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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 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Corona/Lake Mathews, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Victorville, CA
Around 10pm, on 7-27-16, me and my girlfriend saw a fire con trail with a ufo in front and behind the con trail it had 2 balls one in front of contrail and one at the end with a jet following behind it was unbelievable basically fire in the sky at night I also have video. Reported to be re-entering Chinese rocket shell. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Frazier Park, 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
French Camp, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · TEARDROP
Oxnard, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Huntington Beach, CA
Re-entering space debris. 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 · OTHER
Chico, CA
I was at the west edge of Chico, looking east toward the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with a dark sky above. I saw a large, bright golden ball with a thick tail of what looked to be sparks, moving at about the rate of an airplane. It was moving from south to north and lowering in altitude gradually, not steeply. As I watched, the ball split into two pieces and both continued in the same direction. The one in the front was larger than the one in the rear and it began moving faster than the smaller one in the rear, so the distance between the two became greater as they continued in the same direction from south to north and lower toward the mountains. From the time I first saw it, as one ball with a tail of sparks until after it split into two and both disappeared behind the silhouette of the Sierras might have been a minute. I could not see any red/green lights that would indicate it was an airplane, and it moved much slower and was much larger than a meteorite,! and it was too close to be a comet. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Sacramento, CA
While walking my dog I saw what looked liked an orange ball shaped light with a trail following of what looked like sparks. The ball shaped object looked to be similar to a burning sparkler like the type kids light on the 4th of July. The object was flying approximately 50-100 feet above ground and navigating between larger objects in the area. At first glance it looked like a meteorite with the trail of sparks but it was too low and seemed to navigate around large standing trees, power lines, and two story homes. I've seen other strange things around this area, but nothing quite like this. I went to take a closer look to see if maybe it were a crashing plane or meteorite but there was nothing where it should have landed. I first observed it through trees and assumed the trail of what I'm going to call sparks were just glare, but when it came into the clearing I saw that it was not. There also seemed to be a dark residue in the sky in the objects flight path, but not smoke. No sound was heard from the object, just a visual observation. I'm curious if anyone else has seen this object. I've seen other lights that would hover and make figure 8 patterns in the air, which I tracked for miles while driving home where it settled over an old building and put on a show for 20-30 minutes before disappearing into thin air. This light looked like a police siren that would flash green for a while, then red, then blue, then purple and repeat in no discernible order. I took a video of this but it somehow got deleted off my phone. When I had looked at this video I saw other strange lights that I didn't see when filming with my phone. This was approximately one year ago. I've seen other very similar lights but just dismiss them now because they are so common. I'm not sure what to make of what I've seen but it keeps getting stranger and stranger as time goes on. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Boonville, CA
I'm a country boy. Often I sit out at night and enjoy the warm summer nights. Tonight I saw what looked like a white ball soaring through the sky trailed by flames. As soon as this happened I drove to the nearest town market (about 30 minutes away) to get something to drink only to have the other three people in the store including the clerk talking about what had just happened and if anyone wanted to investigate because it looked like it crash landed on a local road 50 or 60 miles out.
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
Circular, bright,orange,neon,light. It looked as though it had a vapor trail behind it. It was going east bound then changed flight to go north bound.
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
California City, CA
At just before 9:30 pm in California City, California I observed a large aircraft moving very slow coming from the west very low with bright lights. It looked long with a bright light and a red smaller light. It flew over Cal City Blvd. very slow and hovered a moment then vanished over Castle Butte. Re-entering space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Alpaugh, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Rohnert Park, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Fresno, CA
Re-entering space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
San Mateo, CA
Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Fresno, CA
Witness corrected the date. PD
July 27, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Willits, CA
Most likely a weather balloon? Silvery/orange color, with 8x binoculars saw a hint of a separation or vertical seam in the middle. Object was NNW from obs site, about 50 deg elevation. Watched for several minutes, no movement or change, got bored and 20 min later, no longer visible. Appeared to be high in elevation, at a goodly distance. Not a helo or airplane. This appeared high in sky, above a ridge line of trees.
July 26, 2016 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Half Moon Bay, CA
At around 10 am, in half Moon Bay, CA, at Ocean View Park, our 6 year old daughter spotted this small bright light in the sky. It was a sphere and appeared to be very high up, due to its small size. It was moving left and right quickly, at about one second intervals, back and forth. Then it stopped moving, and remained stationary for a few minutes. Then it started moving slowly in a southern direction, paused a few times, continued in a southern direction slowly for several minutes in this manner. Suddenly, it took off at a rapid pace in the southern direction. The object was inaudible because it was very high up, too far away to hear any sound. The light was very bright for the size of the object, appeared to be self illuminated. This is the second one of these objects we've seen. Last one was seen less than a month ago, on June 30, 2016. That event was observed with a telescope. The object, when focused through the telescope lens, was a definite perfect sphere, silver in color, with definite lights.
July 25, 2016 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Auburn, CA
UFO at 10:30 pm – We live in flight path of commercial aircraft landing at Sacramento Airport. We see many flights landing nightly while sitting in our hot tub. Commercial jets move east to west and make a lot of noise. We rarely see anything moving north to south, (only small aircraft). This was not a small aircraft, as it was huge, low-flying and completely silent. This object/or objects and was many times larger than a commercial aircraft, and it was flying much lower. The object appeared suddenly, as 2 huge bright lights which appeared to be connected by a solid surface. The lights moved in exact unison, with zero noise. There was possibly a third light that was dimmed at the time of the sighting, which would indicate that it could have been a triangle with 3rd light dimmed. Behavior of craft: One light became extremely bright, (brighter than landing lights on aircraft). The second light alternated from medium-bright to dim for a few seconds. Next, the brightest light dimmed and for an instant it seemed as though a third light appeared and then dimmed. The object was huge. We watched it move, north to south for about 2 minutes, and then it completely disappeared while we were watching it. It went from visible to invisible. Poof! … gone!
July 24, 2016 · 10:24 PM · FIREBALL
Hollister, CA
AT AROUND 10:30PM, I WAS LEAVING MY FRIEND'S HOUSE IN HOLLISTER. IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT, EXCEPT FOR SOME SMOKE WHICH CAME FROM A FIRE LOCATED 30+ MILES TO THE WEST, NEAR CARMEL. THERE WAS NO MOON, YOU COULD SEE ALL THE STARS AND EVERYTHING. AS I WAS GETTING INTO MY CAR, I SAW TWO PASSENGER JETS THAT STOOD OUT BECAUSE THEY WERE FLYING ON A PATH THAT WASN'T ORDINARY. THE NORMAL AIR TRAFFIC TRAVELS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH TO THE BAY AREA, BUT THESE PLANES LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE FLYING LOW AND ONE TURNED AROUND, AND I THOUGHT MAYBE BECAUSE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A LANDING DELAY OR SOMETHING. MY FRIEND STOPPED ME FROM GETTING INTO MY CAR BECAUSE HE NOTICED A RED LIGHT IN THE SKY. THE PLANES DIDN'T SHOW UP ON HIS FLIGHT RADAR APP ON HIS PHONE, WHICH IS WEIRD. IT WAS DIRECTLY SOUTH; IT SHOWED ON MY FRIEND'S COMPASS. THE LIGHT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS ASCENDING SLOWLY. WE WATCHED IT FOR ABOUT 1 MINUTE. MY FIREND WENT AND GRABBED HIS CAMERA AND BINOCULARS AND HOOKED UP A 65-MILLION CANDLE-POWER SPOTLIGHT, AND THEN THE RED LIGHT FADED OUT SLOWLY, JUST BEFORE MY FRIEND TURNED ON HIS SPOTLIGHT. BELOW AND TO THE RIGHT OF THE BIG DIPPER, AT ARM'S LENGTH, IT WAS SMALLER THAN A PENCIL ERASER, AND IT WAS STOP LIGHT RED COLOR. NO STANDARD FAA LIGHTS AND NOT THE USUAL NAVIGATION LIGHTS LIKE A USUAL JET DOES.
July 24, 2016 · 9:20 PM · FLASH
Antelope, CA
I saw a flash, as bright as perhaps the size of 50 small stars combined. It flashed in a white blue color. Unmistakably huge. Not less than 15 minutes later, I see this same vivid blue white color zoom from my right to left low in the sky, and disappear within a very short amount of distance, again within less than 1 second.