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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
September 20, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Claremont, CA
It looks and sounds to big to be a drone. If it is a police helicopter the search light was not on. It just went east at 9:30 pm towards Montclair, Ca.
September 19, 2016 · 8:30 AM · DISK
Perris, CA
Driving west on Ethinac Road there was a large red glowing disk directly North over the hills just outside of the city of Perris. The sighting occurred fairly quickly, 1 adult and 3 kids witnessed this object hover over the Perris Hills, make a quick "L" shaped movement and then vanished.
September 19, 2016 · 3:32 AM · TRIANGLE
San Diego, CA
It was a black triangle with lights on all 3 points and one larger light ball in the middle. It hovered for about a minute and went south slowly dissapearing in the haze before it returned from the same direction in a slow zig-zag pattern. Then I witnessed a brilliant flash and explosion sound. My camera recorded the flash, but it was not aimed at the craft at the time. Upon reviewing the film the flash was actually three very quick bursts of extremely bright light. It then dissapeared to the south west towards south park and I lost sight again. In the distance were 2 or 3 more flashes and there were thunder claps as well, but again. and again, there was briliiant flashes and some more thunder claps. So I don't know for sure if the flashes and noise were related to the triangular craft I saw, but I know what I saw was a hovering craft. There possibly was two of them it was hard to tell due to the 50% visibility.
September 18, 2016 · 8:48 PM · UNKNOWN
Morongo valley, CA
Assuming a nighttime sighting, we have amended the time above. PD
September 18, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Oroville, CA
I was observing Mars through a narrow opening in the Oak tree canopy toward the western sky. I then saw a moving light through the Oak trees coming toward me to the left. The moving orange colored light then became obscured by the canopy. First I assumed it was just a light from an airplane. I moved further out from the house where less trees could obscure my view. The orange colored light then reappeared in the sky off toward my left view. The light was moving very slowly, and then it seemed like it was not moving at all except for a slight rocking movement. It also became slightly brighter. The brightness of the object than started to fade until I could not see it any longer.
September 16, 2016 · 11:33 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburg/Antioch, CA
In the distance their are a row of normal red lights: but one light was yellow and slightly above the red rowed lights- After realizing the light hasn't moved I got my phone and started to record it-3 seconds into recording the light began to slowly move west. And disappeared. Shortly after a human aircraft from the west at a higher altitude was travelling east. It was a white light than it shut off and turned to strictly a red light. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 9:06 PM · OTHER
Long Beach, CA
Sad to say, I was disappointed; I immediately recognized it as some kind of lantern. I saw a burning flame surrounded by an egg-shaped transparent "plastic bag" and I could even see a few strings dangling from the bottom. I called my wife out to take a look at it and she reached the same verdict. No other orbs followed. This is not to say that I think all orange orb sightings are lanterns. There have been numerous truly puzzling orb sightings that don't seem to match the description of something that was human-made.
September 16, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Sylmar, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CHEVRON
Huntington Beach, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 7:50 PM · OVAL
Citrus Heights, CA
Over the night sky around 7:59-8:01 pm facing south I was standing in my driveway smoking a cigarette, when in the sky appeared a oval object that was descending rapidly north-west. It lasted in sight for no more then 3 seconds. It had a orange fiery trail behind it,the frontal part of the descending object had a kinda opal glow on the front side as it fell. The sky was open in front of me no trees blocked my view,also it appeared as if the object had slowed its decent after a second of me noticing it,it had slowed by what I would calculate as 30-40% maybe the strange part was after only seeing it for a few seconds it vanished as if it had flown behind something I couldn't see, the trail of orange followed into the same absence of sight.
September 16, 2016 · 2:45 PM · CIGAR
Redding, CA
Around 14:45 on Friday Sept 16, as I turned onto Airport Rd from HWY 44 (east of Redding proper), an object appeared to be hovering over the south end of the Redding Muni airport runway. As we have heavy helicopter traffic, I thought nothing of it until I noticed the driver in the truck in front of me pointing it out to his passenger. When I got to the airport entrance, I noticed that it was still in the same location but was actually a bit off to the east of the airport. The car behind me had pulled off to the side of the road and the driver got out to look at it as did the people in the truck two cars in front of me. I quickly grabbed my iPhone to get some pictures, all the while checking to ensure the object had not moved. I snapped four shots of the object within approximately 500 yard section of Airport Rd and when I looked back after taking them, the object had vanished. I then pulled over to scan the horizon to see which direction it had gone, but it was nowhere to be seen. I checked my phone pics to ensure I actually captured the object, but though I had captured the correct area of the sky in which the object was located, there was nothing in any of the photos! The object was probably about the size of a 737 or a DC-10, roughly cigar shaped with what appeared to be a slight dome above the center of the craft, and no visible wings or tail. It appeared to be a dull sandy gray color with no other discernible markings. The fact that it hovered for so long is even more impressive than its sudden disappearance given its apparent size. Because of all the fire bombers and military aircraft heading in and out of the airport, I would normally be inclined to think it was one of "ours"; however, I know of none of our aircraft (not a Chinook or an Osprey) which can simply vanish in front of one's eyes!
September 16, 2016 · 10:15 AM · LIGHT
Marina Del Rey, CA
I saw very big blue light turn in to super bright white light over the lax airport! I'm pretty sure it was the most unexplainable thing I have ever seen! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Grapevine, CA
Unexplainable empty gas tank forced us to exit highway I-5 south into a small town that was completely enveloped in a thick almost greenish brown haze that had a sharp pungent odor, gut feelings forced us to flip a bitch and stop at the next exit. The two of us distinctly remember filling the tank about 60 miles ago and driving straight through, but the sun was high in the sky, and now its nearly midnight. As we leave the gas station, I look out the back window and no more than 100 ft above I see a large black metallic wedge shaped craft. Out of pure shock, I exclaim, "WHAT ((deleted)) IS THAT?" My best friend, the driver, warily ask what was what. My logical mind in denial dismissed her question by saying I saw an airplane. We had been traveling almost two weeks from Idaho and hardly covered any ground, despite not stopping more than absolutely nessesary and staying on highway I-5 south. About 30 miles further down the highway the car slowed to a stop, as well as the cars behind us and the cars traveling the opposite direction northbound. The black wedge craft dropped vertically from the air and hovers about 10ft from the ground to the right side of our car and passes between the stop traffic, turns the opposite direction and travels beside I5 northbound lane. We stopped at the next exit to process the event and we see the craft in the distant sky. I took a photo using Snapchat
September 15, 2016 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Menifee, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 4:00 AM · OTHER
Ontario, CA
On the morning of 9/15/16, at approximately 4:00 a.m., I looked to the eastern sky and saw what I thought was the “morning star” which I’ve seen before. However, this “star” was moving in a sporadic fashion. I thought it might be a plane or helicopter but it wasn’t. The “star’s” movement reminded me of a balloon floating in the air. First it moved slightly to the right, then slightly lowered, then back to the original position and then maybe slightly upward then back to original position. This pattern of movement was repeated as long as I viewed the “star”. I must have watched this “phenomenon” for at least 5 minutes if not more. The “star” shined very brightly in the sky. Very mysterious.
September 15, 2016 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
San Leandro, CA
First it was black, shimmering black triangles, seemed to have some sort of cloak around it. When the sun sets the cloak didn’t quite match the night sky, it gave a purplish cloud. Then, started hearing what sounded like machines during the day. I now have seen what look to be stars detaching and traveling West, fading in and out. I’ve seen what appears to be stars in a circle, it’s too many in such a small space. They look to be activity moving within the circles. I’ve seen yellow orbs coming from the same direction and travel one at a time, so close that I feel an magnetic energy coming off of it in waves. Lastly, I’ve seen circular objects, with lights red, white, around the middle traveling slowly along freeways, places are busy such as pumpkin patch event that I attended. I thought drones until one disappeared right over my head, again so close I could hear the humming of the quiet engine.
September 14, 2016 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Grapevine, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2016 · 4:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Hollister, CA
A craft follows an airliner, appears simpler to what I witnessed on the eve of 9/10/16 at 9:43pm in Clayton CA entering /decent in into earth https://youtu.be/0wlBFeAGprU Time stamp 5:30 in video of Hollister CA bbq video sighting. ((name and telephone number deleted)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 11, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Fresno, CA
Strange bright flashing white lights 3 to 6 then changes to 7 all white very bright, it's flying in circles over Fresno for presidency will get me for the last hour And keeps going back and forth at very fast speeds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2016 · 2:00 PM · CYLINDER
Los Angeles, CA
While on vacation in Los Angeles, I was in the front passenger seat as we were driving in the area of South Fairfax Avenue and Venice Boulevard, heading toward Cadillac Avenue, around 2:00 PM on September 11, 2016, when I spotted a cylindrical-shaped object emitting two gold-colored flashing lights in a vertical configuration. The lights flashed intermittently and independently, and the object itself seemed to be just hanging in the clear blue sky about 45 degrees above the horizon. I managed to take a few pictures with my Canon PowerShot SX20 IS camera, and then lost sight of it as we turned a corner. I am not sure what direction the object was in. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport, Thank you for your message, and I did submit a detailed report to NUFORC yesterday. If you're unable to find it, I can resubmit it. To summarize, I spotted this while riding as a passenger in a car with two other witnesses, and the sighting lasted about 5 minutes. I think we were on or near Venice Boulevard when I saw it, then I lost sight of it as we turned a corner. It was about 45 degrees above the horizon, and there was no sound. Two gold-colored flashing lights emitted from it intermittently and independently from each other. One light was near the top of the object, and the other light was near its bottom. It if weren't for these lights I would probably not have noticed it. The object was stationary. Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
September 10, 2016 · 9:43 PM · LIGHT
Clayton, CA
On September 10th, 2016, at 9:38pm PST. Facing exactly north, I was peering upwards at about a 50°, just at my field of view, vertically up in the sky a slow moving luminous ball of light three times the visual mass of any speck in the sky began descending down words at a rate that I, thought too slow to be a satellite and much too vivid as well to be far away. If you were to hold out your hand in front of you and extend your index finger and your thumb, then just half a pinkys worth, you would get the distance the object move from my perspective in the sky in the time frame of 10 seconds during the last five seconds of that 10 seconds is when I was hurriedly reaching for my camera phone which was right next to me to then attempt to capture to no avail, for it was too dark. When I finally did bring the camera to face in front of me to attempt to video this the luminosity on this ball object began to dim and it wasn't flickering it wasn't shorting it was manually being controlled it seemed and this craft in question while maintaining the slow rate of speed began to level out. While it was dimming which took another five seconds, you could just make out some shape at least and the craft moved along dimmed and was gone. Essentially it seemed as if there was a telepathic connection with my knowing and witnessing the object and said object concealing itself. I apologize for the late response. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2016 · 4:30 PM · LIGHT
Santa Clarita, CA
around 8:30 pm I saw a flashing light traveling south west at a very hi speed and hi altitude
September 8, 2016 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Goleta, CA
I am a lifelong skywatcher and have seen many ufos. This event was unique in that the object metamorphosed. It happened as follows: After a long day of work I accompanied my kids to the community pool at 4:00 pm. While the kids were swimming I was laying on my back in the grass. After a few minutes I observed what looked like a 6 inch soap bubble a hundred feet or so off the ground. After twenty seconds the object transformed into what looked like a small jet at 10,000 feet more or less. After fifteen seconds the object became a white dot that faded into the blue sky. The trajectory of the object was a strait line until it disappeared. The direction of the object was southerly, toward Point Mugu, which is an area having multiple sightings per month seemingly exiting and entering the Pacific Ocean. Common thought relates these sightings to the mysterious booming sounds heard centered around Alhambra (LA). It is hypothesized that an undersurface excavation is occurring under Los Angeles. Food for thought? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 7, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Sacramento, CA
The three objects came to a dead stop, then shot out to the stars about five times faster than what they were originally traveling and disappeared. About two weeks later, I was laying on the back deck at about 1 o'clock am, when I was awoken to a extremely bright light, to the point where I had to shade my eyes from being burned. The bright light lasted for about 30 seconds, then completely shut off. The following day it felt as though I had severe sunburn to my skin and my eyes were painful from what I had experienced. There was nothing remotely possible of duplicating this light on either my house or my neighbor's house. To this very day I have told only a few people, and I still am baffled from what I have seen and experienced in both occasions. (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)