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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

February 9, 2023 · 3:11 PM · CROSS

Madera, CA

Heard an unusually loud noise I couldn’t find. Checked on an app for planes and it showed nothing. Looked up and seen these things. Moving fast .

February 8, 2023 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL

There were three pairs of incandescent stationary aerial objects appearing like orbs in the distance but appearing more luminescent and diamond featured up close. There was no apparent suspension nor any apparent propulsion. The three closely grouped pairs formed an exponential graph shape. The shape descended from directly over the freeway to beyond the right shoulder. While higher in the sky, upon driving past, the pair directly over the freeway appeared quite close for an aerial object. This occurred before entering the area lit for construction on this portion of Highway 99. The coincidence of construction lights notwithstanding, these objects were like nothing else I’ve seen. They did not look like Chinese lanterns.

February 7, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT

Between Sacramento and Ione CA. Near Rancho Seco nuclear, CA

I was driving, at first I noticed a big circle shape of a couple of different colors of light. It was really clear and I cud see it well. The lights would change color and it was like darting around. I watched for a min. Then realized i needed to get a pic at least. While I was fumbling g with my phone, trying to keep my eyes on it and turn camera on it almost instantaneously shot west about 20 miles I think from above the city of ione to above Rancho Seco nuclear plant, and as it did the light blinked out the came back on but dull and thats when I got the video and recorded til it disappeared. It's taken me awhile to report because I can't believe what I saw was real and I didn't want to waste an investigators time, but what I saw wasn't normal. I wish the video was better and that I had video of what it was like before it went dull, it was huge and bright and clear.

February 7, 2023 · 1:35 AM · OTHER

Palmdale, CA

The craft was floating up slow and silent it looked like mens hair Clippers after it got as high as a few clouds around it, it leveled out its was as big as a aircraft carrier it sounded like someone was bowling a big bowling ball there was a flash not like lightning and it went into space with a lot of power and speed I couldn't believe that something that big could move that fast and it was gone into space and left nothing it didn't look metallic more like plastic my son said that it was dark gray and black I looked all over the sky just a few clouds it was gone out of here I have not been the same since because I can't in see it I saw it I dont drink or do drugs but now I feel like I should lol but I'm not I saw it and I saw it leave this planet

February 6, 2023 · 5:55 PM · LIGHT

DESERT HOT SPRINGS. Sky Valley, CA

I drive this route daily and these were new to me. No movement. No green or red lights. Just stationary. I saw them for approximately five minutes. The east light disappeared first followed by the westerly light.. very bright. Similar to brightest star in the sky. DK it was not a plane or planet

February 5, 2023 · 9:20 PM · FORMATION

Watsonville, CA

Flew from the south towards the north, then would turn. They did not stay in a straight line like satellites do. They came in pairs. With smaller lights in tow or around the bright pairs. And after viewing for approximately 40 mins at least 2 sets of pairs. Stopped, held their location, then slowly started to move again. I have probably 40 to 50 pictures I took with my phone. One video. It was not star link. They wher not in a straight line. Came in pairs off set side by side. With littler dimmer lights around the bright pairs.

February 5, 2023 · 9:06 PM · SPHERE

Gridley, CA

I filmed a round pulsation light in the west sky of Gridley Ca. It resembled a Alamy Naval mine.

February 5, 2023 · 4:50 AM · CIRCLE

Joshua Tree, CA

I went out to my driveway to check on my new car and immediately noticed a cylinder object that was brighter than the full moon. There was not a cloud in the sky. This was NOT a shooting star or an aircraft as planes are and were way above this object. The UFO was flying west to northeast horizontally across the sky at a rate of speed that was extremely fast, and I mean FAST! After seconds of my watching it the SUPER BRIGHT light went completely dark. There was not any trail or fuel smoke left behind. The abundant stars and full moon allowed me to see clearly. I am 60 years old and I have never seen anything like this and it is something that I will never forget! The local Sheriff's office had no other reports as I called them right after. I've been back outside twice and only saw a couple of regular aircraft much higher, much smaller, moving slowly with blinking lights that were obviously jetliners. I do not believe anyone on Earth has an aircraft that can maneuver or cloak itself like the UFO I witnessed.

February 4, 2023 · 9:45 PM · TEARDROP

Benicia, CA

Driving on the freeway while both witnesses faced forwards. A large teardrop shaped object flew overhead. The object was either all black or didn’t reflect light. It had some kind of texture or rough surface. The object has no lights. It didn’t emit any sound or resonance as it flew over the vehicle, about 20-30 feet over head. The object flew over the vehicle from the front to the rear as it traveled overhead going in the opposite direction of traffic. The front was rounded and Estimated to be 4 ft across and tapered like a teardrop

February 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT

Oak View, CA

I saw a light with my binoculars but not the naked eye going across the sky, faster than satellites that I see with the naked eye & much slower than a shooting star, no flashing lights, no noise. I saw a total of six or seven, a couple minutes apart, some longer apart, all going towards the south, but at different angles, some more towards southeast. I have looked every night again and didn’t see any until February 12 around 7 o’clock, and I saw the same thing over a period of about 20 minutes, but I only saw three, again with binoculars, only not with a naked eye. No trails, auras, tails. Just white lights the size of a star you would see with naked eye but I was using binoculars. The reason I even spotted them because I was looking for the comet. I often view satellites, but they go much slower than the lights I saw. I would like to know what I am not real clear on the time for both dates, the times are approximate. Thank you.

February 3, 2023 · 5:20 PM · CROSS

Palm Springs, CA

Yesterday about 5pm black object, not a circle. It was one and was hovering on the clear blue sky for at least 10 minutes, moving very very slowly to their right. Then a helicopter appeared just below the object looks like it was going in the direction of the object. One of the witnesses took a video i am waiting to receive it.

February 3, 2023 · 5:15 PM · CIRCLE

San Jose, CA

My husband spotted a very large circular object in the sky around 5:15 pm on Feb 3rd in South San Jose, CA while he was driving. He snapped a picture, but the photo is very grainy because the object was very high up in the sky. When he got home told me about it and we both went out in the backyard to watch it. We both watched it until it finally disappeared becuase it had traveled too far away and too high up for us to see it anylonger. It was traveling North to South from where we were standing in our backyard.

February 1, 2023 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE

Woodland, CA

My son was talking to me when he saw an object in the sky and said “What is that?” I turned to look, and we both picked up our phones and went to the balcony. We both took videos, his phone is better than mine, but we got 2 videos. It was circular and orange/red. It got larger and smaller and the brightness changed. It hung in the air before lowering and disappearing. It shot sideways and back before it disappeared. I didn’t want to put on social media and did not know where to report this. There was also some sort of mechanism on the bottom. It appeared to be very far away.

January 31, 2023 · 6:38 PM · LIGHT

El Granada, CA

On the evening of Jan 31, 2023, my wife and I went to have dinner at Barbara FishTrap. I took my Nikon D850 camera to take some pictures at the Radar Dome at Pillar Point Harbor, El Granada, near Half Moon Bay, Ca. After finishing eating take out dinner in our SUV, I took some pictures of the Radar Dome at the parking lot. I was surprised to see these objects when I viewed in Photoshop the next day. The image shot in jpg format and the image was not modified. I am not a professional photography; it is only my hobby. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]

January 29, 2023 · 7:23 PM · TRIANGLE

Monterey, CA

I looked up and saw three dimmed lights working their way across the sky. I asked the three people who I was with if they saw it, two also did. There were lights on it, but the strangest part was that they seemed to be dimmed. We watched three dimmed lights in a triangle formation, with the outline of a triangle, glide smoothly and silently across the night sky. The triangle disappeared behind a cloud shortly after.

January 29, 2023 · 5:02 PM · CIRCLE

Chatsworth, CA

Around five pm while we were on a family walk we saw some bright yellow gold color objects flying in the sky. They looked like crescent shaped to me but like like circles to my daughter who shot the video. They were going in and out of the clouds in the sky so were reasonably high up. I felt that an aeroplane went through the group but not sure if the plane went through or above them. They could potentially be drones, but their flight paths or moves were not symetrical nor appeared synchornised in any manner. In the video they are seen as spherical or circular objects, but to my naked eye they looked like crescents. They were in the sky for about seven to ten minutes as we continued our walk. We do not have any background in spotting UFOs. So not sure if they were drones or UFOs but there maybe some military details on if they were UFOs. In the videos you will see them as emerging round balls coming in and out of focus throughout the video. Difficult to count how many because there were several but all were not visible at one time and their movements prevented our ability to count them. We observed them while walking between 10452 Larwin Ave and 22165 James Alan Cir, Chatsworth, CA 91311. Would love to know if they were UFOs or drones. So pleae confirm. Thanks. the recording file is 102MB and it would not upload to the site. We have the recording that we can share by alternate means if you want it.

January 29, 2023 · 3:16 PM · UNKNOWN

Paso Robles, CA

I was taking a picture of the moon and I realized there was a craft flying faster than normal because we do have an airport by so I see a lot of planes I took the first picture and you can see it off on the side and then I accidentally took another picture when it's right in front of the moon trying to switch my phone to video and then it caught a short clip of it before it disappeared behind the cloud. This is not the first time I've seen something weird though off my balcony couple years ago on Easter I caught a weird light but I didn't catch a good video of it. It could very well be some kind of test rocket or something but normally those admit sound this was completely quiet.

January 28, 2023 · 6:47 PM · FIREBALL

Ventura, CA

Looked directly overhead approx. 6:50 p.m. and saw what I assumed to be an aircraft, but it appeared to glow orange like a rocket exaust and remain motionless; my wife agreed that it was stationary. After observing for 10-15 seconds I ran into the house to fetch my camera with zoom lens. When I came back out the object was now definitely moving South into the Orion consellation and I managed to get one shot off on autofocus setting, but before I could re-adjust for a sharper image the object faded as if a booster burned out. Checked launch schedule from Vandenberg SFB but next Space X launch not scheduled until today or tomorrow; in addition, I have seen many launches from Vandenberg and they are always about 30 degrees from the Western horizon. ISS was over New York that night and the color seemed wrong as well for ISS. Apologies for not getting a sharper photo. Thank you.

January 26, 2023 · 12:40 AM · DISK

Montclair, CA

I just got home and parked my car. I was looking up at the sky and saw a white light like a shooting star falling down but it was very close/low. I knew it wasn’t a star because it curved back up and then proceeded a little more and disappeared into the sky even tho it was so low. It was disk shaped, maybe had a sphere. It had lights like rings around it like Saturn. The lights on the perimeter were red and a white. It flew unnaturally fast and glided in the sky. Next thing I know it’s gone. It was too low for a plane, not a star, and not a drone or helicopter.

January 25, 2023 · 5:55 PM · CIGAR

El cerrito, CA

large pen shaped craft floating below airplane much lower in altitude, the UAP was proportionately larger than the airplane at a further distance. Crawled at a slow pace moving south, from my vantage point it moved from the golden gate bridge towards the south bay, I lost vision behind a tree. Looked as if I was to hold a pen at arms length in terms of size, physically seemed to be floating across the middle of the bay, between SF and the East Bay

January 25, 2023 · 1:20 PM · SPHERE

Mojave, CA

About 20-30 minutes before landing at John Wayne International Airport my seat mate and I witnessed three spheres, one large and two small. We were on AA flight 1953 from Dallas. We landed at 1:42 pm. We saw the spheres, which were very bright, yet presumed metallic, moving in multiple directions, generally on the same plane of elevation. We watched them for about five minutes. I do know about the man next to me. I am an architect and real estate broker in Boca Raton, FL. This was my first UFO sighting, and I was not a believer previously. Of note, my step daughter picked me up at the airport. She claims to be an alien abductee, and she wrote for UFO Magazine.

January 25, 2023 · 10:15 AM · CIRCLE

Spring Valley, CA

Two circular shaped uaps hovered in the clear sky above my Spring Valley home for approximately 15 minutes on January 25, 2023. I noticed them at approximately 10:15 am. They blinked bright white, looked like stars, hard to see when they didn't blink, made no sound, moved like laser pointers, had no light source causing it, possibly the size of 2 small planes, they moved up, down, side to side, and around each other. I reached out to the local FB group and shared a video I took of them, asking if anyone else in the area saw this? No one claimed anything. I reached out to the news. No one responded back.

January 24, 2023 · 6:40 PM · DISK

Clearlake, CA

The disk object with lights under it was moving in a circular movement it dropped from its original position super fast then raised back up slowly the lights were flashing

January 24, 2023 · 1:55 PM · LIGHT

Lake forest, CA

I pulled over to look at it and in 2 seconds it disappeared