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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 6, 2016 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Redlands, CA
I was driving my mom home to Palm Desert from Los Angeles via 210 east. On the left side - passenger side over head, a large green light came swooping down over to the left of the highway and just disappeared. It moved like a craft, very smooth. Could have been a meteorite. I meant to report it earlier but got sidetracked and forgot till I was listening to delayed show cast of CTC and when your report came on. The ironic thing was I was telling my work colleague about it while we were listening to it and then the next minute you reported a green lighter object from another report somewhere else. Ironic. All I could say was, see!? Anyway, it was quick, but exciting siting and if someone else saw it that night in that area, I would be interested to hear about it maybe there's an earthly explanation but I found it intriguing. Thanks for listening.
July 4, 2016 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Santa Barbara, CA
Last night there was a fireworks show in the Santa Barbara harbor. A group of us were watching it from the "Riviera" hillside overlooking the city and harbor. A few minutes into the show my attention was diverted to a green light ascending rapidly off the coast a couple of miles southeast of the harbor. It was "traffic light green" and appeared to be round. After a rapid vertical ascent of thousands of yards it stopped. It stayed stationary for a couple of minutes, then resumed another vertical ascent up to about 35 degrees above the horizon. Then it stopped again. Another couple of minutes passed and it began a very deliberate descent (not floating like a flare might do) to roughly where it had initially stopped. Another couple of minutes passed and it wobbled side-to-side briefly, then descended straight down to either the ocean or near the ocean, then the light blinked out.
July 4, 2016 · 9:12 PM · RECTANGLE
Hawthorne, CA
I was sitting on the lawn of my grandmothers house shortly after nine pm on the Fourth of July. We observed several Chinese lanterns to the north and there were intermittent fireworks going off around us. A short while later I observed what at first glance appeared to be an airplane. It was flying quite low, less then five hundred feet and yet made no sound. It was moving slowly. I first noticed its front lint which was white and solid but emitted no beam. The other lights on the wings were flashing but they were also bright white and emitted no beam. They were flashing at a much faster rate than any wing lights I have ever seen and they were to bright as well. Then instead of a rotating red beacon on the bottom it had a flashing white light. There was no body to the craft that I could see. I pointed it out to my godfather who is an engineering technician at Raytheon. He said he had never seen anything like it. He pointed it out to my grandfather, a retired naval aviation mechanic, who caught a fleeting glimpse as it flew away to the southeast and he was about as baffled as we were. The craft came from northwest to southeast and was visible for only about thirty seconds.
July 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Elk Grove, CA
4th of July watching the fireworks we were naturally looking at the sky. I witnessed a bright object that resembled a satellite crossing the sky at a high rate of speed at a very high altitude. The object suddenly came to a complete stop before scooting off and stopping again in sudden short bursts. It made several sudden 90 degree turns and twists as it continued to move in short bursts of speed. It then stopped the erratic movements and sped off at a very high speed across the sky and out of site. Approximately 30 seconds after the first object disappeared out of site a second object that looked identical to the first object appeared from the same general location as the first object and performed a very similar series of short burst maneuvers as the first as it travelled the same path and like the first object eventually disappeared out of site leaving myself and my fiancé baffled as to what we had witnessed.
July 4, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Channel Islands Point Magu, CA
Was above the Military Base Point Magu Watching the forth (sic. Fourth) of July fireworks.
July 4, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
San Gabriel, CA
I was looking for fireworks, I sa 2 red light's with an alternating green light flashing on what appeared to be the rear of the craft, It hovered in place and I watched for a couple of minutes. I went to put my cat inside because of the noise, when I returned outside there was no trace of it.
July 3, 2016 · 9:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Riverside, CA
Watching fireworks display I saw a red light to my NW thought it was a helicopter until it stopped on a dime and hovered for a few minutes then moved in a manner uncharacteristic of a helicopter back to the SW a 100 feet then it continued to hover and move in a very smooth manner a number of times. It then went towards the NE and I lost sight behind trees as it moved from the area. Too high for a drone too smooth for a helicopter and the manner of flight did not indicate a plane (which were in the area since we are on the flight path into Ontario airport) Multiple people viewed and exclaimed that it was extraordinary.
July 2, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Kings Canyon National Parks, CA
Our family took a recent trip to Sequoia National Forest/Kings Canyon to have some fun on the weekend of the July 4th holiday. The 4 of us (my parents, my wife and myself) stayed at the Montecito Lodge off of the 198 General’s Highway. We only stayed one night--the night of July 2nd. The lodge grounds have several summer-camp style buildings, each with their own amenities. We stayed in the main lodge building which includes the check-in and hospitality desk, kitchen and dining areas, recreation room, lodging and a patio on the southeast outside area for dining and lounging. Around 10PM on the night of July 2nd, my wife, my mother and myself wanted to get a look at the night sky. My father had already gone to sleep. At an elevation of 7,400 feet and a very clear mountain night, we thought we’d take the opportunity to see the stars. We went outside and onto the back patio area of the main lodge: it faces southeast down the canyon, with a clear view far into the High Sierra’s, with Mt. Whitney hidden off to the left, and the 198 Highway winding down directly ahead, and more of Sequoia down below and stretching far off to the South. At night, the view off the back patio was incredible -- completely unobstructed view of a huge area of night sky, with little to absolutely no local light pollution. We counted 2 orbiting satellites and a few aircraft at cruising altitude (though the air traffic was far away, not passing directly overhead) and hundreds of thousands of stars. You could clearly see the Milky Way with your own eyes. My wife left to go up to the lodge room around 10:25PM, but my mother and I stayed out for just a few more minutes. We were both looking directly Southeast, in the lower 25% of our viewing area above the horizon when we noticed one small burst of white light. We continued watching, as our first idea was that it was possibly aircraft beacon. But it then flashed again, with similar intensity but not identical. We both said to each other, “did you see that?” We kept our eyes focused on the area of sky -- we noticed an extremely dim almost pin-point light drifting upward when it flashed again twice, maybe three times, with in-consistent intensity. We were both unnerved and were at this point asking each other, “what the hell is that thing?” After flashing, the pin-point dim light would drift, up then down, left then right and stop -- flash, flash -- and then drift more. This went on for roughly 5 minutes, and eventually it stopped -- appearing to have completely diminished. It was just one sole source of light that seemed to be emitting the flashes, then drifting, to flash again before disappearing. The flashes of light were pure white, and very bright. The flashes expanded to nearly the size of a pencil eraser head held out at arm’s length. We realize that it was July 4th weekend, but this was not anything like fireworks. It was also not civilian aircraft or satellite activity, as we had clearly spotted those aircraft earlier in the evening. The altitude of the light appeared to be 50k feet or higher -- upper atmospheric, possibly--from our perception and location. To our knowledge, nobody else witnessed this, as the campgrounds were very quiet, and most people had turned in for the night at this time. It was clearly something strange, and we both continued to talk about it for the rest of our trip, knowing we’d witnessed possibly something paranormal or extraterrestrial. Observers' backgrounds: 1) 30 year old male, office manager of a production company in Los Angeles. 2) 59 year old female, retired High School English Teacher from Southeast Texas on holiday in Southern California. The location of the Montecito Sequoia Lodge is: 36°41’41.80” N, 118°52’20.15” W, elevation 7,414ft.
July 2, 2016 · 10:28 PM · LIGHT
Lafayette, CA
At about 22:28 I witnessed a bright white light moving slowly about the same speed as the ISS crosses the sky, no flashing strobes to indicate an aircraft. the object was high in the sky but just east of my location in Lafayette, CA., it moved generally north to south for about two minutes and as it did it slowly dimmed to unobservable. I immediately checked the NASA "sightings" website for the ISS for my area but the next possible sighting for the ISS is on 7/6/16, meaning this was not the ISS that I witnessed. of course it was very dark, no moon, and there were no clouds or trees to obscure the visibility. At its brightest I would say it was twice as bright as the apparent brightness of the brightest star in the sky at that time.
July 1, 2016 · 11:00 PM · DIAMOND
Lodi, CA
Multi-colored diamond or triangular shaped objects seen every night for the last 2-3 months. They are not moving as if fixed in the sky. They are located in the eastern and western sky. They appear as reddish-blue colored lighted objects that are quite large, perhaps the size of 3-4 football fields although difficult to tell. Some are closer and others are more distant but all have a distinct triangular or elongated diamond shape.
July 1, 2016 · 10:15 PM · CIGAR
Mount Laguna, CA
On Friday 07/01/16, at approximately 2215 hours, my friend and I witnessed an object in the sky. The duration of this event was about 10 to 15 minutes. I first noticed this object because of the light that was being emitted from it was very bright. It was a clear night and the moon was not up. The object would pulsate with three small pulses that were not very bright and then a fourth pulse that was extremely bright almost comparable to a welder's arc. The pulses were not in a pattern they were intermittent. It started from the West and traveled East bound sometimes staying stationary. As this object traveled in which the speed was never constant did not make any noise nor a trail that was left behind. It appeared to very high in altitude but hard to confirm. When the object would emit the bright pulse of light it appeared to start from the middle of the object and spread outward which made it look like a cigar shape. Once this object was straight overhead a second object appeared near the original object and was conducting itself in the same manner as the first object. The second object did not last long however, it lasted only about 3 to 5 minutes and disappeared. Then the object went to a North East direction and out of sight. One other observation was that there were no other aircraft in the area during this event and once this object was gone, aircraft (airliners) appeared again following the usual routes they take in the sky.
July 1, 2016 · 10:15 PM
Upland, CA
My wife and I were removing the top of our Jeep on the evening of Friday July 1st, 2016. As I was installing the soft top, directly above my head in the middle of the sky, I noticed an explosion from what I can only call a "shooting star" coming from the west. I continued to watch and seen another shooting star from the opposite direction explode in roughly the same point in space. I alerted my wife who watched with me for a few minutes. As what seemed like a battle in space continued, I knocked on my neighbor's door, he came out and watched the show continue for a few minutes. I attempted to capture video from my cell phone, but the shooting stars and explosions were too dim to capture. You can hear us in amazement as the explosions continued. After about 5 minutes, the shooting stars and explosions ceased, and I've never seen such an event again. We will routinely go out to observe major meteor events, and have for many years. In my 43 years on Earth, this is the only time I've ever seen or heard of such an event.
July 1, 2016 · 8:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Escondido, CA
I have never heard a what sounded like a jet engine this loud or low there was no plane in sight my dog took off I was expecting a giant explosion very disturbing.
June 30, 2016 · 11:09 PM · LIGHT
Santa Clarita, CA
Went from very bright to dull. The object is also stationary.
June 30, 2016 · 10:07 PM · FIREBALL
Placerville, CA
Event lasted aproximately five seconds.
June 30, 2016 · 8:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
I saw a strange flashing of green and red of a stationary object in the northern sky, before Mt Baldy/San Antonio Mtns. Then it changed colors. I fetched my binoculars and the best I can say was that there were 7 lights that were changing colors- red, blue, purple, but mostly green with a white light in the center. The object moved around and eventually dipped out of sight. Lasted 45 minutes. I did not detect a body of the craft but it was the fast flashing lights and there were 7 major lights in a circle. Strange whatever it was. I have video too but it is indistinct. Only with binos could I make out the detail. And it was still for a long time but when it moved, it covered space rather quickly. Would be seen by others in area, northern sky, and not very high in the sky
June 30, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pacifica, CA
We got our telescope and focused in on the object. It was clearly a UFO. It looked like a circle/sphere shape. It had bright white and yellow glowing lights around the perimeter of the circle. There were two straight long lines in the middle that moved like clock hands, back and forth. It hovered for about an hour from when we spotted it. Then, in a split second flew away out of sight.
June 30, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Pacifica, CA
I took out the telescope and when focused, discovered it was moving very slowly. It took about a minute to move across the lens frame. I kept moving the telescope to keep it in sight. It travelled very slowly in a southern path along the pacific coast. It had to be at a very high orbit to move that slowly. We watched it until dark, when it disappeared by getting smaller, presumably by gaining altitude. The lights were not visible to the naked eye, because the object was too high. The focused image in our small telescope appeared with the distinguished bright lights in an arc along the top, and dim along the bottom. The image in the center changed form, but generally resembled a T. The base of the T pointed in different directions, from straight down to about 4 o'clock. The lights did not move at all, the sphere did not appear to rotate. It was a perfect sphere shape, there were more details on the surface that were changing or indistinguishable, not drawn here. I wish we had a camera telescope. This was truly the most amazing thing we have seen.
June 30, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Woodland Hills, CA
10 flying objects in formation just sitting in sky hovering over my building sitting still than as we all noticed they started moving in formation creating symbols like they were trying to communicate to us. than they started moving in another direction but all followed never losing distance. looked like stars but i know better. it was a nice day but with some clouds and that is where the first appeared. round lights. looked like but you can tell they were very intelligent.
June 29, 2016 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Long Beach, CA
It was approx. 6:30 pm and we were sitting on our patio when we both spotted 2 shiny orbs traveling together, then three, four and then six all appeared to be pulsing a white light, they would cluster together closely, then a couple started moving away. They seemed to get brighter and then fade, then brighter again, one moved away from the group but was still visible. We watched them as they moved in different directions and at one point two of them seemed like they " merged ", but then separated again. After observing this for about 30 mins, they all just simply VANISHED all at the same time, as if someone turned off a switch.........they were there and then they were gone instantly.
June 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
It was 1:40 am around June I was outside waiting for my girlfriend Outside by the car when in the corner of my eye I see something moving horizontally from the right to the left then when I focused on it it made a sharp almost zig zag maneuver and instantly disappeared all within a second or less. (( Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)
June 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Palomar Mountain, CA
The bright light appeared over palomar mountain then proceeded to dim and go far up into sky to outer space very fast. It made zero sound.
June 27, 2016 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Garden Grove, CA
My son and I where setting in our backyard when my son looked up and said " what is that?" I looked and seen a black round disc traveling northwest in the sky. My son went and got binoculars and was watching this disc move as I was. His fiancé came out to witness this ufo and seen the same thing. When looking at disc threw the binoculars you could see round ball like things around the disc. It moved at a slow pace than it would stop and hover for a long while. It was a cloudy evening so the disc really stood out. There is no doubt what we witnessed was an alien craft of some kind. The way it moved than would just stop and hover was like no other thing we have ever seen. Very strange!
June 25, 2016 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Rosamond, CA
Driving on Sierra highway towards Rosamond, I'm looking out the window and look towards the mountains that on the other side it's Bakersfield and at the top of the mountains about 50 to 100 feet above, I saw 1 bright reflective object, just staying still in the air, I thought it was a plane on coming, but as I stay looking for it for several minutes it starts to just look more silvery and metallic and about 8 minutes of it being still then after it starts to look like if it's disappearing and then as soon as I think it's gone from view, orange bright slightly diagnal light starts to show from behind the mountain and slowly for the next 10 or so minutes the bright object shows how long it is I'd say about maybe 40 feet long and not only is it the object I saw but more on the right of it start to appear, the same orange bright diagnal shape light, my friend says look there is a dome on top of the light do u see it, I couldn't see it, but I saw about 4 or 5 of ! those light beams the exact same size appearing over the mountain, appearing as if they were always there, I record but none of it is clear on my video just the words and audio of what me and my friends are describing. I get to where I needed to go and after about 5 minutes I come back and look at the same spot and there is nothing, if it was chemtrails they sure would have been there still, but when I look I see nothing that I was looking at 5 minutes earlier, all I see is the plain blue sky. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD