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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
April 30, 2017 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Ventura, CA
There was one bigger light flashing with about 13 smaller ones except the smaller ones flashed a bit different. It reminded me of a drone, but over a dozen drones out flying above our neighborhood all night until the morning is a bit odd. I went to bed at about 23:00 and woke up at 4:00, they were still out there. One flew over my fiancés and my head and we saw a shape of what appeared to be a triangle shape. My dad and mom both saw them from their window and they thought it was quite strange. I can't believe no one has reported this yet. I don't know what this is, but they are circling our neighborhood over and over again. Hovering and they haven't stopped.
April 30, 2017 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Pebble Beach, CA
A bright silver ball traveling west to east at a high speed, making no sound, flew past us, making a slight change of direction, and then blink, it disappeared into thin air.
April 29, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sacramento, CA
Driving on 99 south through Sacramento around 9:30 pm seen 2 orange round objects dancing/flying together. Other cars slowed down to look, too.
April 26, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Indian Reservation on way to Barona Casino, CA
My Fiancé and I were on our way to Barona Casino Wednesday night. We saw a low hovering (what we assumed was a plane at first) aircraft in the sky in front of us/in the direction we were heading but to the right (South of us). It did not seem to be moving at first. It had three lights on the underneath: two were a greenish tint and one was more of a regular white/yellow color turning on and off at random times slowly. The one turning on and off seemed to move around like it was on a rotator. All of the sudden, after we both acknowledged we saw it and started questioning what it was, it started to move East over the road very very slowly. I had my window down and it made only a quiet sound. Then, on the tip of the 'wings' two more lights lit up (two on each end). They were brighter than the three lights in the underneath middle of the craft. We thought it was a very large drone after trying to rationalize. It was a long skinny rectangle shape, but I saw no blades or anything. If it was, it was a drone that was 15-20 feet or more. It was terrifying and my fiancé and I are very logical. We asked the Indian man who picked us up in a golf cart to take us from the parking lot to the front if he knew of any drones the Indians had, and he acted concerned and said he did not. He said the head Indians may have something like that for protection, but I honestly thought it had to be military. Honestly, it looked like a multimillion dollar military aircraft with incredible mind blowing technology. I was stunned and can not stop thinking about it! I could not even get myself to take my eyes off it long enough to grab my phone in fear it would disappear. People around us were slowing down to see it as well. Source of the report provides no contact information. PD
April 26, 2017 · 9:45 AM · CIRCLE
Visalia, CA
Circular they got out of view about 7 foot across in about 5-7 seconds
April 26, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Santa Barbara, CA
the first craft was a fireball, the second craft was a blinking light. i assumed the second craft was following the fireball but they appeared to separate when i first noticed them. craft number 2 gave me the impression it was ours... but at first, when they separated, it looked like pieces breaking off, which did happen later with the fireball, but they changed speeds and gathered distance really quickly. About 30 seconds after they separated, the fireball also slowed down and started to turn outward from the california coast and i assume upward, or still, based on the angle because it slowly faded. But maybe 45 seconds before the fireball died, the blinking light disappeared after pulsing rhythmically for the first 45 seconds.
April 25, 2017 · 10:27 PM · SPHERE
Nicassio, CA
It floated for only a moment, before it moved across the road into a neighboring ranch and disappeared. Its movement was quick and smooth, like a falling basketball dropping from the top of its arc.
April 23, 2017 · 11:25 PM · SPHERE
Huntington Beach, CA
I was sitting on my rooftop, smoking a cigarette in HB, Orange County, when I noticed a loud sound in the sky. The sound was different from a helicopter and when I looked at the craft it was too low to be a plane. The craft was emitting a very intense red light from its tail end. When it passed over my head, I noticed a spear-shaped craft, but I could not see very clearly as it was dark out. The craft appeared to be white, with some dark color intertwined on the bottom of it. I told my friend to come out and witness what I saw. When we looked at it about a minute after it had passed, we could very clearly see a very strong red light still emitting from the craft. It was traveling southwest to northeast towards LAX. But when we both looked at it again, it appeared to be hovering to the east. I noticed other aircraft in the area due to me only being an hour from LAX and was paying attention to their lights and it was nowhere near as strong as the craft that I saw.
April 23, 2017 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Salt Point State Park, CA
Witnessed a orange orb pulsating over the ocean. I actually was standing outside having coffee, and this object gave me a weird feeling, so I went back inside our Airstream trailer and filmed this object through window and window screen. One key note is that as it got closer, I noticed it pulsating, but also could a red interior coloration.
April 23, 2017 · 12:50 AM · SPHERE
Napa, CA
I do star parties for hire with a large telescope I designed and built. At 12:50 a.m., I was going east on Trancas Street in Napa, CA, heading home from a star party. I observed a large orange/red circular light over about the area of the Queen of the Valley Hospital, about a quarter mile away from my position, moving slowly north to south, maybe 500-750 feet high (it looked lower than an airplane at pattern altitude). The diameter of the circular light I observed I'd say was on the order of about the diameter of the length of a small airplane viewed at that distance, perhaps a bit smaller, so while very subjective, perhaps in the range of 20' diameter. As I watched it slowly moving, it dropped a large light out of it! It fell straight down! And then it dropped another and another and then a whole string of maybe 6 or more! And more smaller lights shot out the top of the thing going up! I did get some pictures but of course they're not great. The lights were BRIGHT, and a dark reddish orange in color. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I have enough doubt now that I should rescind my report I made yesterday re. Napa, CA. I think it was a tribute balloon on fire a lot closer to me than I thought.
April 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Bakersfield, CA
There was one big orange circle light solid (a little bit flashy in the middle) and it moves pretty fast and disappeared after about 10 miles away from the Riverwalk where I saw!
April 22, 2017 · 8:08 PM · OTHER
Lake Forest, CA
Daughter pointed out strange light in the sky that looked crazy to her. I saw it and immediately took out my phone. There were probably 5 or so white lights that flashed from left to right, then right to left, continuously. The sun was not yet set and the lights were brighter than anything possible. It was very long horizontally, moved extremely fast, it was there and gone in less than 2 minutes and made no noise that we could hear. It was not visible by the end of the video. I have the video ready to upload.
April 21, 2017 · 9:13 PM · TRIANGLE
Sanra Rosa, CA
Then, i saw much lower, like same high with birds, dark triangle. It was 21:13 Last night every street had a bright light, and i could see what it is. Too bad my phone is not for night picture on the sky. I just decided to watch. I use my strong flash light also. That craft was slowly quietly moving without and lights. After this craft disapeared, it came back in 5 min. Looks like it made a circle. I watched again. The way it was moving in the dark, (i could see it because of street bright lights) it looks like a piramid. Thst was above of my neighborhood.
April 21, 2017 · 9:04 PM · FORMATION
McKinleyville, CA
On the night of April 21, 2017 at 9:03 PM Pacific Time, I walked outside to move my car from the driveway to the street in Humboldt County, California. As I walked outside and looked to the sky, Westward, above the Pacific Ocean, there were four spherical or circular red lights that were very bright red in the center and in a formation similar to the big dipper star constellation. The objects were moving in formation upward and to the right (if on land looking at the Pacific Ocean the objects were moving North). I immediately thought these were four ufos and I should grab my Samsung Galaxy S6 Smart Phone and take a video. At 9:04 PM Pacific Time, when raising the phone to take video, I took one accidental photograph, containing three of the four mentioned objects. The bottom three were captured. The missing ufo was about 150 degrees from furthest red dot on left in photograph. Although the three lights do not appear completely red in the photo, the four lights in the sky were clearly all red in person. Upon capturing that photograph and attempting to take one video, the objects seemed to be aware I was capturing them and decided to disperse and slightly break formation and each go upwards quickly. They continued to fly upwards at about a 90 degree angle until I could no longer see the faint red lights. They kept going and going until they faded away above the Pacific Ocean. This all happened within 1-2 minutes at most. Between 9:03-9:05 PM. The photograph was taken at 9:04 PM Pacific Time.
April 21, 2017 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Stevenson Ranch, CA
We saw a white light with red and blue highlights pulsate from bright to dim to bright to dim, the fly across the sky to left, come to stop, shoot straight up, then stop. It then got brighter again, travelled across the sky from left to right in approximately 20 to 30 seconds, during which time the white light was pulsating from left to right and it got larger as it travelled across the sky. Then abruptly it stopped again, pulsed bright white and then shot straight up in the sky until it was nothing but a dim point of light. During the whole event, we saw airplanes going by and it did not resemble an airplane, nor did the lights function in the same way.
April 20, 2017 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Petaluma, CA
I am a ranger/landscape supervisor who works for a county agency. The other witness is my parish priest. After a church class, while driving my pickup truck exiting our church parking lot, I saw our parish priest standing at the side of the church, looking up into the night sky in a south east direction. I stopped my truck and asked what he was looking at. He stated that there were some odd looking lights in the sky. I got out of my truck and went to where he was standing and looked up and saw 5 distinct reddish orange lights in the sky, hovering at different places, but in a grouping. The lights were moving very slowly. A couple of lights moved vertically, and then hovered, and then a couple moved laterally very slow. One of the lights rose and then faded into nothing. Another light faded when an airplane seemed like it was getting close to it. One more light rose and then faded into nothing, until the last light descended in altitude and finally disappea! red altogether. The lights seemed to be quite a distance from us. I would guess they were probably 20 miles away, and maybe 5000 to 8000 feet high. All of the lights moved independently of each other, but were in the same grouping or vicinity of each other.
April 20, 2017 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Santa Rosa, CA
It was about 22 o'clock, Thursday. No rain. Clear sky. 49 yo female. I was walking with my dog. I don't image things. If I see, I say it. The sky was full of stars. Then, I see something is moving high enough for birds, too low for a plane. Almost invisible, the same color as a sky, looks like triangle, or bird with wings opened widely, but the size was too big for a big bird. I noticed, stars in the sky were missing when that object was passing them. Was an object! It was slowly, quietly, without lights, moving above houses to North. This happened in Santa Rosa neighborhood, close to little park, near to freeway 101. After it disappeared, I realized, that I had a flash light, and didn't use it. When I came back home, and stepped out to my backyard, I saw helicopters. I don’t use drugs, and I don’t drink neither.
April 18, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Los Angeles, CA
I was driving down the street when i came to a red light. I took my phone out, stuck it out the window and took pictures of a building, it wasn't until i went back to look at the pictures that i noticed a formation.
April 18, 2017 · 12:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Los Angeles, CA
No information provided by witness. We have assigned an arbitrary time and date. We have no means of corroboration the data, since the witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD
April 18, 2017 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Sherman Oaks, CA
Co-worker glanced upward and was staring into the sky. Asked myself and another co-worker "what are those up there?". Myself and second co worker look straight upward and see slow flying formation of dark triangular silhouette of high altitude aircraft against the backdrop of clouds and open sky. The aircraft were very fluid in their flight and were without any lights as well as being perfectly silent. At seeing the first craft before noticing the others, my initial thought was that it was a large gas filled balloon, or perhaps a trash bag caught in the jetstream, but upon noticing others, I was able to make out a very noticeable triangular delta shape to each craft silhouette in contrast to the sky. These were definitely not birds or any natural animal but some sort of craft flying silently and without any navigational lighting or other illumination. My guess is military stealth possible electric propulsion. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 17, 2017 · 10:10 AM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
Stopped at a light on Westminster Blvd. looking toward Anaheim, I noticed a red orb in the clouds. I blinked a few times to verify if it was flashing from, perhaps a plane, but it remained solid red. It kept moving downward smoothly. After a good seven seconds, I tried to grab my phone real quick to get a video but as I looked up, it disappeared. It looked as if it left a small visible trail behind it.
April 17, 2017 · 6:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Vallejo, CA
I was outside with a neighbor and crew members from the local Fire Dept. I saw a bright red light descending high over the sky like a flare. The weather was cloudy so the clouds surrounding it were lit up as well. I asked the fire crew what it was and they said a flare. I heard one guy say, "you can hear it, too." When I walked into a more open area and turned my head I could hear a muffled "roar." It was difficult to determine a shape, but maybe a upside "V" would be the best way to describe it. My neighbor said, "I don't know what it is but something is on fire." If was gone or disappeared into the clouds in about a minute. I contacted the police dept and USGS 12 hours later to see if there were any reports and they both said, "no."
April 16, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Oceanside, CA
Not too much to report... a very bright light, definitely not a plane, helicopter, lanterns, or even a satellite (which I see often)... brighter than the brightest star, moving smoothly across the sky. No noise. No exhaust fumes. Very high. I took a couple of pics on the phone camera... the zoom-in pic it looks like they're might be a solid craft with the light. Please feel free to call if you want.
April 16, 2017 · 7:12 PM · OTHER
Los Angeles, CA
I was visiting my father in the Hermon neighborhood of Los Angeles, adjancet to Highland Park, where I live. We noticed an object coming from the vicinity of Debs Park, traversing Highland Park, possibly some of Hermon. We were facing NNE, and the object appeared to be travelling North, or NNW. The object appeared completely dark, there were no lights, and while it appeared semi-symmetrical, it was not entirely symmetrical. In all fairness, it could have been some sort of balloon. It does have a Mickey Mouse-type of shape, and the top of Debs Park does have an area where families do sometimes hold picnics. Still, there was no wind, it seemed larger than most “Mickey” type balloons I saw online, and seemed fairly stiff, and the proportions were incorrect for a humanoid balloon, and it was missing arms.