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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
April 1, 2016 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
My cousin and I were off of hageman and old farm and one by one 3 what looked liked floating balls of fire went from northwest direction overhead to the south west direction for a good distance than seem to burn out one by one as they went by I got video and photos showing them moving across the sky. And no sound was audible
April 1, 2016 · 8:03 AM
San Francisco, CA
Source elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. We wonder whether the sighting was a morning or evening sighting, and whether the report is a serious one. It could be a hoax, we suspect. PD
April 1, 2016 · 4:23 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
At around 2:30 am 04/01/2016, I looked up in the sky because I thought I heard a plane. When I spotted this thing I knew it was not a plane I am the manager at the apartments I live at and have access to all the lighting so I went around and shut off all the lights on the grounds to see this thing better when I looked up it had barely moved. Then I flipped it off and began flashing my led flashlight at it thinking it was a drone that the county uses. At around 3 am a tenant came and asked what is going on I told him and he grabbed a pair of binoculars remembering that I had a pair too I did the same He said he had seen this before, and it was a satellite. When looking at it through the lenses it moved up and down and side to side quickly it was hard to keep it in the lenses when looking at it with the naked eye it just seems to hover in one place when I told this guy that he laughed and said yea they are a trip and he left. Well, I just looked out my front door and it is still there at 4:36 am pst it is not saucer shape it is more oblong when looking at it through the lenses it changes it is a ball of fire then just a light that seems to have two parts at times. Anyway, I'm off to see if I can get more people to see it so there is better proof if you need it. I called the news room at ktvu and have not heard anything so maybe its nothing. Oh, I got four other people to look they said it was unusual too. thank you
March 31, 2016 · 10:05 PM · FIREBALL
Shasta Lake, CA
At 22:05 on March 31, 2016, I was driving SW on Ashby Rd in Shasta Lake City, CA. I looked to the eastern sky and saw a bright red light, traveling west, larger than any aircraft light I had seen before. All of a sudden a second one appeared following behind the first. At that time I pulled to the shoulder of the road so that I wouldn't lose sight of them. A few seconds later the third one appeared following behind the other two. I continued to watch as one by one each of them disappeared as they reached the very exact spot I counted approx. ten seconds between each light disappearing. The bright red lights bring fireball to mind, however, they didn't move exceptionally fast, except in appearing and disappearing
March 31, 2016 · 4:00 AM · CYLINDER
San Diego, CA
It was about 4 or 4:30 in the north when I arrived at seaport village. As I sat down to look at the view, I looked up and realized there was many stars. Some were brighter than the other like a gold shiny cylinder. As I was watching them I noticed they were moving. Not just in one direction, in various. There was different sizes and colors. Two other people walked up and sat down beside and I had told them, 'do you see what I see?' They both said yes in amazement. I have seen other encounters with space crafts but this one was the by far most interesting. As if they brought an army of them.
March 30, 2016 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
While sitting at a light facing westbound Arden Avenue, I looked up at the white clouds and noticed a small object that was hovering and then slowly moving towards the southeast. As I watch this object move I got my video recorder on my cell phone out and recorded this object moving after a while it would stay hovering and looked like it was changing shapes and then it would travel westbound again and then it went a vertical a little bit because I was in traffic I couldn't sit for very long in the driveways that I was blocking as I was filming this. After I got home and reviewing the video frame by frame I noticed that there were several objects one a triangle and another is sphere. Several objects went whizzing by that I did not see with my own eyes but on video you could see them going by much closer than the object that was in the sky. These were not Birds because I did Capture One bird and it looked completely different which was much larger.
March 30, 2016 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Maywood, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 29, 2016 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Morro Bay, CA
As I was returning to the house after walking the dog, I noticed a light which I assumed was an airplane traveling overhead. It was moving from the SW to the NE at a speed and altitude I normally associate with our usual air traffic. Nevertheless, something seemed odd about it although I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what that was. I let the dog in, grabbed binoculars, and crossed through the house to the backyard. I easily picked up the object on the same trajectory, which made me think again that it was an airplane. However, when I looked with binoculars I could not make out the body of an aircraft or any blinking lights. I could only see a very bright, bluish-white light with a smaller, dimmer, reddish light on the upper right side/edge of the bright light. The bluish-white light appeared circular, with the smaller red light located along the perimeter at a 1 o’clock position. As I watched, waiting to glimpse a blinking navigation light, it seemed to me that the white light was too bright. The intensity reminded me of the rocket that passed by here on November 7, 2015. This light was not nearly that spectacular, but the quality of the light seemed similar (magnesium-like), if that makes any sense. Then as I was tracking it eastward, the bluish-white light appeared to grow even brighter and more intense. As I was puzzling about this, the bluish-white light began to rapidly dim until it extinguished, leaving only the barely visible reddish light which then also disappeared. The entire time it had maintained a steady speed and it appeared to track at a consistent altitude and in the same (NE) direction. The brightness followed by the rapid fading out reminded me of a flare, except that this object was traveling horizontally, was moving more slowly, and remained visible for a much longer amount of time than the maritime flares I have seen. For the same reasons, it also did not appear to be a meteor. I scanned the skies for 10-! 15 minutes longer but never saw any additional sign of the obj! ect. Several small aircraft did fly overhead during this time, following the more typical aircraft routes from S to N/ N to S. Also, I did not hear any engine noise associated with the object, but did hear the noise of the planes that passed overhead minutes later. Skies were clear with no moonlight.
March 29, 2016 · 7:39 PM · DISK
Crestline, CA
Also 2 strips of lights on the side. Went straight up into the sky.
March 28, 2016 · 12:15 AM · FLASH
Paradise, CA
Then went to other side of house and saw the flash again dimmer, but seems full sky?? No sounds at all? Starry, clear sky no overcast? Looks like an explosion without and sounds??
March 27, 2016 · 8:50 PM · DISK
Santa Maria, CA
Walked out my front door because I heard a rumbling sound thought that VAFB had launched a rocket. Upon getting outside I saw what appeared to be a disk or saucer slowly travveling south. I went inside to show my mother, then son wanted to see. We continued watching until it slowly vanished from sight. Date in report was flawed. We have corrected to what we presume is the correct date. PD
March 27, 2016 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
It looks like a Fire Ballon, there were 3 , no sound. What can it be?
March 27, 2016 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
At exactly 5:50pm we were flying over what it seemed Inglewood, I saw a metallic sphere flying past our airplane. It was round, shiny, looked like it had markings on the side.
March 26, 2016 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
I glanced at the night sky right when a bright green light appeared and it quickly fell in a downward curve.
March 26, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
North Hollywood, CA
in a fairly clear sky I saw a formation of arrow shape of around 60 or more ufo's flying from south to north in the sky, this formation was so big as four to six football fields, this arrow formation suddenly change in one second to a two diamond shape formations crazy blinking and the two diamonds stared two circuls that were blinking and circuling, amazing.
March 26, 2016 · 2:25 PM · EGG
Sacramento, CA
On March 26, 2016, my husband and I were flying on Southwest Flight 4124 departing from Sacramento, California to San Diego. We left Sacramento at 1:50 pm to our final destination, Tucson, Arizona. I sat next to the window near the wing. I was looking out the window to view the snow covered mountains below. The pilot announced that we were approximately 8 miles up and flying at 39,000 feet. It was approximately 2:25 pm, I noticed in the distance, a very long, thin, black plume of what appeared to be smoke in the relatively clear blue sky. At first glance, I thought I was looking at black birds flying in formation. I asked my husband to take a look and asked him what he thought it was. He said he didn’t know. I looked again and saw a brilliant, mirror-like chrome, egg shaped object with, seamless, smooth round edges. It appeared close, possibly within 2500 feet of the plane but due to perspective differences it could have been much further away. In comparison to the left wing of the plane, the object took up almost three fourths of the wing. As it moved, the top of the egg shaped object became visible. The top was a bright white with a luminosity similar to a ! welding arc. The top area had an extremely bright white luminescence with what appeared to be white flames in the center portion. My husband looked at this and said he did not know what it was, but believed it was not a plane nor a rocket. He further stated that it was way too close to the plane to be a launched rocket out of a military air base. After approximately 2 to 2.5 minutes, it then disappeared from view. No one else in the plane appeared to observe it, as many were preoccupied—with shades drawn, sleeping, reading, etc. My husband later looked on the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) site in the incident/accident report section and found no report of such an object or a rocket launch in the vicinity of our flight path. A drawing of the object will be mailed to the PO Box listed on your internet site. My background is Nursing and Public Health. My husband is a retired public school superintendent who teaches School Law and various graduate education courses.
March 25, 2016 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Reseda, CA
I received a phone call from my Nephew at approximately 10:00 PM Friday March 25, 2016, telling me to look low in the southwest sky of Los Angeles. Something caught his wife’s eye and she stated that those look like funny lights coming from planes. Her husband stated that those are not planes. At that time there were three reddish orange lights in a triangular pattern. By the time I got outside to see for myself one had disappeared. I viewed myself as the last two disappeared. They appeared to be hovering and not crossing the horizon. As I watched they appeared to be pulsating irregularly. My nephew is a caregiver, his wife a book keeper, and I'm a Network Administrator.
March 25, 2016 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
Mojave, CA
My husband is retired USAF and retired DOD Team Chief working in the communications field. He is now an armed security guard for Homeland Security. He is 72 years old and still not ready to retire permanently. I dropped out of the work force years ago when my granddaughter was in need of a parent, I ended up raising her. My time was well spent as she is a lovely young lady going to college now. My account of the time we were on the hill: My husband and I were visiting our Grand kids, oh… and their Mom and Dad for Easter. They live in Mojave, CA. I love going out in the desert looking for geodes and thunder eggs; the grand kids enjoy going also. So we all got in the Rhino and we were off to the hill where we’ve had good luck in finding rocks, etc. It is just off Hwy 14 between Mojave and Rosamond, CA, close to Edwards AFB. We have a picture my husband took on his phone while we were on the hill where you can clearly see a UFO when the picture is enlarged. We did not see anything unusual at the time. We had been looking up at a B2 bomber flying over that in its self was amazing to watch. I went off with the kids looking for rocks and my husband stayed at the Rhino. He told me to look at all the contrails in the sky then he said there was an airliner flying over putting out more contrails behind it. My husband's account of the time we were on the hill: Was at the top of a hill looking for geo rocks when a B2 Bomber jet flew over at around 2,000 feet above us. Hoping that it will come back around I got my cell phone camera ready. But I see a contrail from a jet airliner going into Edwards AFB air space. That is when I took the picture.
March 20, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Santa Cruz, CA
I pulled over and they began flying straight up at the sky. Theyd get pretty high up, then suddenly disappear. As we watched more would come up. Some would go up, then down, then up, again, before disappearing, but they all disappeared at the same point in the sky. It was a little overcast. Then I saw one part of the sky light up but only once and for a secomd.
March 19, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Sacramento, CA
I was going into Walmart on Marconi in Sacramento at about 1330 to get groceries and i looked up above the building and i saw an aircraft i have never seen before. The head looked like a triangular and then it had a long tail that curved up at the end. The long tail reminded me of a scorpion tail and there was no way it could carry passengers so i ruled out a new craft associated with the airport. The tail was extremely thin and white. The triangular shaped part where there could have been a pilot was darker in color. I saw it in plain daylight no clouds in sight. It was on the lower side in the sky. I stared at it, trying to remember the details and no one seemed bothered by it at all.
March 18, 2016 · 10:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Castro Valley, CA
The lights on this vehicle were observed and seen when it turned toward left oblique. The colors were as white, red and blue, and the second craft disappeared quickly, moving toward the western horizon.
March 18, 2016 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Newport Beach, CA
11:00pm, Newport Beach, CA. My entire house was getting ready for bed, when my Mom called my Brother and me into her bedroom. She claimed she saw an incredibly blinding bright light, followed by these insane loud noises--that I also heard as I entered her bedroom. The sounds were loud enough to fill my entire house, at first I thought it was construction, but it was midnight? I thought of all possible things it could be, but we had never heard anything like it before. It would just get louder and quieter, I can't even explain the noises, it sounded like muffled harsh rain (not a good example, but I can't describe it?), it was very staticy and so loud, so piercing almost? And only in one area, the noise was coming from a distance from what we could hear. Like around the corner? Very creepy. The noise would slow down and speed up, and that lasted for about 30 minutes as we watched and listened until it suddenly stopped, we heard soooo many sirens go off after that, and that lasted for 10 minutes, and then th! at also stopped all at once. Quickly after the noises stopped, we noticed a couple bright orbs in the sky. We noticed one while the noises were happening, but two more appeared brighter. I live by an airport and yes, my first thought was helicopter, plane, jet, etc, ANYTHING but but I have seen those fly overheard before many times. We could all tell there was a difference. It was nothing we've ever seen before in the sky. They would kind of faded in and out in a weird fuzzy way. One of them headed in our direction overhead and we both got a better look at it, I was hanging out of the bedroom window at this point, even in the dark i could clearly see the shape was NOT a plane. It was circular and disc like, it had a few blinking lights, and it continued to move overhead as well as the other ones surrounding it, they all spread out up until a certain point and then they just stopped and stayed there. My mother got a video of one of the one moving towards our direction which I will email to you. We had no idea what we were seeing but w! e just k new and could feel that it was something different. We all got on our phones and did some research about what we saw, I even tried to see if anybody else had seen or heard things in the area. The things we read and photos we saw were all things we were just looking at. It was the most surreal thing, and I truly believe they were UFOs. Something. But not planes, there was no way. It was so crazy. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be quite sincere about her alleged experience. PD
March 17, 2016 · 10:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Castro Valley, CA
On Mar. 17, 2016, 22:40 hrs., I observed an object crossing over hwy 580 E near Castro Valley, Ca. This object was flying at the normal speed, relative to an average small airplane or a helicopter, until its appearance above the hwy 580 E and hovered, then moved slowly across the road and went over the Eden Canyon Hills toward the opposite side of the road from north toward south side. The object turned side way toward the down side of the hill and I noticed this object was a black triangular shape craft about the same size or bigger than a commercial airliner or a military craft KC 130. This object had a large circular red light in the center with a strobe white light on one corner, and blinking red and blue lights on the different corners. This sighting was reported to Castro Valley Highway Patrol, and local 911 Emergency Department.
March 17, 2016 · 10:00 PM
Blocksburg, CA
seen from outside on the deck while i was petting my cats. explosion of fire colored clustered lights just over horizon approximate distance - 20 miles away. duration less than a minute followed by a not to loud booming sound.