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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
November 14, 2016 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Fresno, CA
I was camping by myself at Trimmer campground on Pine Flat Lake in the Sierra Nevadas. I woke up at 1 A.M after falling asleep in my car to warm up. When I woke up I looked down at the lake and saw a very bright white light shining bright sitting right on top of the water on the edge closest to me. I reached for my phone which showed it was at 6% and I brought it up to take a video and it died immediately. I didn't want to scare it away by starting the car to charge my phone, so I watched without taking my eyes off of the object for about an hour. It was very bright, white when I first saw it and over some time it dimmed down at times going underwater and moving around. When it went underwater I could still see the light smaller and less bright underwater moving. Eventually, I thought it had disappeared and I had to get out to use the restroom. As I opened the door, I kept my eyes on the lake. It reappeared very bright, right when I opened the door. Then it! dimmed and shot under water and further away. I used the restroom got back in the car and continued to watch the seemingly intelligent orb or unidentified object reacting to the noise I had made. On the right side of the lake, there were two blinking lights signaling boaters to avoid something floating in the water. The unidentified light lined up next to the flashing lights and started flashing, as though mimicking the flashing lights. It then traveled mostly underwater, at times peaking up further away until I could not see it anymore.
November 13, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Benicia, CA
My brother and I were driving from Martinez to where we were staying in Benicia. As we were heading northwest on 780 about to exit I looked to the north and noticed an orange light traveling at a high rate of speed and then seemed to stop. It then did a very tight circle and a second one appeared and they were flying around as if chasing each other. We lost sight of them behind some trees and when they appeared again one had vanished and we lost the last one behind a hill. Both were orange balls of light.
November 13, 2016 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Stockton, CA
I stimmediat of the house to get an item from the vehicle and observed chem trails in front of me. I immediately grabbed my phone and started to describe what I was seeing. I gave my best explanation of what I was seeing. About a week later, I was viewing the clip with a a friend and discovered for just a fraction of a second there was a blip on the screen. I took several screen shots of the section. I then enlarged the image to find 2 disk shaped objects drop from a spiraling vertical and accelerate southwest below the clouds over the horizon. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
November 11, 2016 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Terra Linda, CA
Sitting outside. A red light streaked through from west to east. Changed to green. Dropped down. Shot right. Hovered towards Oakland area, then dropped down out of our sight. It moved faster than the airplanes that fly over here.
November 11, 2016 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Terra Linda, CA
We were outside.a red light went by us from West to east which turn to green this thing dropped down then shot to the right then hovered and went towards Oakland. Which was south. This object moved so fast!! It was totally different then any plane which flies over here!!
November 11, 2016 · 12:23 AM · OVAL
Lamont, CA
Following a sudden power failure, I looked out the kitchen to see a light which appeared. A ball of light, approximately the size of a small vehicle, located next to large power lines, about 60 yards directly east of me, and 40 yards high. It was moving south slowly along the power lines, then rapidly ascended out of my view.
November 10, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Oceanside, CA
Light appearing every other night around my area of residence. I've seen this occurrence twice so far. It's a very bright and flashing light source in the night sky; purple, blue, green, white; extremely vibrant colors in no specific order. Movement is sporadic in speed and direction; however, it never leaves the same sector of the sky. It's behavior is not that of a helicopter, plane, or Drone (it stays constantly moving for an hour+, that's when I have seen it; I do have to go to bed and am not able to watch it all night all though I very much long too.) Movements are not in great spans. Very subtle; I had to carefully watch it in order to assure myself it is really moving and it wasn't a figment of my imagination. As I currently just continued to watch it a bright blue/white ball/streak fell out of the sky and behind a tree about 15 miles away; half the distance of the light in the sky. (please don't think this is a hoax) We suspect that the object may have been a star. PD
November 10, 2016 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Lemon Grove, CA
Yellowish orange light appeared in the night sky out of the blue. It wasn’t a plane, but we couldn’t make out shape, then it dropped 2 distinct small red circles and a smaller third barely distinguishable. It disappeared, and about 2 seconds later another one followed but this one did not release anything,it also disappeared at about the same distance the first one did. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 10, 2016 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
San Jose, CA
Shortly after getting home, I saw something odd in the South-West (~230 deg) sky while taking the trash out. I’m a star gazer. So I can tell the difference between stars, planets, satellites and so forth. I saw what looked to be one of the closer planets, but the light was not right. It kind of looked like multiple lights clustered closely together. That is what caught my eye initially. While looking at that, I noticed 2 fainter lights (about as bright as a far away star) appeared to be moving relative to the bright light. Meaning the spacing between the 3 was varying. The 3 lights were slowly moving from the South-West sky to the North-West. All the while the 2 fainter lights kept changing their proximity to the bright light. At this point I went inside to grab my binoculars to get a better look. It was obvious their altitude was very high. I actually thought this might be the International Space Station, but the other 2 lights made that not likely, and they were moving to slow. While viewing the 3 lights thru the binoculars, one of the 2 fainter lights, started moving straight down at a much faster rate than they were moving across. I lost sight of it as it moved below the roof line of my house. The other 2 continued on their original path and I lost them in the clouds a minute later. Speaking of clouds, there was a scattering of clouds. The 2 remaining lights were at about 310 deg NW, when I lost them.
November 10, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
La Habra, CA
Faint reddish light crossed Orion's belt from first star on the left to the right at very high velocity, seemingly at least above the stratosphere. No discernable shape, but rate of speed alone faster than any comet or asteroid. Light faded out shortly before clearing the Orion constellation. However, movement beyond the faint point was still visible for few more seconds.
November 9, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
San Rafael, CA
At approx. 9:30pm, Weds., Nov. 9, 2016, as I was driving from the Richmond Bridge, to connect with 101 North, I saw what at first thought was the moon. But, then realized that it was 1/4 the size of the moon. As I drove into San Rafael, on the freeway, I was very confused trying to figure out what the h this object was. It lit up the top half of the mountainside in San Rafael. It was a round glowing thing. As I got closer, it began to look like a white glowing hot air balloon, minus the top half, and it seemed like a person was hanging below it, air glider style. Could it have been a helicopter at night? But, I've seen a million helicopters at night, and it wasn't a helicopter. As I rounded the 90degree bend in the highway, and continued north, the object was then behind the mountain, and I could no longer see it. Just then I realized that the moon was almost directly above me, so it was definitely not the moon. The cars were all driving slowly, so other d! rivers surely saw this. Anybody else see this tonight?
November 9, 2016 · 4:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Santa Ana, CA
Saw a big orange glow just at a standstill then the light slowly dimmed and it was gone!
November 8, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Hanford, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2016 · 8:00 PM
Goleta, CA
In the past two months, I have witnessed no fewer than nine anomalous objects in the skies above Goleta/Santa Barbara. Three of the sightings were daytime and six were at night. The daytime sightings included an object that shifted in appearance from circular soap bubble to jet shape to white ovoid over the course of three minutes and another that appeared as a small plane missing its wings, while the third appeared as a lenticular cloud just offshore on an absolutely clear and cloudless day. In over thirty years in the area I have seen lenticular clouds only once (over the coastal mountain tops of course). The night sightings included; one close up of triangular shape approximately 1000 feet overhead that seemingly accelerated into the outer atmosphere, the second had no discernible shape in the dark but had two amber lights of magnitude -4, fore and aft, flying at prop plane speed, the others were point sources of white light moving at unusual velocities (not satellites) or flashing (again, not satellite flashes which tend to be slower and periodic in their changes of magnitude). Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Oregon House, CA
while feeding my horses about 19:00 pm I looked out at the dark horizon (eastward) to see a large blue orb with light blue haze around it (no tail) slowly heading north for about 15-20 sec disappearing in the sierra mountain range by Reno.
November 7, 2016 · 5:50 PM · CHEVRON
Reseda, CA
I heard a loud rumbling sound like a rocket launch, but consistent and steady and much louder than an airplane or helicopter. I looked up in the sky and saw 5 or 6 pairs of red flashing lights in a chevron formation that seemed to be approx a quarter of a mile wide, moving slowly across the sky from north to south. As these lights passed overhead and to the south, the engine sound traveled with them. Very strange.
November 7, 2016 · 5:49 PM · TRIANGLE
Porter Ranch, CA
At 5:49 pm, I heard a loud hovering sound in the sky when I looked up I saw red flashing lights in a triangle shape, the hovering sound lasted for 4 minutes but the red flashing lights lasted for about 6 minutes when I grabbed my phone to record it the red flashing lights were gone but I did see some white hovering lights in a triangle shape then it disappeared it looked like the lights are hovering above the 118 freeway Before I heard the noise I felt strange but after the noise and lights disappeared I felt better and I noticed scratches on my right arm
November 7, 2016 · 5:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Ventura, CA
I was going for an early morning walk; this time is my favorite for star gazing. I often see many different varieties of ufos whenever I take a moment to look up at the night sky. This instance was the most unusual sighting. The sky was clear except for the residual chem trail mist, pre-sunrise, still dark,the stars were fairly bright. Out of the corner of my eye I saw movement, I focused on it slowly moving from north to south west. It was like a dark blob/oval-ish...the weirdest thing, and the only way I could tell it was up there was how the edges kind of fluttered. They gave the appearance of pixels all around the edges. I said, "What the hell is that?" It hovered a few seconds about 200 feet up, and then continued southwest. No sound. Very very big. No lights. Just the "pixel blending" effect on the edges allowed it to be seen at all. Kind of like when the cable signal is bad..but it blended itself completely into the background. It was very hard to describe, as I have never seen anything like that...
November 6, 2016 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Rosamond, CA
Walking my dog at the park and seeing this very unusual cloud. Looking North, it stood out so much I stopped to take several pictures of it. It was perfectly formed with a dark bottom. There were NO other clouds in the sky. It stayed there for about 30 minutes and then started to dissipate. It didn't seem to move and just hovered in the same place. Photos attached. My dog did not respond to this.
November 5, 2016 · 1:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles (LAX Airport), CA
From Culver blvd/405 fwy, looking South West about a 45degree angle. Maybe it is a helicopter, but I do not hear the blades... It does not move. Last check before ending this note was 2:02am. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 4, 2016 · 10:25 PM · CIGAR
Santa Rosa, CA
I stopped straight in my track and started panicking. Scariest thing I've ever seen. We spoke via telephone with the young witness, and he assures us that the report is sincere and accurate. PD
November 4, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Pollock Pines, CA
Multiple flashing lights in trees north of highway 50, west of sly park exit.
November 4, 2016 · 2:17 AM · CHEVRON
Hollywood, CA
Massive ufo sighting- very clear (ufo account is reported with a 30yr personal past of knowledge of sky objects, drones, aircraft, military aircrafts, astronomy, and the like) after midnight location: downtown old Hollywood area near 101 fwy and franklin junction. i pulled my car into the 101 cafe on franklin blvd back parking lot which has a 30 degree and up view of a clear night sky with a west, north, and east. as i parked my car i quickly sighted a large blue white object in the nw sky about 35 degrees up from horizon through my wind shield. my iphone read 2:17am. instantly i jumped out to investigate and questioned to my partner what was in the sky. at the same time as i spoke this question, a female witness at her car behind us joined in with us to question the same object as she just had spotted it as well. nw west toward the Hollywood bowl in the Hollywood hills- Mullholand Drive region an object was gracefully flying over those hills which was a clear mile distance from us. the object was flat. it's underbelly was a soft, radiant, blue white light in a honey-comed patterned shape. very faint aura around the object. the object's speed! , resembled the grace of a blimp, very directional and straight, yet very gradual and slow in shift of direction overall through the experience. the object was heading east towards us and it's speed was cruising, causal, slow, yet the light detail resembled a superstructure in a blue-white, honey-combed pattern that was entirely luminous. no landing lights, no blinking lights, no conventional aircraft resemblance. this was a solid, luminous shape that did not pulsate or change intensity in lumination or brightness. it moved gracefully without abrupt turns. just smooth, clearly indicating behavior of a large craft, like a aircraft carrier or blimp would, and like these examples, one realized it gained distance in a short amount of time. we were now 3 witnesses trying to identify the craft. we quickly agreed the craft was not anything we were ever familiar with, as we all have much flying experience. Iam a drone owner as well, and this was not the behavior of a drone with zig! zag action or it's type of lights. about a minute of observat! ion, we agreed the craft with this behavior easily was in the measurement of 100ft across at least as it dwarfed the structures below on the hills at an 1500-2000ft elevation above the hills. slowly and gradually the craft turned easily north east gradually gaining altitude as it flew over the 101FWY Cahuenga Pass. About after another minute it was clear the craft was gracefully gaining extreme altitude, and due to elevation it's craft detail was getting smaller as it finally settled over the Hollywood sign mountain. The craft peaked about 5000ft above the mountain and paused it's NE direction. it hovered still perfectly without a bump for about another minute. Through this time again the craft was gaining more altitude. about another 30 seconds of this slow climb, the craft slowly flew southward to our direction. the honey-combed lit pattered was so tiny from it's height, yet still identifiable. it's movement and behavior resembled that of high space satellite. the craft eventually! was now spotted by two more witnesses as they were entering the cafe, as we were all in agreement of tracking the craft. The slow path and asension ended directly above us about 7000-8000ft as it hovered in place for another 5 minutes. as the craft paused, to our view it parked itself near two stars creating an even triangle constellation of sorts. these two stars' location are the first pair NE of the orion left shoulder. after this pause the craft gained an altitude in where it now resembled that of a tiny satellite, or the size of the neighboring stars, and like a slow satellite it traveled directly west over west hollywood as it's slow path was just north of the Orion constellation. the object was exactly star size as it faded westward gaining altitude, yet still identifiable well past west of Hollywood Blvd & Fairfax blvd. the entire event was about 27 minutes as it was slow and gradual as stated before. i then cell phoned west Hollywood sheriff to report the sighting! and the officer stated there were no reports of the event. i ! then con tacted the next major airport at Burbank which was about 12 miles away. by this hour the airport has stopped it's regular commercial airline service at 10pm that night. i got through to Burbank tower security who accepted my story and he then transferred me to the actual tower. a stand by night watch tech took my call. I asked if anyone was watching radar in the south direction of 2:17am. he stated he wasn't watching radar at that time. iIdescribed my sighting to him, he sounded interested, but after he claimed he still never had evidence on radar, nor looked, therefore he stated he had to go and hung up on me. this craft had no similarity to the usual police helicopters or commercial aircraft that we see by the dozens daily in the area with our 3 major commercial airports. We do have Edwards afb but it's a 2 hours drive north. but this was no stealth plane outline nor was it the dark large air force x-baloon triangle ship. we haven't had lighted blimps in years since Goodye! ar stopped that action, nor could a blimp fly that hight out of sight or hover in place. it was not a large manned drone, as it would have been way too small in dimension, also the guide lights on a drone were not the same. nor could a drone have scaled that altitude for that duration and without one single abrupt zig zag kind movement. our sighting was a big luminous craft, with smooth acceleration, ending in high altitude without a flinch. lots of citizens in L.A., please respond if there are any other eyewitnesses. sighting was 2:17 - 2:45am 11/4/2016
November 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Eureka, CA
We saw a triangle shaped ufo with three dimly lit white circles on each corner. It flew silently almost right above us at a steady speed and disappeared into the horizon in about 15 seconds. We we're shocked at how quick it moved and how it made no noise. It seemed to be heading south maybe slightly east.