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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 7, 2016 · 8:40 AM · OVAL
Half Moon Bay, CA
three very bright orb looking objects making those sounds very big very bright lights moving in circular directions above the ocean and proceed to disappear. This is a usual occurrence around here
September 7, 2016 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
I am a law enforcement officer and was leaving for work today, heading East on the 210 Fwy toward San Bernardino. I noticed a bright orange light appear in the distance. I estimated it to be at least 10 miles away and about 20-30 degrees from the horizon. The light was stationary for a short time. I watched the light thinking it was an aircraft turning on his landing lights. Then at that moment it began to move in irregular directions at extremely fast speed. I new at that time it was not a conventional aircraft or any type of drone because of the height, distance, and speed. It was something I've never seen before. The orange light returned to its original position and dimmed out. I pulled my phone out to record the event if it happened again and unfortunately it never appeared again. I was very excited to see such an event as this. There were many cars on the freeway at the time and must have had numerous witnesses.
September 6, 2016 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
La Canada, CA
A bright red light hovering not moving at first and then it shot quickly north and then it reappeared on the same area and went up and then dropped dramatically down.
September 6, 2016 · 2:00 PM · CHANGING
Palm Spring, CA
Too big to be birds. 1 squadron high was changing shapes from v to flat lines to curves (about 8 white balls forming the shapes) next to this was a 4 balls line compact (lower in the sky) and another 3 ball line lower than the 2 other formations They moved pretty slowly even slower than airplanes. The shapes were forming and shifting slowly as well (as migrating birds does) the 2 "following lines" integrates the major shape, fade away to a V shape that slowly disateared
September 6, 2016 · 8:20 AM · OTHER
Brentwood, CA
Tonight 3 large white blinking lights streak across the sky so fast just a matter of seconds it was out of sight ,no sound.
September 5, 2016 · 7:50 PM · CHANGING
Magalia, CA
from Magalia ca. looking SW toward Chico ca. about 25 Deg. above the horizon approx. same area as Uranus but higher up a few degrees. Orange Light object UAP appeared to be changing length and brightness, floating very slow, changing from a singular dull orange color to a very bright orange color changing shape from large planet like object to a long banana shape possibly made up of smaller objects. viewed object for about 50min. from 7:50pm to about 8:40 pm object then faded out from view..
September 3, 2016 · 10:28 PM · UNKNOWN
Angels Camp, CA
On 09/03/2016 at about 10:28PM, I saw a very red single flashing light. As it flew overhead and past, there was NO sound. It was flying West to East. This has my attention...
September 3, 2016 · 9:58 PM · FORMATION
Idyllwild, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2016 · 8:50 PM · CIRCLE
San Pedro, CA
Circular Flashing object in eastern sky, amber/fire orange in color. Sighting lasted for aporoximately 3 minutes. Object was pulsing until it disappeared into eastern sky. NFI/NFD
September 2, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Menifee, CA
I was sitting on the back porch and looked up to the sky and saw a circular object with two red lights side by side and two green lights side by side creating a square inside the circle. It was pulsing and rotated half turn in place to flip red and green lights. It then flipped back. I ran in the house to get my phone to video and recorded it. It hovered across the sky above me. Shot forward. Stopped. Glided back a bit. Then went to the right. Then sped off fast. No sound. Then disappeared.
August 31, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Corte Madera, CA
I watched a cluster of 2 to 7 yellow gold glowing lights stationary near the bay and Corte Madera marsh area. This activity went on for approximately 1 hour. Sometimes there would be a string of 4 to 6 objects in a row and other times there would be 2 bright objects side by side. This hour long activity would start to fade out and then start right up again.
August 31, 2016 · 7:46 PM · SPHERE
Pomona, CA
At 7:46pm, I looked up east of the sky looking towards the neighboring city of Montclair or looking over the Inland Empire. I saw a bright light sphere object. It was between yellow and orange in color. Still focus on the object it started ascending very slowly. Then it started shrinking, in what look like if it was in steps or in stages of large to small perfect spheres. While it was shrink at the same time it look like it was losing some of its yellow orange glow, and would looked like a silver or grey color. Then after staring at it for about 15 seconds, it just disappear.
August 30, 2016 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Menifee, CA
On the night of Aug 30, 2016, I went out to may back yard around 9:50pm and spotted a dimmed glowing greenish blue spot in the Western sky few degrees off to the North, sort of look like a piece of cloud glowing approx 35-40 degrees over the horizon. Then it slowly moved to the South West while rising changing shape. At on point it looked straight in the sky. Then it got smaller as it was rising, when it was straight up in the sky (80 dgrees to the South heading East) it got bigger and I saw multiple flashes (flashing lights) and it looked like a massive cluster more than 15 miltiple flashing spots but unable to make a shape out of it. I raised my both hands up in the air and spread them to about 60-70 degreee angle and thats about the size of what ever I saw at the biggest point. A massive cluster of lights.biggest Then it got smaller and smaler while dissapered into the eastern skies. I also noticed air traffic below pass by like nothing was happening up above. I was baffled by this and my 11 year old son witnessed the entire sighting with me. It never made a noise what so ever. Then tonight I found out that my neighbour also witnessed this at the same exact time along with 3 others.
August 30, 2016 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Dana Point, CA
A singular bright orange, circular light was traveling slowly across the sky just over the beach area. It got brighter at one point and then disappeared. Multiple individuals observed this.
August 28, 2016 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Santa Rosa, CA
Craft observed for 15 minutes "hovering" in same spot, upon looking through average binoculars, it appeared to have a hole or dark spot in the center. It appeared to change shape slightly.
August 28, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Santa Rosa, CA
Initial object was very bright in the clear eastern sky with no other stars or commercial objects visible - bright white oval, football shape initially with two internal circular lights such as jellyfish. Another object after viewing through binoculars, dark red in color, moved in and close - with no other objects in the sky. We deployed our telescope, not capturing the red entity as it moved close and disappeared from the football - as we deployed our highest resolution telescope - we observed one object of pulsating and flashing lights, stagnant in the sky - but then moving extremely down range with dark red orange.red. With our high powered telescope we kept it in range for an hour or more. A plane passed, with thin wings across my line of site with the object, not a commercial vehicle.
August 28, 2016 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Petaluma, CA
My nine-years-old son was in the backyard and noticed a light in the sky, mentioning that it was too early for the stars and it this one didn’t even look like one. I came out and saw a bright object, obviously not a star, staying in one spot with the sun clearly reflecting off it. Got binoculars and couldn’t believe my eyes. It looked like a semi-transparent sphere with five white lights under it. Gave my son the binoculars and asked him what he sees. His words were: “No way, no way.” He also saw the lights underneath it. Called my husband to come out and look. By then the object wasn’t transparent but was an oval shape and reflecting the sun like metal. The object was there for approximately an hour, and then began slowly drifting east until it disappeared. I took a (very bad) picture with my phone but was only be able to capture a faint light spot in the sky. But the picture has a date and time stamp.
August 28, 2016 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Sylmar, CA
From one side of the sky to the other Out came a Gigantic almond shape blurry cloud at Mach speed right over me in city of Sylmar
August 27, 2016 · 8:14 PM · LIGHT
Hollister, CA
I WAS WATERING THE LAWN IN THE BACK YARD OF MY HOUSE IN HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA. IT WAS A NICE CLEAR NIGHT WITH A SLIGHT OFF-SHORE BREEZE OUT OF THE EAST. AT ABOUT 8:45PM, LOOKING NORTH, I NOTICED A LOW FLYING RED LIGHT, TRAVELING FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST. AT ABOUT THE SAME SPEED AS THE AVERAGE CESSNA AIRCRAFT AT 50 DEG. ABOVE THE HORIZON. I RAN AND GOT MY PHONE TO CALL SOME PEOPLE BUT DECIDED TO TRY TO GET VIDEO OF IT WITH THE PHONE, KNOWING THAT IT PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PICK UP ANYTHING USABLE. AFTER A FEW SECONDS ANOTHER RED LIGHT CAME INTO VEIW FOLLOWING THE FIRST FLYING AT A SLIGHTLY LOWER ALTITUDE AT A DISTANCE OF TWO FINGERS TOGETHER AT AN ARMS LENGTH BEHIND THE OTHER ONE. BY THIS TIME I HAD GOT TO THE VERY TOP OF AN EIGHT FOOT LADDER THAT WAS ALREADY SET UP IN THE YARD SO I COULD GET UP ON THE ROOF AND WATCH THESE THINGS AS LONG AND FAR AS POSSABLE. A THIRD OBJECT CAME INTO VEIW SAME ALTITUDE AND DISTANCE AS THE PREVIOUS AND THEN ANOTHER MAKING FOUR! RED LIGHTS FLYING IN A LINE ONE BEHIND THE OTHER. HERE I WAS ON THE ROOF OF MY HOUSE DRESSED IN NOTHING BUT BOXERS AND ALL ALONE WATCHING THESE GUYS TRAVEL BY AND NOBODY AROUND TO YELL TO SOO THEY CAN SEE ALSO. WITH THE LIGHTS ALMOST OUT OF VEIW ON THE EASTERN HORIZON I WAS GETTING READY TO GET OFF THE ROOF THEN ANOTHER TWO LIGHTS CAME INTO VEIW FLYING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE PREVIOUS BUT WHAT APPEARED TO BE CLOSER AND A LITTLE BRIGHTER. THE FITH LIGHT WAS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THE REST AND THE SIXTH SLIGHTLY LOWER BUT STILL HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS FOUR. I AM A 37 YEAR OLD EXPERIENCED ASTRONOMER USING A LARGE TELESCOPE FOR MANY YEARS, I KNOW WHAT SATELLITES LOOK LIKE AND HAVE A GOOD DEAL OF KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT AND THEIR FLIGHT PATHS AND SUCH. I AM SURE THAT WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT WERE NOT DRONES,CHINESE LANTERNS, WEATHER BALLOONS, SWAMP GAS OR ANY NORMAL AIRCRAFT DUE TO THE LACK OF FLASHING LIGHTS AND MARKERS REQUIRED ON ALL AIRCRAFT NOR WERE THERE ANY OTHER AIRCRAFT AROUND IN THE SKY. AFTER A MINUTE OR TWO AFTER THE SIXTH LIGHT PAST BY, I DECIDED TO GET OFF THE ROOF AND JUMP IN MY CAR. I TOOK NOTE OF THE TIME 9:05PM PACIFIC AND AS FAST AS I COULD I GRABBED SOME PANTS,NIGHT VISION,CAMERA AND SOME BINOCULARS WHICH WERE ALL TOGETHER ON THE DINING TABLE. I HAD ALL OF THESE THINGS READY TO GO BECAUSE I HAVE OBSERVERD THESE RED LIGHTS SEVERAL TIMES IN THE WEEKS PRIOR WHICH WERE REPORTED TO THIS WEB SITE. WHILE I WAS GETTING DRESSED A LOW FLYING HELICOPTER FLEW OVER MY HOUSE FROM THE SOUTH TOWARDS THE NORTH THAT HAD ONLY A FLASHING RED LIGHT ON THE BOTTOM OF IT BUT THIS WAS LIKELY THE NORMAL MEDIVAC HELICOPTER. I HAVE HAD AN IN MY FACE CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN 2001 OF A LOW FLYING TRIANGLE THAT I WAS NOT COMFORTABLE WITH AND WISH NEVER HAPPEND AND SINCE THEN HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I SAW WITH COUNTLESS HOURS OF READING AND LISTENING TO ANYTHING THAT MAY BE LINKED TO THE SUBJECT IN A QUEST TO GET SOME SORT OF ANSWER TO WHAT I OBSERVED. LAST WEEK I CALLED AM1080 KSCO, A LOCAL AM RADIO STATION AND ASKED THEM TO ! ASK PEOPLE IN THE AREA IF THEY HAD SEEN ANY RED LIGHTS IN THE SKY. I HAVE ASKED POLICE OFFICERS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, AND ANYBODY WHO MAY HAVE SOME KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WOULD HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT IS FLYN AROUND ABOVE US. I TAKE THIS KIND OF STUFF SERIOUSLY AND WOULD SAY THAT I AM NOT OVERLY SERIOUS ABOUT IT BUT SOME MAY THINK OTHERWISE. ANYWAYS HERE I AM HAULN BUTT DOWN THE ROAD IN MY CAR WITH MY EQUIPTMENT IN HAND IN AN EFFORT TO CATCH UP WITH THESE LIGHTS AND REALIZE THAT I DONT HAVE A CHANCE IN HELL OF CATCHING UP WITH THESE THINGS AND DECIDE TO STOP AT THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE AROUND THE BLOCK. I PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND BEFORE I EVEN TURN OFF THE CAR FOUR KIDS RANGING IN AGE FROM 4 TO 12 COME RUNNING UP TO ME ASKING IF I SAW THE RED LIGHTS IN THE SKY. I TOLD THE KIDS HOLD ON A MINUTE AND TOOK OFF BACK TO MY HOUSE TO GET MY DIGITAL RECORDER. I AM FAMILIAR WITH INTERVEIWING PEOPLE AND KNOW THAT QUESTIONING PEOPLE ESPECIALLY KIDS ALWAYS GOES BETTER IF THEY DONT KNOW T! HEY ARE BEING RECORDED, IT MAY NOT BE TOTALY LEAGAL BUT I FIGU! RE ITS T HE BEST WAY TO DOCUMENT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO TELL ME. TURNS OUT THEY HAD BEEN WATCHING A FEW RED LIGHTS IN THE WESTERN SKY SINCE ABOUT 8:00PM AND HAD CALLED ME TO TELL ME BUT I DID NOT HAVE MY PHONE ON ME BECAUSE I WAS OUTSIDE IN MY BOXERS WATERING MY LAWN. THE KIDS EVEN DRUG OUT A TELESCOPE INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET TO WATCH THE LIGHTS AND WAS TOLD THAT THEY WATCHED A RED LIGHT IN THE WEST STAY STATIONARY FOR OVER A HALF OF AN HOUR THEN WATCHED IT GAIN A LITTLE ALTITUDE AND THEN TAKE OFF AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. THEY ALSO SAID THAT THE OBJECTS WOULD DISAPPEAR AND THEN REAPPEAR IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION I RECORDED THESES FOUR KIDS SEPERATLY AND GOT SOME EXELENT STUFF. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT GUYS FOR THE THIRD WEEK IN A ROW RED LIGHTS IN THE NIGHT SKY. DONT BE AFRAID TO TELL SOMEBODY BECAUSE ODDS ARE THEY HAVE WITNESSED SOMETHING ALSO. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I AM ((name deleted)) IM AM LOCATED IN HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA I SEE THAT YOU HAVE LABELED MY REPORT IN THE AUGUST REPORTS AS A HOAX OR POSSIBLE HOAX. IF YOU CAN COULD YOU PLEASE REMOVE THE HOAX TAG BECAUSE THIS IS NO HOAX AND I AM NOT SOME HOAXING LOSER. I THINK PEOPLE THAT LIE AND FILE B.S. REPORTS OR CALLS ARE PATHETIC SCUMBAGS. I TAKE THIS SUBJECT SERIOUSLY PROBABLY TOO SERIOUS AND I KNOW THAT YOU DO ALSO. YOU HAVE PROVIDED A SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN THE MOST LEGITIMATE AND RELIABLE RESOURCE I KNOW OF. DEALING WITH THOSE HOAXING MORONS MUST INFURIATE YOU BECAUSE IT DOES ME ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING IS OUT OF YOUR POCKET. I HAVE DONATED BEFORE AND HAVE TOLD OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AND I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR WORK. PICTURE OF JULY 24 2016 RED LIGHT IN SKY IN HOLLISTER CALIFORNIA PHOTO TAKEN WITH A PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FZ5 ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 26, 2016 · 1:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Visalia, CA
Yesterday, on August 26th, I was walking from a local community college to a nearby Taco Bell with five of my friends. The Taco Bell sits behind a bus stop and is on a busy street in our town, Visalia, CA. The traffic was stopped. The skies were clear – no clouds. It was a little before 1:00 pm. We were walking and talking when the sky suddenly dimmed and then became light again. It was about a 2-3 second event. One of my friends stopped, and said, “Whoa – did anybody else see that?” We all saw the light dim and quickly returned to normal. Some thought it was a large truck going by but the traffic was stopped and no large trucks anywhere. There was nothing in the sky – clouds – airplanes-birds that we could see.
August 25, 2016 · 9:35 PM · OVAL
Pacific Palisades, CA
Two small deep orange glowing orbs heading from north to the south witnessed in Pacific Palisades, CA (cross streets Temescal Canyon and Sunset Blvd) 90272 at 9:35 pm 8/25/16. Sitting on my deck facing north, to my right I witnessed first a smaller oval-ish deep orange orb flying at first from north to south and then erratically starting a decent yet almost hoovering; at that time a larger likeness orb appeared higher in the sky as the other was dissenting. I noticed this because they were not flying in the normal flight patterns for the planes landing at the local airports (LAX & Santa Monica). I was dumbfounded and at the same time my brain was telling me to take a photo, call my daughter, get binoculars, etc. The best I could do was run out to the front of the house as quickly as I could to see if the orbs I had lost behind a tree would still be there….they were gone!
August 24, 2016 · 12:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Murrieta, CA
Saturday 08/24/16 Approx: 12:20-12:30 I was making a right turn heading northeast. As I turned the corner at the light, there is a group or a very large palm tree right at the corner on my left as I start up the street. To the right of the palm tree, I observed something in the sky that I had never seen before. There was a white rectangular object hanging in the sky. It looked like a flat screen TV. I slowed down and rolled down my window to see if there was any sound and there wasn’t. I was expecting it would move but it didn’t. I thought it might be an ad on a blimp and I would see writing but I didn’t. I looked back several times over my left shoulder, and could tell it wasn’t attached to anything, nor did it produce any advertisements. There were no lights attached. I was curious that it had a mist behind it, as well as a clumpy looking cloud on the left hand side. I can’t remember if it was upper or lower but was on the left hand side. I was so focused on the object that I don’t recall any other vehicles around the area. I was concerned about causing an accident, so, I started driving faster and paying attention to the road. Further up the road, before reaching my left turn I thought I would take one last look over my left shoulder and see if I could see it. I was startled to see a black one directly to my left. Same exact shape, mist behind it, as well as the exact same clump of cloud appearance, only this cloud was darker. The mist and clouds did not look a real cloud produced by nature. I slowed down almost to a stop and stared. It didn’t move. Once again I felt I was a hazard so drove to my left turn to get home. I thought I would never see it again, but, took one last look back. my sight was obstructed by tall trees and houses so, I couldn’t see it if it was still there. I thought, I will just focus on getting home safely. I proceeded to my last left turn to get home and as I looked to the right to see if there were any cars coming I saw a grey one. It was moving fast an! d was already quite a distance away. It was headed northeast. ! Instead of turning on my street, I followed the road to the right and was going to stop and get a picture. By the time I stopped it was moving so fast I couldn’t get my cell phone out to take a picture. I couldn’t see any dimension to the objects other than they were rectangular, and they were not shiny. They were more of a matte. When I first saw the white object, I voice texted my sister and told her, “I am looking at the closest thing to a UFO I have ever seen.” Neither of us had ever heard of any rectangular UFO sightings before my event. I don't know if this was one UFO turning colors or if it was in fact 3 separate.
August 24, 2016 · 6:45 AM · FORMATION
Walnut Creek (area off I-680), CA
Driving towards San Jose area this morning and noticed small bright lit craft hovering in distance, area was hilly, didn't notice two other craft just like it until hill went downwards, they were all stationary, lower one moved towards upper within a second, then a larger hill obstructed total view, son was able to snap a quick picture of the three, but the picture doesn't do it justice
August 22, 2016 · 9:25 PM · OTHER
Avalon, CA
My friend and I went out to the pier to fish because it wouldn't be crowded with tourists. My friend and I are the only ones out on the pier. We were fishing for about 15 minutes until my friend tells me to look at the top of the hill. We see a light and the light begins to flicker and it slowly goes vertical. The object then goes from that side of the mountain all the way over to the opposite side of the island. There were multiple flat objects using green lights, red lights, and white lights. There was no possible way a drone or a plane could have been in and out of such altitudes with such speeds. I took multiple videos and pictures we are not making this up please contact me as soon as possible so I can send out the pictures. We witnessed three flat incredibly versatile objects in the sky forming an acute triangle. Also, light patterns were very odd and uncommon. This was not a typical plane coming in. I contacted my dad while I was watching this entire th! ing and he gave me the link to contact you. My friend and I are freaking out on the pier looking for ANYBODY, so we decided to leave the pier and head back to our condo and watch on the balcony. On the balcony we had the best view to witness these absurdly agile non-commercial crafts or saucers or whatever the proper term is. Our families go to Catalina Island every year and this island is a hotspot for extraterrestrial activity. It is commonly known to have naval activity and military activity behind Avalon (the main city). These crafts had the ability to go vertical within a second and reach speeds I have never seen. There was not just one of these we saw around 4-5 of these on our balcony. These crafts began circling each other in the air, and two crafts continuously came at each other from the opposite sides of the island and right when it looks like they are about to hit they stop immediately and begin flying synchronized. Feel free to give me a call so I can chronologically explain the story.