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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 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Templeton, CA
It’s 6pm Saturday November 7, 2015 in rural Templeton, CA. I arrived home and stopped at the bottom of my driveway to manually put my truck in 4 wheel drive so I can drive up to the house without spinning my tires on the dirt driveway. Just as I locked the hubs on my front wheels I noticed a very bright light above the home across the road from me. It looked like a huge comet with a large blueish tail and a huge funnel shape fan head with a bright light at the apex. It was traveling from the southeast toward the west. The widest side of the funnel took up about 20 degrees of sky which was as wide as my hand held at arm’s length with fingers up. It was traveling parallel to the horizon. By the time I reached the top of the driveway and called my wife to come and look, the lights had faded and the bright point of light in front had vanished, however the tail was still glowing blueish white but seemed out of focus and was fading away. The entire incident took about 10 minutes and the tail remained for about another 5 or so. I’ve never seen anything like it. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Rialto, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Canyon Lake, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Antioch, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Tustin (viewed from), CA
noticed a white round light appear in the sky. I first thought it was the moon it was so bright. I was on my patio and got up as my view was obscured by a tree. I realized it was NOT the monn. It was much smaller but just as bright as a full moon. It appeared to travel in one direction then stop. It created a huge beam of light that cast a huge V shaped beam behind it. Then the light appeared to rotate and changed direction. As it did the light beam began to recede and it appeared to leave a huge green cloud in its place. This was viewed 20 minutes ago in the SW sky. I'd guess it was 5+ miles out. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Escondido, CA
Saturday 11/7/2015 Escondido, CA Around 6pm my wife pointed to the sky and exclaimed, "What's that?!" I looked up to the west and saw something flying across the sky with a very long fiery tail behind it, on the order or hundreds if not thousands of feet long. It looked like what I imagine a rocket would at night. The tail fizzled out within 10 or 15 seconds, but the object kept flying. Then a giant spherical smoke cloud eminated, which quickly kept expanding towards us. The cloud also had an iridescence to it, sort of greenish blue, which kept glowing for a few minutes. It was very ominous. My wife asked if we should leave the area, but I was overwhelmed with curiousity and elected to stick it out. After the cloud appeared, the made a slow turn away from us, maybe 90 degrees, and kept flying. It remained visible for a few minutes, before being washed out by local light pollution. I'm VERY curious to know what this was, or if anyone else saw it (other airplane in the area flew near the cloud, so check FAA reports too). US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
La Jolla, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Paso Robles, CA
We witness a bright blue iridescent long trail left by a white light which appeared to be a UFO. There was a big area of white smoke between the blue light and craft. What was that? US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Los Banos, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Santa Barbara, CA
No information provided by source. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHEVRON
Oroville, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Paso Robles, CA
Craft had large powerful triangular search light with trailing iridescent blue beam. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Covina, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Oceanside, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Rialto, CA
Appeared to have an explosion on the front end of it. 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
Carpinteria, CA
We were walking home from dinner when we looking into the sky and saw a bright white light almost resembling a comet and moving pretty slow at an upward diagonal angle. We stopped to watch because it looked so strange, it had a tail of white light coming out which massed into a large white cloud that appeared lit. There are absolutely no clouds in the sky tonight and everywhere around this light mass was empty sky. While the light was on the right of the cloud a thick somewhat translucent green beam was stationary coming out of the left side. The light continued to move upward and to the right and eventually got far enough away that it was no longer connected to the light cloud. When this happened the green beam also dissipated. The light cloud however remained in the sky for the next 10 minutes. The original light moved far away but remained visible, it appeared to move further up in the sky and then there seamed to be another shower like light beam extendi! ng downward. It remained in that position for roughly 5 minutes and then disappeared. We both watched this unfold as well as two other people on the street across from us. There are no missile launches or rocket launches recorded near this area tonight and we are left wondering what we saw. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Del Mar, CA
Broad point of white light with a long contrail behind it; the area immediately after the light was illuminated/glowing. There was a flashing red light a short distance behind the area that was glowing. These lights moved across the sky as a commercial airliner would. After it arced across approximately 40 degrees of sky, the light disappeared. After 5 or 10 seconds, a large white cloud appeared, initially the size of my fist (outstretched arm) and finally covering a major portion of the western sky (perhaps the size of a hulu hoop in my outstretched arm). This remained for a minute or so and eventually dissipated. When the large white cloud was gone, a smaller blue/green cloud was left. As it was dark outside, it was interesting that both the white cloud and the blue/green cloud were visible in the sky. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Ridgecrest, CA
We saw it in the western sky about 6 p.m. (1800) What I saw looked like the moon emitting light except the white light was surrounded by a cloud or fog-like material. The white light emitted a ray type light through the cloud/smoke cover. The rays of light quickly dispersed into a cloud. There was cloud cover around the object as it became a diaphanous object when it dispersed. It was really strange. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
At approximately 6:00 pm I was feeding my dogs in my northeast Los Angeles backyard. The sky was already dark as sunset in Los Angeles was at 4:55pm. I happened to look to the west when I saw a bright white light. The object was approximately 50 degrees above the southwest horizon. Emanating from the point of white light was an area of illumination resembling a cone, with the tip of the cone at the light and the bottom part of the cone shining to the east toward me. The cone of diffuse light was approximately 10 degrees in length. This cone shaped area of illumination seemed to consist of light reflecting off air particles, similar to the way a flashlight shows a shaft of light when shined into a dusty sky. There was no noise associated with the light. The object and its cone-shaped shaft of light remained stationary for a minute or two. Then the object moved to the north very slowly until it was due west of me. Behind the white light (extending south of the light) appeared an area of blue glow approximately 10 degrees in diameter. The area of blue glow was diffuse and somewhat oval shaped, like a diffuse cloud. The blue glow was pronounced at first, but slowly began to grow dim. At this point the white cone-shaped shaft of light that had been emanating from the white point of light had disappeared. The white point of light grew dim but still traveled northward very slowly. The diffuse, dim blue “cloud” remained for approximately 10 minutes and then gradually faded. The white point of light also faded away as it traveled slowly in a northward direction. This may have been a rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force base north of Los Angeles. However, I am not sure and so decided to issue this report. I have witnessed a few Vandenberg rocket launches from Los Angeles in the past. This object, whatever it was, looked nothing like those previous launches. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Sherman Oaks, CA
My name is Michael, I am a pilot working on my commercial lic. in rotorcraft. My mother in law first spotted this light to the west of our location. She then asked me what it was. I first thought it could be a helicopter but after a few seconds of observing it I knew it was not. I also knew it was not an airplane. It had a short spotlight and looked like it was pretty close to the gournd. It looked like it was 1000-2000 FT. AGL. The spotlight slowly dimmed away and then the UFO slowly vanished out into the sky looking like it travelled miles away. I've then noticed a faint turquoise trail the orb left behind. The trail started as a thin line and then expanded into a large cloud like shape. I noticed the turquoise cloud it left behind last for a minimum of 5 minutes. I did not see the turqoise glowing mist disipate. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
East Hemet, CA
I took my dog out in the backyard about 5:45pm and look up to the West. I saw a bright star like craft get very bright and exploded over the hills in Val Vista. Then two large fog circles appeared on very large and a smaller one around the bright light. Then like a fire cracker the dot disappear but the circles remained into a large blue foggy oval shape. The blue foggy shaped stayed for over 20 mins and finally dissipated. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fountain Valley, CA
November 7, 2015 At approximately 6:00 pm as I was getting out of my car I noticed a very bright light in the W/SW sky at about a 45 degree angle from the horizon. As the light moved across the sky left to right, all of a sudden, and very quickly, a large white bright tail in the shape of a fan formed. The fan shape was in a horizontal position and not vertical as one might see from a rocket. The fan dissipated rather quickly as the object continued across the sky in a northerly direction. As the fan dissipated, there was a distinct blue/green color that remained in the sky for quite a while as the object continued in the apparent northerly direction. Then as the object was almost directly west from my location it appeared to lose intensity as if it was going away from me. I rushed into the house and grabbed my binoculars to see if I could get a better view as it was growing dimmer. As I focused on the object, it appeared to be a circular shape with no real defining marks, and steel g! ray in color. The color may have been affected by the haze around the object and that it was starting to get dimmer. However, it did appear to be alternating in brightness intensity that was discernable through the binoculars. The light continued to dim, again as if it was moving away from my location, and within 20/30 seconds the circular shape was no longer visible. The barely visible light then had “light tails” above and below the object, not behind, until it was no longer visible. The entire “show” lasted until about 6:20, and there was only one object as far as I could determine. However, the blue/green color in the sky noted above lasted for another 10 minutes or so, and didn’t seem to move from the location where I first noticed it. Our house is in the flight path of planes landing at the Orange County Airport, and there were also several helicopters in the sky at the time. I’m sure some of them had to see this as well. The night sky was completely clear w! ithout any clouds. I am a retired civil engineer without any background in UFOs. I do watch the sky for satellites, but only occasionally as there is so much residual light in So. Cal. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Poway, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD