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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 12, 2017 · 3:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Valencia, CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5R4gP4C5o&feature=youtu.be My kids and I go to the park often and we like to lay on the grass and look at the sky. Today it is crystal clear with no clouds. We often see airplanes fly overhead but this these were obviously not planes. I watched them for about a minute before pulling out my Galaxy Note 5 set to 1920x1080 30p with Image stabilization on. When I first noticed them I thought they were balloons but quickly realized they were not because of their size and speed. They moved like fighter jets changing formation darting around then getting back into various formations. because of how high they are and large about the size of airplanes I knew they were not normal, I knew I needed to record them. At the beginning of the video, they look very far away and tiny. It's unfortunate that smartphone cameras make things that are about the distance of an airplane look much tinier than they are because to the human eye these UFO's were much closer like looking up at an airplane flying over at about 2,000-3,000 feet. It was also clear these things were metallic as they were very reflective and would get easier to see as they maneuvered and changed direction in the sky. I zoomed in but because of how bright the sun was it was hard to see my screen which is why I loose them in conjunction with how fast they were moving across the sky. Lastly, I know it may lose some credibility because I put my product logos on the video but I have a family to support so I had to capitalize on this unique and puzzling experience with my kids. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be extremely credible. He provided high-quality video of a cluster of objects, photographed against a blue sky. The objects are seen to maneuver rapidly, relative to each other's positions. PD
February 12, 2017 · 1:25 AM · TRIANGLE
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 10, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Hollywood, CA
Ok. So, I'm not 100% sure what I saw. I am a pretty scientificly literate person. I am going to explain what I saw in the best detail I can. Mid-February sometime, I'm driving along the 101 highway near the Vermont exit in LA. It's raining sort of heavy and all of the cars are going about 10-25mph. I see an object floating in the distance. It gets my attention because it's not moving at all, it's completely frozen/locked in position. Mind you it was pretty windy and raining (rare in LA). I squint to see what it is but can't make out any details. At first I thought it was a balloon but a balloon would've been moving with the weather. As I drove closer I pass under a bridge and it comes in to view about 50 feet over the next bridge. As I drive closer I see this object. The best way to describe it would be 3-5 balls in a vertical row connected to a central line that was not visible (imagine 2 balls on the left of the line,3 on the right). The balls were literall! y merging and crisscrossing into each other repeatedly. They were all metallic looking and I remember seeing red, a darkish blue and dark silver colors. The rate at which these balls were merging was completely against the environment and unlike anything I've ever seen. The merging was slow and rhythmic. Kind of like a 1, 2, 3, 4 of a waltz but half time. I looked to see a line, maybe something it was connected to and saw nothing. As I got closer those details got clearer to the point where I could actually see the balls enter into each other and coming out on the other side. I passed under the bridge it was floating over and never seen it again. Being a very sane person, and someone who deeply values science and the scientific method, I have been troubled by not being able to express exactly what it is I saw. I live in Los Angeles and drive on this highway all the time. I've never seen pictures or heard stories of anything like it. Thanks for having somewhere I can put it down it writing.
February 8, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CHEVRON
Pinion Hills, CA
This was by my girl friend her mother and others that came home excited. This is the next day they couldn't stop talking about it, so I told them we need to let you know. I listen to CTC every night and it's my privilege to help you with info. Witness provides no contact information. PD
February 6, 2017 · 12:13 AM · FLASH
Redway, CA
The power went out for a second, then came back on. Then I seen a the sky out side turn a bright green and the power when out again. I wasn't able to get a good look it was just a flash of green, then the power was off. I have an eerie feeling now, and I am sorry if this is not the place to post I am just wondering if anyone else has seen it, if you feel I have waited your time I truly apologize
February 5, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Santee, CA
Large Bright Light in sky. When viewed through binoculars there were actually multiple individual lights, at least 20 in number filling a circular pattern. It appeared that the object may have been rotating very very slowly. The objects lights suddenly when black and it was no longer visible to my eye. Two minutes later there was a glow illuminating behind a cloud cover which my have been the above mentioned object. Witness provides no contact information. PD
February 4, 2017 · 3:24 AM · SPHERE
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 1, 2017 · 7:40 PM · CHANGING
Azusa, CA
Object came in low from foothill area to the north. It looked like a trash bag that had caught up in the wind. It seemed to float fast and was going east. Then it lost the white sort of glow and it seemed to dimly glow reddish. At this point but had changed shape into 3 spheres, ovals really, and they rotated horizontally around each other. It gained altitude quickly and got small very, very fast. It was headed east, but up. I couldn't track it because it got so far away it disappeared. Its approach was definitely slower than it moved away. Other details: no wind. Sky was overcast a bit, moon is blurred. But whatever this was, was low enough for me to see quite well. It seemed to go above a pretty busy section, so I wouldn't be surprised if more people saw it. It was low and though size was hard to gauge, it looked decently big. Before I submit this, I'd like to say the color initially seemed whiteish but transparent when it looked like a trash bag. It didn't move like one though. And when it turned into spheres, it happened almost instantly. I'm unsure about the color as the red glow I saw could have been a reflection of ambient light.
February 1, 2017 · 9:12 AM · LIGHT
Los Angeles/Sherman Oaks, CA
Two small bright lights moving slightly, they were not touching, than disappeared. There were no clouds. Los Angeles at around 9:12am
January 29, 2017 · 2:10 PM · CIRCLE
Oceanside, CA
Noticed a metallic looking object floating in the sky, heading east from west, clear blue sky, little bit of wind, maybe 1000 feet high guesstimate, maybe 10 feet wide guesstimate. No sound or fumes. It could be a Mylar Balloon floating but not sure, and don't think so, so took a couple of pics. Object drifted behind the big tree, then never reappeared. Strange. My wife and I have also seen many lights in the night sky over the past month. Some are a brilliant flash of light, size of a distant star. Some flash 3 times and then disappear. This is all happening over southern California, near Marine base, Camp Pendelton, Oceanside.
January 29, 2017 · 10:34 AM · LIGHT
Studio City, CA
My wife and I were having breakfast at a bagel shop at 12914 Ventura Blvd this morning. We were seated outside, and near the end of our meal, I glanced around the sky. It was such a beautiful and clear Southern California day, especially after the recent storms in the area. While looking around, I noticed a twinkling white light to the north, about the same height in the sky as the top of a street light pole on Ventura Blvd from where we were seated. I first thought that it was a very bright and early star, but the twinkling was too bright to the naked eye, and I immediately observed very slow movement. My next thought was a potential satellite sighting, but no straight flight path existed — movement was somewhat erratic, though slow at times. This was easily confirmed due to the light’s position just to the right of the street light pole, which allowed me a point of reference in the sky. The light was far too high, to my observation, to be commercial aircraft (best guess was 150,000ft or more) — it was too erratic and slow for a satellite path, and it also didn’t appear to be any type of rocket (to my knowledge) due to it’s start-stop movement. The emitting of light (or glinting of sunlight off of the object, which was another thought) also had no pattern and seemed to be random, almost as if the object was spinning about — at times it became so dim to the point that I’d thought it disappeared, then it would randomly shine bright seconds later, as bright as a star in the early evening or early morning sky. The level of brightness was observed changing drastically without obstruction as the light slowly pinged about the clear blue sky. A second white light holding the same characteristics was also observed momentarily, further up in the sky and to the left of the first light I fixated upon. To confirm, my wife and I both observed these objects and all of the mentioned movements/lights. The only further detail I observed on the main light was the emission of tiny, nearly invisible, red lights — these seemed to be ejected from the object and quickly disappeared into the blue of the sky. This detail was very hard for me to see, but I know that I did observe this. I captured iPhone video of this sighting, and upon review later in the day, both white lights (along with their visual characteristics and movements) can be clearly seen in the footage. This entire event lasted over 3 minutes. I captured over 2 1/2 minutes of footage, but I did have to stop recording because we had to get going about our business.
January 28, 2017 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Porterville, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 26, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Encinitas, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 25, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Desert Hot Springs, CA
Got home and used binoculars almost looked like 3 lights…couldn’t be certain of shape but almost looked triangular. Orb did not move, did change color looked like amber color then dropped straight down out of sight approx 8:45pm. Did take picture but pic is grainy and just looks like a light ball in sky. Venus?? PD
January 25, 2017 · 7:25 PM · LIGHT
Compton, CA
If you u see a triangle,imagine a red light at one of the ends blinking and going to each end of the triangle in slow motion, leaving a slowly fading sparkling red reflection. in a silent dark sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 25, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
San Diego, CA
There seemed to be increased helicopter and airplane activity; one airplane looked like it flew pretty close to the object, before the plane's lights turned off and the object moved its position slightly before continuing to hover. Zooming in with a camera showed a ball of white light that was glowing, but that showed multicolor flickers, like when you put television on the wrong channel and see snow, except this snow was all the colors of the rainbow, flickering and mixing on a greyish white background. We suspect a possible sighting of Venus. Source remains anonymous. PD
January 23, 2017 · 3:00 AM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
I was returning to work on the 110 freeway heading north. Traffic was moving slowly due to a recent downpour. At the edge of downtown Los Angeles near the Convention center, I noticed a metallic, copper-colored object that appeared to be floating along. It was a couple of hundred feet up and a bit west of the roadway. I assumed it was a mylar balloon because it looked like it was drifting along in the wind. As it passed over the freeway and I could see it juxtaposed with one of the skyscrapers, I realized that it was quite large – easily the size of an average car. At first I thought it was spherical, but then it seemed to rotate and I could see that it was saucer-shaped. The object continued heading east and moved out view. I assume other people saw it, but I was alone in my own car.
January 23, 2017 · 12:12 AM · LIGHT
Salinas, CA
Saw a bright red light moved low slowly left and right, then disappeared the light never blinked it was south west of highway 1.
January 22, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Rosamond, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 20, 2017 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Malibu, CA
It was just a quick flash of a massive ship if you want to call it with multiple points all in brilliant white shining heading into the ocean without making a splash it was just a flesh and gone everything and I now notice white orb always around me or first appeared in front of my office right outside my door on top of the Building minutes later on top of the gas station when I was getting gas and then in Bohans parking Lot Chatsworth California next day my wife said she was followed by an orb home from work which was that night but she told me the next day
January 19, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Walnut Creek, CA
My husband and I saw what appeared to be a large, glowing red object in the sky. It was very high and very far away. It was completely still for about 10 seconds. Then it flashed on and off, then back on. Then it moved very quickly side to side, then off again and disappeared. We saw a large airplane in the same area about 4 minutes later.
January 19, 2017 · 6:10 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
It looked like a shooting star going down really fast, but with a frontal metallic circle, and it disappeared completely mid air. I was driving on the 710 South freeway heading home towards PCH. Didn't have time to capture but open my eyes and observe. Then 2 drones appeared and hovered over the area the UFO disappeared to, either to investigate/confuse whoever had viewed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 17, 2017 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Yucca Valley, CA
The object appeared to be quite far away, possibly over the mountain between Morongo and Desert Hot Springs.
January 15, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
At first I thought the fireball might be a meteor or an aircraft on fire. It moved slowly south to north across the western sky. When I first saw the fireball several small fireballs dropped and burned out as they fell. This led me to believe it may be an aircraft that was burning, it dropped one last small fireball that burned-out, then it continued north across the sky moving at a pace similar to a plane in the distance, until it faded from sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD