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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
June 24, 2016 · 2:00 AM · RECTANGLE
East Oroville, CA
I am a disabled Veteran, with severe orthopedic issues. I am often outside in the spa, at all times of day and night. On this particular night, I was star gazing sitting in the spa, when I craft, that very similar to the type you'd see in the Predator movies, flew right over the house. It came from the direction of Sacramento and I could see it coming from miles away. It literally looked like the scene in Predator, every time they get ready to come down from the ship, in the movie. As a propulsion engineer, the first thing I looked for was some kind of propulsion signature from the rear of the craft, but there was nothing and no noise!!! No noise at all!!!
June 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
2 stationary white lights in a cluster with one brighter with several smaller lights just as bright. 2 clusters, NW and Eastern sky.
June 20, 2016 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
San Ramon, CA
Is someone releasing very large donut shaped balloons that fly very high? The whole family was just outside playing ball and riding bikes on street out in front of our house and we saw this thing floating through the sky very high up. It looked just like the one in the article I linked below. It was very high and very large as several commercial jets flew by as well and it ended up going into the same clouds so we could make a decent comparison. It didn't make any abrupt moves other than to come to a dead stop and then proceed a couple times. We watched it for about 5 minutes before I lost it in the clouds. My guess is someone released a very big circular donut shaped balloon... but if so I'd think that could be dangerous to air traffic flying so high up. http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2012/03/donut-shaped-ufo-seen-over-new-york.html
June 20, 2016 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Livermore, CA
My mom (56 years old at time) was working at Walmart in receiving. She stepped outside for her first break and saw these two objects in the sky. She began taking photos from her iPhone. They were two oval objects that appeared to be glowing from the bottom. They eventually got higher and faded away. We have multiple pictures of the sighting. My mom was (and still isnt) very tech savvy. The pictures were printed from a Facebook ad promoting some type of memory book for the year.
June 19, 2016 · 4:30 AM · EGG
Buena Park, CA
we were swimming at least 5 people saw it maybe it was a balloon but wass way too big and too high up and moving in weird directions and changing colors and I have a video send me a number i can text and i'll send it I took it on my iphne 5. See for yourself seemed to be glowing or blinking maybe reflective it looked silver like round maybe egg shaped hovering and moving quickly in all directions then staying still my friends on other side of buena park saw it too I would think a lot of people saw this it was 430 on fathers day everyone is barb queing We spoke with the source of the report, and he assured us that the report is serious. He will send links to the video he has posted to YouTube, which we will include here, when they arrive. PD
June 18, 2016 · 10:32 PM · UNKNOWN
Garden Grove, CA
-Brightness, speed, trajectory, distance, etc. was the same for each object and behaved exactly like a satellites. -iPhone compass showed a 221 degrees SW heading from West to South. -progression was 1light-followed by-1light-followed by-5to7lights(honeycomb shape)-followed by1light-followed by-1light. -I'm 43y.o. and don't use drugs, drink, or smoke cigarettes or weed. -I do stargaze a couple times every night for about 20 mins and have watched a hundred, if not more, satellites. -WOW! Never have witnessed a cluster of lights moving in formation. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 18, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Temecula, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 15, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Tarzana, CA
It was hovering in the open space just above tree line, near business buildings east of Reseda Boulevard and north of the 101 freeway. The lights on the object twinkled white and red in color. As soon as we both acknowledged its presence, it disappeared.
June 12, 2016 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Palo Alto, CA
FRIEND TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE WORKING NEAR A GOLF COURSE IN EAST PALO ALTO CALIFORNIA. AT AROUND 9:15PM, HIM AND ANOTHER PERSON WERE WORKING LATE, PULLING OUT OLD FENCE POSTS, FACING SOUTH, AND OBSERVED ABOUT SEVEN ORANGE BALLS OF LIGHT ABOUT QUARTER OF A MILE AWAY RISE UP WITH EVEN DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM. HE SAID THAT THEY WERE MOVING UP AND DOWN SLIGHTLY LIKE ~~~ AS THEY TRAVELED RISING UP SLOWLY TO AN AN ALTITUDE ABOUT 500' NOT HIGHER THAN ALTITUDE OF A FLYING CESSNA. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THEY CAME INTO VIEW, THE OBJECTS MADE A SHARP 90 DEGREE TURN, INCREASED SPEED, AND TOOK OFF IN A NORTH EAST DIRECTION. THE WHOLE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE IN ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES. ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER SEEING THESE THINGS, FOUR POLICE CAME RUNNING AT US WITH FLASH LIGHTS EVEN THOUGH WE WERE WORKING THERE ALL DAY.
June 12, 2016 · 8:58 PM · LIGHT
Redondo Beach, CA
I'd just left my house to pick up a takeout order from a local restaurant. It was just before 9 PM local time. I looked up in the northern sky, which was dark. Normally I see air traffic on final approach to LAX, which is only a few miles north of my home. Traffic moves East to West on final approach for normal wind patterns, and hence traffic moves right to left as one looks North to the airport. Tonight, I observed three bright lights, quite high in the northern sky. They were irregularly spaced, and quite bright, of roughly the same brightness, in roughly a horizontal line (not precisely), and all were orange in color. The color was strange to me, given the normal landing light (white) and navigation light (red and green) colors. Usually, with LAX traffic, one can distinguish individual lights on the planes coming in for final. These were single points as far as I could tell, and no flashing anti-collision lights. The trio must have spanned 10 or 15 degrees from my vantage point. Many times the size of a full moon in terms of angular separation between the leftmost and rightmost lights. The other thing that seemed odd is that they were moving slowly from left to right - in other words Eastward. That is very unusual for traffic at LAX. I kept my eyes on them on and off as I drove Eastward myself on Artesia Blvd (and Slausson) to the restaurant. I pulled into the restaurant parking lot, and just as I was looking for a spot, I noticed that the lights were fading out. No change in flight path. Soon afterwards they disappeared entirely. It was unclear whether there was low cloud cover in the distance that was obscuring the view to the lights - the sky was dark so it was impossible to tell. But the lights never re-appeared. I'm a student pilot and aerospace engineer, so have a background in aircraft spotting. These seemed very peculiar.
June 12, 2016 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe Springs, CA
Sunday June 12th, 2016, 7:35 pm-7:55pm. While at work from 7:30pm to 8pm, I have to be outside to supervise scheduled walking activities. At around 7:35pm, I hear a plane flying by, and I look up to see it and in the sky east of the moon, there is this shiny object or bright light looking sphere. It appeared to be moving very slowly to the east then stop. But at the same time there was some clouds coming from the east slowly and stop near the object. I am assuming the clouds stopped due to the offshore flow coming from the west. I thought it was too early for Venus or any star to come out with that much light in the sky. So it seemed awkward for the object to be a star or planet. At 7:40pm I go inside and comeback out at 7:45pm, the object is still there. I go back inside at 7:49pm then comeback out at 7:51-52pm and it is still there but no other stars or planets in the sky yet. At 7:55pm, I look up for a few seconds then just as I was going to look away the object took off west and disappeared. Let me explain “took off,” it was moving and quickly gaining momentum then sped off ultra fast until it literally disappeared. The only thing I can describe the acceleration looking like is a top fuel dragster launching or a Javelin missile being fired, except 5-10 times faster. I was in shock and could not believe what happened. After that there was no object in the sky anywhere that I can see. And there was no trail or sound.
June 11, 2016 · 11:57 PM · UNKNOWN
Laguna Beach, CA
Now this was the strangest thing I've ever seen in the sky....I was at a friend's apartment in Laguna Beach, visiting her for the first time in the area. While speaking to her, I looked up in the sky and saw 4 Bright red lights in a staggered position from one another, moving towards my right somewhat in an average speed, not too fast as I was able to capture a photo and video of the sighting. I could draw it if I had a pen to show you. I asked my friend what those lights were in the sky since she lived in the area. She turns around, looks up and says that she has never seen those lights, all of a sudden, one of them disappeared. They all then changed colors into a star like color. What made it even more strange, there wasn't any sound of these lights in the air, so I then decided to zoom my camera as much as I could to take a photo and snapped a shot. Afterwards, I took a short video with my phone. You can hear us talking asking what the lights are in th! e video, but not any noise whatsoever in the sky. Then, they just disappeared into thin air......So weird After this strange incident, there is def something other than planet earth life. You might say I'm drunk or on drugs - but that is real; I don't smoke, nor drink - extremely healthy and I am one of those people who has to, "See It to Believe It." So, this is why I have a video to remember such a thing. We have requested a copy of the video, and will post it together with the report, if the witness responds, and if he gives us permission to share the video publicly. PD
June 11, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
La Puente, CA
4 of us were outside in the backyard having a cigarette, it was already late between 11pm and 12am. My back to was to the sky, but not only did I see the flash of light illuminate everything around me, but I felt the pulse of the light. It pulsed about 5 times before disappearing completely. We are all frozen during the duration of the light, except for one of us who was actually right underneath it. He saw the oval orb of light with a metal lining. He described it being as big as a bus and right over head. White light pulsing, and flashes the same as a camera flash. Since he was exposed directly to it, he then felt a burning sensation throughout his spine the rest of the night, until the next morning. During the course of the light, he was the only able to move, as he ran into the house screaming at us to go inside. We all ignored him, and as soon as the lights disappeared, we all got up in unison and walked out to the yard. The night was deafening silent! About 5 min later, the music of the nearby parties picked up again, and everything was back to normal.
June 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Niguel, CA
I stepped outside to have a cigarette with my girlfriend and she said what is that light in the sky? It appeared to be an orange fire orb, circle in shape with no flashing lights and completely silent unlike a plane. Best way I can describe was almost like a low pulsing circle flame. The cloud layer was super thick and a break in the cloud allowed for this low flying fire orb to come through the cloud from the direction of the ocean and head northeast. The fireball flew what appeared to be extremely low, lower then any plane and then appeared to speed up and continue below the clouds for apprx one min and them disappeared off in the distance. I only say disappeared because the flame went out making the orb no longer visible. Approximately 30 seconds later another fire orb appeared at same altitude but much faster across the sky, them 2 more fire orbs back to back with the same altitude equally spaced apart came across the sky. All four came from the same direction and had the same exact formation as the previous fire orb, I have never seen anything like that. Complete silence with a bright light in the sky visible and then just disappeared as if the fire flame was turned off. At first I chalked it up to a flare from a military plane but the more i thought about I realized that flares don't follow each other back to back across the sky in the same formation and exact same direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 11, 2016 · 9:50 PM · CHANGING
Sonoma, CA
June 11, 2016. 9:50 pm Sonoma, Ca. After taking my mother home, my wife and I were walking out to the car in Moon Valley Park Sonoma, when I looked up and saw an orange orb in the sky. My wife got her phone out of her purse and started shooting pictures. We watched as it was slowly coming toward us, then it changed course to its left then started to fade out you could still see a faint point of light making circles started to grow again in size and looked like a faint grey smudge and began to fall looking like a jellyfish all the way down to the ground about 100 yards away, I got a real good look at it low to the ground it was almost transparent ghostly. We looked for it but found nothing. I went back to the spot next day and did not find anything. It look to be maybe 4 to 6 feet in size down near the ground and judging by that I would put it about 150 to 200 feet in the air before it came down.
June 11, 2016 · 6:25 PM · DIAMOND
North Hollywood, CA
While watching birds with binoculars, I noticed an object that at first appeared to be floating like a balloon but wasn't following the wind. It had distinct yellow and light blue colors at times which was noticeable because it was a cloudy day with occasional showers. Very gray. It easily could have been a glider, but that airspace is very restricted over Burbank. It started as a diamond shape but appeared to rotate. It almost looked like something was tethered to it at certain angles. It slowly moved Northwest just before two black military helicopters showed up traveling westward. Which makes me think I'm not the only one who was aware of it because I'm familiar with the air traffic in this area and those choppers are rarely seen.
June 10, 2016 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Chino, CA
On 6-10-2016 @ approx. 23:30, 5 orange lights swarmed into the sky in front of us to the south of Chino, Calif., and kind of maintained an orbit, almost hovering for several minutes, then a couple of the orange lights just disappeared as 3 more appeared followed by 2 more. I thought at first it looked like helicopters no noise all of the lights just vanished. There was a minimum of air traffic which is unusual since approach for LAX is in that path. Shortly thereafter air traffic seemed to resume and noticed some high flying aircraft criss-crossing in the skies above jet sounding like military.
June 10, 2016 · 6:10 PM · OVAL
Agoura Hills, CA
Wife shooting airplane and moon. Anomaly appeared in image 2 of 3 only. Facing west. Airplane probably originated at Burbank airport. Tried to enlarge image (attached). Another record of the anomaly evident upon closer inspection days after the photo was taken. We cannot identify the anomalous object, but it does not appear to use to be an authentic UFO. It may be debris in the lens system of the camera, but that is only a guess. PD
June 8, 2016 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Anaheim, CA
I was at Disneyland with my friends for grad night. We were outside of a ride waiting in line when I looked up at the sky to see the stars. I saw what appeared to be a satellite. It was headed south/southwest and was a reddish orange color. My friend and I both watched it for a minute or so before it began to act unusual. It began to zigzag and speed up and slow down. It even stopped and started at one point. At this point my friend looked away and the object stopped a second time. It turned from a reddish-orange to yellow and let out a sky blue beam out into the night sky on its left side and disappeared into the clouds. I cannot believe that my friend looked down at his phone just before it started to act like it was not a satellite but maybe other people saw it too. Disneyland can be very crowded.
June 8, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Palm Springs, CA
A friend was leaving my home to go to his home after dinner. It was approx. 10pm. After we had said good night, he ran back in the house and said come out here at look at this. There were four large crafts traveling at a high rate of speed, coming from the east and going west. My location is right across the street from the Palm Springs Airport. As we watched in disbelief, they appeared to come to a stop. From the stopped position, the lights seem to get smaller, so maybe they were flying straight up, I'm not sure. The aircrafts are still there over an hour later. They do not seem to be moving at all. The lights now look almost like stars, except they are brighter. While this was going on, a helicopter took off from the airport and flew right over my house and then landed, About 20 seconds later it took off again, and did the exact same thing. It did this four times. very strange
June 8, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Indio, CA
Saw 3 huge red-glowing lights coming over the North Indio Hills.. heading East to West.. later turned into traditional white light orbs in sky...disappeared heading Northwest
June 8, 2016 · 6:20 PM · EGG
Buena Park, CA
Went inside to get a camera - gone Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 8, 2016 · 1:35 PM · OTHER
South Lake Tahoe, CA
As I was looking over the photos I had taken while hiking in Van Sickle Bi-State Park, I noticed a UFO in the sky in one of my photos. I did not see the object "live", I only noticed it after the fact. I also took a 2nd photo that was identical in composition to the UFO-bearing photo just a few seconds later. There was no UFO in the 2nd photo. Both photos bear the time stamp of 1:35PM. It was a bright and sunny afternoon. There were a few other hikers in the area, but the park was largely empty while I was hiking. The UFO in my photo is somewhat rectangular, with a black bottom, silver sides, and an antenna coming out of the top. There is also a bright circle of light on the underside of the UFO.
June 8, 2016 · 9:05 AM · OVAL
Ridgecrest, CA
It was my second night stargazing this summer and I saw two unique objects. The first thing I saw could have been a high flying aircraft. The craft had several white lights that I could see. What I found unusual was the lack of sound as when the object flew over going south to north I heard no sound. When I first saw the object, I thought it was a satellite but when the object came closer towards me I could see individual creamy white lights on it. The white lights were solid and did not strobe. The object also seemed to be oval in shape as I could see an oval or boomerang shaped front that was silhouetted in the night sky. I did not observe any red or green lights on the object. At 45 degrees, I would estimate the size of the craft was about a quarter to an eighth of the size of my thumb. The second thing was a bright strobe-like light that lit up the sky. Not sure where or what caused the strobe but it was very bright and white. The light was seen in the south to southwest sky. Note: The light strobed vertically towards the ground and not across the sky. It was very bright and I could not see a light source.