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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
February 25, 2017 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Elk Grove, CA
We have attempted to contact the source of the report via telephone, but have been unable to reach her. We suspect that the correct time may be 22:00 hrs., but we are unable to confirm that fact. PD
February 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Fountain Valley, CA
I was walking my dog and heard what I thought were fireworks. I looked up to where the noise was coming from and saw something in the sky. It looked and sounded like it was exploding. Sort of like the crakeling sound fireworks make as well as flashes of white light.. I noticed another "craft" parallel to the first one. It looked like it was waiting for it. The first one stopped "exploding" and I continued watching it, expecting it to fall from the sky, but it didn't. It, along with the other one, began moving east in the sky still parallel to one another. The first ones lights were much dimmer than the second one. The flew out of sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
February 22, 2017 · 6:30 PM · DIAMOND
Fullerton, CA
Saw what seemed to be really bright star. It became brighter where I thought I was seeing the lines of a star spiking out then seemed to appear brighter and possibly 2 diamond shapes. orbiting lower towards nw. now gone. Hopefully, not bigger tomorrow. Have pic but not good great but can see difference with size. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 21, 2017 · 7:45 PM
Sebastopol, CA
Sitting in hot tub watching southern sky it came from the west horizontally and went east - traveled in our sight and out of sight in 45 seconds - amazingly fast. Had just been watching planes and they would take several minutes to come and go... This had red lights only - on continuously. It was moving! No sound or sonic boom - very interesting. Went on line to see if I could find out what it was but can't seem to locate anything... ?
February 20, 2017 · 10:00 PM
San Pablo, CA
bright blue flash of light in northern and western sky like very nearby lightning but no sound except crazy loud wind gust. Conditions are partly cloudy, bright stars, showers, windy. I have seen a lifetime of midwest lightning displays, never saw this bright blue color or that intense of a flash with no loud crack right behind. Our dogs are not afraid of thunder, wind or lightning, but they ran back to door to be let in and were nervous. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 18, 2017 · 6:36 PM · RECTANGLE
Concord, CA
While at a Da La Salle High School soccer game I observed an unremarkable object. It was a clear sky at dusk without visible stars. An inner thought directed me to inspect a light that was in the sky. (This directed type of thought had not happened to me before) A normal mental signal of interest can be explained as yourself asking , "What is that?" This directed type of mental signal can be described as "Hey, Watch This." There was nothing interesting about this light in a visual sense. With my Samsung SM-J700H phone I captured 4 images. Later that night I inspected my pictures. 3 of the pictures were unremarkable. I blew up the one clearly defined photograph with Photoshop Elements. I was very surprised by the result. The object had obvious structure. It has a body with multiple 90 degree angles. It seems to have two pointed projections on the bottom that are both bent or angled towards one end of the craft. It also appears to have! a light or projection on top near one end of the craft. The craft also seems to have an aura or glow surrounding it. I can not give an accurate altitude. I'm a private pilot and have a very good sense of 1000' feet since this is the standard altitude for flying the pattern at the majority of civilian airports. My best guess is this craft was 40' in length, perhaps 2500' in altitude. Once again this is a very rough guess. I've included an aerial picture of the soccer field with a compass overlay. My position was at the center of the compass and the photograph was taken at approximately 300 degrees from my position. I've also included the original photograph and an enlargement at high definition. Personal Story: I believe I had an encounter with aliens when I was 6 years old. One night, while staying at my Aunt and Uncle's House I couldn't sleep. I knew there was someone in the backyard that had come for me. Somehow I could see through the wall between me and the backyard. There was a large rounded object with 3 small human shapes. They had short bodies and longish heads. They were able to travel through the walls. The next thing I remember is being very frightened. So frightened that I asked my Aunt and Uncle to call my parents in the middle of the night and have them take me home. My parents did take me home. This had never happened before. This was in 1960, before Betty and Barney Hill.
February 16, 2017 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Indio, CA
4 amber orbs came from northeast. 3 went north of my house and 1 broke away and came towards my location. The amber orb was about 1500 feet away from me in the sky. What i saw was amazing. Pure radiant amber light. No metal structure. About the size of an average house. Within the orb of light, I saw a flame. The flame was like a flame of glass, also quite brilliant. In moving towards my location, it exhibted intelligence and a desire that i would see it. I've never seen anything like it. (( Source of report, who elects to remain totally anonymous, fails to indicate a date for the alleged sighting. We are unable to contact the individual, in order to confirm the date, so we have assigned an arbitrary date above.
February 16, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Costa Mesa, CA
4 ROUND OBJECTS [WHITE] CIRCLING IN ERRATIC PATTERNS. BEEN WATCHING FOR ABOUT 20 MIN NOW NOT AIRCRAFT OR SPOTLIGHTS! SOUTHEAST SKY IN COSTA MESA, CA, Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 16, 2017 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Camarillo, CA
Observed 2 bright white star like objects about 22 degrees north. They were about 8-12 inches apart with blue skies for back round. Moved up and down side to side. Hovered for 10 to 15 mins., then faded away to the north.
February 15, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
National City, CA
I was driving home, going North on the I-805. In the sky ahead I saw 3 lights, 2 bright ones and 1 not as bright, maybe further or just smaller than the other 2. I first noticed the 2 bright lights then the smaller one, it may have detached from the other 2 or have been there just didn't notice it at first. The 2 brighter lights didn't move and the smaller light did, but then they all remained mostly stationary. I questioned if they were planes but then I saw what I knew was a plane, and the plane just flew past the lights, on what seemed like a normal route to the San Diego airport. I kept my eye on them since the moment I noticed until I arrived home. Due to a big tree in the way I don't know what happened to them.
February 14, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Redlands, CA
I am a 58 yr old man, my 16 yr old daughter and 17yr old boyfriend was there, a 20 yr old family friend and my 9yr old and 3 yr old great nephews were there. While in the backyard feeding the fish in the pond I noticed what looked like a pulsating star at first until I noticed it changing size drastically and instantly while also observing slow movement, so I went in the house and got my binoculars and iPhone I sat down on a a five brick high planter box and started filming where I held the phone with both hands and arms extended out slightly above my head and started filming kept my arms stiff for the whole four minutes of the video I was not moving in and out with my arms and tried to tape with a rosebush partly in the picture so you could determine a stationary object in the filming . This orb moved around but basically was in the same area the whole time but changed sizes shapes constantly and had a Saturn like ring around it and when it got big you c! ould see the nucleus of the thing was in meeting energy constantly moving like it was morphing into something almost looks like an entity instead of a craft, when I looked at this object through the binoculars I was astounded at what I saw things moving constantly brilliant colors almost looked like flames in there orbs multiplying within the orb, and amazing array of colors and move me constantly going, I was extremely moved and it was actually scary looking in there and will never Forget the images I saw in those binoculars. Sirius, or some other "twinkling" star?? PD
February 14, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Torrance, CA
I heard no engine sound, and I saw no navigational lights. I could not tell at what altitude the lights were but they seemed very high. At about this same time a single engine monoplane came from the West, and it had navigation lights that I could see, although I don’t remember hearing it’s engine.
February 14, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Claremont, CA
Four dim light probably round in a straight line moving slowly south to north moving slowly then after about seven seconds nome lights and disappeared. No sound. Night time sky was free of clouds.
February 14, 2017 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Huntington Beach, CA
i was driving northbound on the 405 freeway in Huntington Beach, ca at 06:45 am and i saw a light in the sky and I began filming with my galaxy S7.At first I thought it was a planes headlight, then realized the light was shining downward in an upside-down cone shape. It remained shining in the sky for about 40 seconds, then slowly closed up like the aperature of a camera lens. It wasnt until about an hour later that i reviewed the video that i had taken and realized that it wasnt a ufo. It was a portal that had opened and then closed. The video is on you tube, and is pretty crappy due to driving/filming in morning rush hour traffic, but luckily there is a enough very clear video of the the portal to get a decent understanding of what happened. Note) Another person in Newport Beach, (a neighboring city), filmed the same event and his video was featured on a well known you tube channel that has recently had all of its videos removed and some other mysterious events occur. So 2 videos of this portal, from different angles, exist somewhere out there in the ether.
February 14, 2017 · 6:32 AM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
It started as something that looked like a helicopter light shining down, then it got way too bright to be a helicopter it turned into a spiral and dissapered, find YouTube videos it's there. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 14, 2017 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Roseville, CA
What appeared to be a star-like light caught my attention on the horizon while driving west bound on highway 80 leaving Roseville. It looked as though it was shining a spotlight in a cone-like shape downward from the object, then sideways as it moved. Suddenly the object was gone and it appeared it left behind a cloud or smoke where the light was. It was too slow to be a shooting star or a meteor. A helicopter was flying near it on the horizon giving context. It did not appear to be a plane or another helicopter.
February 14, 2017 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
My son and I saw a light as bright as the moon. It was large, I observed it to be 1/5 to 1/4 of the moon's diameter. It seemed to be moving South to North. We saw it for 15-20 seconds, and then it seemed to just blink out. I looked like there were smoke trails coming from where it went dark. It was still very dark, so the smoke trails may have just been after effects from seeing such a bright light.
February 14, 2017 · 6:20 AM · SPHERE
Pioneer, CA
Bright white spherical object with a thin long tail. The tail was 2 to 3 times as long as the object. The object was moving northward. After a minute disappeared in a puff of smoke as if it burned out. U. S. Navy launch of ICBM missile from a submarine. PD
February 14, 2017 · 6:19 AM · CIRCLE
West Lake Village, CA
((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE)) I was looking North and the date was 2/14. It was taken in Westlake Village on the 405 ((END ADDENDUM))
February 14, 2017 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Hollister, CA
I took video until it disappeared heading west towards the coast.
February 13, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Watsonville, CA
Having a smoke brake in the backyard, we saw about 6 spheres moving around very fast. They kept blinking red/orange and then disappearing, then reappering. A few of them lined up in a row.
February 13, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Capitola, CA
6 bright red orb-like objects in the sky hovering above Monterey Bay. They looked somewhat like fireballs moving fairly fast in all directions and slowly faded up into the sky within 2 minutes of one another. Definitely NOT mistaken identity for flying lanterns. I am not sure how long they were there for, from the time I noticed to the time they disappeared it had been about 15 minutes.
February 13, 2017 · 3:09 PM
Santa Ana, CA
Good afternoon. I was feeding the bird today and while recording it, i notice there was a blue dot circle flying in my video for about 2 second before it disappear. Can you help me identify what that blue circle is before it fly away? Please let me know where to send my video to. This is real. Thank you
February 12, 2017 · 3:45 PM · LIGHT
Torrance, CA
I immediately went outside to look and asked him where to look in the sky, and he said north. I couldn't see anything but looked for some point of reference and noticed an airliner taking off from LAX (it was climbing) some 10.7 miles away north west from our location at mother's in Torrance Ca. I asked him if he could see the jet and he said no but would go to the front yard to get an unobstructed view. While he was moving from the back yard to the front I could see a flash that lasted about one second. The flash was about 60% the size of a full moon. This object flashed three times and at three second intervals, and on the third flash I could see what appeared to be a star but in full daylight as it was a very bright white light. I then noticed a pinkish orange flash coming from the star object at three second intervals. My son came back on the phone and said it was on a collision course with the airliner which he could now see. The star object would flash for a second coast for three seconds and then flash again for a second. At this point my eyes were adjusted and I could see a second identical object trailing the first. It was also flashing pinkish orange but at two second intervals until it caught up with the first object. The scene left me with the impression it was dropping down from a higher altitude to a lower one. The second star craft was as it was dropping down reminded me of a shooting flare much like a descending flare from a flare gun except it was bright white. When the two objects were even they both were flashing in complete unison as if they were mirror images of each other. They were perfectly side by side and were headed from the northwest towards the southeast. They gave me the impression like, they were skipping across the sky. Like an ice skater, rhythmic and smooth. I told my son I could see two objects and they were headed towards me. I looked at my watch and it was 15:50 and told my son to go to work because the incident distracted him from going to work. He was suppose to be at work at 16:00 and he hung up the phone and went to work. The airliner was headed perfectly due east and I could see the airliner and star objects converge. I almost expected a collision but the star objects were well above the airliner because one of the star objects was blotted out by the mass of the jet but for only a split second. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better a third object appeared as if it just dropped in on the other two objects. The third object dropped in on the other two exactly like the second star object. I expected the third Starcraft to line up with the other two but it did not, it went into what I think was a kind of missing man formation. It hung slightly back of the other two and at a distance double the distance of the first two objects. Had there been a fourth object lined up with the other three they would have been perfectly spaced. Like this. * * * * except the far right third object was slightly behind like this. • • * Size and Distance if a circle is 360 degrees and from horizon is 180 degrees then the the two objects were about 5 degrees apart and the third object at 10 degree and slightly back. My son sighted the first object at 15:40 I caught site of the first one at roughly 15:48 by 15:50 my son left for work he said he seen two and missed the third possibly because by 15:48 they were closer to me than him. The third object went back up and disappeared while the two continued southeast until I lost sight of them at about 15:55 due to the distance. They were almost directly over head and my neck is sore form looking up so long. They seemed too slow as by my estimation if you could have seen them from horizon to horizon it would have taken them 30 minutes to make that distance. Between my son and I we watched them for 15 minutes. Thank you for your work.