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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
November 7, 2015 · 6:04 PM · CIRCLE
Walnut Creek, CA
Bright light, like search light but no sound. Headed up & south. Bright light turned off, but smaller lights were still on. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:03 PM · FIREBALL
Ozena, CA
A yellow ball of light was moving across the sky followed by a blue stream trail. Then the ball stopped and seemed to dissipate into a large spherical matter of bright white light and then turned to blue. The blue matter stayed in the sky for 2-3 minutes and then it turned white. The fireball disappeared and then reappeared over the horizon but it was less bright and in the distance. Then it appeared to go straight up and showed another burst of light, then disappeared again. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:03 PM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
Saw a bright turquoise light in the otherwise dark gray sky. A white light emanated from the turquoise light. A white object - sphere shaped - emanated from the white light and moved in a west-northwest direction. It was not a typical airplane as many planes fly overhead and this item did not look like a plane. It also appeared to be flying higher than normal aircraft. I watched the white light and sphere move slowly across the sky for about 20 seconds. I decided to take a photo with my iPhone. By the time I got my iPhone out of my purse, the sphere and white light dissipated then disappeared. However, the bright turquoise light remained in the sky for about 20 minutes. I was able to get a photo of the turquoise white and will email it to your address. I went online to see if a rocket it may have been launched from the West Coast (such as from Vandenberg AFB) and found nothing posted. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:02 PM · LIGHT
Lomira, CA
My son saw it first. Large ball of light that pulsed as it moved across the sky. Greenish blue in color. When I got outside it looked as if there was a very bright light coming towards us. It went out all at once, but there was a bluish glow in the sky for several minutes after. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
Newberry Springs, CA
White light appeared in the West. The light got bigger in the sky as it appeared was coming right at me. After a few seconds of getting bigger the light started to move to the right. A larger secondary halo shaped light seemed to emanate from the primary source and lit up the whole west hemisphere. After the primary light moved to the right it made a up and down squiggle leaving a large green cloud of light from where the light originated. Took about 10 minutes for the light to dissipate in the sky. No sounds were heard from the event. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · OVAL
San Juan Capistrano, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · CONE
Petaluma, CA
At 6:00pm on Saturday November 07, 2015, I was driving on S. McDowell Blvd, entering the Baywood Dr Rotary. On my right, roughly 500 feet in the air, I saw a large matte silver cone, about 60 feet in height. The tip was pointed upward at a 25 degree angle and the craft was rising at about 40mph. From the bottom of the cone, a bright xenon-ish white light, roughly 10,000,000 candle watt, expended in a sharply defined line, that broadened into a conical shape, 300 feet behind it. The craft entered low hung clouds, which illuminated the clouds but the sharply illuminated line remained, suspended in the air, much like an airline chemtrail. The illuminated line, remained for over 3 minutes, slowly dimming, until it was barely visible. I counted at least 7 vehicles passing by me on Baywood Dr but none had stopped to watch. One briefly entered the on-coming traffic lane, which I assume, was from watching the event. I took out my cell phone to shoot a video but I did not record anything viable. I am familiar with all types of aircraft, military & civilian, this was neither. Usually when an illumination source is extinguished, so is the light it projects. This illuminated line remained after the craft & it's conical light were no longer visible.
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · CONE
Rohnert Park, CA
At 6:01 in the evening as we were starting our nightly walk with the dogs we noticed a very bright light, shaped like a funnel so that it had the appearance of a searchlight. So much so in fact, that we thought it was a helicopter. We quickly realized that it was something much different. The light was a bright white flame and there was smoke swirling around this flaming cone of light. No sound, spooky. I started to focus my phone camera and saw that at the front, leading the white flame was a dark cone shape. The shape was visible for seconds while we were at an angle to see what looked like the flaming bottom of a large cone shape. As it continue noiselessly across the night sky the flame disappeared from view and except for a few wisps of smoke the sky seemed to revert to its normal inky beauty. The streetlights made it hard to follow but we did pick up a faint outline of a cone moving up and away from us at what seemed to be a 90• angle to the horizon. The general consensus among our group was that we saw a rocket fly overhead. Still not sure what it was. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · CIRCLE
Palm Springs, CA
Im visiting my cousin... Got back to cousin mobile home after going to subway got off the car turnd west to walk to his house after parking my car i so a ball of light next to a mountain i told my wife and kid to look at it.. My brother and cousin where at the front of the house i called them to come and see, they saw and where speechless. My brother took a pick on his cell phone. What the light did. A Sonics boom of light and it spreaded like a circle of light in the sky and left a geen substance of cloud and the light it self went west baund and it lookes it keept sending a light beem down when it was travelling west bound. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
Redlands, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
San Ysidro, CA
one bright white light that turned green and formed an aura around it that lasted about 2 min. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · SPHERE
Carlsbad, CA
We have amended the date above. Missile launch
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM
San Jose, CA
I was entering the hills of Evergreen and a craft traveling low was emitting a blueish cloud of light leaving a triangular shape behind with a long tail of blueish lighted smoke like stuff. I took a picture but did not get a picture of the craft just the long lighted area of blueish haze. The haze didn't dissipate quickly it hung in the sky and was filled with light. VERY STRANGE. When I got home I went out back and a trace of the blue haze was still there. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · CHANGING
Thousand Oaks, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
I am a licensed private pilot and amateur astronomer. At 18:01 I and 2 other witnesses viewed an object from outside our garage in San Jose. We were all looking toward the southeast watching the object together for several minutes. My son originally spotted the object. My wife got a couple of good photos. The object appeared to e emit a cone-shaped plume of white illuminated material. There also appeared to be a lingering green beam of light behind the object. The green beam appeared to be about as wide as the full moon and very straight and consistent in its pale green color. The green beam persisted for several minutes and appeared to stretch toward the horizon behind the object. The white plume appeared to be illuminated and appeared to grow as the object proceeded toward the west/northwest in a straight line. After watching the objects and plume for more about a minute the plume suddenly cut off and the object continued to move ahead in a straight line. The plume expanded behind the object and appeared to be approximately 5+ degrees in width. One other witness and I continued to watch the object move toward the western horizon. After approximately 4 minutes the object appeared to brighten and become stationary. As we continued to watch, the object appeared to change directions, turning about 90 degrees to the left heading toward the southwest. iPhone photos will be submitted via email. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Ramona, CA
On the night of Nov 7th, my 2 sons and a friend of theirs walked out our house to the back yard, and when they did, they shouted, "Oh my god, what is that thing!?" I ran outside to see what was going on, and in the sky over us was a large glowing blue orb thing, with a huge circle of haze around it. The blue was an intense, ultra blue. And it was night, so the sky was black. As we watched, the orb lights seemed to be moving VERY slowly, which I guess was an indication of it being pretty high in the atmosphere. The part of the scene we saw slowly dissipated until we couldn't make it out anymore, and the circle of haze around it disappeared. Our friend called her grandmother who lives on the outskirts of Ramona to see if she witnessed the event, and her grandmother said yes she had been watching it for a while. She said before we saw the orb thing, she had seen some type of explosion out of the light, and she said she thinks the blue orb and haze were a result of the explosion. And the full event was over an hour. While we were outside, I heard our neighbors all around us freaking out over the orb and they were taking pictures too. And my kids also saw a green line on the orb, but I couldn't see this with my poorer eyesight. I did capture a bit of the event on my cell phone, but it's hard to see because it was dark and the object was not extremely bright. You can see a bit though, and hear not only us, but our neighbors talking about it too. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Morgan Hill, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Stockton, CA
The "Ufo" was a bright sphere, star looking object. It had a foggy dome around it with a blue ray of light shining down towards the ground. The light lasted about 2-5 minutes. It started out small in the middle of no where then expanded within time. It was beautiful but creepy because of it fading slowly and the bright light disappearing. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Orange, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Patterson, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Barbara, CA
Living on the 154 came out the house with my friend and saw a white cloud that left a blue glowing trail flying north almost right above our heads then out of the cloud a yellow orb came out slowly and traveling slowly changed direction heading north up the coast. I saw flashes around it then it made like a blue hourglass underneath it at one point while it was traveling. We saw it pretty close. Next day navy said it was a tritan missile but it wasn't and it was silent. Me and my griend were stunned
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER
Laguna Niguel, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Filmore, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Tracy, CA
I was driving down N. Chrisman Road toward the Tracy Defense Depot a little after 6 p.m. on Nov. 7. I saw three white lights in the night sky configured in a triangle. They looked like an airplane. There were other lights from airplanes in the sky, except there was a powerful cone of light shooting down toward the ground from these three lights. I thought maybe I was watching a police or military helicopter searching for something on the ground. Inside the cone of light were blue and green beams that looked like maybe they were from a powerful spotlight. The beams were tracking the three lights and I couldn't tell if the beams were from spotlights on the ground or being beamed down from the lights. I could see lights from what looked like an airliner in front of the three lights and I thought maybe the airliner was towing some kind of device with a powerful spotlight on it. Except the three lights kept going higher and higher in the sky as the airliner flew! west toward the Bay Area. I pulled over in the dirt on W. Schulte Road before the depot. The sky was glowing green where I had first seen the three lights over the depot, except the three lights were high in the distance now headed up and to the west. They now looked like a single star like the other stars in the sky, except a faint cone of light was shooting down from it almost looking like a comet. My phone couldn't get a picture and the lights were fading higher and higher. The green glow in the clouds was still there to the south over Tracy. I tried to keep my eyes on the lights as I entered town but they disappeared in the sky behind the city lights. First time in my life I have ever seen anything like it. US Navy missile launch. PD