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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
July 20, 2017 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Santa rosa, CA
It moved really slow any frist I thought it was that bag you light and floats in the sky. Then I was, like no way, it started picking up speed and was gon fast then any aircraft I seen. It was just floating like it was checking us out. One of the people I was with thought it was a shooting star I was like know way it's floating marking no sound, I recorded it and you you tell we never seen my thing like this ever. I set out every night staring at the stars I live next to a airport it was no such thing. Kinda of creepy. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have no means of contacting him/her. No date was provided by source, so we have assigned an arbitrary date, which is our best guess of the date. PD
July 20, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Very bright light, started over West Pacific Beach moving East. Did not flash like a light but rather rapidly became bright then dim. It then looked like a satellite moving across the sky but dimmer. Every 30 seconds the brightness would return. Tumbling booster?? PD
July 18, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Alhambra, CA
I was walking my dogs around 8:30pm, 7/18/17, when I noticed a reddish light move around. I kept my eye on it, and it seemed like it was hovering. It didn’t appear to be a helicopter or airplane. It disappeared, then came back, then was gone again.
July 18, 2017 · 5:10 AM · OVAL
Granada Hills, CA
Suddenly it turns west, leaving a thick trail of light and disappears. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2017 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Palmdale, CA
On July 17, 2017, at approximately 9:20 PM- I, along with my daughter and her fiance', were sitting on our driveway, when my daughter and I saw a fireball falling from the sky in the south. Within in seconds of seeing the fireball, my daughter's fiance' pointed out four objects that, at first glance, appeared to be four distant stars. These objects were rotating in perfect unison in a clockwise direction. They kept a consistant and equal distance between each other, before merging together, then forming a perfectly straight line with the same equal distance as in the clockwise rotation. The four objects then headed south in the direction of the fireball for a short distance. Two of the objects continued on in the direction of the fireball while the other two objects changed direction and proceeded north.
July 16, 2017 · 4:30 AM · CONE
San Bernardino, CA
Appears early morning. Stays in one are of the sky for a long time. Than it will zig zag. Moves fast. Looks like there's two together. A pair with bright white lights. Sometimes it looks like its just floating around. Strange! I been noticing it northeast of the city for at least one month. Not every day but at least 4x weekly. I have taken many videos and pictures.
July 15, 2017 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
Temecula, CA
Looking southwest we saw a light go straight up above the horizon, it moved around left to right, and seemed to be orbiting, with very rapid movements, then it left and headed south out of sight.
July 15, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Martinez, CA
Bright light, showing many colors, purple, blue, red, yellow, all flashing. The object then moved, you can see two stationary lights below the object.
July 15, 2017 · 8:18 PM · CYLINDER
Monterey, CA
The children and I went to the San Carlos beach in Monterey during sunset we were playing with the sand and taking pictures we uncovered a lobster in the sand that was orange in color as if baked but it was alive, at the moment I didn’t think of the color of the lobster, my son asked me what is that in the sky? pointing to a big light ball as if it’s an open orb or tunnel that was 200 meters far. My son said that is heaven, I said as I stood mesmerized that this is grandparents watching over us. I was mesmerized that even me a communication professor that loves media and has been taking pictures of everything small or big I was able to snap one single picture only, but it was so beautiful that I believe it is my diamond star picture. I took the kids afterwards for a small walk took some pictures and walked to the car and home contemplating to what I saw. Ever since I feel I have a mission that is heavier than me, but God keeps sending me helping signs. It is heaven. And yes, God is everywhere.
July 15, 2017 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Weed, CA
I was watching one of those flashing "disco in the sky" lights for a few hours, while outside on a porch with friends looking into the sky east past Shasta. It seemed very suspicious, as the lights were even flashing between colors, it was very far off and it stayed in a "constellation" with 2 background stars as the constellations rose from the east. At about 3:30am, a second flashing light flew up from the south, they did a dance, and the second one replaced the first one. The first one then greatly dropped altitude at around a 20 degree angle from vertical down and then took off straight east towards Nevada at a much lower altitude skimming the mountain top. Pretty much the only popultion center is the I-5 corridor so it isn't hard to do some basic trig to hide in constellations. Now that I've seen one of these they seem to be all over N. California.
July 14, 2017 · 1:30 AM · OTHER
Pinon Hills, CA
Then as it slowly past me on my right it then dropped another blue light below the 1st one. Then, another blue light dropped fom the 2nd one and now there are 3 vertical blue lights moving thru the sky. Then the bottom blue light shifts behind the 2nd and the thing just faded out. ON MY WAY HOME I SAW IT AGAIN MOVING SLOW AND LOOKS CLOSER TO ME NOW HEADED THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION! I also saw it about the same time doing the same thing the night before last.
July 13, 2017 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
San Gabriel, CA
Approximately between 8:30pm and 9pm, I witnessed a red rounded very bright light that I am estimating was between Las Tunas Dr. and Huntington Dr. (North and South) and between Rosemead Bl. and San Gabriel Bl. (East and West), in the city of San Gabriel. It rose from the ground, so to speak, and shot up into, where with distance to the eye became smaller. It stayed up in the air for a few seconds then dropped down about half way and then began to drop a few feet at a time. Then flew to the east rapidly, then I lost sight of it for about one minute. It rose into view once more and returned to where it began and repeated a similar action of dropping a few feet at a time. There was NO sound of a helicopter or airplane. No sound at all. It was silent. I just got a new cell and could not get the video to work!! I was talking with my daughter and just kept saying “Oh my god, I cannot believe this!!” Please if anyone else saw this, post here!!
July 12, 2017 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Stepped outside into the backyard. Noticed the degree of darkness (no moon). Happened to look up and saw triangular lights in the sky. Looked like wide red bars around the perimeter of the craft. Seemed relatively low (1,500 feet above ground level) in the sky moving progressively toward the east. It seemed silent. Was expecting that it might be a helicopter or aircraft, but no familiar sound accompanied the lights. I then dashed inside the house, grabbed my IPad and went back outside to take photographs. By the time I returned (15 seconds later), the lights were now higher in the sky, still eastbound and moving away much faster. I tried to zoom in the focus. The image stabilizer box on the IPad focused on the lights. I took two images, but as I said, by now the object was higher and moving away quickly. When I reviewed the two photos, they did not appear to show much of any useful image. My guess would be some military aircraft, but really don't know. I have a Commercial Pilot certificate and have been flying for 13 years. Have never seen anything like this before.
July 11, 2017 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Modesto, CA
Very bright light in upper sky Of color white seems to move slightly Location of craft from ground 50,000ft East/south east from lat 37.654255 long -121.021260
July 8, 2017 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
On the night of July 8, 2017, my wife called my attention to a red ball of light approximately 20 miles away, to the West. The light was bright red and pulsing bright & dim. It hovered, then rapidly ascended straight up. On the way up, it changed color from red, to blue, to pale yellow, orange, then back to red, when it stopped. It hovered a few moments, then remained red and slowly descended, below the horizon. The entire event lasted about one minute. The light was incredibly bright, for as far away as it was.
July 8, 2017 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE
Carlsbad, CA
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July 7, 2017 · 10:25 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
i was sitting in a friends backyard roasting s'mores with them and my family. their was 7 of us including me. we were sitting their for about 1hr to an 1 and a half talk about random things like school when i saw something from the corner of my eye. i saw this round ball of fire falling down from the sky so i pointed it out to the others. at first we thought it was an asteroid or a meteor because it just fell behind some houses about 1/2 a mile out. but them it flew up and at an angle back into the sky and started to do circles in the sky then it just disappeared. it got really quiet between the 7 of us like 'did that really just happen to us?'. we kind of just left it unspoken about of the rest of the night. The ship looked like a firework that was falling at first but it had a tail following it. when it was doing circlers in the sky the tail did this weird tail flick kind of like a cat does when it's scared. it then just disappeared in a blink of an eye. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 7, 2017 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
Me and my friend were sitting in the car waiting to pick up a friend. My friend said hey look a shooting star. I looked, and all of a sudden, this fireball like object started moving irratically, and the a second one appeared in a up down motion, and then a 3rd appeard and it moved irratacly as well. The object formed a perfect triangle then they all moved up and down and one swooped across the sky and dissapeared and the rest did the same . It happend on the hills above otay mesa .
July 7, 2017 · 9:53 PM · FIREBALL
Chula Vista, CA
We were at a concert and prior to this UFO, 2 white owls came flying above the crowd. It was very unusual for these birds to be there. Shortly after, this UFO is to everybody's left. Soaring down very slowly and then changing direction very quickly. Everyone started freaking out but no ones phone would take a clear video. I took a picture though. It then disappeared behind a mountain very quickly.
July 7, 2017 · 12:30 AM · TEARDROP
Anahiem, CA
I do not have a word processor. Looked up at sky viewed a teardrop shape bright red object that was slow moving and very close. This object was dropping what looked like shooting star material from its bottom. It came close dropped 4 times material, then it started heading east ascending higher and quickly vanished from sight. I'm still wondering exactly what it could be, to slow moving to be a falling star or meteor the movement itself was not that of a fireball plane helicopter or drone. One things for sure it was beautiful. I can only hope others also viewed it and NASA can describe exactly what it is or was. Thank you (location Ball road between Knott ave and Western)
July 6, 2017 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Warner Springs (near), CA
While travelling east on Highway 79, another vehicle came up from behind and began tailgating me at 65 mph. I slowed to 50mph to express my dissatisfaction with this miscreant. That didn't work so slowed again to about 40 mph. Then the "headlights" from his vehicle just disappeared. I thought that he had foolishly shut them off, so I slowed to a near stop and carefully searched my rearview mirror. There was a moon, so I could see well. There was no vehicle and I am certain that it did not leave the road as this is cattle country with fencing coming all the way up to the shoulder. There is only one dirt driveway in this area, but I was not upon that. There are no trees or bushes along this road to hide a car. The vehicle did not pass nor turn around, it was just gone. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Peter, they were normal headlights though perhaps a little closer together than normal, maybe like a smaller car. Also there was a vehicle coming from the opposite direction at the moment these lights disappeared. That vehicle continued on as would be expected. Now the extra weird part. There was no way I would put this into the body of the report. I have both heared and read of unusual animal sitings occuring at the same momet as a (UFO) siting, esp dog-like animals. Well...just in the seconds prior to this vehicle's disapperance, an animal that appeared to be a hairless coyote (Mange?) was observed at the side of the road, sitting on its hind legs sort of leaning against a fence post as if waiting for something, maybe just to cross the road. It was at this very spot that the headlights "extinguished". I am quite certain that the "vehicle" did not pull over here. As I said I could see clearly in this moon. I am not asserting that this animal was anything but what I perceived it to be..but...it just looked so odd and was at the exact spot the "phenomenon lights" disappeared. These lights were less about 10 feet behind me. ((END ADDENDUM))
July 6, 2017 · 8:58 PM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
While at Disneyland a fireball came into view. The object changed color before disappearing. It could not be a shooting star because it was very bright and unlike any other shooting stars I've seen. We have taken annual trips to see shooting stars in August where there is no light pollution, and the magnitude of the objects brightness was unlike anything I've seen. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2017 · 5:30 PM · CHEVRON
San Francisco, CA
We (2 adults and a toddler) saw a sparkle shimmering in the sky from our balcony at home. At first glance it appeared like a very high airplane shimmering in the sun but it stayed still. Though still, it did move very very slowly from the west to the east. It stayed there hovering or slow moving at least 15 minutes. It would shimmer, flash light and then disappear, then re-appear within seconds. I went to get a camera with a 500 ml zoom lens and took some photos. After downloading to my computer, I zoomed in further. The object is boomerang shaped and it rotates around. Sometimes in had red, orange and yellow colors, other times it had green and yellow. Possibly this is from the rainbow spectrum of light bouncing off of it. Otherwise it looks metallic, silver. The sky was clear blue, no clouds. There was no sound. We saw an airplane pass by during this sighting and it made a typical noise, but otherwise the object did not have any sound. This was on Wed July 5th, 2017, at about 5:30 pm.
July 5, 2017 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE
Montrose, CA
What I saw was a star like object moving slowly across the sky and then speed up really fast, and then disappeared. Showing up again with in seconds to the N/W sky. This when I recorded the object. Then, very quickly, was moving up and down and would disappear and be in a different place, when it reappeared. It also would go to a spot repeatedly to where what seemed to be three smaller star like objects, shaped in kind of a diamond with a reddish glow in the middle, I'm guessing. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides little contact information. PD