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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
October 15, 2016 · 1:45 PM · LIGHT
Upland, CA
i watched it for about 20 mins, thinking it was a plane.it is south east of where i am at. it caught my eye cause it was so bright and i could see blue and white lights with a slight flash of red every so often. i could see it out of my pation screen door. I thought it was just a plane with bright lights, then i realized it was not moving. i then began to watch to see if it may be a star or come up with an explanation. i ran to get my phone and record, which you barely see a dot of light. i then ran to the restroom came back and couldnt see it. NExt thing i know it moved diagonally upwards to the right. i had a tree top as a point of reference. all this happened in a about an hour. i am not sure if starts move like this or maybe a satellite, but it is very bright flashing/blinking/moving lights. hard to explain. i started watching this thing at 130 and it is still in the sky slowly ascending. it is now 230p
October 15, 2016 · 1:30 PM · DISK
Valle Vista, CA
On October 15, 2016, about 1330 PDT, I was doing yard work in the front yard when I stopped to watch a helicopter fly low overhead to the east. While watching the helicopter, I caught sight of a group of objects much higher and further away in the sky. They appeared as 5 off white oval or disk shaped objects flying in a V pattern coming towards me from the NE. As I watched, the objects shifted position, from a close V formation, then more space between them, a straight line with objects abreast, a diagonal line with one object in the lead, then a random group while they went back to a V formation. The sun was to my back and almost directly overhead, when the objects were almost overhead, it became more difficult to see them, only a small part of the leading edge was illuminated by the sun, the underside disappeared as it blended in with the hazy blue sky, finally disappearing as they passed close to the sun. It is my opinion the objects were solid and being illuminated by the sun on their upper surface. No noise that could be attributed to the objects was heard. Other aircraft were in the sky at the time, both civil and commercial. The weather was clear of clouds, but there was haze or smoke in the sky. I am a retired law enforcement officer, over 30 years experience. My hobby is aircraft spotting, these did not resemble any known aircraft.
October 11, 2016 · 7:25 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
While looking at stars with my dad, we saw what we thought was a satellite crossing the sky, from west to east. It appeared slightly orange, about the same brightness and color as Mars. It was travelling at a speed similar to a satellite--but a little faster. It moved east, getting closer toward the moon, until it was lost in its glow. It was just above the moon when it disappeared in the glow. We expected it to emerge from the glow on the other side but, when it came out of the glow, it suddenly got brighter and at about the speed of a meteor, dropped down diagonally, angled backwards to the west (like a backwards "7") and then suddenly disappeared. The distance it dropped was about the length of a finger held at arm's length.
October 11, 2016 · 7:25 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Last night my son and I were outside, setting up our telescope. We watched what seemed to be a satellite cross the sky, moving from the west to the east. It had a slight orange color, being about as bright as Mars. Its speed was a little faster than a satellite. As it moved east, toward the moon, I lost track of it in the glow of the moon. I expected it to emerge from the glow on the other side-at the same speed but, when it reappeared, it became brighter and like a meteor, it dropped down at a sharp angle back to the west. Then it completely disappeared. The distance it dropped was about the length of a finger at arms length. We didn't see anything afterward. We spoke with the witness via telephone, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere, and sober-minded. In part because of his experience with astronomy, we suspect that the source of the report is a skilled witness. PD
October 10, 2016 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Yosemite National Park, CA
This is cellphone footage from a friend of mine out west that was sent to me. He was filming the landscape and making funny "blinking eye" motions over the phone camera for comedic effects. He actually did not notice that he captured a video of a UFO until later when he was doing a slow motion effect to his footage. He told me he couldn't see the object at all at normal speed. The first object appears flying through the sky and slightly banking to its right extremely fast (even while in slow motion) and completely silent, the second one is barely visible but it appears shortly after the first one from the top right and continues to the top left, near the end of its flight path the footage returns to normal speed and if stepped forward you can see it start to ascend. I noticed that the second one sort of wobbles as it flies, like a balancing plate. We were both in the military together and agreed that as far as we knew, our aircraft technology hadn't gotten so good to be THAT fast AND SILENT at the same time. Originally we thought there was only one UFO in the film until somehow I spotted the second one. It's tough to spot and easy to miss.
October 9, 2016 · 7:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Goleta, CA
My daughter and I were driving home at dusk heading west. I was telling her about the virtues of looking up quite a lot. One sees all sorts of things; bugs, birds, stars, satellites, etc. I decided to glance up out of the side window of the car and saw an aircraft seemingly triangular in shape. The dusky light made it difficult to discern an actual shape. There were three lights on the object; one on the nose of bright white magnitude -7 appearance, one at each "wingtip", port side red, starboard side amber, each of similar magnitude to the front light. At first the object seemed to be a fighter jet at an approximate altitude of 500 ft traveling directly over the suburb of Goleta. It traveled over the top of our vehicle on a banked trajectory at which point I told my daughter to look up and out of her side window. She immediately located the object and noticed that only the wing lights remained visible but in a matter of seconds appeared white in color. There were no flashing lights. The object's trajectory became due north and, instead of planing off as a typical jet aircraft will do, the object seemed to maintain a strait line up at about 10 degrees and continued due north becoming seemingly a hundred miles away in a matter of thirty more seconds or so. It eventually curved a bit before disappearing still well above the northern horizon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
October 9, 2016 · 6:17 PM · CONE
Yucaipa, CA
On October 9, 2016, at 18:17hrs, I witnessed a dark, cone shaped object moving slowly in a South/South West direction. What caught my attention was that the object was moving in an oblique pattern, precisely changing direction along a straight path. I retrieved my binoculars, and observed that there was what appeared to be an antenna/sensor array protruding horizontally from the top of the object. I maintained visual contact until it was out of my range of sight @ 18:20hrs. I viewed this event from the North Eastern portion of Yucaipa, CA.
October 8, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Burbank, CA
Then within 30 seconds, it started to slowly fade until we could no longer see it anymore. Like it was dimming down a little at a time until it was gone. Didn't see any shapes, was a extraordinary and we could hardly believe what we were seeing. It was spectacular to witness. We have changed the time of the sighting, to reflect a nighttime event. PD
October 7, 2016 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Bucks Lake, CA
Three groups of lights, flashing white, red, and green. 5+ lights in each group, held position in sky for over ½ hour spotted by fireman and other witness.
October 7, 2016 · 1:40 PM · DISK
Eureka, CA
While driving, I noticed a large disc shaped metallic object in the sky above The Humboldt Bay. The metal was shiny and reflective. I was working with a client of mine who yelled "Look up! What is that?" I looked up and I noticed the disc shaped metallic object in the sky. It was very reflective! As I passed a set of trees it was gone! I know this is very similar to the other guys story on 8/ something/2016, but the stories were exactly the same and even over a bay! The only thing different was that the clouds around that area were all bowed. The further we drove the more the clouds went back to normal.
October 7, 2016 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
Looking South East I find my "alien star" I've been observing since 2013. Normally this object has a constant white light for but this time just the flickering red and green lights were visible. The lights appear to be a pet of a single object but the object cannot be seen. The lights always hover and move around the same way a hovering bee or dragon fly would hover, very short but quick sudden movements, starting and stopping on a dime. We suspect "twinkling" stars. PD
October 6, 2016 · 8:24 PM · UNKNOWN
El Cajon, CA
I noticed two lights traveling from West to east. Leading light was constant green (no flashing), trailing light was an intermittently flashing red and white light which when flashing was a consistent distance behind leading green light. Travelling at very high rate of speed. Went from one side of skyline to over Laguna mountains in less than 35 seconds. There was no audible sound emitted.
October 3, 2016 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
I went to close the back-door of the house and felt a random need to look outside as I closed the door as I've seen objects in the sky in the past at night, and sure enough, I see the lights I've seen countless times. These very bright lights consist of a constant white dot with flickering red and green lights occurring very close to the white light. The flickering is similar to seeing a single star that flickers at night. All the lights are so bright as though you're staring into an LED bulb from afar. These lights hover in one place and will slowly move up and down and side to side making figure "8" motions, sometimes moving horizontal and or vertical, and sometimes they will simply disappear as though someone turned off the switch. I have been observing these lights since 2013 and they're consistent with their behavior. I have nicknamed this phenomenon as the "alien planet or Alien Star." I have seen this happen countless times to the eastern horizon from Long Beach and Bolsa Chika State Beach, both in California. The movement of the lights are so slow and smooth they cannot be a helicopter, and the lights are so bright and unique they're not a common known drone.
October 2, 2016 · 4:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Watsonville, CA
I got up early to walk my dog before heading to Sjc airport from my mothers house in Watsonville, ca. I live near Dallas tx. The sighting occurred about 30 min or so before sunrise. I looked up into the sky an noted how clear it was compared to home I then looked over at my dog and saw from my prerfrial vision almost directly above what I thought was a shooting star heading south. I looked at it and focused on it and saw that it was not a single shooting star but a cluster 4 or 5 points of light all moving together at high rate of speed and different intensities, but each one looked no different than any other star in the sky only moving at high rate. As I watched it move towards the horizon I saw two of the lights swap places once and then twice. As it neared the horizon it seemed to slow down as it should from my perspective only more than I would expect and it also turned to the east and went behind a tree and house. During the first half of the sighting I was looking for a tail or sparks coming off the cluster but didn't see any. Due to the odd trajectory of this, I suspect it was over central or Southern California and when it turned east, was heading for Edwards afb or groom lake. I also suspect the points of light swapping places was in fact sunlight reflecting off a shiny surface. There was no sound from it and no sonic boom. There was a passenger jet at high altitude I noticed to the east of the sighting going north and within a minute of the sighting I could hear the jet but no noise from the area the lights were seen. After thinking about it makes sense to land a secret spacecraft on a Sunday morning when the least amount of witnesses could view it. keep looking up in the sky an hour before sunlight if you live on the west coast on Sunday mornings.
October 1, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Irvine, CA
I was walking my dog at night and saw the fireball travel sideways along the tree line over the city in the background...maybe fell into water near Newport Beach? The colors were green, yellow and red.
October 1, 2016 · 8:43 PM · TRIANGLE
Chula Vista, CA
No information provided by witness. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 1, 2016 · 8:35 PM · TEARDROP
San Jose, CA
We were driving South on 880 (Nimitz Freeway) and we saw a large bright greenish circle with a tail--sort of tear-drop shaped-- with a bright reddish back edge falling at a 45 degree angle from left to right towards the ground in West San Jose. We were South of the San Jose Airport's usual landing pattern and this object appeared to fall/descend too quickly to be a safe conventional aircraft landing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 1, 2016 · 12:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Madera, CA
Jumped up and looked outside.
September 30, 2016 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Oxnard, CA
This happened in the area of Oxnard-Port Hueneme, CA. This was the evening of September 30, 2016, approximately 7:30 pm in the backyard of a co-workers home there were about 15-20 persons in attendance, when someone asked what is that? I looked up to see what was a red light illuminating to a bright white light growing in intensity and size to 1/4 of the moon, but not directed at the ground just in a straight forward direction. There was no visible shape or size of the object, again it was dark outside. It was moving from a northerly direction, to the south towards us at a fairly rapid rate coming from the Pacific ocean inland. It seemed to be approximately 1200 to 1500 feet in altitude. The object all of a sudden the object stopped on a dime in mid-flight and became static (hovering). There were no navigation lights (the usual red or white flashing lights). The craft never turned or rotated to where the bright light could be seen turning direction. After staying static for approximately 5-8 minutes, it then began to go in reverse at the same speed and identical flight path just like it had come into view (back over the Pacific ocean). After about a minute and a half the bright white light turned off and changed to dim red color and slowly faded as it moved further away over the ocean. This flight exhibition was performed 3 separate times at about 10 minute intervals in between appearances that evening and witnessed by all in attendance in that backyard that evening. Same flight path, same white lighted pattern-faded to red over the ocean return flight, same no sound performance. Waiting to hear either blade or propeller wash sound or jet engine sounds, this craft made not one sound, "ABSOLUTELY" nothing. Either during approach-return flight pattern or while it was static. I've been around alot of aircraft in my lifetime, my grandfather being a pilot since the 1930's and working on alot of military air bases, I have never experience anything flying that does not make any sound at that close of elevation to the ground. We happen to be close to a couple of municipal airports and Point Mugu, a naval station which is 3-4 miles away. We are accustomed to seeing military, small personal aircraft and helicopters quit often. This was in no way a military, civilian or helicopter aircraft. I can truly say I feel I have seen my first UFO sighting. I wanted to see if anyone else had experience the same occurrence that evening. I also have a small cell phone video clip which I took and will be submitting with this report.
September 30, 2016 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
Eastvale, CA
At 19:10 in the evening I went outside and noticed a bight white light in the NE part of the sky. I live near an airport, so I assumed it was a plane. Then I looked closer and noticed a plane fly directly above it and the white orb was descending. It continued to float slowly as it fell from the sky. As the white orb fell the light was getting smaller and dimmer until it eventually vanished. It was floating downward for 3-4. It seemed like forever.
September 29, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
I was outside and casually looked up at the sky. I immediately noticed a very bright light moving from West to North East over North West Fresno. I was immediately in awe because the speed and brightness of the (neutral) white light. It was roughly 3-4 times larger than any star in the night sky and was much bigger than any other plane in the area, even at a distance. I kept my gaze on the light until I noticed the light start to dim and fade. It was bright, yet not blindingly, until it slowly faded into complete darkness. I lost track of it after that. Less than 10 seconds after it disappears, I noticed what appears to be military or authority planes all over the area around where the light had traveled, and they continued to do so for 20+ minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2016 · 11:45 AM · CIRCLE
Idyllwild, CA
The object I observed at 11:45 am on 9/29/16 was a black dot. It was moving North to South (possiblly SE) on a sunny day with high 'puffy' clouds. I noticed it before it went behind some clouds, approxiatematly for 3-5 seconds. It was on a straight trajectory moving fast (about 2-3 times as fast as a satellite may appear at night). It left no contrail or any noticable trail of any kind. After it went behind the clouds, I could not locate it again. Idyllwild is a mile above sea level, the local peak (which was in the back ground) is about 9k feet and I would approximate the height of the UFO was 12-13 thousand feet. I am 44 years old and grew up here in Ca. I grew up between many airports and have seen airplanes (and military planes) in the sky all my life, this was not an airplane. The trajectory of this object was not of any flight path that I have seen living here over the past eight years. This is the first time I have ever seen a UFO.
September 28, 2016 · 9:02 PM · OTHER
Delano, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Claremont, CA
I was out walking the dogs at around 9:00pm in the neighborhood of the School of Theology. I stopped to relax and look at the stars even though there were very few (light pollution, clouds, and pollution all contributing to few visible stars). As I sat looking straight up and a little north toward the mountains, I saw a very small cluster of stars. Slowly one grew to a very bright light, which I thought a first could have been be a plane coming my way though it wasn’t moving and it became larger and larger to about the size of a dime in the sky. At this point if it were an airplane or helicopter I should have been able to hear propeller blades or engines but there was no sound and somehow the light was different brighter brighter. Then the dime sized bright light shrank to a pinprick in the same spot and was gone. I’ve never seen anything like it!