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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, 2017 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
I repeat just right before this report one from day before. We went to park on Lo my beach and I really wanted to see ufo again but this time take least a photo. Because the first time I was just watching. And for my luck I really before we went back to the car we saw the same object as day before. I have video and also photo. I am 99 porcent sure it was the same as the day before. But the day before, I am 100000 % sure it was aliens. This one was up in the sky and it wasn't moving ..it was just staying at the same place and was it like very shining circle and again was lighting up and off. I will send a video. And after a few minutes, went down.. behind my horizon.
May 20, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CYLINDER
Pleasant Hill, CA
Bright white cylinder, suspended at between 1000 and 1500 feet elevation above DVC college.
May 20, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
Hi. We were celebrating kids b day party. And around 7pm (still was light, very beautiful weather). We (about 20 people) saw about 6 or 7 flying objects maybe more then 3 miles away from us. I'm absolutely sure it was not nothing I know or I ever saw before, the same the other people say. We saw round shape light objects. Was flying not so fast around the cost of city of long beach. First object seems as leader, because was as first and was most high, then was a little space and then was other I guess 5 objects behind flying the same speed. And they were randomly first one high the other one behind was a little under but behind still. Third one being agaIn different hight. But all was very close. And all these object were something like no like light blink but it was more like white bright shine light slowly up and off and just like this they were flying around the coast. We saw them until one house was in front of us. Some man record it. But I can't connect with him. But I hope I will. Cuz I don't know him. I was just watching them with happy feelings ND fear at the same time.
May 20, 2017 · 1:40 PM · OTHER
Goleta, CA
Weather conditions are cloudless, minimal haze, 5 knot westerly wind. While in between games at my daughter's softball tournament I had a very brief thought of the 12 different anomalous flying objects I witnessed over a nine week period last fall. This thought prompted me to have a glance at the sky. All I saw was blue sky and one jet ascending out of LAX. A moment later I looked up again to the east and saw what at first thought seemed like four helium balloons ascending separately a few hundred feet apart at an estimated 500 feet elevation.three appeared white and one had a dark metallic color. Their trajectories at first were consistent with helium party balloons. After three or four minutes watching the objects had receded from orb shape to point light sources and three of the four collard a convergent path while the fourth remained at a distance. It was at this point that I expected the objects to appear as black dots and plane out with the upper level! winds if they were balloons. Instead they appeared more and more as light sources getting continuously further away. After ten minutes of continuous watching the lights were not discernible. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 20, 2017 · 12:15 PM · SPHERE
San Bernardino, CA
Also I was listening to Pandora on my phone (I'm working in my back yard) killed the signal for about 5 min. I've seen others (first time reporting) and it seems they follow the mountain range I live next to. Interesting. Thank you.
May 18, 2017 · 8:55 PM · DISK
san jose, CA
On may 18, 2017, at about 8:55 PM, i saw an object in the sky over the east foothills. It was red and shaped like an upside down "U". The red was very bright and it looked as if there were red dots (or lights) under each of the sides a bit less luminous. The object moved from a stationary position (hovering) to a straight down and out of my sight then returned to the same hovering position location. I first saw it at after several seconds. The object then made a fast move directly west (to my left) and the hovered..dropped down out of sight, then back up and a fast move back to the east to the original place I first saw it. I attempted to call my son at that time to get him to acknowledge I was not crazy but he did not answer. So I went back outside and it was still in the same place. I continued to watch it hover for at least 5 more minutes then it disappeared and I saw a huge circular object (that was at least 10 times the size of the original red object) glide up and out of the sky...the thing was dark but more like a shadow or almost invisible or like you could see through it and observe it at the same time. I am still in shock!
May 18, 2017 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Santa Rosa, CA
pink hazy egg-shaped light, no real definition saw while driving, noticed it a few times so it seemed to be stationary, must have been in the sky at least a few minutes because I was driving (west on highway 12). I couldn't get a great look at it.
May 16, 2017 · 2:00 AM · FORMATION
Roseville, CA
Loud noise with objects hovering back and forth. High in sky slow but moving.
May 15, 2017 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
San Jose, CA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 15, 2017 · 1:20 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
I was sleeping, but my mom went out to get her phone in our car and she woke me and my sister up. It looked kinda like a fireball in the sky or a light, My mom and sister said it was bigger before I came out. After I came out it sorta just looked like a small ball in the sky. An orange and reddish color. It started to blink, and then it just turned off completely. It was still visible afterwards but then it got lost in the clouds. I'm not sure if it's a UFO or a plane. But I looked up orange and yellow lights and the pictures that came up looked similar to what I saw.
May 14, 2017 · 3:58 AM · CIRCLE
Los Angeles, CA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 13, 2017 · 4:30 AM · CHANGING
Richmond, CA
Came out on my front porch after waking up. Noticed what I thought was a plane in the distance, looked like it had red lights on its under side but then when I looked again it just stopped. It got brighter, almost like it "pulsed" but then it dimmed down again. I woke my husband up, he couldn't figure it out either. It's been sitting in the same spot for almost an hour over Albany. It's far too bright, and low, to be a star.
May 12, 2017 · 5:05 AM · LIGHT
Salinas, CA
I was driving home from work around 5am, when I suddenly seen a straight three bright, white light craft flying really close to ground, it caught my attention by the way it would move around ... it shifted different directions at a high speed. I proceded home (shocked). Once I got home, I got out of my car and a loude motor noise above in the sky came closer.. The craft that I first seen passed above me, the motor noice was ridiculous loud it left birds chirping. I couldn't really see the shape of the craft it was still dark.
May 10, 2017 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Joshua Tree, CA
It suddenly appeared traveling in a NorthEast to SouthWest direction, the scalene triangle-shaped craft traveled at a slow to moderate speed across the night sky. It looked to be a few hundred feet above the ground. Approximate size of the sides were: One male-adult fist size high on the "backward" side, Two male-adult fist size long on the "top" side and a male-adult fist size and a half long on the "bottom" side. At each corner, there were bright fluorescent, steady green lights. It emitted a low thrum (a combination of a throbbing and hum sound) noise, almost like a low engine sound, becoming louder as it was directly overhead. It continued to travel across the moon-lit sky for the time-duration stated above, gaining speed, and then both the lights and sound were gone.
May 10, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
((Location no revealed by witness)), CA
I have videos of something I saw in the sky. (Not giving away where I live) I'm not quite sure on how to describe the phenomenon but it seemed like an orange strange light in the sky. My father says it could be a comet (he did not see it, he only saw a video I recorded. However, the video does it no justice) It was pretty eerie, not a comet nor did it appear to be the moon. It was an orange light and as the video progressed, it disappeared. I was watching it from my car window and I have no explanation. There's zero reports on it and I find that strange. Anyone else see it? I doubt it was the moon being covered by clouds because it was just so strange and looked so weird. Please, give any possible answers! Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 9, 2017 · 10:45 PM · FLASH
West Covina, CA
I was driving on the 10 fwy east, when I looked to my left and saw a flash. It was a green flash. Near the mountain ranges.
May 7, 2017 · 9:08 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
Green light stood still for two seconds then immediately shot across the sky at extremely high speed. Much faster than any object ever seen flying in the sky. I saw it while driving on the 10 freeway passing Crenshaw Blvd., going westbound.
May 6, 2017 · 5:00 AM · FIREBALL
San Francisco, CA
It looked like a star, but then looked like it was moving away from us. My friend and I were standing on the Embarcadero, looking out toward the Bay Bridge, facing East (toward Oakland). I rubbed my eyes, I blinked, I asked my friend if he was seeing what I was seeing. It was definitely moving away from us, but wasn't a plane or a helicopter or a meteor/"shooting star." As he said, it was a "wobbler" - it was moving slowly and appeared to wobble, then it suddenly shifted to the south and went dark. It was there, then it was gone. I got a little video, but I couldn't get a steady shot but I do think you can see the ball of light, almost directly above the bridge. The only "rational" explanation we could come up with was a drone, but that doesn't actually make sense.
May 5, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Corona, CA
Last night, while out on my balcony, I witnessed a bright light coming from the west, over the mountain range (Santa Ana Mountains) where I live in Corona, California. This light moved faster then anything I have ever witnessed. No blinking lights on it, I checked during the duration, my brother & ex-spouse were pilots, so I do pay attention to aircraft regularly. This light continued high up into the atmosphere, way above where jets fly. I contacted the news stations in Los Angeles, about 60 miles west of my home, to see if they had received any calls; they reported no calls. During the ascent of this light or craft, a regular jet with blinking lights was crossing over the mountain range during this time, but considerably lower, as I believe the jet was landing either at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California, or headed to Burbank (Bob Hope Airport). The pilot had to have seen this light. When speaking with CBS News Station in Los Angeles, I asked the news desk if Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central Coast of California had fired off any missiles, as they are known to do, and have been doing for the past month off and on, the news desk person told me there were no scheduled missile flights from Vandenberg until June 2017. I wish I could have recorded this light, but do not have the means on my flip phone. The local papers and web community sites listed nothing about it today. Disappointed, as I am sure others witnessed this light.
May 4, 2017 · 4:50 AM · CHANGING
Taft, CA
This was not an aircraft and it was not a Chinese lantern… There was no flicker of fire or blinking lights. I estimate it was less than a quarter mile above me, and maybe the size of a yoga ball. I was able to grab my phone and snap 3 photos before it was out of view. The pictures are very interesting!! Witness indicates "Taft, Indiana" in original report. We have amended that to "Taft, California." PD
May 3, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Lake Los Angeles, CA
Fast moving green lights. One flashing the other steady. Moving faster than airliners leaving Burbank heading East, making no noise at all. Lights did not look like regular bulbs, but a large hazy glow.
May 2, 2017 · 1:15 PM · SPHERE
Canoga Park, CA
Black object way up in the sky. Way higher than helicopters normally fly and moving way to slow to be an airplane. Had red and white light slowly blinking on and off. Object moving northward then just vanished. No trace. Now there's what looks like a HUGE craft hidden in the clouds directly above the valley. Moving very slow. Southwest bound.
May 1, 2017 · 3:30 PM · DIAMOND
Fullerton, CA
We were all in the backyard, Monday afternoon, and my friend told me that the moon looked beautiful in the blue sky so I looked up at the moon and noticed a star moving very rapidly North. I assumed it was a satellite, or maybe the international space station, because it was reflecting light. I pointed it out to my friend and then he told me there was another one coming towards it. When they started heading towards each other very quickly he even exclaimed "oh my god they're going to hit each other." The two bright star-like objects then spread apart many miles and stopped moving. They were motionless for another five minutes, or so, but slowly getting dimmer and dimmer, until we could not differentiate them from the blue sky. I was in my backyard and these objects were about 60° into the sky. I was looking east Towards the moon that was lit up in the daylight sky.
May 1, 2017 · 3:23 AM · DIAMOND
Fullerton, CA
A bright star was flying north west near the moon, we thought it was a satellite. One other object flew towards it as they were going to collide. They then made a circle around each other and then spread many miles apart. They stayed in the same positions, until slowly fading away. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD