10, 2017 · 5:40 PM · CIRCLE

Bakersfield, CA

There was an object to the northwest that looked like the moon but it was real dim and had a small cutout section at the lower left side. could this have been planet x? Later that night about midnight the moon was bright in the southeast.

November 6, 2017 · 7:00 AM · OTHER

San Diego, CA

I was outside this morning and noticed a bright object in the sky. The sky was clear and there were no other objects in the blue sky except a large view of the moon off to the west. I was looking almost overhead when I saw the object and what appeared to be a bright light coming from it. I thought it might be a reflection from the sun. I got my binoculars but the image was still not very clear, but I could see the basic shape and that it had 5 lights - not reflections. I set up my camera and tripod to catch the object as it was slowly moving away, now at about a 45 degree angle. I got 5 quick photos before the object was too far away to focus. It drifted off to the southwest. No sounds or movement/change in the lights on the object.

November 6, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE

San Francisco, CA

Spherical shaped craft, seemed to have hexagons all over the inside that seemed to light up red. There was a feeling of intense gravity, as if I were way heavier than normal, and like something was pushing down on me. It came down and surrounded my whole location and stayed there for 6 hours or so. When these navigate around they are blue grey and black in color and seem to be plasma and variable size. This was near the Eagle's Point Labyrinth along the pacific trail. Associated with these are smaller triangular craft with three red lights on the bottom that trail two fibers behind them. This was early Monday morning. We attempted to contact the source of the report, but the telephone number is non-functional. We strongly suspect a hoax, in light of the content of the report. PD

November 5, 2017 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE

Long Beach, CA

Slow moving cirlcular dark object with diferent color lights. Low flying. No sound. Larger than a commercial plane. Taller than a blimp. Witness provides no contact information. PD

November 5, 2017 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE

Moreno Valley, CA

I was in my backyard when I seen a circular red sold orb looking object no port or starboard lights no white light slowing approaching from south to north going toward San Bernardino. Then red solid orb then stopped and hovered about 1500 ft guessing above some houses for about 5 min, another known aircraft with port and starboard lights flying below but on the path of it went in front of it and the red orb lights flashed off and then on as if to indicate it wanted to be seen then after about 1 min it proceeded south bound toward Perris, CA, and then landed where it appeared to be around Lake Perris, CA, mountain area.

November 4, 2017 · 6:25 PM · TRIANGLE

Cathedral City, CA

Not quite dark,.. looked up to see what I thought was an airliner going over, but this was no airliner, triangular with green and purple shimmering lights (about 10 lights that sparkled and shimmered and seemed to rotate around the perimeter) that seemed to make the object look like it was spinning or rotating but it flew over at what would be the right speed and height for an airliner. A small white light which looked like a satellite caught up and passed the triangular shape, it looked and flew just like a Satellite. Right behind the first white light another white light appearing flying faster than the first white light. The speed was too fast for satellite, and I thought maybe it was a fighter jet, but no regular nav lights... just a steady white light.. flying ⅓ faster than the first white light and no sound from any of the objects.. Then a third white light appeared heading in almost the same direction as the first two white lights but going a! lmost three times faster than the first white light. Way faster than any jet crossing the sky and way faster maybe three times faster than a satellite and definetliy not a meteor. I am used to seeing airliners fly over and satellites. All four of the objects converged over Cathedral City/ Palm Springs at 6:25pm and all heading in almost the same direction.

November 4, 2017 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT

Rialto, CA

Walked out side to have a smoke, always take the time to look up noticed what I thought was a high flying plane. Then I noticed another and another first thinking they could be stars and the clouds are moving tonight. So I placed a box on the wall next to me, hid the object behind the box so out of sight, and wiated for it to pop up it did. Proving to me the objects where moving in the night sky. Stuck around looked around the sky noticing more all over reminding me of the fleet over Mexico City.

November 3, 2017 · 9:05 PM · FORMATION

Walnut, CA

Took my eyes off the sky and walk to get my son from a music lesson, but in just 3 or 4 steps, I stop and want to take a look at this group of bright stars again with some puzzles and scan through the sky for some reference to other stars but the moon is too bright to see other stars. Now my eyes are back with all these bright stars and studied them a little bit with fascination even with some thin clouds passed by I can still saw through it, they are that bright. Now with the cloud’s motion, I felt like I wanted to look at the moon to my left to see which way the clouds were moving. It looked like the clouds moved West-East direction. Now I was back at these stars, I started to realize they were slightly moving south-east (farer away from me). Now I heard my son and his teacher at the front door to my left, so I walked there and had a few quick conversations with the teacher and got back to my son and pulled him out to see those stars, but by now they are even further south and just above the electric light pole. I tried to relocate our position, but it was too late and they were gone. I felt bad because my son missed it, and I really want him to see it. I did try to send a drawing picture with this report, too. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite seriou-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD

November 3, 2017 · 8:15 AM · DISK

Costa Mesa, CA

While driving to work at 8:15 this morning, I noticed an unusual shape in the sky. Because there were a lot of clouds, I initially thought it was a unique, very dark gray cloud formation. When I was stopped at a red light, I could get a better look at it, and it was clear that it was not a cloud. It was an object hovering in the sky. I thought at first it might be an oddly shaped blimp, but there are frequently blimps in this area and I’d never seen one with this shape. This was much more flattened and wider than a blimp. I could make out what I thought were darker demarcations of some sort on it. It was mostly hovering, but could have been moving toward the west very, very slowly. When I got to work, I found that 4 other people had seen it also. At a little after 10:00 a.m., someone came in talking about it because they had just been looking at it still. When I went out to look again at 10:15 it was no longer there. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hi- This morning I reported what I thought was a UFO sighting - I have since found out that it was some unusual blimp flying over a convention for Blizzcon - put on by Blizzard video game company. Just wanted to clarify/update my report. ((END ADDENDUM)). We have encouraged the witness to contact the local FAA Flight Service Station, to inquire whether a blimp was in the area, and perhaps in touch with the local airport tower or ATC. PD

November 1, 2017 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE

Los Angeles, CA

I was walking my dog. He was a very old dog I had recently adopted. He was staying in a boarding facility. I went to the facility to walk the dog. I was walking up to a street corner (12th or Olympic) looking up the street at the traffic light and just as I looked up some flew at high speeds right in front of me. I was just about to the street corner so I walked a few more steps so my sight line would lear the buildings anf there it was. So type of morphing globe. It was flying towards Santa Monica. It was only about 10 stories high which made me think it was some type of missle. But as I watched it fly away, the craft spilt into two crafts and it looked like they were racing or competing. Their flight pattern was nothing I had ever seen. I continued to watch until I could not see them anymore. I could not video the event because I had a dog leash in my hand and even though I had the phone in my hand, I was not able to push record because my other hand was full.

October 31, 2017 · 7:35 PM · TRIANGLE

Palm Desert, CA

7:35PM October 31, 2017, The Living Desert, Palm Desert, CA My wife and I are members at our local desert zoo. The zoo puts on a "Howl-o-ween" event where thousands of kids, parents are members are invited to walk about and participate in themed mazes, see animals eating etc. We'd been to the zoo a dozen times in the last year and know it well. Tonight they illuminated the adjacent fenced off rocky hill for the visitors to view the resident rams. Shortly after I took a photo of the hill with moonlight clouds above, I saw the end of the cloud cover was nearly directly overhead and that the stars were peaking through. It was only 10 seconds after gazing upward that I saw what looked like two faint stars flying from the clear SW sky, travelling parallel to each other but not in an exact straight line. One of them was pulsing slowly a bright white color, the other appeared to fade in and out, they could have been mistaken for satellites or planes if they had not drifted and slowed to a standstill almost directly overheard. At this point I called to my wife, got out my smartphone (which couldn't capture anything of course) and we both saw the orbs slowly stop. At this point another orb slowly appeared and then the three balls of light seemed to "align" themselves into a classic UFO triangle. At this point, shocked, I looked around to see how others were reacting and their were dozens of people all around us but, as expected, they were completely engaged with their costumed kids. The triangles altitude was not much higher than the low-hanging clouds yet their appearance was inconspicuous enough to just appear as other faint stars. We could see that they weren't exactly still but hovered in place, not pulsing or fading in or out, but just staying still as if "pretending" to be stars. After 3 or 5 minutes staring up at the floating triangle, we had to get going, reluctantly. It felt like winning the jackpot then having to leave your lotto ticket behind. I was not too surprised by any of this behavior as I have researched many other UFO cases that are nearly exact replicas of this, yet the sheer euphoria and shock of seeing it right before your eyes, out in the open in front of thousands is a power emotion I'll never forget. Researchers and witness have concurred over the years that whatever intelligence these orbs have, it is probably aware of how humans think, and show themselves only just enough for a few to see them, but rarely make an appearance big enough or at the right time for a full-scale sighting with any real earth-shattering consequences. This being my second sighting, and my first in what must be the most populated public outdoor place for the next hundred miles, I believe the UFO definitely knew it could act with impunity.

October 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OVAL

Chico, CA

With my FLIR ONE attachment to my I phone 5, I view the heavens. I have viewed and taken 8 videos of UFO's or US Military zapping incoming meteors. There is a large meteor coming straight down towards earth. I viewed this with my FIR ONE Infa Red attachment. I cannot see any of these bright objects with my naked eyes. A UFO comes from the bottom left and ZAPS, several times, the center meteor at the 36 second mark to the 43 second mark into the video. It travels just below the planet that is blue in color, and moves diagonally to the upper right pasts this meteor then comes back and zaps it trying to move it out of its trajectory from hitting earth. I have 8 such videos, with different directions. This is looking straight up. 90 degrees facing East. At the 32 second mark into the video you can see the UFO craft moving from bottom left to upper right diagonally. there is a blue ball in the left corner that I think is another moon or planet. In the middle the bright spot is a meteor heading towards earth. We received and viewed the "false color" video, and cannot be certain that we see either the alleged meteor, or the alleged UFO. We do see an object that appears to us to be possibly a spider, seemingly climbing up a spider web, but we cannot be sure what the object is. We have conveyed this information to the source of the video, and he disagrees strongly with our assessment of the footage. In another video from the witness, we see what we suspect are insects in flight. PD

October 29, 2017 · 11:00 AM · OVAL