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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
December 28, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Rosamond, CA
My husband and I love star gazing, own a telescope, and are very familiar with the ufo phenomenon. For a few weeks now we have noticed these amazing lights in the sky. We decided to try and catch them on camera. Unfortunately, we only have a cheap Android phone, so we used it to our best ability before the crafts were gone and the phone lost battery. To get a closer look, we set up our stakeout on our roof. After a cold night and hours later, it appeared again like it had nights before. It began as a circle bright white light moving from south to the north quite faster than anything we had ever seen then it suddenly stopped a few blocks away and hovered over a house for only 2 seconds (as we are scrambling for the camera its light begins to get brighter and turning bright orange and then takes off so quickly back south) we didn't catch footage of this one. But we thought we could stay longer and see if it returns. Well to our surprise another craft flew by maybe an hour later. This one looked much different. It was almost cone shaped (like the orange caution cones) with a bright green light at the top as it was sort of descending down it began to pick up speed again and in the video you can hear me say its not green anymore. Suddenly, it zoomed off to the east were the sun was still rising changing to a bright yellow light. The oddest part about this is the way it would dissapear an then flash the light ever 2 seconds. But each time it appeared it was in a different position it wasnt flying a straight path. Flash up flash forward flash down. Sorry the video couldn't be better quality.
December 25, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cathedral City, CA
These objects came out of the North about mid sky came toward us and cross the sky some just three or four seconds behind the other pretty much the same path towards us then off to the East and up until we could not see them. This took a few seconds to about 10 before they where out of sight. This happened as a party was ending and many people saw this. There would be a group of 6 or so and a few minutes another group would come. This happened at lease 3 to 4 times over 20 to 30 minutes. Witness provides no contact information. We would welcome additional reports from other witnesses. PD
December 25, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Aliso Viejo, CA
Glowing orange lights flying in a straight line. No sounds. Very visible and easily seen. Flying east and ascended upwards through the clouds. Moving very fast when ascending. One after another, then disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 25, 2016 · 12:35 PM · CIRCLE
Oxnard, CA
As I was driving I looked I pulled up to the stop sign and directly in front of me about 1 miles away there were 4 round orange lights. One was separate from the rest, but the remaining three were making triangular shapes. They continued doing that for about a minute or so. But then they started to fade away in the opposite direction as if flying towards the sky in a horizontal direction. In the blink of an eye they were gone .
December 25, 2016 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
At approximately 12:30 am on 12/25/16 I received a frantic call from my neighbor telling me to come outside right now. There in the eastern sky were six or seven red glowing lights in a circular pattern following each other in a spiral as they were moved further away, yet still following each other at about the same distance between, in a circular pattern until they disappeared. Then another by itself came out of the northern sky followed by another and then another and then another and another. Each one followed the other towards where the circular group had been towards the east. Then one by one they gained altitude and then disappeared. When we would spot a new red glowing light coming out of the north, they were larger and seemed at a lower altitude and were timed to be spaced out by about 20 to 30 seconds. There was no sound associated with these red lights. No other color lights or glows were seen on each, just a solid red glow, that never changed. This lasted about 15 minutes.
December 24, 2016 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Menifee, CA
My wife noticed the two orange lights first. We pulled over so I could take a picture, but couldnt capture one. We saw two bright orange lights in the sky if you were looking North East of the 215 and newport road in Menifee Ca. One looked higher in altitude. Both were montionless. After 2-3 minutes of observation, the higher altitude craft just fanishes, 30 seconds later the 2nd one disappeared as well.
December 24, 2016 · 10:44 PM · CIRCLE
Redding, CA
We were driving on South Bonneyview in the westbound lanes and we saw 6 reddish orange circular objects in the sky. They were flying together and some were flying for r close to each other. They werent moving very fast and they were completely silent. We pulled over and I got out and took video. Within probably 40 seconds they vanished.
December 23, 2016 · 5:15 PM · OVAL
Fresno, CA
Oval shaped bright orange/yellow light stationary in the sky not moving for approximately 3 mins then just disappeared apeared to be big light even from a far distance
December 21, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Redwood City, CA
Pre-arranged siting with Beings of a red/orange glowing orb above the soccer field at local park. Was able to get a shaky video while walking toward orb. The orb darted around starting out small and continued to change shape, size an color. Varying from a basketball size glowing red/orange orb to a small pea size white dot. It disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared. I have been fortunate and seen numerous UFO's and have been visited many times. There were 2 other witnesses who were chasing the orb also. It was their first sighting and they were stunned as they discussed what is wasn't.
December 20, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Santa Rosa, CA
Right around 10:30pm the evening of December 20, 2016, I saw what looked like a bright, orange planet the size of Venus, just Northeast of Caph in Cassiopeia. I stared at it for about 30 seconds and I thought I perceived it to be moving--very slowly so I assumed it was an aircraft. I went inside to get my binoculars in the 45 seconds it took me to come back outside, the object had vanished. I stared at the spot where I had seen it and I noticed another object nearby, about the same size, only dim and fuzzy grey in color. It was moving quickly, roughly North to South trajectory, and disappeared from view within 30 seconds.
December 20, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fresno, CA
I saw approximately twelve orange globes hanging in the sky. I was in the NW part of Fresno looking East at 7 pm. At first I thought it was Christmas lights but quickly realized they were not attached to a house. When I pulled back around to get a good look, I saw that they were hanging in the sky hundreds of feet in the air. They were in formation. They made no sound. When I pulled over, another truck had already been parked and was looking at the lights. They said before I got there, the globes were in a straight vertical line, one on top of the other. When I first saw them they were not exactly vertical, but the whole group was more or less up and down, hundreds of feet top to bottom. Then they started to move very slowly into groups of three and four in what appeared to be triangles and the group became more horizontal. The spacing between the globes was nearly exact. We watched them for five minutes then they started to fade away one after the other. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD
December 19, 2016 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Redding, CA
For about the last twenty years, I usually go out for ten to twenty minutes before I go to bed each night to have a look at the stars. I usually look very carefully for areas that are darker than the night sky, hoping to see one of the black triangle craft. I was only out for a few minutes looking at the area of Taurus, and a reddish orange star just appeared. It was almost in the middle between the two stars that make the horns of Taurus. It was a little brighter than Aldebaran, and then got slightly brighter. I was watching it for a few seconds not sure if it was a star or not when I could see that it was wavering slightly side to side. It then started moving slowly in an arc heading east. I knew then it was not a star and started to walk to my door to get a camera and binoculars when it gradually began to fade out. I went in, noted the time, and got the binoculars. I checked the area with the binoculars and could see nothing. The only thing I can think of is that I saw a meteor directly end on.
December 17, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
San Pedro, CA
There was an object in the sky at 100° east. After zooming in with binoculars and camera this object change colors from green to blue to purple, yellow and red. It slowly raised in height.
December 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
I ask my girlfriend if she is seeing the same thing I am and she confirms I am not seeing things. We then spent the next 10 or so minutes watching this object brighten and dim while moving back and forth, gaining and losing altitude erratically. The object was out over the pitch black ocean so I could not actually see the horizon so I could not determine how far away the object was. There was no sound associated with the object. I figure if the object was as close as two miles, its movements probably covered 0-1500ft in altitude and back and forth across the horizon a minimum of 3 miles. It dimmed out once about 4 minutes in and appeared to be gone but came back about 3! 0 seconds after. After it disappeared the second time I did not see it return and we left the location.
December 17, 2016 · 7:15 PM · OVAL
Ojai, CA
While my wife and I were in our spa 30 minutes ago a bright light appeared fairly low flying from the North to South over the OHIGH IFR intersection traveling toward the Ventura area. It almost appeared to have a canopy above it, totally silent with varying intensities. It went out of our site probably over Casitas Springs. A second somewhat dimmer unidentified object followed withing 2 minutes on exact same trajectory. I am a current IFR pilot and could not identify the object seen tonight.
December 17, 2016 · 12:08 AM · FIREBALL
Fairfield, CA
Above the north-eastern horizon, my husband and I witnessed a bright craft jetting straight upward into the sky. As it was halfway into the sky, another smaller jet type of craft appeared above the brighter one below. When it appeared, the brighter object started chasing the smaller object, then the smaller object appeared to shoot out deflector projectiles that exploded on the larger object below. The bigger object was not phased by the smaller objects projectiles and continued to persue the smaller object until both were above the atmosphere and out of sight.
December 14, 2016 · 9:00 AM · OVAL
San Diego, CA
A white entity object appeared to me, prior to my work, in a parking lot around 5:45 am. The entity appeared out of nowhere and then flew like a bug and disappeared. I took photos of the sun after the incident, 2 hours later, and captured a orb with purple colors. I have not seen this type of close encounter since the 1980's. I have photos of the 9 am photo shoot. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
La Jolla, CA
Disappeared after about 5 minutes when I got closer to being beneath it.
December 13, 2016 · 3:37 AM · UNKNOWN
Pasadena, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 12, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
South Lake Tahoe, CA
I was driving down the street I live on heading north, I noticed a abnormally bright light that was pulsating straight ahead. I pulled over to get a better look. While watching some kind of object that had a flashing light came from above at a very high rate of speed and either buzzed past at very close range or met up with the bright object because I could not see where it went because of the large bright object. After approx ten minutes, the large bright object began moving south at a high rate of speed until I could not see it any longer.
December 11, 2016 · 8:56 AM · SPHERE
Trabuco Canyon, CA
A white light appeared above the mountain tops just north east of saddleback mountain looking from Portola Hills, Trabuco Canyon. The light increased in intensity for about ten seconds. At its brightest point, the light appeared much larger then the relative size of a full moon (about 2-3 times larger in circumfrence). The light was so intense that it hurt my eyes to look directly at it.. It stayed at full intensity for about 30 seconds and then suddenly turned off instantaneously like a light switch. It still stayed slightly dim after the light stopped shining like a hot light would after it is turned off.
December 7, 2016 · 5:00 AM · FLASH
Pt. Sur (50 miles off), CA
Was traveling down the coast of California from San Francisco to Long Beach on the tugboat I work on. I saw two bright lights in the skyrunning toward the shore. They were so bright, then the brightness faded and we were able to watch the objects continue to fly and swirrl around each other in the air for quite some time. They stayed at the same altitude and seemed to be partnered up with each other some how. Both objects vanished and that was it.
December 4, 2016 · 10:40 PM · CHEVRON
Huntington Beach, CA
I’d just stepped out of my friend’s house after a comedic session of Dungeons & Dragons. We’d watched TV, talked about video games, the usual for our age group. A normal Sunday night. I was the last one to leave. I didn’t expect to see something in the sky, but then again, I don’t think anyone does. It was one of those rare cloudless nights where LA’s famous light pollution doesn’t ruin a decent view of the stars over the suburbs. I’m originally from a very small town, so I don’t take celestial beauty for granted. I looked up at the sky to admire the stars, and that’s when I saw it. My first thought was “airplane,” but this was immediately replaced by “drone?” because it was too fast for a commercial flight, and completely silent. And then I thought that it couldn’t have been a drone, because again, it was completely silent, and the most common drones are quadcopters. This thing was in the shape of a chevron, and dark gray. It was a little larger than the moon, which was slightly farther away. Another thing that perplexed me besides the speed were the lights. Three of them, one on each wing end and one under the middle corner, unblinking, and a dim gray. I’ve never seen gray lights in my life. The chevron was headed southeast, when suddenly, without slowing down, it made a sharp, tight U-turn, pivoted, and disappeared before my eyes. I didn’t blink, I didn’t look away for a second, and there were no clouds for it to hide behind. It was there, and then it was gone. I don't think we have the technology to make planes turn the way this thing did. We spoke with the young woman who submitted the report, as well as two high-quality illustrations. She seemed to us to be quite eloquent and serious-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent witness. PD
December 4, 2016 · 3:03 PM · LIGHT
Mission Viejo, CA
Two very bright white lights changing in brightness, size, and distance were spotted above our house. They would slowly move closer and closer to each other and then when touching, would move quickly away only to repeat the process.