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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 1, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Hemet, CA
At 6:30 pm (it was dark)I heard a jet flying relatively low. As I looked up at it, maybe two thousand feet up, I also saw a white solid light maybe 1000 feet in front of the jet. The jet was flashing with all the normal red and green lights and was pretty loud because of the low altitude. The white solid light in front never flashed, no noise and headed straight north with the jet maintaining the same distance behind the light fully until both were out of sight. I could see both objects for about four minutes, starting my visual over the region of Meridian Street near Park Ave. Flying from south to north, having visual contact well north of the city of San Jacinto, probably over the city of Banning when I lost sight of the objects.
November 1, 2016 · 5:00 PM · CHANGING
Gilroy, CA
I witnessed a white dot moving slowly back and forth slowly then would sit stationary and then fade out out and reappear in another spot I then called to my family which then I was joined by my soninlaw and two daughter's when we continued to watch it for up to an hour and a half till it slowly moved toward san Jose California
October 30, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Oxnard, CA
7 fireballs from west and 2 from east. No sound. 2 from east converged and then moved apart. Below clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 29, 2016 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Hemet, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 29, 2016 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Beam of light shot down from clouds, potentially above ocean in Mission Bay, near Pacific Beach, San Diego, California. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 27, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Topanga, CA
Green lights hovering near mountain, zipping straight lines below aircraft, then zipped quickly out into thin air .... I did not witness it. My daughter told us her story and said it was loud and the lights were so bright that she was surprised we did not hear or see it . We live in a very quiet neighborhood and there are no streets, streetlights or noise around. Only noise is the cry of coyotes and hoots if owls and other wildlife .
October 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Los Angeles, CA
I saw a light in the night sky in a Northern direction towards the Hollywood Hills. I first I taught it was a LAPD police helicopter. However, when I stopped and look saw it was two orange balls in the night sky. At first I thought they were moving. However, then I realized they were stationary. They just stood in the sky not moving. I was alone on my street and couldn't figure out to do. Then I said to myself let me take a picture of the objects. Before I could get my phone out to take a picture one ball disappeared leaving a shining orange sparkling light, then completely disappeared. A few seconds later the second one disappeared exactly the same way.
October 26, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Wilmington, CA
My crew and i work night shift in the port of Los Angeles. Two times this month, between 10pm and 12am, we have seen "blue shooting stars" moving north to south one night, and west to east a week later. These "shooting stars"are completely stopping mid air then quickly shooting again to another dead stop and so on until out of sight. We watched these "blue stars" stop 6-7 times in a span of one minute, until out of sight. Very high altitude and absolutely silent with an amazing blue light. We see satellites, jets, planes etc. and these are none of those. Has anyone seen these before? Please help with other witness reports of similar as my crew and i can not stop talking and wondering about what it is we are witnessing. Source of report elects to remain anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
October 26, 2016 · 9:05 PM · CIRCLE
San Jose, CA
We have amended the time above, believing that the sighting probably occurred at nighttime. PD
October 26, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Sonoma, CA
I was driving home on route 12, headed west towards Santa Rosa, when a bright light appeared in the sky above me moving right to left (from the north to the south). It had a trail, and was similar in appearance to a shooting star, but far brighter. Then the light slowed down, got much brighter, accelerated, then disappeared. Not sped off so fast that it disappeared, but rather once it sped up, it blinked away.
October 26, 2016 · 2:40 PM · TEARDROP
Vallejo, CA
2 white lights on the top, 1 amber change to purple light on the bottom, blinking brightly sequence, Not familiar with helicopter or aircraft. It hovered for about 10 minutes, with blinking lights, as described above then drifted to the West and Rose into the atmosphere, until we couldn't see it anymore.
October 23, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Coachella Valley, CA
On my drive down to my Palm Desert house from the San Fernando Valley, on the evening of Oct. 23rd, over the Coachella Valley area around 9:30 P.M. or so there were 3 HUGE blotches of fuzzy lights way up high in the sky, off in the distance over a mountain range, in the middle of nowhere. Each was very large....about the size of a football field if they were rounded out. They were all moving around each other in a frantic pattern....sometimes moving slowly, as if dancing around one another. Other times one would jet sharply in another direction, moving in a manner I have never seen any light or airplane moving. It was the oddest thing I have ever seen! And they stayed there, in that same area, for quite a while - at least 5-10 minutes. Could have been longer, but I finally got too far away to see them. The oddest thing about them was the kind of indescribable movement these objects were doing. Nothing I have ever seen could go from moving so slowly and smoothly to such an immediate burst of sharp, angular direction change. This was definitely bizarre and like nothing that I have ever seen.
October 22, 2016 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Dimas, CA
Two lights that looked like sparklers, appeared over San Dimas, CA. Then fizzled/faded out of sight.
October 22, 2016 · 1:50 PM · DIAMOND
Shingle Springs, CA
While flying quad-copters for the day at a school on Saturday afternoon, I turned to the north and noticed 2 lights in the sky that were distinct from the high clouds. At first, I believed these to parachutes or para-motor type craft, but was confused, given the fact that the winds were beginning to make our flights difficult on the ground, and when I called attention to it to my friend who was flying quads with me, she too saw the same two craft and we immediately began to try to match it to known aircraft or explanations. The two craft were seen at an elevation of approximately 40 degrees above the horizon and were due north of my position. The craft were moving in relation to one another with the top left craft from my position being brighter while the second similarly shaped craft was less distinct and even somewhat translucent. After a time the second craft was no longer seen and the brighter and larger craft stayed in view for many minutes. I attempted to film the craft with my on-board quad-copter camera but the lens for both this and my camcorder I had were not at all appropriate to this kind of a sighting and thus nothing was captured. In fact, the quad-copter camera mysteriously did not even have a record of the flight even though I had made certain to activate the camera and there was plenty of space left on the SD card! Early on in the sighting, the two craft were moving quite erratically and in revolutions clockwise around the other as if they were orbiting one another. My first thought was of a parachutist or para-motor craft in trouble with a bad chute then I realized how high these objects were and that it couldn't possibly be one or more chutes. We couldn't identify any noise coming from these craft. The lights were constant in brightness at first and there was no variation until the smaller craft began to fade from view. As we watched, the motion of the bright light transitioned to a smooth rotating motion clockwise and slightly descending to the lower right towards the other object which seemed to rotate with it. The other object maintained it's distance from the larger during this change of altitude. When the brighter object suddenly stopped its rotation, the shape for both was seen as a diamond shape for both craft by both of us. The distinct edges and structure were then apparent and it was obviously a pair of physical objects. The objects were behind the high thin clouds at times (still easily seen through the clouds) and my estimation of their height would be in the thousands of feet in the air. Other conventional aircraft in the air before, during and after the sighting were seen and this was definitely lower than commercial jet traffic but higher than the thin clouds. Given the distance and elevation, these had to be of considerable size. A commercial jet I saw during the sighting at 30,000 feet or so to the west had about the same apparent diameter as the larger bright diamond shape, so the object we were watching would be estimated to have a size approaching 50 to 100 feet as a very unscientific guess. The other object which "dissolved" from view was of a smaller size and perhaps was 75% of the size of the larger brighter diamond shape. I also considered that the sighting might be a jet coming towards me with navigation lights on, but this was ruled out when the slow orbiting motion was observed. No jet or prop aircraft would do this since this would mean a aileron roll to the pilot's left or 45 to 60 degrees (to match what I was seeing) which would then have produced strong movement to the right from my point of view (unless the pilot was doing aerobatics which definitely was not the case here). Additionally, both objects had a long period of hovering in one position coupled with a slow movement to the east by 10 or so degrees over a period of minutes mystified me and made me rule out normal aircraft. I also considered if this was a balloon, blimp, glider or a helicopter. The observation of the two objects satisfied none of these explanations as we both attempted to ascertain what we were seeing. I also considered astronomical causes. No meteor trail was noted. It was not a planet, since the ecliptic was to my back since I was facing due north during daylight hours. It was not a supernova, comet or any other natural sky-borne phenomena that I have ever encountered. Around 14:05 hours Pacific, I pointed a camcorder towards the object and was marking my position in relation to it. The sole remaining diamond shape object was clearly visible with only a few whispy clouds near it and I turned the camera away and then back to the position of the object only to find is was nowhere to be seen. In a matter of seconds, it had vanished. One notable event occurred some minutes afterwards. A lower altitude Cessna or similar style aircraft that appeared to be completely painted black appeared from the north and at a much lower altitude. If overflew us directly at an altitude of around 1500 feet and was flying extremely slowly. I cannot say if this was related, but it certainly caught my interest given the direction of travel and behavior. I have spent a lifetime in around rocket and aircraft systems and have spent 30+ years in amateur astronomy. I have flown in fighter aircraft as a civilian and know the full range of U.S. and foreign civilian and military aircraft from past and current fleets. This matched none of the craft or natural astronomical phenomena I have ever seen or have knowledge of. I cannot say what we saw, but it was certainly an unknown and my hope is that someone else in the area saw it and can add their testimony to the sighting and perhaps identify what it was.
October 21, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Grass Valley/Auburn (between), CA
I am submitting this on behalf of my stepson. This event happened in the span of about 10 minutes. My stepson and his friend sitting around campfire in chairs, talking. He states he had noticed it out of the corner of his eye when he was talking to his friend; his friend was facing towards the general direction of the object. His friend asked him if he could also see it. At first they were thinking it was a drone. The object was orange-red, about the size of a basketball from his perspective, appeared triangular shape but may have had an aura around it. It was about 100 yards away. Discussion about recording/pictures took place, but there were issues with getting cameras/go pros going. My stepson walked around to get a better view and the object moved, dropped a white orb and proceeded to move behind the trees. It appeared to the west, i.e., it moved from east to west. It hovered for a few minutes and then just disappeared. Incidentally, immediately afterwards, a sharp high pitched noise was heard that startled the both of them, but was dismissed as a bird. Observations about the object: triangular shaped, orange-red, basketball sized, glowing, pulsating, no sound, one white orb ejected.
October 21, 2016 · 1:49 PM · LIGHT
La Puente, CA
At approximately 1:45 PM Pacific time, I observed a stretched light traveling from north to south ((sic. South to north. Corrected by witness.)) over the city of La Puente. I was pulling out of the parking lot when I first saw the disc-like shape, it did not appear to be traveling at a high speed but as I drove forward, it began to move in the direction of where the sun was. I am assuming because it noticed that I had seen it and it knew it would make it difficult for me to see it next to the sun. I yelled to two people next to me to look up and see it. They said they didn't see anything at first, so I yelled, "Block the sun!" He proceeded to block the sun with his right hand, and with his left hand just gesturing to something floating near the sun on the right top corner. I also had confirmation from a ((deleted--beverage)) delivery man delivering to the corner store where I was exiting. Once we were all looking at it it appeared to fly directly over us and as it passed us it was moving northbound towards the Azuza Canyons. ' The entire thing lasted about four minutes, and as I drove away to try to reach my house, I also told people on the road to look up and they also saw what I saw. By time I made it home it was gone. There was a total of five witnesses. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be an eloquent and serious-minded individual. We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD
October 21, 2016 · 1:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Newhall, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 20, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Cayucos, CA
Toward the NE, what looked like a falling star at first, instead of fizzling out, fluidly zig-zagged off into the distance. 3 more incidents in the same field of view followed within tbe next four minutes or so. Each incident persisted only seconds, but the last three didn't appear to fall first, just swooped in large arcing zigzag motions. Not dramatice, just looked like stars suddenly mobilized. Interestingly, there were two visible planes in the sky, whose seeming sluggishness amplified the speed of these objects. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Playa Del Rey (Dockweller Beach), CA
Three of us–2 men and a woman–were sitting at our fire at Dockweller Beach sometime around 8PM last night, October 20, 2016. One of us said, 'Look at that'. I turned and saw off in the not too far distance something a couple of thousand feet in the air moving at the speed of a helicopter and was about the size of a helicopter, but there were no blades spinning above it. It was red orange and looked like it was on fire; especially underneath the "carriage." It was changing color from yellows to red to orange like, as I said, it was on fire. It proceeded to move forward for another 15 seconds then stopped dead in the air. It stayed fixed for about 10 seconds then turned sharply to its right and started go forward, away from us. After about 5-7 seconds it started to flicker, get smaller, go-in-and out of sight, then blinked out. The object made no sound that we could hear. Dockweller Beach is right below LAX and planes take off over us all night long. There was a plane behind the object a good distance away and much higher. It could have seen the object. I am a musician and an artist. I had just met the only female with us, so I don't know her background. And the other man is an actor and writer.
October 20, 2016 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Pacific Palisades, CA
I was passing by the cliffs that overlook the Pacific where I usually pause for a view. I noticed several strobe lights and a small boat close to shore and at first thought; it was a fishing vessel. I have lived here for over 50 years and never seen a fishing boat so close to shore. I watched the lights for some time expecting to see some sort of circular or semicircular formation that would suggest net but the pattern was all over the place. I drove into Santa Monica and looked from the bluffs there but they couldn’t be seen. Driving along the coast, they were also out of site. When I stopped, again at the first place I had noticed them it was still going on. It sounds more like a test of some sort, point Magu military base is not far off but I am unable to find any indication they were there. Maybe you can pass it along or make sense of it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 19, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
Have been seeing strange lights every night now for the last 2 weeks. I was trying to convince myself that I was crazy or my eyes were playing games on me but no , tonight I got my confirmation that I am not crazy and that what I have been seeing is not stars . Tonight I saw what looks just like a bright star sitting in the sky then all the sudden fades out and is gone so I thought well maybe I'm seeing things and there was no star there . Then all the sudden its as if a volume knob got turned all the way up then back down again . So basicly the thing goes from pitch black to bright as heck and then fades out again . But then a few moments later it comes back on in the same exact spot . All the while other lights are fading on and off much dimmer around the object , I'm thinking they were more far away but these lights were actually moving then would stop move some more stop fade in fade out . And then in another part of the sky I see a what looks like a br! ight star but is turning green red and bright white and staying in one spot and there are just some things where in the pit of your stomach you know what the truth is and whatever this is I don't believe its part of this world .
October 18, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Roseville, CA
It was dark, no clouds. Suddenly a round, bright light appeared in the sky out of nowhere. Looked like a large spotlight and thought it was a police helicopter spotlight at first. No sound. Disappeared after about 30 seconds. Did not reappear. No trace of a airplane or helicopter in the vicinity after that. ?
October 17, 2016 · 7:00 AM · CHANGING
La Habra, CA
Looking out into the foothills from our street and noticed a bright blue light moving around we watched this blue light that would grow small and then get larger, hover over houses, streets, go up in the air and come back down and then see it go behind the hills, disappear and come back again for about 2 hours. Captured 2 clear videos.
October 16, 2016 · 2:16 AM · SPHERE
Encinitas, CA
Observed a deep, deep pure black dot moving southeast to northwest, above sparse coastal clouds and below very high cirrus layer. Black dot moved swiftly and silently. I have never seen an object of ANY altitude that displayed a deep black image. It seemed to move not in a straight line but displayed an imperfect line of travel (setting itself apart from high altitude aircraft or Earth orbiting objects). Observation lasted maybe 5 to 7 seconds. Difficult to estimate size of object due to altitude. But off the cuff, would speculate it was maybe 10 to 30 meters in diameter.