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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.
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July 24, 2016 · 8:00 PM · TEARDROP
Vacaville, CA
At first I thought it was a shooting star but it was moving too slow, almost the speed of an airplane. There were no lights like an airplane, just a tear drop shaped object. The tear drop was horizontal and very bright yellow, and then after about 3 seconds it just disappeared or blinked out. I don't know what it was but it wasn't an airplane. It may have been a shooting star but it was way bigger and slower than any shooting star I have ever seen. Also it didn't have a trail. I live in Vacaville California, and was looking in the Northeast sky.
July 24, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Vacaville, CA
There were no clouds, it was a clear sky full of stars the same size. No blinking lights were noted.
July 23, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Granada Hills, CA
I heard a thud around 10:30pm and there have been things disturbed around my home lately so I quickly shut off the lights to look out into the backyard. The yard appeared undisturbed, but then a strip of green lights very high up in the sky caught my attention, moved sideways in an orderly manner at first, and then in a quick motion never seen before by any airplane or helicopter. It then seemed to turn so I could get a better view of it. I know this sounds crazy, but it seemed to be letting me know that it knew I had seen it… sort of like a confirmation. Then it quickly descended, then darted upward and went behind a tree. I tried to dismiss it in my mind as a drone so I’ve spent the last hour or so calming myself down and researching on the net. No drone flies that high or moves that way. This was a true sighting. I didn’t think this would ever happen to me. Glad there was someone to report it to. Wondering if anyone else in the neighborhood saw i! t. They’d have to be looking up at precisely the same time as me because it was only in view for approximately 10-15 seconds. Thank you for collecting this data. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2016 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Rocklin, CA
It could have been a meteor passing through the atmosphere, but I've never seen one that bright and blue and slow before.
July 23, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Palm Desert/La Quinta, CA
My wife and I driving home and I almost slammed on the brakes. She said, "don't worry, they're just stars". We pulled over, parked, and that's when she said, "Oh, I guess they're not stars... they're moving!" First they were in a clump, and then with great speed and fluidness, they broke off. They first lined up high in the sky like a landing strip and then some broke off into smaller groups. It might be one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen. I would love to find out this was some sort of military operation, but I've never seen anything American made move like that. Finally, I parked the car in a church parking lot, where others approached me to ask if I knew what we were looking at. Needless to say, I'm totally freaked out.
July 23, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
La Quinta, Indian Wells, Palm Desert, CA
We continued watching and they remained overhead and moving a little side to side, back and forth. At this point, it seemed they were moving away from the earth (vs. across the sky as before) because they started to fade. Watched for another five minutes and they continued to fade. They continued to shift around, moved back and forth and around each other as they left. Stopped watching as they became too difficult to see. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2016 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Palm Desert, CA
There were approx 35 to 40 lights (star like) above the house. They began moving from east to west. they were scattered about and all moving at the same time. they all stopped about the same time. They slowly faded out. they were about 40 thousand ft high. a couple of airplanes went by, but they were at a lower altitude. I immediately called 911 to report the strange sighting. I was unable to contact news media. hopefully there were more sightings. My daughter spotted them first, then my husband and myself ran out to observe.
July 23, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Palm Desert, CA
On Saturday July 23, 2013, @ approx: 20:25PM, I was outside, I saw a cluster of 20-30 lights hovering about 35,000 ft above our house to the (NE) I called for my parents to check this out. The cluster took off towards the (SE) in pattern much like a flock of birds. The higher they went the further apart the got. They looked like blinking stars, until they could no longer be seen. I believe they were space ships! No explanation could change my mind! I didn't get my phone in time to get any pictures
July 22, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Madera, CA
Moved slow at first, and then rapidly , quickly disappearing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 21, 2016 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Oceano, CA
Above the coast, and out in the distance, there were multiple crafts. All were slightly shifting as they hovered some more active than others.. From a light with a seperate saucer next to it to bright red and green spinning lights on the active ones. Move ment like bobbing left to right in shapeof the pit of a plum .. Multiple throughout sky. Different heights similar shapes....!!!!!
July 20, 2016 · 11:20 PM · FIREBALL
Culver City, CA
I was sitting on the sidewalk, looking down the middle of the street, which is when I saw a bright fireball looking object gliding down, then vanishing after 4 seconds. It appeared to be very low in the sky too as if it were going straight into the trees. It was only one bright orange/yellow ball that sped through the sky, leaving no trail behind.
July 17, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Anaheim (NE of), CA
It was flying as fast as a plane or helicopter. I kept my eye on it as it traveled north, until it was out of my eyesight.
July 15, 2016 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
Waiting for a friend at the curb, I looked up and saw what appeared to be a black and white sphere a couple thousand feet straight up. Rotating about once a second, the sphere was "rolling" from West to East couple a hundred miles an hour.
July 15, 2016 · 1:25 PM · CIGAR
Tulare, CA
On July 15th, 2016, a bright sunny clear day, at about 1:25 pm, while driving east on Sandra Ave and Oak’s St in Tulare, Ca. I looked up and saw what at first I thought was a helicopter at about 3,000 to 5,000 feet high. I asked my wife to check it out? What as it a helicopter? Just hovering there not going nowhere? Then my wife and I got to looking at it closer it was just sitting hovering over on the same place the entire time. We noticed it did not appear to have wings it was cigar shaped shiny silver-blueish in color. I notice it appeared to have like a glass dome over the top. But it had no wings. After watching if for about a minute it just disappeared. In front our very eyes. There was not a cloud in the sky and clear and sunny about 96 degrees.
July 15, 2016 · 4:45 AM · TRIANGLE
San diego, CA
Seen a triangular shaped object in the sky with the top tip with a constant right and the bottom points with synchronized flashing lights. This all lasted 1 min, if at that. The sky was dark so could not make out the build of the UFO. The lights dimmed and vanished after about 1 min.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2016 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Colfax, CA
At appox 0030hrs., 15 July, myself and a friend were in a 22 ft boat on Rollins Lake, located 5 miles from Colfax, CA. At that time we were heading sw at approx. 5 kts in the center of the main body of the lake, when we observed a very bright light that we assumed was a large low flying aircraft. However what caught our interest was that the "aircraft's" lights were so bright that they made its nav lights impossible to see. After about 2 min into the event, we saw a small and far less bright dot of light that seemed to just drop out of the larger aircraft. The smaller light stayed with the other aircraft for a few seconds and the desended in altitude and then flew west at a moderate speed and it also displayed a flashing light. The larger aircraft continued on a sw heading flying directly over us. Not until the aircraft had past us did we see any navigation lights. Also, the larger aircraft while at an altitude of maybe 5,000 to 7,00 feet made almost no noise. This is the second such event I've seen in a month in this area.
July 11, 2016 · 9:05 PM
Murrieta, CA
I was sitting on my porch at 9:05 pm. My porch faces south, looking at Palomar Mt. A bright silver blue illumination lit up the southern horizon south of Temecula, Ca. It was not a single beam of light but a radiated glow emitting from the ground upward. There was no sound that followed consistent with an explosion. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2016 · 6:45 AM
Oakland, CA
Ok so. I fell asleep in my car on sycamore and west st in Oakland ca ... At around 10 pm . I awoke at 6 am roughly in a field up by grizzly peak which is a few miles away in a park I e never been too. I had no shoes or socks on my feet. I woke up laying on my back with my arms spred out to my sides . I was in a huge field full of tall weeds . There was no trail to where I was . My feet were clean along with the rest of me . Than I started to walk back . As I got up to the road I looked back to see a definite trail where I had walked only one. By the time I just got up to the road I was covered in burles and weeds (so I have no idea about how any of it happened but especially how I could have got to the middle of the field and be totally clean) by the time I walked back to my car a few hours later my feet were destroyed. I have NEVER SLEPT WALKED BEFORE and even if I did for some insane reason there's NO WAY I could have made it there without being cove! red in weeds and had bloody feet . This has bothered me so much lately I have no memory of anything but when I think about it my heart starts racing like ALOT so I have to sit down and recompose ... This is the strangest thing to ever happen to me. When I got back to my car all my things were locked inside including my keys my shoes and socks were there as well even tho when I went to sleep they were on my feet ... If u have any idea what I should do about this PLEASE HELP ME I have lost a lot of sleep over this I'm scared to fall asleep now and I'm a 29 year old man .. Have you ever herd of something like this before ?? Also I had strange marks on my hand that r still visible.. Like a scar ... Sooo strange and very scary I just gotta find out how this happened it's destroying me . Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 10, 2016 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Los Banos, CA
Greetings, I am writing this statement on an incident that occurred on 10 Jul 2016, at approximately 6:00pm. This is not a hoax, I am not looking for publicity or any such attention. I am not sure is what I saw was a legitimate sighting and I am more looking more for answers to help me understand if what I saw was an actual alien being. So, my friend, her son, and I drove from San Diego to San Francisco for leisure on Friday to Sunday. On our way back, we were driving on the I-5 Fwy Southbound, towards San Diego. We were approximately 10 mins south of Los Banos. The scenery outside was barren, no buildings, structures or people, just dry grassy hills and dirt roads on the sides of the freeway. I was actually trying to get some rest when my friend the driver said, “What is that?” and pointed to the right side of the road. I immediately looked over and saw a tall figure about 6 feet tall in a thick black monk/death looking robe with a big hood. Now this was very unusual to me since it was about 90 degrees outside and in the middle of nowhere. Why would somebody be walking around dressed in a thick black hooded robe in this heat. So as we passed it, I had to get a good look at this person's face, so when I looked at it, it looked back at me. And what I saw chilled me to the bone. In this dark heavy hooded robe was a being that looked nothing human. It had brownish green scales with a short snout and its eyes were large and blackish that glistened in the sun. It was unmistakable even at about 100 feet away and it looked right at me with no expression. It wasn’t carrying anything or had any equipment with it and it was walking slow and awkward as if it were looking for something. I was scared to death, especially when it looked right at me, I thought maybe we should pull over and confront this thing, but honestly I was frozen and we kept driving. I had asked my friend if she had seen what I had seen and her 12 year old son in the back of the car and they verified the same thing. Again, I just am looking to see if what I saw could be a reptilian and if that is what other people report seeing. I really wish I would have pulled over and went back to get some evidence or a picture, but after reading some articles on reptilians, I feel I made a wise choice. I read that there may be entrances to their habitats in rural areas that may be unseen or hidden from humans. That may indicate that there may be a entrance by Los Banos off the I-5 fwy going south. I am not sure if other vehicles traveling down the road with us witnessed this sighting but it did happen and I am willing to swear an oath on it. I also had unusual experiences that happened when I was a child that I believe was contact with Grey Aliens which is foggy, but I have some clear recollection and memories of some incidences where I may have been abducted and my mother can vouch for that and has some insight on that. But that is another subject. This is the first time I have seen a being like this. Again, I am reporting this to hopefully gain some help to determine if what I saw yesterday could have been the real deal. And I respectfully ask for discreetness in this matter. Thank you for your time and I hope you can help me. (( We spoke via telephone with the witness on two occasions, and we were impressed by his eloquence and apparent sincerity. We suspect that he is a very good witness, and highly reliable. We have invited his friend and her son to submit additional reports, and we have invited the source of this report to submit an illustration of what the face looked like. He reports that the creature had a prominent snout, like that of a dog, and that it had scales on its skin. The witness states that he was formerly a member of the U. S. military. PD))
July 10, 2016 · 4:30 PM · LIGHT
Van Nuys, CA
At approximately 8PM on the evening of July 10th 2016, witnessed, with two others, four lights in the western sky over the San Fernando Valley area of California. First observation was a close cluster of two green, a blue and a red light, blinking intermittently and relatively close to the ground - approximating 3/4 mile, at 75 degrees above the western horizon. The objects spread apart and actually seemed to move in a horizontal plane, while blinking. The lights were on a non-repetitive pattern and of uneven strength. We managed to obtain both still photos and video of the objects, as the illumination was quite bright, especially the green spectrum. First assertion was that the objects were balloons of some sort, as their lights diminished over time, ( perhaps 7 minutes) as if they were drifting higher and seemed to move with contrasting winds of various altitudes.
July 9, 2016 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Lakeside, CA
Observed an object in the sky north west. Lights in a circular pattern. Green, Red, Blue, and White lights could be seen with the naked eye as object moved slowly towards the south west it paused in the sky twice. Both times it changed direction and eventually moved east until it was not visible. You could see the light rotating and the shape as it direction changed with the use of binoculars.
July 7, 2016 · 9:47 PM · CIRCLE
Laguna Hills, CA
I was completing a report to the MUFON web site regarding an object that was caught on my vehicle's dash cam and wife's cell phone on June 16, 2016. While near completion of the report, my wife called me outside to observe 2 objects. She told me 1st object was moving very rapidly across the sky while the 2nd object was moving more slowly. By the time I got outside I couldn't find the 1st object but I did see the 2nd object. It was moving from west to east, was reddish/white in color, and was a little larger than a star. I ran back inside the house grabbing my Sony 8mm night vision camcorder. I was able to record approximately 2:50 of footage of the object. My camera did have difficulty focusing on the object so it does go in/out of focus; however, I did manage some good footage of it. The footage appears black/white/greenish due the night vision mode so the colors we observed will not be visible. I converted the 8mm tape to a digital format so that it can be available for online viewing and uploading. Eventually, it disappeared into the night sky as it continued eastward. We did not hear any noise during the entire observation. My family has observed similar objects near our residence the past few months. I personally have seen strange objects in the sky, once on the ground, most of my life but this represents the 1st time I have made efforts to record them. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello - This is a follow up regarding a report I made to NUFORC today. This event occurred on July 7, 2016. I am providing a link to my unlisted YouTube channel where the footage can be viewed. As I mentioned in my report, I converted the 8mm tape to digital format for viewing purposes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMonYzCv4XY (I named the footage Thursday because that is the day of the observation) Kind regards, ((name deleted))
July 7, 2016 · 12:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Alameda, CA
I was sleeping and I woke up at the exact moment I saw green lightning (or a green flash) coming from the bay window over my head. I was startled because I had seen this same EXACT thing last year. It was green flashing or lightning. I waited for maybe 10 seconds... wide away at this point and saw it again, clear as day... bright green flashing, with a hot white center. It seemed to be right over Alameda...or even my house. I have waited a day for any news of power outages (down transformers that could've blown... no storms at all though). I have tried to find news of meteor showers in the area, and no info is available. It's just an eerie mystery and it has me perplexed. Also, it was silent..... both times (and my window is open for a breeze) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2016 · 11:33 PM · CIRCLE
Lincoln and Roseville, CA
We were driving down the highway and there appeared to be 3 bright lights in the sky. They moved into a triangle formation. Then a 4th light appeared and they broke up, all of the lights went it different directions. When I got to my house we got out of the car and we heard what sounded like an explosion. The 4th of July just passed, so I'm hoping that is the explanation.