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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.
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March 17, 2016 · 9:25 PM · FIREBALL
Chula Vista, CA
My wife, daughter, and I were driving, when I look up in the night sky and I noticed what appeared to be meteor with a firey tail. What was strange about this sight was that it wasn't falling at a extreme speed. It seemed to moving west towards the ocean. At first, I thought it was plane that was on fire because I noticed it had two red blinking lights. As we stopped at an intersection waiting for the light to turn green, we continued to watch the firey ball. Then the blinking red lights separated from the firey balls and it came clear that the red lights were from a helicopter following the ball of flames. The ball of flames then vanished upwards leaving the helicopter. We arrived home, which was just around the corner from the intersection where we first saw the object. I Immefiately stepped out of my car and looked up into the sky and noticed that there were many helicopters flyer overhead in what it appeared to looking for the firey ball. I noticed a neighbor walking and asked if she noticed the object and she replied that she had been watching it since arriving home from work for over an hour.
March 17, 2016 · 8:55 PM · OVAL
San Ysidro (Baja??), CA
I observed two bright flashing lights approximately south/southwest at about 30-degrees about horizon. At first I assumed they were helicopters moving easterly. They gave the "impression" that they were quite distant, which would place them well into Mexico, south of Tijuana, at 15-20 thousand feet altitude (wild guess). The two lights were bright, orange/reddish with a flickering point source in the direction of travel. The lights were not a "point source," but appeared to have an approximately oval and flickering shape. The two lights moved in unison at perhaps 10-degrees separation. The "higher" one then moved in an apparent downward direction directly toward the lower one. In a span of about 10-seconds they appeared to merge and then separate, with the one moving down continuing the same trajectory. It continued to move down, but started flickering in intensity over a span of about 15 seconds, after which it completely faded from sight. A third light then appeared further to the west, also moving in an easterly direction. This would have placed it apparently well out to sea and south of the international border line. It appeared to be about 20-degrees above the horizon. After a minute or so it appeared to stop (hover?) and then moved south (down from my perspective) at what must have been great speed for its apparent distance, and then faded in intensity until lost from sight. The weather was clear, stars were visible, the moon was at its zenith overhead. There might have been some haze toward the west over the ocean, at less then 5-degrees about the horizon. Temperature was 60-degrees F, humidity 83%. Obtained a crude video using a cell phone camera. Observed during evening walk. My wife also observed the lights from home. She didn't think anything of them, assuming they were aircraft. She observed the apparent merging too, but assumed they were at different distances. Her viewing location was approximately 800-feet west of my location. The lights appeared in the same direction to her as they did to me. I am a retired federal civil servant still working for the government as a contractor at a research laboratory in San Diego CA. This document written at 2130, 03/17/2016.
March 17, 2016 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Pine Grove, CA
I went to bed at or around 11:00 PM. I have a sliding glass door covered with a white curtain right next to my bed. I turned off the lights and got into bed and glanced at the sliding glass door. I noticed that there were lights shining on the lower portion of the curtain. I thought that someone was outside with a flashlight pointing it towards my sliding glass door. I was alone and so I was too scared to look out through the glass to see who was out there. Even though I was scared I went right to sleep. I woke up at or around 5:30 AM. The thing that woke me up, was that my left hand was freezing cold. I wondered how my hand could be so cold when it was under the blankets. I got up and went to the bathroom and when I got up I saw that the light had grown and that my entire window was now lit up with the light shining towards it. This scared me more and I didn’t dare look out through the sliding glass door. By the way, the sliding glass door leads to the back yard and there is no houses behind it and no streets facing that side of the house. I went into the adjacent room and looked out the window. This window faced the side of the house and just around the corner from it is the back of my house. The area was lit up as if there was lights on outside. It was not coming from the next door neighbor’s house because no one lives there and there is no sensor lights on that house. I then looked out the other window which faces the street. I saw that it was dark across the street. The lights on the house across the street were turned on as if they were up getting ready for work. The houses next to that house were dark. The house that had the lights on did not have a lit up yard as I did, the yard was lit but dim. I then saw a light shining towards my house from the street and it looked like a car was coming. I turned to see who it was and I saw a round light that was probably 6-8 feet diameter travelling toward the cul-de-sac. The light was about 5 feet or so off of the ground and was so bright that it was blinding. I waited for it to pass because I wanted to see what kind of truck it was. When it passed my house, it disappeared. At the same time the lights in the yard went out and it became dark. I was left dumb founded and I couldn’t figure out if it disappeared because I was so blinded by the light or if it a new kind of truck with only one light. I couldn’t go back to sleep and nor could I make sense of what happened. Later that day I asked the neighbors if they saw anything. No one saw a thing and they all suggested that it might have been a UFO. After thinking about it, I concluded that they might be correct. I thought about it and remembered that UFOs have a lot of energy and concluded that if it was a UFO my Toyota Prius that is electric would have improved gas mileage. Because my Prius measures mileage continuously, there was a record of mileage on the car. I looked and saw that my highest mileage ever was 49 miles per gallon. I took a day trip of 189 miles after this incident and my mileage was recorded at 75 miles per gallon.
March 16, 2016 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
March 16, 2016. At around 9:40 pm, I had stepped out to smoke on the back patio as is typical, in my peripheral vision I saw a flash of white light at around 20 degrees from overhead in a north – west direction. I continue to watch that area knowing from past experience some satellites flash from the sun, and again it flashed as expected a little ways away from the original flash, then flashed a third time and dramatically had moved much farther away to my surprise… this thing had accelerated much faster then any fast satellite I had ever seen and in fact continue to flash periodical like skipping light on water sort of speak. It moved so fast I had to open the gate and run around to the front of the house to continue watching, as I refocused my eyes this skipping white flashing light was passing an airline on its left side about 40-50 miles away. The direction of travel was just south of true west (~250-260 azimuth ). There was no fire trail behind as it flashed. I have seen skipping meteors before with fire trails. I must say, it’s the seeming acceleration that is puzzling
March 16, 2016 · 2:00 PM · CIGAR
Mount Shasta, CA
I live in Mt. Shasta, California. I am about 60 miles from the Oregon border. About two weeks ago, I saw a cigar or tube shaped craft flying northward, and my eyes and my daughter followed it for about 5, or so, minutes duration, until out of sight over the Mountain. I saw the same kind of craft last year that was somewhat higher in the sky this this latest one. Oddly enough, they both took the same flight path though a year apart. South to the North and out of sight. Both days I/we saw this, it was a clear blue sky with the sun behind us. We used binoculars on the first one, from last year and I will attached a picture of that one. I can't embed the picture with this report as the computer says I'm missing some DLL file. I will send it separately using my name and today's date. This year’s sighting was of the same type of craft, same flight route. Low enough to get over the 14,000 foot mountain and not much more. At no time during either sighting, there were no wings visible during the whole sighting, which literally was watched from the south to the north. No flashing lights on either sighting. No noise was heard. It wasn’t flying that fast. No tail rudder, no wings, no exhaust, no noise, no windows, no writing on it, no flashing lights or a hint of wings in the sun at any time produced a sight other than a tube or cigar shaped flying craft. It should be noted that both of these sightings were to the east side of the regular planes normal N/S flight routes. I would think that during either of these sightings, there must have been regular planes that saw it, being in the regular N/S flight area. So to recap last year and this year I , and others saw this tube/cigar craft flying N/S air routes, with the object this year was higher than the 2nd one. I also have seen this same type of craft fairly up close and personal when I was when I was 6. It should be noted that this first sighting was over the old drive in movie theater, and was HANGING STATIONARY with a tilt like this: /. I’d guess by the size of the trees now, that it was no more than 2 to 3 hundred feet in the air, not moving or drifting, again no sound, windows, writing or any burnt marks (as my dad showed me a paragraph it made in the Sacramento Bee, which claimed it was space junk falling to earth) That was absolutely not the case, even though it was about 1966 at that time, I had watched many rockets lift off as we enjoyed watching together. So I had an idea of what a regular rocket vs plane looked like at that time. I noticed many cars pulling off the road to watch this thing hanging the air at a such a low altitude, and not falling, flying, or moving at all. This was at the junction of HWY 89 where it enters I-5. Lots of cars pulled off the road to wat! ch. It actually got a bit boring to me as a kid, it wasn’t doing anything but hanging there and we finally left. So I told my Dad about it. After a few days, he showed me a newspaper report on the sighting which reported it as falling space junk.... I said no Daddy, that’s not right. It wasn’t falling and there were no words on it, it was silver, not white, and no burn marks on it. My mother and younger sister were with me. My sister does not remember it. When I made the report of this first sighting, there was only 1 pilot who had also made a report of seeing this tube/cigar, in the air while he was flying in the area. Attached is the picture of the one I saw last summer. It is just like the one from a few weeks ago, same S to N flight, only higher than the one a few weeks ago. Thanks you for listening to my story.
March 15, 2016 · 8:04 PM · OTHER
Barstow, CA
It appeared to have a kind of flame coming from it at first, but then the flame disappeared and it looked like the object hovered for a time, looking octagonal in shape. I went inside to get some binoculars but by the time I returned, it had flown completely out of sight.
March 15, 2016 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Benicia, CA
It's a perfectly clear day, my father and I were ending our sailing trip and as I look into the sky and I see this image of an airplane and I said to my dad, "Look, theres a plane" and he acknowledged seeing the image too. This plane however seemed like a transparent image of a plane. I could clearly see the outline of the wing span and the cabin. There seemed to be a bright light in the middle as if the sun was reflecting off of it. Then from the outward of the image to the middle it started disappearing until the white light was the only thing left then vanished. Fairfield, Ca, has Travis Airforce Base and this would probably be a good flight plan for it. I immediately thought I saw a military UFO/Optical allusion/ Cloud... about an hour later around the same spot I saw the same thing. It seemed as if a plane was calibrating/testing a cloaking tech, or seeing how well they could scale up the tech as this unexplainded image of a transparent plane was kind of big. Not like a fighter jet but more like a 747 or a supply plane of sort. After I saw the image for the second time I saw other planes in the sky without the same effect. I truly saw some thing I cannot explain today.
March 14, 2016 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Hesperia, CA
My brother and I were driving due East on Main street. My brother, who was behind the wheel, pointed out a bright flashing light above us, which was moving from North to South. I dismissed it as a small private plane as there is an airport near by. However, when I looked at the bright flashing light, it made an abrupt 180 degrees turn. At that moment, I thought it might be a drone. However, further observation of the object made it clear that it was not a drone nor an airplane, or a helicopter. The light was extremely bright, not typical of an airplane flashing lights. It pulsated in a rapid three flashes pattern without any sound. Our destination coincided with the trajectory of the object. I kept my eyes on the object trying to figure out what it was. What we observed while driving after it was something un-explainable. The object seemed to skip by disappearing for a distance and reappearing further away, but not in a straight line. I told my brother to pull over so we can observe the object. At this point the object turned drastically to the West, again without clear logical flying pattern. I told my brother to roll down the window to see if we can hear anything. There was no sound. The object continued to fly West then it seemed to hover in the distance. It hung in the air for about 10 seconds. The light seemed to dim as if the object flew away in a very fast manner, then the object shot directly up. Few seconds later it reappeared slightly North-West. At this time we heard a helicopter in the distance and saw a helicopter light, which my brother thought appeared to be searching for something. The object quickly disappeared toward Right Wood mountains. It seemed to disappear and reappear. Best way to describe it was a short distance teleportation.
March 13, 2016 · 10:58 PM · FLASH
Huntington Beach, CA
Saw three sets of paired green and blue flashes. Followed by aircraft holding position in same area.
March 8, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Castaic, CA
I witnessed what I thought was a craft with three sets of lights in a triangular formation separate and take positions miles apart from one another. These separate craft either had multiple lights, or strobed hues of redish and blue light. They moved faster than I could track with my eye. One made a slingshot maneuver around another then disappeared and reappeared miles away from the staionary craft. The three lights came back into formation and disappeared from view. A few seconds later I saw three bright white lights close to the ground then dissappear from view entirely. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Peter, Yes, it was the evening of the 8th, not the 9th. Sorry for any confusion. ((END ADDENDUM))
March 7, 2016 · 7:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Roseville, CA
The object was moving very quickly and was lost to sight as it proceeded North. There was no noise associated with the object. Had this been a fighter Jet, for instance an F-18 out of Beale, I would have certainly heard the jet engines. I redirected my attention to the Phantom, and then quickly noticed that there was a large multi-prop airplane coming directly at (so it appeared) my Phantom. This aircraft appeared to be VERY LOW. It flew in from the West and proceeded East until lost to sight. It was running a number of lights that were turned on, I am not sure if these were landing lights, but I dont think so. It actually intersected the course of the unknown craft only be about 20 seconds, and this airplane really startled me. I am still a little shaken by the whole thing. We do have P-3's flying out of Beale I believe and you see them in this area quite often, BUT this P-3 (I'm assuming it was P-3) was EXTREMELY LOW. I attempted to bring down my Phantom quickly because it almost appeared both phantom and aircraft were at the same altitude, and for a minute I thought they might collide. The whole thing was quite "freaky" and I gotta tell you that "unknown" was quite ! spectacular. I think I will attempt the same thing again tomor! row even ing, although I am sure my phantom had nothing to do with what I saw, or at least I hope LOL I will leave it up to you if you care to contact me.......
March 6, 2016 · 8:28 PM · FIREBALL
Riverside, CA
Meteor? PD
March 6, 2016 · 8:00 PM
Goleta, CA
A large fireball or comet with a tail was seen traveling from east to west low in the southern sky. It was very largest I've ever seen in my life and quite shocking. It was seen at a 30° angle from the horizon.
March 5, 2016 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Escondido, CA
just picking up a pizza in Escondido walking to my truck. Looked up at 2 moving objects in formation. orange orbs. I waited for blinkie lights.. None noticed. Continued to watch them move overhead. No sound. Then they blinked out together, vanished. I shrugged it off continued walking to my truck when 2 more appeared in formation moving in the same direction. I stopped again, this time whipped out my cell phone and took several pictures... Same thing watched as they went up and blinked out. I got in my truck and started to drive out of the parking lot and as I turned on to the road I saw 3 more orbs in formation following the same pattern. I had to concentrate on driving , and could not watch. I have pics if you want.
March 3, 2016 · 11:45 PM · CIRCLE
Huntington Beach, CA
Two Red Circular Flashing Lights. One Was Moving Slowly Towards The 2nd One Which Appeared To Be Still, Then The Moving Object Slowly Drifted Away From The Second Object Which Began To Fade Out. They were Both Extremely Bright And Flashing As Orange/Red Glowing Balls. Not In Flight, Hovering, Near Each Other Under Intelligent Control. Then They Slowly Drifted/ And/Or Faded Away, One At A Time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 3, 2016 · 9:00 AM · FIREBALL
Vallejo, CA
I was driving home approx. midnight on the 4th I seen this ball of fire in the sky its shot across and then it stood still and drop something off that look like speckles of fire and then it shoot over Mountains. And then the following evening at work some co-workers were yelling out at me a couple of separate times and each of them set the resist fire ball and then shot across the sky and then stood still
March 1, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Montclair, CA
Lay down in the back yard of my mom's home on mobile recliner with blanket looking for ufo in clear night sky. About 15 minutes later… Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
March 1, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Indio, CA
My brother and I live in a gated community in Indio. Our mailbox center is at the entrance of the community and we decided to ride our bikes to get the mail around 19:00. We are both about 30 years old, very interested in other forms of life and UFO activity, although never seeing anything ourselves or looking for it. As we're riding, my brother stops me and tells me to look at the weird stars above. It was a line of stars about the length of 4 big dippers long, clustered close together. We both quickly realized that this was not a star formation and became overcome by the size. They soon started expanding and contracting to one another, not dramatically or quickly, but subtly. There were at least 70 lights above, each dimming and brightening. If they were more spread out, the average person would assume they were stars. We then watched this massive unity of lights move across the sky from the west. We could see a tip that was the front of what looked like t! he biggest object. To be clear, we couldn't see any object, but because lights were around it's perimeter, we could make out the shape of the front which was pointed. The best way to describe how it moved is almost like a caterpillar, certain parts moving away and toward each other (expanding and contracting) while the thing as a whole moved forward at the same speed. I was in complete awe. We watched a few planes come into view which moved much faster and were much closer than this thing, which was so far away, it had to be in space. All the lights slowly dimmed except three at the tail of the mass, which formed a perfect triangle. I was instantly frustrated because what I saw couldn't be explained but I was grateful my brother at least saw it, too. The duration here was approximately 8 minutes and the size was miles long. It's unimaginable and looked like it was a detached piece of the night sky with controlled hinges that moved. Not sure if we were viewing one giant obje! ct or multiple small objects linked together somehow.
March 1, 2016 · 4:34 PM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
I was looking south, and noticed what I thought was a bright star or planet in my peripheral vision above a large tree. Turning to look south-southwest, I noticed that the light was not one but two lights, and they were traveling parallel to the horizon, in an apparent western direction. The lights were bright white, similar in intensity to an aircraft landing light at a distance, but no sound was noted. I called to my wife, who was standing inside the house, and turned back just in time to see the lights blink out, one by one. My wife did not see them.
February 29, 2016 · 6:20 PM · CHEVRON
Edwards, CA
This event was also reported to MUFON, reference case report 74899. The event details are as follows: On 29 FEB, 2016, at approximately 18:20, a co-worker and myself saw something we cannot explain while returning to our work center from lunch. Driving north from a restaurant about a mile from our work center, we first noticed the object about halfway through the drive back. It was dusk and the sky was darkening, with thin clouds to the north and east. The object was a bright string of lights located to the north, approximately 25-30 degrees above the horizon, moving slowly in a westerly direction. The light nearest the "front" of the object was of a reddish orange color, and a bit brighter than the rest. Trailing behind this red light was a line of numerous yellow, somewhat dimmer lights that were spaced very closely together. For the first 10-15 seconds after spotting the object, it continued to move slowly towards the west and the lights appeared to pulse or waver slightly, possibly due to atmospheric turbulence. After this 10-15 second period, all of the lights started to dim and then disappear from sight. This object remained invisible for approximately 5 seconds, when suddenly it began to re-appear. Once it reached full brightness and size, I could discern that the lights were not an exact straight line, but seemed to curve under and out at the front of the object. I infer from this effect that the lights were possibly arranged in a V or chevron pattern, and that I was observing the object nearly edge on. The details of the shape can be viewed in the included rough sketch. The object continued moving west for approximately 10 more seconds before fading from view again, disappearing permanently this time. At no time was I able to see a solid object. There were two other witness that I know of at my work center that saw the object as well. My coworker and I have years of military experience between us in the USAF. Neither one of us had ever seen an object quite like this. There are many types of aircraft that operate at Edwards AFB, nothing we know of matches the behavior of these lights. It is our opinion that these lights were not aerial flares. They moved in unison and did not vary in altitude. What we saw was either a large group of objects flying in a extremely tight formation, or that these lights were part of a single, large object. The behavior and consistent altitude of the lights, the distance between them and the lateral motion leads me to believe they were part of the same object. Also, I believe there are witness to the same event outside my exact location. Reference MUFON case number 74891, a report made on the same day in California City of a very similar object. California City is located 15 miles north east of Edwards AFB.
February 29, 2016 · 6:09 PM · CIRCLE
Mojave, CA
I was heading North on state route 14 and Dawn road in East Kern County, California, with my son (6yr) and daughter (3yr) when we witnessed 6 to 8, white, circular lights in a straight line oriented in an east to west direction at a height above any mountains in the area. The lights then simultaneously turned off then came back on after a few seconds. The lights stayed on for another 15-20 seconds then turned off and never came back on. As a side note Edwards Air Force Base is about 10 miles east of the area of the sighting.
February 29, 2016 · 5:45 PM · CIGAR
Ridgecrest, CA
Driving north from San Diego to Mammoth Mountain, just after civil twilight, our vehicle witnessed a series of lights lasting about 5-10 seconds in front of our vehicle (north). It was a definitive 5 lights burning heading in a left-wards vector with the lead light being the brightest. The driver of our car pointed it out. We all had a few seconds to look and remark on how we thought it was aliens. A few minutes (10 or so?). We witnessed the same thing again. Tried to get video, but the event ended before we could get any video. Perhaps this was meteors in the atmosphere, but this did not look like any shower I had witnessed before. Very amateur observation, but I figured I would report it.
February 28, 2016 · 8:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Chula Vista, CA
I saw two what looked like two orange airplane lights coming toward me as I was looking at the stars. Nothing special until they stopped. Then they rotated and started moving upward. I whistled and yelled at my friends to come see what I was seeing. Once they came to my back yard all they could say was onions left shoulder looked orange VS. BRIGHT. One them said that us seed to be moving for a split second but then lost the movement I am not a nut I was shocked when what I thought was a plane stopped and started rotating and moving away with great speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 28, 2016 · 6:59 AM · LIGHT
Rubidoux, CA
I was coming back from the gym with my mom and as I was one house away from home on the driver's side was a bright blue light. It was very small so it had to have been very high up it was almost zig zagging in one direction toward San Diego as we pulled in to the driveway the object became changing direction now moving higher in the sky now instead of going toward San Diego it was coming toward our house but still very high in the air I could not see a shape only a bright blue light. I then ran inside to get my dad out of being scared he also witnessed the blue light now still coming in our general direction, moving at a steady pace we watched it for about 10 minutes as it got over our home it stop and descended up higher but still over our home until 5 minutes later it had fully descended up and disappeared . Later in the early morning hours, I was still awake, watching a movie it was 1:00 am now everyone was asleep except for myself when there was a power outage in our whole town I thought it was just our house so I looked outside I couldn't see any lights but I could hear doggs barking. I called 211 who then asked me to call Edison and that was at 1:11am I reported the power outage to then through their automated system and on their recording had said that the outage had happened at 12 midnight I had only had no power since 1am . I hope you guys can make sense of this cause I can't when the power went out I was truly confused from the whole experience. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD