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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
February 7, 2016 · 7:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Antelope, CA
three red/orange lights in the air and one identical light at a short distance. Suspended over field 200 yards up in air on pfe road. Not sure what it was but not moving and really weird. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 6, 2016 · 9:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Temecula, CA
Disappeared when overhead, couldn't see it fly away!
February 6, 2016 · 6:40 PM · SPHERE
Petaluma, CA
While sitting on my sofa watching the Golden State Warriors game against the Thunder, saw a dull orange circular object appear through the window in the southeast. Walked outside to see what it was and this orange orb was slowly moving in a generally southeasterly direction. It had a brighter portion which was about 10% of the total size of the object and that part was slowly rotating in an irregular pattern around and through the object. Grabbed my binoculars out of the car and was able to see clearly that that brighter orange glow rotating continued and in trying to identify it the only thing that it was remotely like was a large balloon with a gondola slung underneath it. In this case though, the gondola was on fire as it was significantly brighter than the rest of the object. But the way this brighter portion was moving was not predictable and did not have an obvious pattern or rhythm to it. The dimmer portion of the orb looked to have a semblance of a grid-like appearance, but when the brighter portion of the glow moved across the face of it, the grid was no longer visible due to the greater intensity of the light. After about four minutes of relatively slow and consistently paced movement from my right to left, it appeared to turn south and head toward San Francisco roughly. It moved away at a regular pace for several seconds and then appeared to speed up significantly until it became too small to view and then disappeared. The speed of this last part seemed unlike anything that I've seen before, as though the physics I am aware of were no longer operating on this object. The disappearance from view in the last ten seconds essentially happened too fast to be explained by any previous experience I've had. There was no sound involved at all. This is the first time that I have ever seen, much less reported, anything like this. Until I did a Google search on 'orange object in the night sky over Petaluma tonight,' I was unaware of websites like this. I'm a totally sane person and this was in no way imagined. I'm a professional IT Project Manager and have been in the industry for many years with increasing levels of responsibility. Folks like me are pretty grounded as a rule or would not be able to survive in these kinds of roles for long. Keeping calm under great pressure is a prerequisite for this work. I've got no idea who reads these entries or what is done with them, but felt that if there is something weird around and others have seen the same thing, maybe it is a good idea to report. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 5, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Costa Mesa, CA
My dad listened to C2C and told me about this site. I want to see if anyone else saw it. We are not yet convinced that this is a serious-minded report. PD
February 4, 2016 · 6:15 PM · CIRCLE
Woodland Hills, CA
2/4/2016 Time was 6:15 Pm to 6:45 Pm. I was driving in my car on Valley Circle, moving south towards the Ventura Freeway. I looked up over Hidden Hills due west and saw two UFOs. Both forms were two balls of light glowing. Hovering close together then apart. One slowly branched off south east. The other stayed. I had come to a stop light as I watched. As the stop light changed green I realized I was on the other side of town going the opposite direction. I am overwhelmed by this experience. I lost about 10 minutes of time. I did see a light descending on the hill due south as I was driving due east.
February 4, 2016 · 5:00 PM · TEARDROP
Los Angeles (Venice Beach), CA
yesterday at sunset a completely identified object, 1 of the Predator Iraq war drones flying silently east to west opposite the LAX flight path out to sea. Super Bowl security? N Korea weekend launch threat? I have lived around LAX 47 years, 1st time ever seen that, just an overt sunset flight or something.
February 4, 2016 · 1:50 AM · OTHER
Fresno, CA
Mr. X Documentary File # 00701 THE CRAFT This is to document the factual events that occurred on or about 02Apr16, at or about 1:40am, in Southern California in the city of Fresno. The occurrence was witnessed by, and is conveyed by sworn testimony equivalent to, and with all judicial authority, as stated under oath by the signed witness, Mr. X. There are several items preceding File #00701, including and limited to; one drawing of Object ABC articulated by Mr. X in the presence of a close kin. After explanation to kin about Object ABC, Mr. X was asked by kin if he could draw, or recite details of Object ABC. Mr. X did articulate the main features of Object ABC on an old small paper bag. That image was then destroyed. There is a second document articulated by Mr. X detailing the occurrence encountering Object ABC. As Mr. X was exiting the freeway into Fresno, California, using GPS from his phone as he navigated to his destination. The GPS on the phone he was using began giving false readings, and performing out of its normal functional character. Mr. X attempted to adjust the GPS as he drove on the off-ramp from Freeway 99 into Modesto, CA. About 50 to 100 feet from completing the exit ramp, Mr. X saw a strange thing seemingly hovering off to the left of the exit over-pass. As he began to focus on the object, the object seemed to flip, or slip, or shape-shift, landing in the middle of the road, on top of the over pass, directly in front of Mr. X’s vehicle. He stopped the vehicle before running into the object. Mr. X stopped the vehicle, and tried to comprehend the sight of the huge craft, and make sense of what he was seeing. He tried to wake his children, and co-passenger. One 16-year old son sitting in the front passenger seat, one 14-year old son sitting in the rear passenger seat on the left side, and one female 18-year old female passenger sitting behind the driver’s seat. All passengers were asleep at the time of the sighting. Mr. X tried to wake everyone up, and even shook his son sitting next to him. Mr. X began to speak aloud thinking that someone may be awake and listening, “what is it? Look at this you guys. What do I do? I don’t understand. What am I supposed to do?” He asked. When no one responded, he tried once again to wake his son, then decided to do something he thought might be stupid. He thought that he couldn’t leave this moment without being absolutely sure that what he was seeing was real, and with no obstruction between his own eyes and the stran! ge object. (He didn’t want to wonder in the future, because he knew he was seeing something that he never had seen before.) He stepped out the vehicle with one leg, and stared at the huge object, with one hand on the door as he stood straight up. He looked at the object for about what seemed to be 7 to 11 seconds, only looking into the vehicle for a split second at his passengers, and asking if they could wake up, then looking back at the object. Just then a vehicle horn honked and when he looked back, he noticed there were two vehicles stopped behind him, and a third pulled off to the right. The Third car was the vehicle that was honking. At first, Mr. X thought that they were honking at him to get back in his vehicle before the strange craft did something to hurt him. (like he was crazy for standing out in front of the craft like that, so close.) Mr. X looked again at the craft as he got back into his vehicle, and as he clasped his seat belt, the huge craft just vanished in the plume of faint smoke or gasses, which quickly dissipated. The Thing that Mr. X is calling smoke, or gassed, can a! lso be called a mist, and even visible fumes, or a cloud of something. This action of the gasses had a visual effect something akin to a visible fume, without a smell, and was all around the craft. Mr. X then began to proceed the remaining 15 yards, or less on the off-ramp to the light. He continued to look for the object, and look at his GPS to find his way. The GPS still did not give correct magnetic north, flipping and changing routes sporadically. He drove from memory, until calling his friend that he was going to visit, and having the friend guide him to his friend’s home. Mr. X pulled into his friend’s driveway in about 8 minutes after that. As soon as Mr. X passengers began to awake, he began talking about the Strange Craft. The first thing he said to his friend after saying a brief “Hi.” Was “I just saw an Alien Space Craft”. The friend just thought he was joking, but he wasn’t joking at all, and as Mr. X began to walk, he lost control of his legs, and became weak. The friend had to hold Mr. X up and assist him in regaining balance. The passengers, Mr. X, and the friend all entered the home, and went out back to sit in a rest area of the home for a moment. The Craft was huge, Brownish-Gold, with tints of Green, Red, and Lots of Black. The texture was Hexed, or X / cross hatched, with some kind of braces running vertical along either side curving with the surface of the craft from top to bottom. The braces were of the same color, and were about three and a half lanes apart, on either side from the center where I was. The craft was about 50 to 60 feet high, and obscured at the top and sides with the strange black cloud, or fumes. At the bottom of the craft, about a foot and a half off the ground was pitch black, where the outline of the craft could be seen as it hovered close to the road. The craft did block the view of anything behind it, and the street under it. The craft made no sound, and had no smell. Just an eerie silence. Mr. X did get out of the vehicle, and look at the craft with his own eyes, and he did have glasses on so he could see the craft very clearly. The craft did appear from hovering off to the left of the freeway, and did move very quickly (impossibly quick), and stopped on a dead stop in the center of the roadway. The craft did vanish, with the gas or smoke leaving a few seconds after the craft vanished. The roadway became clear and lit, and the yellow center, and white lane lines became visible all the way across the overpass, where Mr. X was to drive. This is the sworn testimony, and statement of Mr. X, who is identified yet requests to remain anonymous for as long as possible. The events described within this report are true and accurate to the best of my recollection, and in in no way fabricated, or made-up. I swear to what I saw, and I am MR. X. I have no understanding for what I saw, and I know that the nature, and actions of this strange craft was not of anything that I have seen on Earth. I hope this report helps, as I was asked to document the events of the evening on which I saw this Strange Unidentified Craft. Signed: Mr. X
February 3, 2016 · 6:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Salinas, CA
I was out walking my dog after dinner, when I saw a very slow-flying craft just to the north of our location. I would estimate that it was less than a quarter-mile away, but could not make out the shape of it due to the glare of street lights in the area. The craft had two small red and blue flashing lights on the bottom and was moving so slowly that it seemed to just be hanging in the air. It made a sort of whirling sound as it moved by toward the east. When it passed us I could see a small, steady red light on the right rear of the craft and a small, steady amber light on the left rear. After a few minutes of it traveling slowly east/northeast it turned enough that I could see what appeared to be a very large rectangular panel of light on the left side of the craft that rotated side-to-side in an arc. The light was very bright white when it swept from the back to the front, and very bright green when it swept from the front toward the back. By the time I thought to get my cellphone out to try to get a photo, it had moved out of range.
February 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Granite Bay, CA
Around 10pm, I was lying in bed and saw what appeared to be a red light in the northern sky, through my sliding glass door. I got up and looked at the sky from my deck. As I watched it, it turned colors: red, blue, white and green. Upon closer inspection, I could see it was a cluster of lights. It was stationary. It did not appear to be a plane. I watched it for about 2 minutes as it remained stationary and changing colors every 3-4 seconds. I began to think it may be a star, but then it moved slowly to my left and then my view of it was obstructed by large trees at the back of my property. I returned to my bed and was lost in thought about what I may have just seen. As I was thinking about it, I turned my head to my sliding glass door and there it was again! In the exact same spot that I initially saw it before it moved to my left. I watched it again for at least another full minute. And then, right before my eyes, it vanished. I have done a internet search and was amazed and excited to see that the exact same thing has been seen before! Same colors and all, but primarily on the East Coast. UFO? Very possibly in my opinion.
February 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
Big orbs lights bright and dim. Floating across the Santa Monica Bay. Some dimmed out completely but 2 or 3 were left floating at times or not moving. Some tell me they were drones. But I am not sure if other people see something like this. Eventually all lights got smaller and dimmed out. I took a video on my cell phone. It was nighttime. I was going to turn off lights to my house as we were getting ready for bed. From my backyard, I can see partial unobstructed view of Santa Monica Bay. I see usual airplanes from LAX. This was not an airplane and was not following the normal flight path. The unexplained lights caught my eyes because these lights were larger than usual airplanes. And they were hovering over the ocean. They seemed very close and lower to the ocean than airplanes would normally be.
February 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Sebastopol, CA
Not sure of the exact date. What I saw was a brilliant light that flashed real fast, once like an l.e.d., instant on, instant off for just a millisecond every one minute six seconds. It happened like six or seven times. I ran inside and got my girlfriend and told her to look at this spot, sure enough, boom, she sees it three times gets scared and goes back in the house. It continued several more times and stopped. It stayed stationary with the stars, it wasn't a satellite, or a plane. Have you had any other people report anything like this? I didn't see a craft of any kind or movement. (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
January 29, 2016 · 11:50 PM · FIREBALL
Cerritos, CA
I am reporting what a friend said to me, after driving down the 405 freeway south, just north the 22 split - along the naval base that parallels the freeway. An orange-red ball was about 30 feet above the ground and following traffic (as I understand) but at a different speed. Then the ~36 inch ball at a point in time turned into a FIREBALL, and continued to move out of range of people on the freeway who could see it. I suspect perhaps at least 20 other drivers may have seen it. I hope someone's dash cam captured it! Lasted less than 40 seconds, I understand. I remain anonymous. I hope others also report this incident! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 29, 2016 · 9:27 PM · SPHERE
Burbank, CA
Burbank, CA. On January 29, 2016, between 21:27 and 21:36 PST, ten solid, unblinking, red-orange orbs, about three times larger and twice as bright as Venus, some with vertical lines approximately one orb diameter (possible optical illusion), were observed by self and adult son crossing 45 to 90 degrees across horizon becoming visible at ~150 degrees SSE through between 210 and 280 degrees SSW at approximately 30 degrees above horizon with slight increase in elevation during travel. Event may have begun before I noticed. All appeared to originate from same point in SE and each disappeared from view at different points. Fade out took between one and five seconds. Earlier orbs appeared to travel greater distance while later ones disappeared from view after covering shorter path. Each remained visible for over a minute and three to four were visible at a time. No frame of reference to determine velocity or range. I have over 30 years USAF and these did not resemble any rocket/missile or afterburner that I have seen.
January 29, 2016 · 11:20 AM · DIAMOND
Indio, CA
11:20 this morning, I was sitting at my desk at work, when I heard what sounded like the cracking of a whip followed by a low level hum or vroom sound. I got up from my desk and went out the front door of the shop. When I looked up (north – northwest direction), I saw a Black Diamond shaped craft with what looked like 2 triangle- shaped fins off of the back end of it. As soon as I saw it, 2 F-16's flew over head in pursuit. They were at roughly 5500 feet. I'm guessing on the altitude here… The Black Diamond shape craft made a sharp turn to the right over the mountains and headed east. The 2 F-16's made their (much slower) banking turn to follow. I'm not sure what type of engine was in the Black Diamond shaped craft, but it took off straight east faster than anything that I've ever seen. The 2 F-16's light up their engines and gave pursuit. But not anywhere near as fast as the Black Diamond shaped craft. This all lasted maybe 20 seconds before they were out of sight, heading east towards Blythe.
January 26, 2016 · 10:10 PM · CIRCLE
Rohnert Park, CA
First seen from far away flashing. Moving too slow to be a plane as it got closer it had two flashing lights. Then we saw it was pretty close to ground and us. Just above the trees. Blinking slowed down as it passed us and when on up right over a line of trees. Could tell that it seemed to have two oblong round pieces in a cigar form. Back part was made of something reflective, thats how we could see the roundness of it.
January 25, 2016 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
At 5:45 a.m., I went outside to observe the alignment of the 5 naked eye planets. After spotting Jupiter furthest west in the southwest sky, I observed a round object with the same brightness of Jupiter (not as bright as Venus) travelling at a steady but fast rate in front of the background stars. Because the sun was not up I could not tell if the object was in our atmosphere although it was not severely refracting light as it would if it wasn't. It appeared to be at a very high altitude and was travelling at a velocity inconsistent with the speed of commercial jets. The moving sphere was round and looked like a planet. I ran to my daughter's room so she could witness it too by the time we returned (15 seconds at most it was gone). That time period would not have been long enough for object to breach the horizon. My best explanation is that it was a high altitude military aircraft or a satellite reflecting the rising sun. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 24, 2016 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Elsinore, CA
It went down behind a hill the hill in less than 500 feet tall. The nearest airport is 20 miles away, March Air Force Base. One of four reports, submitted by same witness. PD
January 24, 2016 · 2:41 AM · SPHERE
Ridgecrest, CA
Saw unidentified orange spherical object, first witnessed at 2:48 in far southeastern sky. Watched it maintain a natural orbit until 2:51, when it reached the far northeastern sky. Object started to curve west, then wander for for a bit, before it faded out just west of Neptune from my viewpoint at 2:53 AM, flaring about two or three times before it faded. It was bright enough to capture on phone camera.
January 23, 2016 · 11:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Azusa, CA
8 bright yellow red and orange triangular objects. One was blinking then they disappeared. And a couple of them look like they were landing.
January 23, 2016 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE
Long Beach, CA
My condo is right on the beach. From my window I can see out in to the ocean and the brightly lit loading docs just east of the Queen Mary. Last night, approx 9:20pm PST, I was watching TV and noticed a bright orange circle from my window, moving towards me just above those loading docs. I looked closely to see if there were any flashing red or white safety lights (like normal man-made airplane) but it was just a solid orange light with somewhat of a fog around it.. (note the night sky was crystal clear a few minutes earlier).. and it was approaching me fast! I grabbed my phone and BOLTED downstairs to the end of street (which sits right on the sand) to get a video. By the time I got there, what was once just hundreds of feet away was now thousands of feet up and same altitude as other airplanes (which you could differentiate by the flashing white and red safety lights). The bright orange light continued to to move southeast and vertical *extremely* fast towards the stars until it shifted direction, dropped down super fast then faded away. I captured the whole incident on video.. It's very obvious no man made craft can move that fast. Video submitted to ufocntr@nwlink.com. You can also see it here: https://youtu.be/9754jYFGsEE (hopefully link doesn't get removed)
January 23, 2016 · 7:07 PM · SPHERE
Concord, CA
Shortly after 7 pm, Sat. Jan 23, my wife and I arrived home from the picture show. On the way home we talked about how bright and clear the full moon is tonight. Pulled in our driveway, got out and I took these pictures of the moon. The three pictures taken with a smart phone show a green glowing object shaped like a ball in different parts of the sky as the pictures were taken several seconds apart but from the same spot and angle towards the moon. These are original pictures and are not photo-shopped. The green light high in the sky near the moon is not a street lamp. This is just weird. What do you think it might be? Reflection off the moon in the sky or some kind of UFO? Wife is a nurse and I'm an accountant, not professional photographer or ufoers. Lens flares, caused by photographing the Moon. PD
January 23, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Pasadena, CA
We have changed the date, assuming that the sighting occurred on Saturday morning, January 23, 2016. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the date. PD
January 21, 2016 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Burbank, CA
My sister and I were raised as military kids. Father was an Air Force pilot. I was a Flight Attendant for many years. I am retired and my sister is approaching retirement in the next few years. On night of 01/21/16, between 23:15 and 23:40, we were outside on west side of house. I was facing NW talking to my sister when coming from the NE traveling WNW I saw a very bright orange ball of light rapidly descending. It made no noise and left no trail. I pointed it out to my sister and we watched it for a few seconds then I turned to my left to observe the full moon to try to get a size comparison. It was slightly larger than the full moon and very bright. The closest color comparison would be terracotta with a little more yellow added. We watched it continue to descend for several more seconds then I went into the house to get my cell phone to try to get a video. My sister continued to watch. She went from the backyard, to front yard, to street to watch its descent. By the time I got back it was gone. She said it went out of sight. Our street runs N to W and she said she lost sight of it right over the street facing west.
January 21, 2016 · 10:10 PM · CYLINDER
Maywood, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have changed the time, to reflect an evening sighting. PD