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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
March 22, 2023 · 9:22 PM · OTHER
Los Angeles, CA
At roughly 9:22 pm on the evening of 22 Mar 2023, I was driving eastbound on the Interstate 10 approaching downtown Los Angeles. The skies were partly cloudy, but the lit skyline of downtown LA was clearly visible. I had one passenger in the car with me. Just passing the La Cienega Blvd exit on the I-10 East, I clearly discerned something that caught my eye in the sky, which I had initially written off as a cloud. What seemed odd what that there was a red light to one side of where I was looking, and a white light on the other side. At that point I had written it off as an airplane. But, whatever it was seemed to be fixed; it did not seem to move. Again, I didn't think anything of it, but as I kept driving, I glanced in that direction again and it had not moved from its place in the sky. At that point, I figured it to be an antenna on one of the mountain ranges far in the distance beyond downtown LA, but that would be impractical from where I was in proximity to the mountain ranges. And as I got closer to it, I began to notice the shape of an object. By now, I was roughly at the Crenshaw Blvd exit of the I-10 east. The object, again, had not moved from its place in the sky. The shape of it was like nothing that I've ever seen that could possibly perform a hovering movement, like a helicopter, balloon, drone, or dirigible. It was at this point that I pointed it out the passenger in my car. I asked her what she thought it might be, and she was as clueless as me. So, we both kept staring at it. It's difficult to describe the shape. It was somehow rectangular, but slightly convex along the long edges. I don't know how else to describe it. The left and right sides seemed to have protrusions. One side with a red light, the other with a white one. There were no markings on the object. I constantly observed it for movement, but it remained fixed. The remarkable shape of the object really made it stand out, because I've never seen anything like it before, and neither had my passenger. I had the best visual of it between the Hoover St exit, and the connector to the I-110 south. I'd assume it was between 800 to 1200 feet above me as we drove under it, after which we lost sight of it. I did extensive google searches to see if others posted things to corroborate my sighting. I even submitted a query to a local tv station. As of this writing, I have yet to see any other mention of it. As for myself, I have been a business communications and IT consultant for 29 years. My passenger is a data analyst.
March 17, 2023 · 9:55 PM · CONE
Roseville, CA
Took my dog for a walk down the street to the park coming home, looked up in the sky, middle of the sky, six fireballs, reddish with tails at first I thought meteor right shower, but they went parallel with the earth till they were out of sight they didn’t come down to the ground Took them about 15 seconds to get out of my sight and they were gone. I couldn’t see them no more maybe it was some meteors flying parallel with the ground I I’ve never seen it that’s why I don’t think they were meteorites.
March 17, 2023 · 9:46 PM · FIREBALL
Placerville, CA
Driving East on Hwy 50 at 9:30-45 at night. About 6 fireballs like comets flying at an even pace towards east south East. Not shooting stars, never faded, just kept going.
March 17, 2023 · 9:43 PM · CIGAR
Redwood valley ca, CA
Long set of lights seemed like about4_6lights hovering slowly like a long idk then fifteen seconds after dissaperd
March 17, 2023 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
El dorado hills, CA
I have a video and 2 photographs - it sums it all up. ((name and telephone # deleted))
March 17, 2023 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Brentwood, CA
I supplied my very simplistic 'art' and a map to describe what I saw and best guess at the pathing. In one image you see a blue stick figure being 'my location' during naked eye observation. I'm not entirely concerned of this sighting for I'm still alive. I thought they were nukes so I said my prayers. Nothing happened, they just passed. The sighting is approximately 7 (can be 6-9?) yellow-orange comet like objects moving. They moved slower than a super sonic missile, faster than a plane, and didn't have the color of a normal (white bright) shooting star. They looked like they were either missiles or asteriods? burning up in the atmosphere. The tail didn't stretch, but then again it's night. I'm reporting this mostly for the sake of national security.
March 17, 2023 · 9:45 AM · FORMATION
Stockton, CA
I witnessed several red lights that appeared to be in an uneven formation, slowly crossing the sky. There were 4 to 5 of the and they slowly dimmed until I could only see one, then nothing.
March 16, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CHANGING
Palm springs, CA
My wife and I both spotted 3 or 4 very dim solid lights flying extremely fast to the West originating around Orion constellation. Extremely fast and quiet with merely a whooshing sound. They started on a triangle and then switched positions and I saw a 4th light appear looked like they turned south and disappeared as fast as they appeared.
March 16, 2023 · 5:45 PM · CIRCLE
SAN JOSE, CA
towards the soccer field (at my daughters soccer game). Still very small - looking like stars and hard for other people to see. It was hard for me to video or take photos because I couldn't see them on my phone - only with my eyes. They flew together and pretty much stopped at the soccer field. At one time I saw one fly sporadically - disappear - then reappear back next to the other one. They then floated towards the clouds and disappeared. After looking at my videos - I found them and zoomed in. What's weird about the photos is that there are weird spots all over the dots that I couldn't see with my eyes - only when zooming in on the screenshot photos. I was told they could be remnants of a weather balloon breaking. Thus, these being weather balloons. They just seemed to move strangely and didn't look like what I googled online for weather balloons. The way they moved - it was very controlled. But I guess balloons can be controlled? I'll attach my screen shots and my videos. Its really hard to locate them on the video without pausing it and making the images move manually. They are very very tiny. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
March 15, 2023 · 11:10 AM · CIRCLE
Fresno, CA
So last night around 10:30ish pm, my husband and I heard a sound of an object that hit the ground in our enclosed laundry room that has French doors that lead to our back yard. We think nothing of it and don’t react until 3 minutes later when we hear it again. My husband goes to check and finds nothing out of place. Weird but not worrisome. Then about 11:10 pm I go to the kitchen to put something in the sink and when I look out my kitchen window, I see two red lights moving simultaneously to the left toward our tenants cottage. It startled me and I jumped back and looked again and it continued to move in the same direction. They appeared to be the size and circumference of a lid to a pickle jar. It was about 20 feet away from the window. We have four outdoor sensors but none of them went off. I asked our tenants if they were out with a flash light or thought it might be a lights from an emergency vehicle but it was two steady, circular lights. Not flashing, not blinking, not a stream. They were two lights in tact.
March 13, 2023 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Madera Ranchos, CA
Recorded bright orb in sky on home security camera. Watched it shine really bright then dim for a brief second then get extremely bright. Seemed stationary for a few seconds then seemed to raise altitude then raised out of view of camera. Recorded on my phone app, then received a phone call so I stopped recording for a few minutes then went back and Recorded the rest of the footage.
March 12, 2023 · 9:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Oxnard, CA
I live very near Point Mugu Naval Base. Walking westbound on Woolley Rd from offshore on a Sunday night I approached Victoria Ave, a walk I've made many times at night. This particular night though I was going to Ross's to get some new shoes, it was now 9:40pm and they closed at 10pm. I still had a 15 minute walk to get there. So I could only observe the lights for a minute. After a minute they appeared not to be any closer, but stationary. I know the night sky to the west from that location. These were unusual. I have been an aviation enthusiast since I was flushing cloth diapers down the toilet then watching dad snake it, lol. There was absolutely no wind that night and the flight path they were on was highly unusual for Oxnard airport whos tower is unmanned at night and the downwind leg of the flight path in 0 windspeed conditions is to the east. Typically anything landing there that time of night are things like Gulfstream jets and such and fly straight in on final approach. The downwind leg takes aircraft rite down the middle of Taffrail Lane + or - a little north/south deviation of my house location. The altitude of an aircraft as it passes over my street & house when you're in the downwind leg of the pattern would be 850' and is typical of any civilian airport. Since this is most definitely not a flight path military aircraft follow and I wasn't sure what to make of them at the time, I moved on. I left Ross's on Channel Islands Blvd at 10:05pm and made it back to the same viewing location of the night sky from Victoria & Woolley Rd where I initially seen them and they were still there and hadn't seemed to move at all. I continued to watch them from that location for about a minute and continued East down Woolley Rd toward the street just before Offshore, but this time I walked on the Northside of Woolley Rd so I could keep the lights in sight. These were not glowing orbs or behaving erratically in any way. I wasn't going eastbound long on Woolley when I could see that they were clearly getting closer now. Their distance from me when stationary was 2-4 miles as they were significantly brighter than the stars and weren't very high in the sky. It was now about 10:20pm. Virtually everything in this town shuts down at 10pm especially everything South of Woolley, especially to the east. Now they were about to pass directly overhead and I was only about 500-600' from my house on Taffrail Lane and standing on the sidewalk approximately 100' west of Offshore. I Estimated 65mph ground speed, winds were at 0mph, I faintly heard one vehicle in the distance, but only for a moment. The time they took to pass over me was much longer than the cars interuption of the silence. As they passed overhead they made no sound whatsoever. Believe me I was listening hard. I can't hear an aircraft in the sky and not look up and am always looking up. Anyways, the whole time during their approach I'm looking for navigation lights & strobes and see nothing. All I see is glare. A very bright glare. I've spent much time at night at the end of the runway at Nellis Air Force Base in Vegas, these lights were much brighter than aircraft landing lights. The four UAP'S were traveling inline with about 100 yards of separation. One behind the other. I'm diligently looking at this first craft and the 3 other craft following it. All displaying the exact same characteristics, glare. No navigation lights or strobes can be seen at anytime during the entire event. As the leading craft passes over I see 3 very bright lights, one at the front preventing any observance of detail then a second light of the same intensity further obstructing any kind of observance as I was now looking straight up at what I could now at least tell what was the middle of it's bottom and the 3rd light at the rear coming into view and having the same intensity as the first two and all preventing any observance of the craft they belonged to. Remember I told you how quiet the night was, you could've heard a cricket fart. All joking aside, these things made absolutely no sound whatsoever and my hearing is fine. These things were the size of a two story house easy and only 850' above me. As the 2nd craft was overhead the first made a gradual turn to the North and out over the city. It maintained this turn until it had made a full circle and came up behind the fourth craft and passed over me again. The sky's were clear and as the lead craft first started to circle around back to the rear of the fourth I was finally able to get a slight glimpse of it's shape, but it was very slight and the other three were still passing over so I was dealing with their glare at the same time. Still no navigation lights, red or green and no strobes. I watched the four of them as they continued East 3-4 miles then turned right into Point Mugu's airspace where I lost sight of them as houses and various two story structures now blocked my view from where I stood on Taffrail Lane just a 100' West of Offshore. To me this is the military hiding it's operation of a fleet of at least for craft with some sort of propulsion that is completely silent. I will gladly submit to any kind of testing, hypnosis, psychiatric, lie detector, sodium pentothal or whatever. People want answer's and what I seen is to me highly anomalous of any UAP/UFO reports I've ever heard and their happening within site of a public street and apparently going to land at Point Mugu Naval Base where for years testing of top secret technology has gone on. I'm familiar with this as I grew up here where my father was assigned to the USS Norton Sound 58'-62' and was part of "Project Argus". He was on the ship with Dr. Van Allen when they were proving the existence of the radiation belt and exploring ways to combat against EMP's. I only learned of my father's involvement in Project Argus after it was declassified and he had died from the cancer. He never spoke of his time in the Navy while he was alive and declassification took place after his death. Thank you for your time.
March 12, 2023 · 7:21 PM · TEARDROP
Imperial, CA
I was on a Delta flight 652 on 3/12/23 and we were about 20 minutes before landing in LAX. At 7:21 pm, I took 3 consecutive photos of the horizon with my iPhone. I noticed the 3 blue lights in the photos the following day. The location on my iPhone showed “Imperial”.
March 12, 2023 · 4:59 PM · CYLINDER
Rosemead, CA
2 fighter jets are in the beginning of the video. At the end of the video, you'll see the cylinder oval object flying extremely fast through the same direction.
March 10, 2023 · 3:15 PM · SPHERE
Chico, CA
I heard what sounded like a jet flying overhead. Looked up and did not see a jet. Little flying objects caught my eye. At first glance I suspected migrating birds. Then when I noticed how erratic the movements were I knew they were not birds. I pulled out my phone to see if I could record them on video and hopefully be able to see what they were. I was able to get about a minute long video. There are little things flying high in the sky. I lost sight of them behind a cloud. A few minutes later a plane flew overhead. I took a video of that plane flying by with the same zoom that I did the flying craft for comparison. You can clearly see the second video is a plane. But the first video I do not know what is flying about. I took some still images from the video as well to try and identify the crafts. I still have no idea what they are.
March 10, 2023 · 9:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalIndependence (south of), CA
Took photo of East Sierra Mountain range from a moving car, using a iPhone. Did not see the Triangular Craft until viewing the photo. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
March 9, 2023 · 4:48 PM · OTHER
El Toro, CA
The cloud formation were so beautiful that day. So I was taking many pictures to show people on my Facebook. While I was taking pictures, I saw a little brown spot in the sky. Later, I enlarge the sky picture with the brown spot in my cell phone to see what that was. When I enlarge the brown spot, I could see the Mechanical cogwheel looking objects behind the clouds. I am a housemaker and I came this mall for shopping. I parked my car at the parking lot and took the pictures at the parking lot. It's not birds, airplane or lights. Does not look like satellite things or space shuttle. I would like to know the answer please.
March 9, 2023 · 1:26 PM · CYLINDER
Twentynine palms, CA
Watched the metallic object slowly fly across the sky at high altitude from west to east. It was apparent that it was not a small party balloon to me by how it flew without noticeably changing altitude and by the fact I could clearly see it above very high clouds. Filmed video was able to pull a screen shot picture out of the video. When zoomed in it appears to be a cube with dark objects at the corners.
March 9, 2023 · 7:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Marina, CA
Witnessed a black unknown object flying low headed towards the coast.
March 6, 2023 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Cameron Park, CA
Flickering lights, disappearing, and then reappearIng
March 6, 2023 · 2:07 PM · UNKNOWN
Oakland, CA
I know that you do not want pictures, but the silver like colored image in my picture appears to be hidden or possibly hiding in the clouds. I was taking pictures of clouds from my back window which faces west toward the SF Bay direction and the figure appears to be using the clouds as cover—that is my guess. I attached a picture which is in the upper right hand size above the corner of the garage. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
March 5, 2023 · 12:30 PM · CHANGING
Los Angeles, CA
I was excersicing yesterday outside with my hula Hoop. I noticed a dark object floating circulating and flying oddly not like a plane. At first it looked like a triangular plane, but it was not flying like a plane. It moved in circular and zig zag ways. My mom also saw it. I lost sight if it, and reappeared. She said to her it looked like paper debris. I was able to zoom-in very close to take screenshoot of it.
March 4, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Thermal, CA
These lights appeared on the 3rd of March And my pictures are from the 4th of March. I've tried to upload my pictures but I can't do it for my cell phone
March 3, 2023 · 7:15 PM · FIREBALL
HOLLISTER, CA
They were 300 feet apart and then went dark, but were still there. This is not the first time I have seen them. At 7:15 pm, I was facing east, leaving the grocery store parking lot. I was driving a 1952 Jeep with no doors or top on the vehicle, which granted me a clear view of the sky. While pulling out of the parking lot, I looked up to the south-southeast and observed two beach ball-sized objects that were either balls of fire or fire orange/red in color. I estimate that these objects were no more than a mile or two away from me. The two objects were traveling slowly from the south to the north, about 500 feet up, and slowly gaining altitude. The objects were about 300 feet apart from one another. The lead object was about 50 to 100 feet higher than the other and seemed to be gaining altitude while the other object kind of held back a little, taking a more gradual climb than the other, and then started climbing up following the other but not traveling the same path. I drove down the street heading east facing the objects for about 200 feet, then made a right, so now the objects are up and to my left. When I turned onto this street, there was a car stopped in the road with its flashers on, and a truck that pulled off to the side. The occupants of both vehicles were looking up at these things, and I could hear somebody saying, "What the hell are those things?" I pulled over and turned off the engine and jumped out and heard no sound. I was getting my phone out of my pocket to snap a picture while keeping an eye on these things, but they went dark before I could take a picture. I say that they went dark because it looked like there was still something that was still there after the fire or possibly orange reddish light source went out or turned off. The light was not a steady light, not like the steady stable light that is emitted from a man-made artificial source like an LED or some sort of light bulb. The light seemed to fluctuate slightly, giving me the impression that these things were not illuminated by a light bulb or anything but more of a natural light source like that of a fire would emit. There did appear to be a separate light source within the light that was toward the top and to the side that looked to be a more stable and more red color. These objects operated independently from one another. These lights started gaining altitude, which took about 10 seconds to climb 200 feet or so. They traveled with one following the other but taking a slightly different path for about 10 seconds and then went dark but at different times, with one going out one or two seconds before the other. While I was parked on the side of the road, observing these things and trying to take in as much detail my 20/20 eyes could, the car that was stopped in the road with its flashers on drove up to me, asking, "Did you see that?" and "Wow" "What were those things?". I am no rookie when it comes to observing the night sky. This ain't my first rodeo. I have spent countless hours over the past 20 plus years farting around with all sorts of high-tech gadgets with everything ranging from large scopes outfitted with cooled CCD cameras to prototype military wiz-bang gadgets the public won't see for a decade. I have observed these things before over the years along with just about all my friends and neighbors. I have been on the hunt for information on these orange and red balls of light since the first time I observed one of these things many years ago. I am very lucky to have been with somebody every time I have had an encounter with these things. I can't imagine seeing one of these alone and trying to explain to others what I saw and not sound like somebody with a few screws loose. It is a shame that more people do not make a report of any kind after they see something unidentified. It is like pulling teeth to get people to make even the most simple basic report. I told the people that also saw these things about NUFORC and asked them to take a look at the website and to please file a report. I can't thank Mr. Davenport enough for the hard work and dedication in providing the most extensive, reliable, and professional source of information on the subject of UFO.