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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
September 6, 2017 · 12:45 AM · SPHERE
East Otay Mesa, CA
Having finished my shift, I was driving east on Otay Mesa Road, when a luminous ball of white light caught my attention. Given the fact that there are two airports nearby, Brown Field, which was just behind me to the west, and Tijuana International Airport, two miles south of my location and over the border, I figured it was a commercial aircraft preparing to land. But when my passenger, a co-worker, mentioned that the light wasn’t going to make either field, I decided to pull over, close to the right side of the curb. Before I could come to a stop, however, the headlights failed and the engine died. It was just about 12:45 AM when the light glided over SR 125, which was approximately one-eight mile in front of us. As the ball of light approached the vacant field to our right, I became aware of the distinct feeling of pins and needles about my face and in my hands, especially around my mouth and in my fingertips. That’s when I reached for my phone, only it was dead. My coworker reached for the pair of sunglasses that he kept in the glove box. I would say the ball was twenty-five feet in diameter, but I couldn’t make out a distinct edge. At first it remained motionless, about fifteen or twenty feet above the ground, and about forty yards from where our jeep had stalled. Then, after four or five minutes, there appeared to be a quarter panel of the ball that grew brighter. Given the detail that became visible, it became apparent that the ball was turning clockwise, about a half turn every minute or so. I would say eight minutes had elapsed before the ball began to move forward and then climbed smoothly toward the western horizon. The skies were clear, and at no time did the object make any sound. Out of employment concerns, both of us wish to remain anonymous. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2017 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Concord, CA
I was driving west on Evora Rd. towards Concord, CA, when I hit some stop and go traffic. The traffic stopped for a moment, when I saw what I thought was a star, but then I noticed it was moving upward slightly. It then moved into the clouds and never reappeared again. I thought it might have been an airliner glinting in the morning sun, but I could not make out any wing structure.
September 4, 2017 · 9:20 AM · RECTANGLE
Los Angeles, CA
Huge, gray rectangle larger than a blimp with a long apparatus coming out from the length of it. Traveling slowly over Downtown LA to the West. No lights, but it looked like it was two squares put together to make the rectangle.
September 3, 2017 · 2:00 PM · DISK
Half Moon Bay, CA
I talked to my Nephew and he said it would be fine to use his name. I will put contact in later in the report. We have received no photos, that we are aware of, and we have attempted to contact the source of the report on two occasions, but unsuccessfully. PD
September 3, 2017 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Half Moon Bay, CA
The craft was seen at Half Moon Bay, CA. The craft is located above and just left of the rock in the ocean. You must have the ability to zoom in. In my opinion it is something beyond what you can expect to see in our skies. The source of the report identifies himself as a former member of the military, from which he retired. We spoke with him via telephone, and he seemed to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect he is an excellent witness. However, our suspicion is that the object captured in the photo, which was not noticed at the time the photo was taken, may be a Frisbee. PD
September 2, 2017 · 10:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Santa Monica, CA
We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious report, or a hoax. We have attempted to contact the source, via both telephone, and e-mail, but have been unsuccessful in getting him, or her, to respond. PD
September 2, 2017 · 10:00 AM · DISK
Menifee, CA
No other dark cloud formations in sky. disc of chrome no tail no wings and no sound and high rate of speed
September 2, 2017 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Garden Grove, CA
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS The other morning about 5:30. I guess it was Venus though I don't know astronomy. Haven't been up that early to check again but will. ((END ADDENDUM (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
September 1, 2017 · 10:21 PM · OVAL
Chico, CA
I was taking a picture of this planet, and video taping it. Along with two bright objects sitting in the center of the view of the camera. This video attached is 1:19 seconds long, one minute 19 seconds long. At the first of the video you will see birds flying in and around the view. At the one minute mark a UFO comes from the bottom left and moves to the top RIGHT. At first when i saw this, i just thought it was a bird flying. it is actually a UFO, saucer shaped oval shape, with energy coming out both sides making it look like an upside down V or upside down U. Freeze this video and take a still picture and negative picture. You can see the object is oval, emitting energy out from the sides , both sides. At first the video shows a planet in the bottom left at the 7 o'clock position, and a meteor in the middle, that is the bright spot, and a meteor to the left of it curving around. The meteor in the middle is headed towards earth.. It has been in that position a long time. I believe the two bright objects at the top and bottom that are horizontal are some kind of space station. This video was taken on ; Friday, September 1, ;2017, &10:21:33 PM, about 70 to 80 degrees looking east above the horizon, of Chico, Calif. Looking almost straight up from my back yard. One fist doubled up is one degree. Check it out, when this UFO went backwards zapping this meteor, I knew then , and later when re-looking at it, that it was not a BIRD It does not look like the birds flying around in the first part of the Video. birds do not fly backwards. watch it tell me what you think, and I will tell you what I think. I believe a UFO or military vehicle it moving this meteor away from hitting earth. Oh, this happened at night, and I could not see any of this brightness with my unaided eye...only on IFA RED, with my FLIR ONE ATTACHMENT to my I phone 5 camera. Not on a digital camera.. VIDEO is sent to the email address below. 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
August 31, 2017 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
San Diego, CA
Have seen 4 UFOs in my lifetime. One was iffy. Could have been shadow play. This one confusing, too. Illusion? Wish my boyfriend would have let me stop the car to look. Will explain. Appeared to be a rectangle. Large like a popular grocery store. Four white lights, each corner. Two flashing red lights-like you see on airplanes-side by side on the "back end." "Back-end" as in relation to the direction of motion. Floating. No regard for gravity. Angles staying in the same formation as the craft moves alongside the roadway. As in towards and then away from my perspective. If this was not an unidentified aircraft, then it could have been multiple aircraft flying in formation, far away, giving the appearance of forming a solid shape. But the red lights confuse that possibility. Also, live near an Airforce base. Could have been a giant helicopter. But still frustrating to work out. Windows rolled up. No radio, but no sound!!, still. Even if! far away, would have heard the jets. If close, would have heard propellers.....wish I could have pulled over. Silly train to catch.......
August 31, 2017 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
E. Rio Vista, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 31, 2017 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Grass Valley, CA
I seen it twice in one night. Once with a witness bright orb traveling through the sky bright flash then disappeared. I also was taking to friend on phone.
August 30, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
San Anselmo, CA
I was seeing multiple formations of swarming darting objects that were sometimes hovering and then would disperse like a swarm of bees. I took a walk closer to this activity when I ran into 2 other people that were also watching the lights. The 3 of us then witnessed a tight group of 7 to 8 objects at pretty close range. These were the yellow-white foo fighter type lights as seen in clusters frequently around this area. After this night within 24 hours we have this record shattering heat wave in San Francisco on 9-01 and 9-02 etc.
August 30, 2017 · 3:00 PM · CIGAR
Vacaville or Fairfield (?) (near), CA
Clear sky, no clouds.
August 30, 2017 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Kearny Mesa, CA
Identified flying object: solid off white light. Shape: unidentifiable due to its high altitude. Direction of flight path: coastal San Diego/Kearny Mesa, heading ESE., then, ascend at approx 80• to space and vanish. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 28, 2017 · 10:20 AM · SPHERE
San Gabriel, CA
White spherical craft.
August 27, 2017 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
My girlfriend and I went outside last night around 10:40 to smoke a cigarette. Looking straight out of our porch, (looking East-Southeast) in the distance, we saw a sliver of light, much like the moon coming through the clouds. It was a bright yellowish orange color. I could not say how far away it was, but it was definitely farther than a mile, if not more than that. I pointed it out, and she thought it was the moon. We continued to watch as the object got wider (to about the width of your thumb at arm's length). There were clouds off in the distance, but no clouds that appeared thick enough to hide the moon. It maintained a fairly symmetrical shape. It almost looked like the "angel decoy" flare release from an AC-130 gunship, except if these were flares, they didn't fall, and it looked like a solid object. The object would periodically appear to change size, and hue/brightness, shrinking to a small point, but it was seen to grow in size again, at least once. Eventually, another object of similar color appeared next to the first (or appeared to split off from the first). We continued watching and eventually went in, as the object was moving to the left and became obscured by trees and houses in the neighborhood. We did not hear any sound, but the object appeared to be fairly distant. I was able to get several (grainy) videos with my iPhone 6 Plus. Please contact me if you would like to see these videos.
August 26, 2017 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Irvine, CA
After watching unacknowleged the other day, I took the opportunity to observe the sky while at work as a pool monitor. A fewer hours later I saw an object appear from the distant sky. As it became more visible I was able to see it more clearly, it seemed to suddenly split in to two aircraft. I have pics. Could it be to helicopters traveling in unison?
August 25, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Concord, CA
A Bright fluorescent bright green light quite low appeared on top and then moved towards northeast and then east before disappearing in the horizon. It was not travelling in straight line, but changing directions
August 25, 2017 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
I awoke at about 4:00 a.m. ( Aug – 25 ) and knew I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I got up and decided to read and perhaps grab a smoke out side, which is what I did. At 4:30 a.m., I went outside and began to smoke, and as usual, I face north and star gaze and it was very clear, a little fire smoke haze but nothing bad. An airliner was crossing the sky from W-NW to E-SE and was north of my location, I enjoyed the stars as it headed to the Eastern horizon and I turned my head to look toward the western part of the sky for several seconds and turned my head back facing northerly again and saw a very bright satellite slightly north east of my location and headed the same path as the airliner, but the opposite direction. It surprised me I hadn’t seen the hint of the satellite before I turned my head away, it was very bright and I watched it for ~ 10 seconds, and it began to fade in brightness, as is typical. I took my eye’s off of it to smoke and quickly decided it might flare up again, so I decided to attempt to quickly find it again, so I followed the path I had just seen, and saw a very dim satellite, slightly more north of the assumed path. Here my brain is thinking how the satellite jumped off the straight line path if it was the same satellite, but very quickly, I notice this satellite is in a medium size turn, and not traveling straight. I thought that this thing was going to head north now in view of this turn, (the turn can be best described as less then ¼ the circumference of a dinner plate at arm's length), and then the most fascinating thing happened, this very dim satellite brightened up and did what athletes call “the button hook“ maneuver… it accelerated rapidly in a very tight turn and shot back the direction in which it had come from. I wondered if it was going to trail that airliner. This was no jet or satellite, this craft was moving at an astonishing speed at the end, and I will surely keep a closer watch on satellites from now on. Are ufo’s now mimicking satellites so as to be less noticeable, it sure seems like it to me. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 24, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Hemet (general area), CA
I was headed east on Highway 74 (Florida Ave.) to pick up my daughter from Heritage High School. I first thought this object to be jet aircraft that was extremely low. I live near March Air Force Base, so I believed it to be preparing for landing. Changed my mind when realizing it was way too low for that to happen safely. It appeared to be heading in a northwesterly direction. Then the object seemed to stop and rest on the top ridge of a small hill. I picked up my daughter at this point and told her what I saw. While it was moving it had 3 white lights. 2 on the ends and the middle one was much bigger and extremely bright. The middle light seemed to fluctuate like a flare or welder’s arc. While the object was stopped there were only 2 lights visible. This is what my daughter saw as well. I drove closer and saw 2 other people in their car that saw the 2 light configuration, but not the 3 floating/flying lights. I dropped my daughter off at home and went to a high point to see if any action was visible. I could only see one light on the ridge but to the right was a blinking light moving back and forth. Looked like it could have been movement similar to a helicopter, but it moved too quickly to be so. Hope to see if anyone reports something similar.
August 24, 2017 · 12:00 AM · DIAMOND
Carlsbad, CA
We were standing in the tennis court and the sky was severe marine layer when a bright orange red light was coming toward us, all of a sudden it was gone. My daughter looked towards the beach and we believe the same object spread out almost see through or age and d I among shaped, I reached for my phone to tape record and it moved and vanished
August 23, 2017 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Corona, CA
Yesterday 6 of silver light objects very slow were flying in the blue sky over Corona and Riverside border. One of the objects was bigger. No sound. They were shiny or disappearing sometimes. All of them were spinning slow and fast, different speed and side. Started from flying low to very high but very slow. Just like yesterday. They were coming close to each other and away. They made a formation of 4 of them like straight line. Then they gone up to the sky slow. By the way, just after they gone, the fire started in that area, but maybe just coincident. Or maybe they were trying to point on the area where fire should start...?
August 22, 2017 · 5:30 PM · OVAL
Corona, CA
7 silver light objects very slow were flying in the blue sky from Riverside towards Corona. One of them was like made of 2 crossing ovals together, others were smaller ovals and spheres. No sound. They were little bit changing a color, one become dark blue bronze and others show side of shiny or blue like sky. All of them were spinning slow and fast ,different speed and side. Sometimes shining, sometimes disappearing. Started from flying low to very high but very slow. They were coming close to each other and away. Then they gone up to the sky slow.