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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
May 21, 2023 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Palmdale, CA
We saw an object in the sky that was moving around so we started taking pictures. Then a second object came into view. Then I took some video and when I went through the video very slowly I noticed 3 more similar objects in the background. The objects changed color from white to pink to green. In the clearest photo the object appears to be square with a ring of lights around it and a smaller grayish rectangular object next to it. The second object also has a smaller rectangular object next to it.
May 21, 2023 · 6:54 PM · LIGHT
Barstoe, CA
Noticed a light high in the night sky while taking out the trash. No sound or navigation or collision lights emanating from the object. The night sky was over cast and the object was below the over cast. It moved very slowly and finally disappeared in the over cast. I label this as a UFO and this is a first for me.
May 20, 2023 · 10:08 PM · CIGAR
Round Mountain, CA
My mom and I were out in her deck just sky watching and about 25 to 35 lights evenly spaced apart moving diagonally in a straight line together. Some lights were brighter than others, randomly fading in and out and then it just disappeared. It seemed really close, a lot closer than the stars. Then, after they were gone, random blinking lights in various parts of sky for about a minute after. It was similar looking to the starlink [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
May 20, 2023 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Orange, CA
(4:30pm) I walked out of AutoZone towards my car. There was a chill in the air, and wind gusts at approx 6-8mph. I looked up at the low dark fast moving scattered clouds in the sky. During a quick break in the clouds I saw a white stationary-shape-changing -object. For a few minutes it was shimmering off the setting Sun. The object was above the moving clouds. -Not going through them. For 10 minutes. I didn't have my glasses on, I couldn't see the complete details of the object. So I asked a guy working on his truck if he could see what the object was. He said "it looked like one or two of those white spy balloons." A few minutes later, when I was next to my car. The object appeared to change shape, *(like a pulsating piece of chewed bubble gum) and become a darker gray color and started floating North for approx 12 minutes. *(slower than the moving clouds) (4:52pm) As the sun set and the sky grew darker I lost sight of the object. I saw the object a total of 7 times between the clouds during the 22 minutes I watched it. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 19, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Watsonville, CA
Saw a row of 3 bright lights and 1 larger lower brighter circle light. Due west over ocean. Stayed in fixed position for 1/2 hour, then we got cold. Saw 3 planes headed directly toward them. 1 seemed very close, enough to probably get a good look.
May 19, 2023 · 9:13 PM · CIRCLE
Ukiah, CA
A bright light orb it looked like it moved for a while.
May 18, 2023 · 11:28 AM · CIRCLE
San Jose, CA
White ball first came down at an angle and went behind a stand of tall trees then came back out the same side and accelerated away very fast with no sonic boom. I was above clouds at times so we were thinking it was at around 5000 ft. in elevation. We saw it speed up and disappear in the clouds. No sounds. I asked my coworker how big he thought it was and he said bigger than a car. So I'm guessing as big as a van but round. I said if a plane is going 500 mph do you think it was going 1000 mph? He said faster...
May 17, 2023 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Santa Barbara, CA
Square shape with orbs on corners. Flat in another dimension - exposed by wobble. Continued north until no longer visible. Aircraft, possibly an airline, traveling east, recorded in video. The video was too large to attach. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 16, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Claremont, CA
Overhead blinking object, about 1 Hz cycle, alternating red and green. Videos (3) attached, hopefully. One object, rapid positional movement, appeared to be actively surveilling. Oblique views were captured, but direct overhead views were not. (The two companion linked lights which appear in the video were possibly artifacts. They were not visible to me.) NB: One 5 minute video file is too large. It is available …
May 14, 2023 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalCollege city, CA
Cont from sight summary…we were in awe..just watching them..thought it could be a blimp or something so I put my flashlight up at them…immediately right when I did that they faded slowly but in progression from first light to the last..and they were gone..they did t fade due to horizon or charge of light or sky it was all the same. They faded right when I put flashlight up at them. No noise..no plane..no blimp..no marker lights..NOTHING..and these were not up in space.they were lower than planes we saw later flying over. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 13, 2023 · 2:21 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
I’m a retired Los Angeles police officer… on May 13th, 2023 something very unusual happened while I was employed by a commercial film production Co. (Filming a new car commercial when something that I can not fully explain that was happening above me in the sky. For the past twenty-eight years (after retiring from the LAPD) I’ve been fortunate enough to have been allowed to work in full LAPD uniform (with the police Department approval of course) on hundreds of production shoots in the streets of L.A., and for the most part all have been mostly uneventful… until this below happened. Yesterday while filming a Chevrolet car shoot in the streets of Los Angeles something caught my eye above me in the sky… it appeared to be a silver colored round sphere that was flashing a bright white high intensity light on an off in the sky above me I’d estimate around fifteen-hundred up. Upon initially seeing it I thought it was a drone… then to my amazement it instantly shape shifted from a round metallic sphere into a flat lateral object, that would occasionally start spinning at high speed on it’s axis, after which it moved laterally from left to right at high speed, then reforming back into it’s previous metallic sphere form, and then repeating the whole sequence again and again as it randomly moved about the sky high above Los Angeles. I was so dumbfounded and taken back as to what I was seeing that I had forgotten to use my Apple Iphone to video it. Now to my dismay this object then vanished—-I desperately began to search the sky for the next fifteen-minutes in order to a picture of it—I was ready this time—then just before giving up I noticed a very bright pinpoint of light extremely high in the crystal clear sky. Now with IPhone in hand I snapped a picture of the entire skyscrape in front of me. After studying the picture for a few minutes I became disappointed when I didn’t see anything out of the unusual at first, that is. As an afterthought I started magnifying the field of view of the photograph with two of my fingers and then it happened—to my astonishment I saw in my picture… I had indeed captured a photograph of this amazing unknown metallic (Orb). My picture clearly shows an inanimate object high in the sky! It also shows the structure of the sphere and under high magnification. The structural definition especially along the bottom of this object IE: two darken ports on either sides of the bottom with a horizontal darken indentation running vertically between the two darken ports on either side. Then—it hit me—a solid structural sphere (Ball) cannot just sit still high in the sky… everyone knows that, the law of physics tells us that, it’s impossible for a round solid object to just sit stationary in the sky with out rotors or propulsion of some kind. I wanted to quickly get my iPhone out of my pocket to video what I was seeing, but I was unable to do this because at the time I was standing moving traffic at the time directing traffic (unsafe to do that). I was very lucky though just to get a still picture of it though as you can see.
May 8, 2023 · 7:49 PM · CHANGING
West hills, CA
All 3 objects changed shape, Top object was pyramid shaped. middle was octogon and flat. No sound. Bottom was super 3d and diamond shape. they would spin independently of each other and would move imperfectly in the same direction, getting closer and farther apart. This took place while I was walking my dog on Monday evening. At first it hovered in the same place, each object spinning at different speeds; the line formation was reminiscent of how a clown balances spinning plates. When it started moving, it didn’t seem to move fast but I was on top of a big hill with wide open sky, and it covered a large distance, quickly. And it was increasing in altitude. I also saw a small plane flying past that looked like it was trying to get a closer look at the mysterious objects. I took video and sent to my mom, who lives 20 miles away the next town over. She sent me a video tonight (Friday) of the same craft formation in the sky! With a plane flying by it! We live VERY close to rocketdyne and Santa susana fields laboratory! Home of the worst nuclear disaster in USA history!
May 7, 2023 · 8:00 PM · EGG
Los Angeles, CA
While facing West at 11th + Elden, Los Angeles we noticed a UFO shaped like a spinning top with multi-colored light rings moving around it, similar to how an atom would look with electrons whizzing around it. It was producing flashes of color as we watched it. It stayed relatively low in the sky, well below airplane flight paths. We got out binoculars + continued to watch it as it stayed stationary in the sky. It was clearly spinning + flashing with a strange aura or energy field around it. While we were watching it, a police helicopter flew by it and stopped briefly, appearing to be checking this object out then eventually continued on. While we were watching this, 2 tiny green-lit crafts similar to small drones zoomed up over top of us then stopped directly overhead as we looked up at them. They stayed above us approximately 8-10 seconds then continued East-bound then they looped back in the direction of the UFO + appeared to return to the craft. Shortly after this the UFO began to rapidly fly West towards West LA + the ocean. We jumped in the car + tried to follow it but it was moving to quickly to catch.
May 7, 2023 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
La Mirada, CA
I left my house to enter the garage and noticed what seemed like a very visible and enlarged Mars. I went inside to call my sister out of her room and went back outside to observe some more. It clearly lowered what seemed to be inches from my point of view, but could've possibly been hundreds of feet (depending on its distance.) I yelled out for my sister to "Hurry and get out here." Before she could come out and witness the anomaly, the red "fireball" flickered away into the night sky, just as a dying flame would. What bothers me most is that I had every opportunity to capture it on my phone, but as soon as I realized it wasn't Mars, it all just happened so fast, my phone wouldn't have made it in time. I'm glad I was at least able to capture a visual memory. As of a week later, I've seen no reports or videos on what I saw on that date, however, there are videos of fireballs doing exactly what I witnessed.
May 6, 2023 · 6:24 PM · UNKNOWN
Chula Vista, CA
I have Video
May 5, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Pacifica, CA
First person saw Glowing light under ocean and then came to surface of water and one light became a green/blue lazer looking light and then she said "Look" As she looked at me there was only one lazer greenish/blue light. But then as she said no look out the window and I looked and then saw the one light had become 5 orb type lights and they were hovering on the water or slightly above the water. It was app 1 mile off the beach.
May 5, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Reedley, CA
I was watering in the garden when I noticed a pulsating light. Observed it for a few minutes and it disappeared and reappeared in the same location. Used phone to zoom in and captured the video that I have uploaded to my YouTube channel. Sky was clear. Stars could be see,planes passed over. File is too big to all me to attach. Please contact for video or look at my YouTube https://youtu.be/Nx9wBKSUY34
May 5, 2023 · 4:45 PM · RECTANGLE
San Bernardino, CA
I was traveling west on Highland Ave to pick up our dog’s arthritis medication and saw coming out of the cloudy sky a dark gray aircraft that resembled a large bus due to its rectangular shape and it was traveling north to south. I thought is this a blimp ? Realizing that I have never seen a rectangular blimp in my life. This flying object was no aircraft I was familiar with. It seemed to be flying faster than a blimp yet slower than a plane. I can’t say how far the objects distance was from me but it wasn’t very high in the sky. I pulled into the veterinarians office parking lot in hopes of capturing a video or picture but the object was now hidden behind large Perris Hill Park Trees. I have been searching google to see if any one else witnessed this UFO here in San Bernardino California but there is no reports so far. I know I wasn’t the only person to see this UFO. I anticipate some sort of reports to confirm that there was definitely a strange flying object in our skies!!
May 3, 2023 · 5:27 PM · RECTANGLE
San Diego, CA
Spotted the object in the sky, seemed distant based on air particulate. It was clearly rotating. I watched it for a minute or two until I realized I couldn't identify it. I realized it probably wasn't a bird or aircraft. I then grabbed my phone and snapped 3 zoomed photos. Phone is a Samsung S10+, and photos include a 2 second motion video. Uploading zoomed screen captures and zoomed video captures. I think you can make out the rotation and wobble. Original media can be made available on request.
April 25, 2023 · 1:00 PM · FORMATION
Danville, CA
It started out as scattered random light flashes, them we witness a massive triangle roughly 2 1/2 ft long per side and there are now 2 of the triangles joining and several dozen smaller aircraft are coming out of this thing. I am sober, and a vet. Perfect psych report, we arec witnessing this Rifht now. It's happening. Our cell phone cameras aren't picking them up they're to faint but look into this you have to.
April 24, 2023 · 2:32 PM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
Saw it as I was exiting SB Highway 280 in San Jose at Bird Ave. I was driving and tried to keep an eye on it as it was moving...south east. I wanted to be able to pull over and record it. I did, but my eyes lost sight of it, when my iphone was capturing it. It's not great video and is likely nothing.
April 23, 2023 · 2:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Goleta/Santa Barbara, CA
I work as a paramedic in Santa Barbara County night shifts. Around 2:30 in the morning I was looking up the windshield and I saw what it look like a triangle with lights fly pretty low to the ground right over the ambulance. Right after that, I saw what it look like may be a shooting star, but I’ve seen shooting stars in the past, and this was not a shooting star. We worked our way to downtown Santa Barbara East Beach along with my partner and we were looking up in the sky, looking for anything else. When we saw what it looked like a boomerang fly silently no wind no noise right above us. Almost look like a moving shadow with no lights. We saw it for about seven seconds before it disappeared. We called another ambulance, which is my coworker and her partner to come witness this with us when we saw the same craft looking like a boomerang multiple times maybe about 10 times about 25 to 30 minutes apart throughout the night until 0500 hrs. The interesting thing is the first sighting that I saw in Goleta with the triangle with the bright lights flying over the ambulance, I never saw that exact same one throughout the night. They all appeared as boomerangs with no lights. After seeing them multiple times downtown Santa Barbara east beach to be exact, we went back to Goleta California to finish up the night when I looked up, and I saw two more of those boomerang shaped crafts, with no lights hover above us before they disappeared. My coworker who is coming in that morning to work the day shift was able to witness two of those crafts that morning. Including myself, it was a total of five witnesses that we saw these crafts. Some of those boomerang shadows once they pass by, there was like a shooting star type of thing right after. A bright light travel fast and disappeared. I’ve seen UFOs when I was younger and small little lights in the day. But nothing where I can see the shape of a ship type of thing hover above us silently at a high rate of speed. I attempted to record video open nothing with him, because there’s no lights on these boomerang type of ships that my camera would catch.
April 23, 2023 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Ramona, CA
I awoke early morning of Sunday, April 23, to use the restroom. While walking to my bathroom a very bright light outside the window occurred, followed by a sharp sport light being directed by something from above my home. When done using the restroom, upon returning to my bed the same sequence of lights lectured from outside my window on the other side of the house. Very bright, coming from above, and certainly being directed by someone or something. I live in a rural part of the country outside Ramona, it is very dark and certainly was not car lights or something else. I was quite frightened and was not about to go outside and investigate as I am not armed or ability to protect myself. It was as if, something was trying to lure me outside. This was not a natural phenomenon, the light was extremely bright, intentional and being directed. I am even days later, contemplating what this was and from whom. I know in my heart these lights came from above, and from a UFO, which was completely silent as my window was open. Scary to say the least, and waking up all hours of the night these days wondering if it or they will return. I retn a room in this house in Ramona and will be returning to my residence in WA the end of June.
April 22, 2023 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Upland, CA
“Ok, so I’m sitting in my backyard right now, Upland Ca, near the San Antonio Hospital, just finished watching the Davis/Garcia fight. I have my lights off here out back just having my first beer of the night. Well, I decided to just look up into the night sky, just staring at stars, wondering about what’s really out there. Mind you, I’ve been on this really weird, needing to know more knowledge type of deal lately, recently just bought Einsteins Theory of Relativity, his Ideas and Opinions book. Those just came in the mail, but I’ve been reading currently, J Allen Hyneks “The Hynek UFO Report”. I’ve just been really really intrigued by UFO/UAPs lately, with all this talk going on right now, and I’ve always been into the phenomenon since I was a kid. I looked up into the night sky, now, who knows what it could’ve been, but it was a VERY VERY dim lighting, blended into the night sky almost, 3 Circles in a triangle and just gliding very smoothly and effortlessly across the sky, no sound at all, but who knows how high up it was. I will definitely draw what I saw and post it, and I’ll post pics of where I was sitting and towards where I was looking. But immediately I texted my wife to tell her what I saw and immediately opened up my Flight Radar app, and there was nothing around that would be flying on radar, no planes or helicopters, Mind you I live by the hospital and I hear the helicopters come in and out all the time, the Upland airport isn’t too far from me also. But this wasn’t anything that had any type of jet engine, or any propulsion system (at least from what I couldn’t hear). Who knows, could’ve been a drone? But I’d imagine I’d here the little rotors goin as it fly over me? Definitely weird, mind you, there are no current winds here in Upland Ca, so it could not have been a balloon flying that fast, for those balloon enthusiasts, nice try. It was very weird indeed. I didn’t even think about recording until now that I’m writing this, but it was so dim the camera probably wouldn’t have picked it up, I could barely keep track of it before it got lost over the horizon of my neighbors houses/trees. Current time 22:19 4-22-23, id say I saw this around 2200? If you’re in Upland, keep your eyes open! Edit: does anyone that may be around Upland Ca know where we could report something like this? Or anyone know anywhere? If this really is a UFO and we as a collective are trying to gather research info I feel like this needs to be reported to the appropriate place. Edit: it is 22:44 and there were two tremendously loud explosions here in Upland Ca near me. I don’t know if it was fire works or not but the timing of what I saw and to the explosions is weird. I know my neighbors app is going to go crazy right now, may not be related at all but I thought I’d keep you guys updated, I’ll post screen shots of my Ring app if anyone figures out what those explosions were Edit 3: I have reported this sighting on the MUFON website” 4-23-23 the object was big enough for me to define the shape and what it looked like, but small enough to where during the flight path, this object fit in between the tree on my left and right, if that makes sense?