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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
May 21, 2016 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Joshua Tree National Park, CA
We were driving west on Park Blvd., heading towards Keys View Road, near Ryan Mountain Trail head, when the driver of the car and I both saw a round/spherical silver floating object in the sky. It looked exactly like it was made from some sort of metal, reflecting the bright sunlight. It looked to be about 20-30 feet above us--relatively close, not off in the distance. I would describe it as a small craft--3 feet wide at most. It didn’t seem to move, just float. Most certainly NOT a drone. We both saw the object very clearly, before it disappeared in a second or two. We immediately pulled the car over and got out, but it was nowhere to be seen. It was there one second and gone the next. Either moving too quickly for the human eye to see, cloaking itself, or disappearing completely from that spot. I’ve seen several things out of the ordinary in the desert sky, but nothing as clear as this. There is no doubt in my mind that the object we saw is not from Earth. Both myself and the other observer have excellent eyesight, open minds, and are very good a picking up on details that others often overlook. I believe we were both looking in the right direction at the right time and ended up witnessing something that was hiding in plain sight. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS Hi Peter, The date is an estimate unfortunately as it was so long ago. It was either Saturday, May 21, 2016 or Sunday, May 22, 2016. Glad I found the NUFORC! ((name deleted ((END ADDENDUM (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
May 19, 2016 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Dos Palos, CA
I pulled over at 3 am i looked out and seen a bright light there was a bright white one and a bright red one. They were flashing it looked like they were talking I have lived in this town for 40 years and have never seen anything like this.
May 18, 2016 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Pollock Pines, CA
Reported sighting 9:45 PM PDT 5-18-2016 Pollock Pines, CA Anomalous light. Color: Deep red and deep blue (not normal LED colors) Blue lights slowly pulsating. Location SW from Pollock Pines moving SW (towards San Francisco) Initially stationary for about 2 minutes then moving slowly SW until the tree line obscured it. Lots of tall trees very near. Estimated height 5-10,000 ft. AGL. Estimated distance about 1-2 mi. Size – about ½ dime at arms length. This was NOT an airplane. No green lights or white strobes. I am an engineer and pilot for 45 years and have never seen lights in the sky like this.
May 18, 2016 · 12:30 AM · DIAMOND
San Jose, CA
I was sitting on top of Mt. Umunhum with two of my friends. We were smoking a cigarette when I noticed that slightly over a mountain to my left there was a red orbish looking craft moving similarly to a bumblebee, jolting back as it moved left. After about 30 seconds of this the craft paused, then started slightly ascending and moving to the right. It was still redish orange at this point. About this time the people I was with saw how oddly it was moving. It started ascending higher and higher before moving to where it was centered from out perspective to the city. At this point it had gone from more red to slightly more orange and had quick flashes of blue. As it moved over the city the flight patterned changed from a jolty flowing pattern to soaring through the sky above the city until it just stopped. Once it stopped it alternated between red, orange, blue, and white before flashing what I could describe as an almost yellow light. The shape seemed to have! changed as well going from a distinct orb to a diamond. The light being emitted was the shape of a diamond with a gap through the center of the diamond. It did this for about 30 second or so before going back to a red orb and flying west away. Being terrified me and my 2 friends were trying to figure out what we just saw for about 10 minutes. Then around 1 AM, the craft hovers over the mountain northwest from us and starts flying distinctly in our direction, very confidently. As it got closer I looked away for a second before I hear "it disappeared". At this point we said 'we have to leave now', and as we drive down the mountain I see it once more just floating in the sky. It was white with an orange tint around the edge of emitted light. I've never been more terrified or more interested in something in my life.
May 15, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Manteca, CA
A flashing multi colored orb has been appearing in the horizon by my home every night for the past 3 weeks. (the first week, the multi colored orb appeared once very saturday but for the past week to two weeks its been showing it self every night) It appears at exactly 21:00 every night now and moves slowly down closer then disappears after 30 min then appears again at 3:00 am. I have also had a close encounter where I witnessed a triangular craft that came around over my neighbors home and closely on the side of my home..it craft had 2 or 3 red lights and white glowing lights all around it but it wasn't round when it came closer it was a triangular shape and it never made one sound. It came so close that I ran into the house to get my husband out of the restroom but by the time he had came outside the craft was further away and looked more like an airplane. I believe that the multicolored orb is communicating with other bright lights in the sky. I'm not a professional but I have a very strong feeling that something out there is trying to communicate with me. I am very open minded and curious about whats out there but at the same time I get very nervous with what I will see if I continue to monitor I might not come back to share what I've experienced. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 14, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Baldwin park, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 12, 2016 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Torrance, CA
At times, the object would go into rapidly changing light sequences. It almost seemed like a pattern. Like it was trying to communicate. I watched the object through binoculars for 15 -20 minutes. It flashed very brightly a few times and then would display color light patterns.
May 11, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CROSS
Valley springs, CA
Looked like a star way off than a plane than star again than blam it was right across the street from me, up and down like a light up yo-yo letting off what definitely appear to be gray aliens also really small people tiny people dressed in camouflage they had rifles and they buzzed when they spoke but the grave were right above me on top of a roof staring at me they were looking kind of leaning over getting closer I was scared but they were looking at me I can see all the details blinking I waved at him and he's blinking and looking and it's crazy but it went on for a long time long time I couldn't sleep up all night I was sleeping out in the back of my friends house when I see all this I just stay there until I was over sounds crazy but it's true on the side of the craft it was written in English Russian numerical and some other language I've never seen before so I don't know what it is or where it's from but that's it I mean I know the whole story though there's a hell of a lot more to it than that and it is also known that in the neighborhood there's a legend about that and my friend told me that they had moss growing off their face and I said how in the hell do you know that she told me that they were her friends but she passed away now this happened in 2016.
May 11, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
soledad, CA
Two crafts that hovered and made quick up and down..side to side movements similar to a drone. They were very high as you can see planes passing by a lot lower than these UFOs. One was a lot closer than the other. I noticed them after I was flying my drone. The sky's were very clear.
May 10, 2016 · 9:24 PM · LIGHT
Willows, CA
I was looking at the big dipper (N/Ne) and a light came into my vision from the west. It looked just like the ISS but a little dimmer. I watched it travel straight east until my view was blocked by trees in the distance. The even lasted approximately 20-30 seconds. I then went into the house to check the ISS sighting location for my town. The ISS is visible from my location at 3:39 a.m. tomorrow morning! This light was about 3/4 the illumination of the ISS. It also seemed to be in our atmosphere. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 9, 2016 · 6:49 PM · OTHER
Torrance, CA
Last year I observed a plane with a contrail from a distance of a few miles. I kept my eye on it intermittently and upon returning my gaze upon it it had vanished. It was clear in the sky, there were not clouds or anything else obstructing my sight of it. Trail and all, gone instantly. Today, while arriving home, I spotted a similar plane and contrail, arising from the West as well. I thought it would make a good reference photo so that in telling the story, people could see what I'm describing rather than have to use their imagination. Grabbed my camera a Canon SX120 PowerShot and aimed at the plane from my backyard. The first photo I zoomed in. Took a second without zoom, for a realistic perspective. It was now at about 80 degrees angled from me, heading east, and nearly directly above me. Took aim for a third shot. Couldn't locate it. I quickly checked my camera, everything was fine. Lowered the camera to relocate the plane in the sky and it is now go! ne. As before, the sky was cloudless. It was in plain sight, not fading out and getting lost in atmospheric perspective. At the rate it was traveling, it should have remained in sight for a few minutes more. I didn't see it blink out. It was visible and then I suddenly couldn't find it in my camera. There one second. Gone the next. It happened again. I grabbed someone from the house immediately to corroborate the fact that there was nothing in the sky, that I wasn't missing anything. I knew I wasn't but this was the best I could do next to having a real-time witness.
May 7, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 4, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Clovis, CA
I saw a light in the sky traveling from the north east to the south west. The light looked to be about the same size as the white light you see on a helicopter. The light was moving across the sky so fast that it managed to get my attention. I said to my wife who was facing me, “look at that behind you” and as she turned around the light suddenly made what looked like a 90 degree turn and dart off to the east so fast that my wife was not able to see it.
May 4, 2016 · 9:05 PM · DISK
Willits, CA
11 orange glowing discs spotted just east of 101 in Willits, near east valley road, hovering low and slowly moved a bit west before completely disappearing.
May 4, 2016 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Manhattan Beach, CA
Was riding my bike on beach near LAX airport, when a Air Bus came over head on take off I grab my cell phone took 3 shots hoping to get a picture sun was going down still plenty of light. Waited till i got home to see picture and saw this object just above Air Bus in all 3 frames and when you zoomed it in you could definitely tell what it was. I was light green with 5 positioned look light lights under side because I was shooting up, everyone I showed it to said I should report it so here I am.
April 30, 2016 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Newport Beach, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 30, 2016 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 29, 2016 · 9:54 PM · TEARDROP
Castiac, CA
We saw a object rocketing through the night at very high altitude and a fast rate. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 29, 2016 · 9:45 PM · EGG
Santa Cruz, CA
On Friday night, 4/29/2016, between 9:15pm and 10:00pm, I observed 4 objects I could not identify as aircraft. Three of the objects were egg or spherical shape, with a red/yellow/white illumination with a slight flickering of these colors. These 3 objects were separated in time by about 20 seconds, moving towards the ocean in the direction of Monterey. Each of these 3 objects traveled at the same speed, which was slower than a small fixed wing aircraft. Both the 1st and 2nd object appeared to stop dead in the sky, at the same point in the sky, for at least 10 seconds. They then resumed their same speed and disappeared from view, but it seemed to me that the extinguishment of their light was not a function of moving ever farther away, the lights just went out. Each object was the same size, and I measured with my pinky finger held out at about 30 degrees elevation. The object took up less than half the width of the nail of my pinky finger. The objects were s! ilent, and emitted no trails. I estimate the height of these objects in the hundreds, but not thousands of feet. I'm not sure if the third object stopped dead and moved on like the first two. I was startled to view a very fast moving streak in the sky proceeding in the general direction of these objects. The speed of this "streak" would be about the same as a military jet traveling at a supersonic speed at low altitude. While I was not startled by the initial 3 "orb like" objects, the fast moving streak seemed "wrong". Another way to describe this streak would be about the same as a meteor one can often see during meteor showers. I thought it was a meteor, but the angle thru the sky was too flat or horizontal and too low. This "streak" trailed a smoky, silverish color. There was no sound. This streak quickly vanished in the direction of the other objects. I can't estimate the size of this streaking object. It was projectile shaped. I sighted these objects on a neighborhood street where I walk every day, both day and night. I am familiar with the behavior of aircraft - both large jets and small planes as to their lighting and travel time in this sky, as well as to what sounds could be present, or not present. Sometimes even small planes are silent at even short distances. During this sighting, both light and larger aircraft were higher up in the sky. So, the progression of lights would be these unidentified objects, with light planes and commercial traffic above them, and then the stars above those aircraft. My guess is that the first three "orbs" could have been lanterns, except that the first two stopped dead in the sky and then resumed their travel. Another possibility is drones. The streaking object is why I am reporting this. It seems an odd coincidence that these slow moving "orbs" were chased by a very fast object. I am writing this report about one hour after the event. I am a retired technician/engineer, 64 years old. I am offering this report in the event others may have seen some of what I did, especially the fast moving streak. Mr. Davenport, thank you for keeping records of these sightings.
April 28, 2016 · 10:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Galt, CA
there was a flashing blue light up in the sky, traveling erratically. The flashing light was very erratic as well and nothing like I have ever seen before. It was traveling southward close by 99.
April 26, 2016 · 9:40 PM · CIRCLE
Barstow, CA
Saw a green circle with a an illumination of color green on the desert in Barstow. Got off the fwy to look and 5-10 mins later a plane flew over scanning the area. Was a bright GREEN light.
April 26, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Reseda, CA
WE WHERE SITTING IN THE CAR IN THE LIBRARY PARKING LOT BEHIND THE POLICE STATION FACING SOUTH TOWARD VENTURA WHEN WE SAW WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A BRIGHT SHOOTING STAR THAT TURNED INTO A LARGE BLUE FIRE BALL WITH AN ORANGE TRAIL OF FIRE COMING FROM THE EAST HEADING WEST, DOWN TO EARTH AND LASTED ABOUT 5 TO 8 SECONDS. FROM OUR VIEW IT LOOK LIKE THE SIZE OF A VOLLEYBALL.
April 26, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Costa Mesa, CA
Video of object, shown by a local television station, suggest to us that the object was a fairly dramatic meteor. PD
April 26, 2016 · 8:25 PM · TRIANGLE
San Diego, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD