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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
August 22, 2016 · 12:25 PM · DISK
Santa Ana, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2016 · 2:49 AM · FIREBALL
Perris, CA
It started 2 nights ago, on 08/20/16, my brother was driving home at about 10:15 PM when he saw the object flying in the air. It was a single glowing red-orange light floating about 150 feet in the air, irregularly pulsating. He immediately could tell it wasn’t a plane or helicopter, as he came closer to the neighborhood he said that the light grew in intensity and brightness before flashing and exploding in what he described as looking like “sparks and drops of liquid metal”. I was at home at the time, I was organizing some papers when I heard a loud explosion, I couldn’t tell if it was a gunshot or fireworks but didn’t think too much of it. When my brother arrived home he told me to come outside and check out the strange light. It definitely wasn’t a plane or helicopter, my first thought was a quadcopter drone. But those are often loud and usually have red and green lights, if any. This was a single orange light that was floating silently from southwest to northeast. I was only able to see it for about 5 minutes before it just suddenly vanished. Frustratingly, it disappeared before I could get any pictures. It happened a second time tonight (08/22/16). It was about 2:40 AM, I was staying up late doing some reading and I heard an extremely loud and percussive boom from outside, it sounded like a grenade went off across the street. It was echoing off of nearby hills it was so loud. I ran outside to see what was happening, dogs were barking all around the neighborhood because of the sound. I thought about the light from 2 nights ago and started looking up to see if it was there, sure enough, the same glowing orange light was silently floating above my neighborhood, this time it was much higher in altitude, maybe 500-1000 feet. Again, it was floating from southwest to northeast, irregularly pulsing in a red-orange hue. A bit redder than a campfire usually is. This time though, it kept moving until it suddenly stopped moving and was stationary in the sky. I was able to get an old telescope out to get a better look, but I couldn’t see any definite features. Even in the telescope it ! was just an orange light. To the naked eye it looked completely stationary, but in the telescope you see it slowing moving around, hovering in place. It slowly faded away until it disappeared about 20 minutes after I started watching it. This time I was able to capture a few pictures of it on my cellphone, which doesn’t show much other than a dot in the sky, but it does show up. Very weird experiences. I’m going to try and be watchful and study it more, if it happens again.
August 22, 2016 · 2:25 AM · UNKNOWN
Perris, CA
I saw an unusual light in the sky Mon. 8/22/2016, between 0225 and 0305 hrs., moving from the SW. It was reasonably bright and not moving fast like an airplane, I suspect it was a drone. As it got closer it released or fired a pyrotechnic mortar that went down a 100 or so feet and exploded with a very loud boom, this was an airburst apprx. 150 feet above ground with a smoke cloud that drifted north this was at 0245. I continued to watch as it turned east and continued till I lost site of it at 0305. I reported to local fire dept as this could have started a brush fire had it made it to the ground. Their response was no response.
August 20, 2016 · 10:50 PM · CIRCLE
San Diego (North County), CA
My wife called me out to the back yard and I saw an orange light moving slowly southeast -- towards the rising moon -- without making a sound. I assumed it was some sort of plane and went back inside, but then she called me back: two more orange lights were moving across the sky, one moving towards us from the northeast, before straightening out and moving straight south, the other in roughly the same region as the first. There was no sound from any of the three lights. This was strange enough for me to search for a site like this one!
August 20, 2016 · 7:32 PM · CIGAR
Oceanside, CA
Witness provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
August 20, 2016 · 7:14 PM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
I was at a look-out point near the El Segundo Dog Park next to the LAX International Airport on August 20, 2016. I was taking photographs of the airplanes taking off and landing with my Canon EOS 80D camera as a hobby. I did not realize until getting home that evening and uploading the pictures from the camera onto my laptop that I took a picture of a possible UFO at the top left of the control tower at 7:14 p.m. PST that evening, because I was focusing solely on the planes at that time. I took 139 shots from that location that day, and the object showed up in only one shot. It looked like a round black metal ball with a ring/protrusion in the middle. The Goodyear blimp that’s always flying around Los Angeles was miles away from the airport at the time, and it was clearly visible, so it could not have been that. We have viewed the photo, and the object appears to us to be a bird in flight, possibly a California quail. PD
August 20, 2016 · 7:56 AM · OVAL
Essex, CA
I was on a plane going to start my first semester in college a year ago. I was sitting on the window seat when some lights in the nearby sky caught my attention. These lights looked like they were just hovering. I had never seen anything like it. As our plane got closer I proceeded to Snapchat what I was seeing. This object was oscillating its lights and didn't look like it was too far away. It looked pretty big from what I remember. It disappeared behind a cloud formation and I didn't see it again. I don't know what it was but I'm finally submitting it. I will be emailing the video and location. I can't explain what it was.
August 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Grass Valley, CA
I was driving north on Hwy 49, towards the town of Grass Valley, when I witnessed a very bright light high in the night sky, descending extremely fast toward earth. It happened very quickly, and due to mountain terrain and tree coverage, I lost sight of it. I did not see any fire or hear any explosion.
August 19, 2016 · 8:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Tustin, CA
I was getting ready to pull into the driveway of the apartment complex and I was waiting for the gate to open. The sun had set but it was still light out. Above my 2-story apartment building, maybe 20 or so above, was an upright dark rectangular object. It's front was ringed with two rows of square lights. The outer ring of lights was turned to look like diamonds. One ring was white and one red. It was about 20 feet tall and the central core was inset several feet like a doorway or a hatch. It stopped at the edge of the top of the building, hovered and then the rings of lights pulsed and it continued moving east at what seemed like 10 mph. It made no sound.
August 19, 2016 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Sun City, CA
I like to float on my back at night and watch the sky. It just so happened that I was watching something that looked different. All of a sudden, it looked like it turned over and had a bright light. It is hard to explain what I saw. Never saw anything like this before. I asked my friend if they saw that and they said no. I remained in the pool staring at the spot I saw it and it was about 10 minutes later a big blue/green ball with a tail came out of the exact same spot as the light I had saw a few minutes earlier. It was in the east sky. Sorry it is just hard to explain what I saw.
August 19, 2016 · 6:55 AM · OVAL
East Los Angeles, CA
My two daughters and I were seeing my wife off to work, just a few moments ago. We were standing in our driveway, as she was backing up the car. As she left, my daughters and I turned around to see a silver oval object hanging in the air. It was low enough to be very visible. I could tell this was a rather large object and from where I was standing, it seemed to be hovering above the 710 freeway which is just a few blocks away from our house. The object hovered silently in the sky for about 5 min. and suddenly went straight up in the air at a super-fast speed. There was a mist or vapor that came off the object as it sped into the air, this vapor rapidly dissipated, leaving no trail. It made no sound. My youngest daughter was actually frightened and I had to calm her down. My eldest daughter thought it was pretty cool...as did I. My two neighbors who were standing above us on their second floor balcony saw the object as well. I asked them if they knew what it was, the Brazilian men said it was a UFO, and they used to see similar objects in Brazil.
August 18, 2016 · 8:23 PM · SPHERE
Long Beach, CA
An avid sky-watcher and amateur astronomer, I've seen meteors, fireballs, comets, and satellites, as well as things that are frequently reported as UFOs, such as aircraft, birds, bugs, and advertising lights. I spend a lot of time sky-watching, and hadn't seen anything unusual in over a year, until last night. At 8:23PM, I noticed a bright glowing orange light a few degrees east of due north and about 20 degrees above the horizon. At first I thought it was a plane, because it seemed to be near Long Beach International Airport, but the color wasn't typical of aircraft lights. Through my binoculars, it looked slightly vertically elongated, as opposed to round. I noticed no other lights on it. I also couldn't bring it into focus and the upper portion was fuzzier than the bottom portion. It slowly moved upwards and then slightly eastward, and then it moved slightly erratically and quickly faded out without a trace. Having read numerous reports about the propensity of orange orbs to travel in groups, I watched for more, but no more appeared. Then, at about 8:45 PM, I was looking towards the SSE at a light that was probably a high altitude jet, and in the same general area a bright blue light appeared about 20 degrees above the horizon. It was about as bright as Venus when it's at its brightest. Then less than two seconds later it disappeared without a trace.
August 18, 2016 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
Green neon fell downward toward horizon. From Fairfax Blvd at Pico Blvd., traveling for 10 seconds east. Moon was large on the hoizon and rising, just past sunset. Before it hit the horizon it broke into bits of yellow light.
August 17, 2016 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
Blue light fire ball streaked across sky in the east. Low. Looked like it must have hit somewhere east of LA. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2016 · 9:36 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
Flashing fireball slowly moving over Mission Valley around 9:36 pm on Monday night 8/15/2016. Looked like the flash of fire wold repeat slowly moving each time the engines fired. Probably 6-10 times a second leaving a visible separate fire ball trail. Then it would go black for a few seconds and fire off 6-10 more times. It lasted for 30-60 seconds. I was speaking on my cell phone on my apartment balcony with my girlfriend looking out over Mission Valley when I noticed it. At first I thought it was fireworks but it was moving slowly in a Northeastern direction. I told my girlfriend who laughed at me and then I told her I needed to hang up the phone to video it. By the time I hit record the ufo had been gone for maybe 5-0 seconds. I just missed it.
August 15, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Beach, CA
I was with my friend at a restaurant, overlooking the ocean, sitting outside on a deck. The near full moon was out, and very bright. (Therefore, the UFOs I saw had to be very bright). I suddenly noticed 2 UFO's on the horizon. They were the color of fire, and looked like comets with very oddly shimmery tales. They were very close inside the atmosphere, like a plane over the horizon. They were flying near to one another, side by side like two fighter jets might be, on slightly higher. They were in the sky for maybe 30 seconds then the lights completely went out. Not more than a couple minutes, and they reappeared in full intensity, and then soon disappeared once more. Another table was watching dumbfounded. The waiter came by 10 minutes later and as I was relaying the story to him, the two lights appeared again, this time higher up and closer in towards the coast, and again, with the same intensity and appearance. We all stood there, strangers united by mystery, and had that "end of the world movie" type feeling. Funny side note: I asked the girl I was with to swear that if it was indeed the end of the world, we would agree to go out with a bang. But seriously this was weird. I have never seen anything quite as strange as this in the sky; how can one explain this? Not meteors, nor falling satellites, nor falling earthly space crafts, because they appeared and reappeared and were side by side in uniform. Not planes because they had this comet like tail. I wonder if anyone else saw this??? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2016 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Marina Del Rey, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Wheatland, CA
Strange object, bluish in color, headed north to south direction. Very fast. Have some video, but is not very good or very long.
August 12, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CYLINDER
Ridgecrest, CA
Went hiking up in the Rademacher Trail to watch the Perseid Meteor shower. As your eyes adjust to the dark, there was ONE cloud in the sky. Black. It started having what looked like heat lightning and my friend was like ((two words deleted)) do you see that? Is that something to do with your base? (I worked at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in the Mojave Desert). I was like hell no. It dropped out of the cloud, glowing bright orange and cylindrical. It was irradiating (I do science work). It was dead silent. If I had my phone on my I'd be rich right now. I have never believed in aliens until that night. I was sober. If you've ever seen an irradiating orange cylinder, give me a shout. ((e-address deleted)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 12, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHEVRON
Fairfield, CA
V shaped aircraft off I-80. Extremely still and unmoving. Also very small looked like a smal drone but definitely visible were two white lights and a black disc underneath it with a ring of blue dim lights. Surprised with how still it was because I saw it about .25 mi away approaches it to get a good look and drove right past it
August 12, 2016 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Riverside, CA
My son and I were driving on Jurupa Ave between Grand Ave and Palm Ave. My son who was 16 at the time said, "Mom pull over, you have to look at this." I looked out the window and saw several amber spheres that had a plasma look to them. They seemed kind of low in the sky and were moving to the east. I tried to take a picture with my cell phone but my camera crashed when I tried. By the time my phone came back on line the object was gone. This image has stayed with me and I will never forget that night. It took me years to report this because I didn't know a site like this existed and I feared people (other agencies) would make fun of me. If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them.
August 12, 2016 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Riverside, CA
I was at the Van Buren Drive in movies in Riverside, California, when I suddenly saw a Orange orb zoom past over the 60 freeway. It was the size of half a small car. I couldn't get a good look the exact size because it went by so fast. I did see a helicopter about 30 mins after around the same location of the freeway.
August 11, 2016 · 11:30 PM · CHEVRON
Carmichael, CA
While viewing the Perseid Meteor Shower between 11:30 and 12:30 at night, I saw one chevron-shaped craft gliding quietly across the sky headed north coming from the south-east. There were rectangle-shaped lights on each side of the craft emitting extremely low light. I was able to see it because my eyes were adjusted to the darkness and I was scanning the sky for the movement of meteors. I don't think most people would have noticed the craft. It was grey or black and it blended in with the sky very well.
August 11, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
South Gate, CA
We have changed the data above, to reflect a sighting on August 11th. Witness elects to remain anonymous; shares no contact information, so we are unable to verify the date. PD