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June 7, 2016 · 9:39 PM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
As seen from Long Beach, Ca 90804 looking NE on 6/7/16 between 21:38-21:41. Moving from the N.E. in the South direction, stalled out then moved directly East. These 2 objects both had nose profiles (aka wings) as a result of subsonic pressure coefficients. From our vantage point, there was clearly fire engulfing these objects in our fist visible time frame. Once stalled, there was a direct turn to the East, fire subsided then object faded after an average of 15 seconds of flight time but was still visible with what could been taken as a very high altitude aircraft. Someone had to of seen these objects, and has photos, or an explanation of what they saw. I am looking for anyone that was on American Airlines 1116 flight out of LAX on 6/7/2016 as they had to of seen this from their flight..... There was an “U.F.O.” of sorts just off of your port side wing tip and above the aircraft. AA1116 was passing thru 8000' at the time of the spotting.
June 6, 2016 · 2:00 PM · TEARDROP
Pleasanton, CA
I looked at the road, then out my windshield, and saw the same thing. I looked out the side window again and they were still there, weaving in and out of their paths. Then I saw my exit and planned to stop and get a better look. But they were gone. The sky was clear, no clouds at all. I saw what looked like a plane in the distance, much farther, it was small and white and tubular shaped and it disappeared as well. They seemed real, and not my imagination. They did not look like anything I have seen on TV. The objects did not fit any of the characteristics on the form. It was an exciting moment.
June 5, 2016 · 4:00 AM · OTHER
Valley Village, CA
060516_3:50 AM PST Usually clear skies – no moon - Looking almost due north – 1. Noticed a large object with a slow-2 sec. pulsed glow over entire area of object at about 15 sec. intervals above the spares cloud cover. Object moved very fast and changed directions several times within in 2-3 sec. and continued south east. Followed by similar object, though different path but equal in behavior. event lasted 60-90 sec. each. Elliptical in shape - follows mathematical coefficients. 2. Same direction - noticed what would be best described as very - high altitude dispersed lighting. One flash only. I'm the ultimate skeptic – this is not my first observation. Don't have $10 million in camera equipment needed that ready to go at a moments notice. Had a bright LED flash light and I did flash a sequence of primes!
June 4, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Santa Clarita, CA
from south end of the sky to where they disappeared in the northern sky in a matter of minutes. reddish dots in a random steady formation, a couple of them on the outer side did seem to change pattern slight but kept formation with the group. when they passed overhead they were completely silent. ran for my cell phone but battery was about 4% plugged in, as I was using it to stream music, the phone at this point will not allow me to enter camera mode.
June 4, 2016 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
Joshua Tree, CA
This sighting was made during the "Contact in the Desert" event, held 3-6 June 2016 at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center (JTRC) in Joshua Tree, CA. Spanning an approximately 10-minute period beginning at about 10:30 PM, we (my wife and I) observed a total of seven (7) continuously-luminous flying objects approached JTRC at very high speed over the Western horizon (direction of Yucca Valley). The objects arrived singly, one after the other, and in pairs at irregular intervals over the approximate 10-minute observation period. None of the objects exhibited standard red, green or white blinking aircraft navigation lights. Each object flew exceedingly smoothly, silently and rapidly towards the East and then each turned smoothly toward the North/Northeast when they arrived directly North of the JTRC grounds. The distance to the flying craft was estimated to be less than two miles, but could have been as little as one mile away at their closest approach to t! he JTRC. Throughout their approach from the West and eventual disappearance to the North, the objects emitted a continuous pale bluish/green to soft amber light. The craft were sufficiently bright and large to be very easily observed without the assistance of night-vision optics or binoculars. At irregular intervals during their flight trajectories, each craft displayed bright flashes of an iridescent green glow. The glowing flashes did not appear to emanate from a fixed point on the craft, but rather seemed to be diffuse in nature and sweep over the craft in an uneven manner. The flash duration was about 1 second or less. As mentioned above, the craft were fairly close (estimated 1-2 miles) and when the green flashes occurred, it was just possible to make out some kind of hull structure to the craft, i.e., the craft did not appear as sharp points of light or amorphous balls of light. When the craft were targeted by one or more hand-held lasers, they sometimes flashed green. But they also flashed a green glow at times when they were n! ot illum inated by lasers. From its first appearance on the western horizon, each object took about 30 seconds (or possibly less) to complete its west-to-east flyby past the JTRC, perform the sweeping northerly turn, and subsequently gradually disappear over the northern horizon. The estimated distance of the objects when they first appeared over the western horizon was 5 miles. Similarly, the estimated distance to the point of disappearance in the north was also 5 miles, resulting in a total (visible) flight trajectory of 10 miles. Assuming this distance was traveled in 30 seconds or less, the minimum speed of the objects may be estimated at about 1200 miles per hour. Importantly, no sound of any kind was detected as the objects flew past, which would be consistent with an unconventional (i.e., non-jet engine) type of propulsion system.
June 4, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Joshua Tree, CA
I will attempt to be succinct in order to keep this report brief. Please call me for additional details. I am the Owner of UFO Sighting Tours in Sedona, AZ. I have completed 588 tours with the use of PVS 7, Gen. 3 Military Night Vision Goggles (NVGs). I was hired by the CITD conference to run their Night Vision Events at this year’s 2016 conference running June 2 thru 6, 2016. The previous 4 listed reports on this site from Joshua Tree, CA, were from attendees of the Saturday, June 4th event that I led. I know many additional people that were in attendance who may be contacted for reports/interviews and I may provide phone numbers. I am a trained observer and a past MUFON investigator. I was a past member of the Board for MUFON OC, CA. On June 4th well over 100 people were gathered at Orion’s point lookout, a location at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. At approx. 10:00 or just prior, most of the attendees witnessed what I am about to describe. There were 18 pairs of NVGs provided, as well as many individuals privately owned goggles present. Yet the following were clearly visible with the naked unaided eye and were seen by most present without equipment. The following sightings lasted approx. 20 minutes total time. I was busy leading the group and instructing them on a PA system and did not note the time, but many of those present informed me after the fact. Videos of this event are surfacing and are being gathered. A professional documentary film crew was present on behalf of CITD and achieved footage of these sightings, but I have not seen it. I will provide it as soon as it is available. As I witnessed it: Approaching from the west and flying east across the valley in front of us, and coming low over a hill, were the following large colored lights flying extremely fast. First to appear was a blue light, then shortly thereafter a red or amber light, and then 2 bright green ones. After a brief pause of a few minutes came 2 more green ones followed by a single green one, again, flying over the hill at an extremely rapid speed. This second grouping then slowed way down and came together to form a distinct triangle formation and continued to fly across the valley maintaining this formation traveling all the way in a very slow even pace. Eventually this formation disappeared from vision right in front of us. I was not holding NVGs at the time, but those that were said this triangle formation was seen speeding up and shooting up off into space. Many said that somewhere in this mix was a purple light, but I did not see that. This was a total thus far of abou! t 7 clearly visible craft. People were yelling out, applauding and very excited during these events. After a about 5 minutes had passed, Jimmy Church, popular radio talk show host and his wife Rita approached me. A friend of theirs’s had called them on her cell and told them to come quick! I informed them they just missed some remarkable sightings. When suddenly in comes yet another large green light from over the same hill to the west. And shortly after even another green light. They witnessed these 2 green lights (naked eye) along with other objects that they saw using the NVGs over the next 10 mins. Soon after those 2 green ones, a very large amber light came right over us all and very quickly disappeared right above us. Including this amber one, the total crafts sighted in about 20 minutes was well over 10. All 10 major sightings were way, way, way too fast to be satellites, completely silent, went from hauling in to slowing down to a snail’s pace immediately, and then completely disappea! red before us. All of which are things military jets and satellites CAN NOT DO! We started viewing that night at 8:30 p.m. and didn’t stop till 11:30 p.m. and continued to have sightings on and off the whole while. I educate everyone on all the various type of planes, shooting stars, and all about satellites in order to be able to rule those out. Then and only then are we left with unknown or unidentified objects. All these sightings were clearly unidentified! Also in use were multiple high powered green lasers. I had brought eight 5-mile, two 10-mile, and one 100-mile visible length of beam lasers and they were distributed throughout the crowd and some people had brought their own. As these 10 total objects over about 20 minutes were witnessed many people were hitting them with the lasers. We use the lasers both for pointing out objects and for flashing at them to get possible UFOs to flash back. This has proven successful on most of my tours. As these 10 objects were hit by lasers, myself and others realized that while some may have been flashing back in response, that most likely our lasers were hitting actual metallic surfaces and reflecting off of the objects! Many of the people standing near me, including Jimmy Church, thought this is what we were actually seeing. This would also mean that these objects were extremely close. The response from the crowd had been overwhelming. Many people have expressed that this was a paradigm changing event for them. I’m spoiled. I get to see real sightings on all my tours. But this night, same as those, I loved providing that experience for others. I never get tired of people’s reactions. For me, it’s always confirmation that UFOs are real and seeing them is truly believing. We would like to convey our gratitude to Melinda Leslie, a UFO researcher, and one of the speakers at the Contact in the Desert 2016 Conference, for sharing the information in this report. PD
June 4, 2016 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Fair Oaks, CA
While walking my dog, I observed a circular object at 1945 hrs in the sky that was stationary. It was a dark metallic color. It struck me as odd that the shape was not moving. The object was just below the cloud deck. I thought maybe it was a raptor riding thermal currents; but I thought this was not possible do to the stationary status of the object. Besides, this object did not behaving like raptors I have viewed before over my neighborhood. I observed the object for a full five minutes; after which I went to my house to retrieve my bird watching binoculars (@ 1950 hrs). When I returned to the same vantage point to view the object it was still staionary, in they sky, below the cloud deck, not having moved. By this time it was 1952 hrs. As I viewed the object with my binoculars I could see a slight glint or light on the western side of the object. Suddenly the object vanished. I had the strange feeling that the object knew I was observing it when it dissapeared. I continued the watch in and around the same area of the sky for another five minutes ... it never reappeared. If I were to pinpoint the location I would have to say the object was over the city of Folsom, Ca, north and slightly east by Folsom lake. One thought that crossed my mind was that this may have been a mylar balloon, however at the height which I observed it, I don't believe that to be the case.
June 4, 2016 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Lancaster, CA
Watering my backyard lawn, looking towards the east towards Edwards Air Force base, me and my friend spot a silver metallic disk shape saucer thing between a pocket in a cloud. me and my friend stay staring at it for about 1 minute, pondering and trying to guess what it is, knowing as I always see planes on coming from that same way I thought it was just a training drill or some plane from the base, but then as we are looking at it we watch as the UFO wobbles like a flimsy frisbee out of the clouds to the right into a clear part of the sky, I've never seen any plane maneuver the way that metallic disk did, it wobbled from the cloud to a part of the sky so fast and stopped and stood still so fast like with slight ease, I know it wasn't a drone either by the way this hung wobbled in the air just to change its position, it moved about several hundred feet within seconds and as it stood in the spot it was it didn't wobble, and it just started to gleam and disappear, as if it was going directly east from where it was disappearing unnaturally. Seeing it move in the air was the strangest thing I've ever seen, and it was very far. I, never going to forget the way it maneuvered, almost like a 50,s alien up movie, it looked like a common or what I think to be common UFO. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
June 3, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Orange, CA
Was smoking a cig, saw a orange ball of light about the same size of light you'd see from a low plane, but it was orange not white and there were no flashing lights. Watched the light fly slowy across the sky, and then it stopped and moved backwards, the way it was coming from. Repeated to hover and shift slowly through the sky, it was flickering like a star but not a plane or helicopter, I watched the object stop moving and a white line showed up below it, and it started to get smaller and as it was getting smaller the light got less bright, and all of the sudden, it vanished. While watching it, I looked around for someone else looking but the only other things that saw were the two random cats I saw sitting in the street staring at the sky. Sighted near heart park in Orange CA, object was floating in the sky somewhat toward Angel Stadium. Anyone else see this??
June 3, 2016 · 9:45 PM · RECTANGLE
San Francisco, CA
One huge rectangular and one huge cigar shaped object seen hovering side by side over S.F. Bay. Through binoculars I watched a semi-transparent yellow orange rectangle with a huge cigar object on the left manuevering and moving very slowly near it. This rectangle did not look solid and seemed to fade in and out while changing shape and color. This object took on the shape of a glowing lampshade at times and at other times it changed shape lengthwise. Multiple cigar or disc shape objects appeared in a group of 3 at 9:45 P.M. and at 9:52P.M. a second group of 2 cigar objects and the rectangle appeared side by side. These cigar objects were much smaller than the first object seen hovering near the rectangle. After about 10 minutes the rectangle basically just faded away. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be sober-minded and sincere, in describing his sighting. However, we do not understand why other witnesses have not submitted other reports, given how dramatic an event the witness describes. PD
June 3, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Norwalk, CA
9 orange lights in the sky heading NE in 2 groupings; 4 in the first, followed by 5. They first appeared travelling fairly low, horizontal to the ground. After two or three minutes the angle of flight grew steeper until they were heading almost straight up. Upon reaching a certain altitude they could no longer be seen. Within the 2 groupings smaller groups of twos and threes apparently synchronized their movements.
June 3, 2016 · 11:35 AM · OVAL
Joshua Tree-Twenty Nine Palms, CA
I was on my way to Contact in the Desert in Joshua Tree. I was in my friends car driving on Twenty Nine Palms highway. I noticed something in the sky reflecting light in my eye. I pointed it out to my friend, who then pulled over for us to figure out what we were looking at. It was a morphing orb that was hovering and pulsated directly above our car. It was intentionally interacting with us. This event took place today, Friday, June 3, 2016, at 11:30am today. I have 4 videos of this event.
June 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · EGG
Amsterdam, CA
When it went out of sight, another one appeared in exactly the same way as the first one, above my head, about 10 meters high and followed the exact same route as the first one, like a dejavu experience. I was too baffled to grab my phone to take a video of them, also I was walking my two big dogs for which I needed both hands. I know what I saw and haven't shared it with anyone, only at this site. This report initially was posted for Amsterdam, Netherlands. We since have learned that the location was Amsterdam, California. We apologize for the error. PD
June 1, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Elk Grove, CA
06/01/16 1:00pm. sighted two very large aircraft 1 flying due east to west 2nd due north to south. Both off white, not markings side or botto. I could see someting red on upright tail fin, not able to identify marking. Both planes were releasing white plumes from the REAR of the plane not from the engines on the wings. Planes looked to be much larger than the largest transport plane I saw at USAF Travis air force base, Ca. Sighted 9 other chem trails released earlier. After 3.5 hrs) I could still see outline of where releases took place. The UFO part of this report is the unkn planes orgin and the unkn release from the rear of these planes. Also, maybe unrelated or not the previous Thurs I saw many long white spider looking webs drifting past my home. Picked one that landed with a stick, touched it, not a web! Material looked like a soft plastic type material. Appeared to be in slim spikes sticking all over, didn't loose shape when touched???? Not like your normal UFO sightings but very strange none the less. Thank You for your time.
June 1, 2016 · 11:30 AM · CYLINDER
San Jose, CA
I saw an object about the size of a 55 gallon drum, glowing amber, without bright lights, floating over the top of the houses in my neighborhood, while I was walking my dog. I observed that it flowed over the top of the houses, then floating between two street lights, then up past some trees at the end of the street and then it faded from vision as it moved out into space. I drew pictures of it when I got home. It was glowing amber; it was not bright light and seem to be glowing from the inside. It was the shape of a cylinder or a 55 gallon drum. The barrel type of object floated quietly. I asked someone who I saw on the street about 5 minutes later if they had seen it and they said no. I'd really like to know what it was.
May 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
Pink, changing to red. Flying, then stops in its tracks. Completely silent. Too high to be a helicopter, too fast to be a plane, and stood still. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Gerber, CA
I went out to let my dog out and as usual, I looked up at the stars. About 2:00 high and to the south, I saw a cluster of lights. I could see red and yellowish lights. The object was stationary. I wondered if I was seeing a space station or satellite, but it wasn't moving. So I went in and called my husband to see if he saw the same thing, I told him to look up to the south. He described the same thing I saw. So I wanted more confirmation and called my neighbors down the street. I asked them to both go outside and look to the south and let me know if they saw anything. They both described the same object and that it was stationary. I just went out and it is still there.
May 26, 2016 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Modesto, CA
Seen North of Modesto, near cross streets, Orangeburg and Oakdale.
May 26, 2016 · 10:00 AM · CIGAR
San Francisco, CA
2 cigar shaped ufos spotted over san francisco with flashing lights. They floated slowly over the city covered a large distance but rotated in place as if looking around. I could clearly see it with my own eyes and captured 2 videos on 2 different devices that shows the blinking lights. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYf5a2qUsUw (look closely for flashing dots after 30 seconds) Details: Shape- Long rectangular approx: 6-10 ft long (maybe more ?) x 3 ft high x 1-2 ft thick - almost like an stretched brick with rounded corners, edges didn't appear sharp. Color/Lights Dark matte or metallic color with 2 round lights on either side of the long side. Lights were mostly green, flashing in a random pulse, occasionally a long stripe of light would flash connecting the dots. Occasionally the lights appeared more red then green. Flight Pattern: They floated from Buena Vista Hill due east towards Downtown. They rotated in place, turning along the middle of the long axis in a random "looking" around type of pattern both clockwise and counterclockwise.
May 25, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles (Del Mar Beach), CA
We suspect that the report is an attempt to hoax the reader. PD
May 25, 2016 · 4:15 AM · FLASH
Barstow, CA
On the morning at 04:15 of 25 May, 2016, my son and I were star gazing in our front yard. To the East of our house there was a fast moving flash of light. We both thought that it was a satellite and watched it move. We both were surprised on the brightness and the flashing frequency it had. As it was moving in a North North West direction, we noticed the movement was in an arcing path, not a straight path. Also, the flashing was moving in a zigzag pattern from left to right. A flash on the left then a flash in a diagonal direction to the right. No sound was associated with the flashing light. Unfortunately, I have no visual evidence for this event. I work with and on military aircraft for a living and have never seen anything with the light pattern or movement such as my son and I witnessed. I live South of China Lake Naval Air Station and the flight path of the flashing light is not in the air corridor for China Lake NAS or the Edwards AFB fast mover corridor which is North or China Lake NAS.
May 24, 2016 · 6:30 AM · CIGAR
Carlsbad, CA
6:30am Tuesday, May 24th, 2016... Our backyard looks west towards the Pacific Ocean where we can see San Clemente Island, and just north of that is Catalina Island. We noticed this very bright long light sitting on the ocean horizon. At first thought it was the Sun's reflection, but that would be impossible for the Sun's location at that time. Then thought it may have been a cruise ship, but have never seen one out there before, plus on closer look, through binoculars, we couldn't see any body of structure, just either one long bright light, or big lights close together looking as one. The lights were stationary. No movement, no flashing, no noise. nothing. Just stationary, perched on the water's horizon. My wife and I watched it for about 5 mins, then went inside. About 5 mins later I went to check on it and it had completely gone... I have a photo on my cell phone.
May 21, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
San Diego, CA
While starting to drive my car away from a party at 9:45 pm, Saturday, May 21, in the Mission Hills area of San Diego, I saw what was like a constellation of bright white stars, maybe about 12, in the area clear of trees above the street, towards the west. I thought to myself, "What’s Cassiopeia doing there, and the Big Dipper, too low in the sky and in the wrong direction." I pulled my car over and got out, and saw that the lights were slowly moving from west to east. Seeing them in motion was quite a shock. Not planes, not helicopters, just steady bright white lights floating slowly to the north of where I was, from west to east. I ran back to the house and told everyone to come out to see what was happening. The 15 or so still there came outside onto the driveway and sidewalk to watch the show. The lights seemed to be drifting, slightly changing position in relation with one another. They seemed to be slowly ascending as they moved east they neared the posi! tion of the full Moon, which had risen about an hour or two earlier. They gradually faded from sight. A retired policeman was among the witnesses. Our guess on the most mundane side was that they could have been balloons with attached lights, launched from Ocean/Mission/or Pacific Beach and were riding the nightly onshore breeze which was taking them to the east, directly over Mission Bay then Mission Valley to our north. I later went to Ocean Beach and asked fishermen on the north side of the pier if they had see balloons launched from the long stretch of these three above beaches to the north, but none had seen anything. I recall seeing in the news a similar report of floating lights a year or two ago, also in San Diego. I was just visiting in San Diego for the weekend, from Minneapolis, for my brother’s memorial service.
May 21, 2016 · 6:15 PM · SPHERE
Claremont, CA
There was a group of about half a dozen small, bright white orbs high above. One seemed a little closer and brighter than the others. They seemed to be either stationary or moving very slowly. The orbs were visible for about 15 to 20 minutes before disappearing completely. I attempted to take a picture with a cell phone, but there was nothing clearly visible in the image. Using my 35 mm film camera, I took several pictures but I will have to wait until I get them developed.