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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
July 27, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ukiah, CA
A very bright and big round object with colored sparkling lights and a tail of light flew over the hillside across from my house. It was very low, not much over the tops of the trees. It flew pretty much West to East and then turned South at the end of the ridge and disappeared from my sight. It flew at about the speed of a helicopter but was completely silent. My dog only noticed it when he saw it(no sound) and growled at it.
July 27, 2016 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Ventura, CA
Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Tracy, CA
Fireball (comet like) flew towards the east over Tracy, California. Watched it travel low across the sky and as I watched it, noticed that it extended from yet one fireball, but two, yet joined together. Fascinating to see and could not see how far it traveled or if it even landed or burned out. Reported to be re-entering Chinese rocket shell. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Beaumont, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Mojave, CA
It might have been a meteor traveling west to east north of the zenith line. It was trailing a iridescent debris cloud and appears to have broken into two (maybe three (pieces before continuing beyond the eastern horizon. (I hope this can be corroborated). Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Santa Ana, CA
Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
San Jose, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:45 PM · CONE
Modesto, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Stockton, CA
Photo & video of lights 2 separating green trail slow moving horizontal Not falling but rather creeping along First thought drone but for trail Next thought meteor but motion Was not falling next thought a plane Crashing but very tough to figure Silent disappeared low on horizon Helicopter way up high spotted trailing This object… Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Huntington Beach, CA
A meteor-like yellow light with a blazing trail stopped, emitted another light, hovered, and changed directions once the other light departed looking more like an aircraft as it passed directly in front. Upon closer passing it looked more like an airplane with red blinking lights, other blinking lights and possibly windows. however its flight behavior was very strange. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Hughes, CA
Comet-like in appearance, however, the object was moving much, much slower than comet. I got about 15 - 20 seconds of view time before it disappeared from sight behind a mountain (as I was driving). The object was extremely bright and seemed at high altitude, with a bright comet-like tail that seemed to produce light of its own. Its slow movement betrayed its large bright trail. It appeared to be separating into multiple objects (looked like 3 of them) as it disappeared from my view. I would imagine this (ufo) will be reported far and wide (at least through southern California.) I saw the mass reported "missile test" ufo last November from the same area, except - I must say, this one being altogether different in appearance, and heading in the opposite direction (east). If that is a missile, WTF kind of a missile is THAT?!...
July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Ventura, CA
It looked like a comet. White ball bigger than any shooting star I've seen with a trail glowing 8x its width behind just above our low hill tops over two trees. Then the ball disappeared not sure if it was out of sight or vanished but appeared again slightly smaller but 2 balls with glowing g trails the balls did change color from a white to a light green then a light orange. Lost sight after two trees. Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Tracy, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM
San Jose, CA
Bright orange fireball with very, very long orange/yellow fire trail. Low altitude, descending slowly from South to North direction. Too fast for a small plane. Too slow for a meteorite. Not big enough for an airliner. Split into 2 pieces before it disappeared in the trees/horizon, and then heard a soft distance. Boom ... Boom (1 sec apart). Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Truckee, CA
Observed for second time within month of July including today, July 27, 2016, about 9:40pm. Objects appeared to be fixed together about 50ft apart. Two red-orange glowing balls of light with a cloud-like glow trailing behind each 'unit' and making them appear like comet trails about 1-1/2 times in length longer than the width of the units or glowing balls. At first appearance it seemed like perhaps two closely piloted helicopters carrying glowing balls rigid to their bodies and the glow lingering in a trailing cloud or mist behind them. There was no sound from the object or possible paired objects. It flew from west to east overhead maybe two hundred feet above Interstate 80 going past Donner Lake in Truckee, toward Reno. It traveled about the same speed as freeway traffic below in a straight path coincident with the freeway. The appearance of the two glowing balls of light with glowing tails, the lack of any audible noise, the steady and straight navigation, and with no experiences in my life of seeing such object(s) in night sky in my lifetime, and the seeing such an event twice in the same month, all provoked me to research the Internet for any such similar sightings tonight or in the past. I found this site and read the report for California UFO sightings and found some were similar to mine, so in the interest of contributing to this data am filing this report for the record. Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Phelan, CA
Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:38 PM · OTHER
Anza, CA
Two large, brightly burning objects heading from west to east in the northern sky, with a slow descent rate eventually went behind the mountains on the horizon. The event lasted for about ten seconds from my vantage point Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:37 PM · FIREBALL
Livermore, CA
A large, bright light was traveling fast from West to East in a smooth trajectory, but seemed to be falling. It had a trail of some kind, such as what you see come out of a jet. There were no lights on it and it seemed to be burning. There was no sound associated with it. My husband and I have seen meteorites and satellites, but nothing this large and bright. We were afraid that it would land nearby and cause damage of some kind, as it appeared to be under the clouds. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:37 PM · FIREBALL
Stockton, CA
First appeared as bright white light with green trail on a gradual descent. Then the object broke into two red objects with much smaller trails, also red. Video started after the object turned into the two red objects. The objects ultimately descended out of sight. Object was seen by my household of three and a neighbor who we have never met, but struck a conversation with when we ran to be front yard to see the object once it descended out of sight and saw the same exact thing we did. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:36 PM · SPHERE
Mariposa County, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Oakdale, CA
Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Dublin, CA
Reported to be re-entering Chinese rocket shell. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Frazier Park, CA
Space debris. PD