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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 · 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 · 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 · LIGHT
San Diego, 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
Paramount, CA
A light looking like a falling star slowed down.. Then began to drop melting material from its tail stream.. As it slowed it then stopped... And the melting stopped.. It sat in the sky for a brief minute.. Just looking like a regular light in the sky.. Then it got extremely bright. And lit up the night sky.. And with unseen speed just took off into outer space.. Leaving behind the brightest after burn effect and a blue substance in the sky for minutes after it was gone... US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Corona, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · DISK
South Pasadena, CA
We have corrected the date. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Aliso Viejo, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Boyle Heights, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHEVRON
Oroville, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Wilows, CA
Driving on I-5 South, south west of Chico CA two of us observed what at first looked like a helicopter facing east shining a spot beam across the sky (not pointing down). There was a very distinct blue cylinder of light emanating from a bright white light which had crisp lines as if it was perfectly uniform in width, it extended a few degrees of azimuth across the sky. Additionally there was a smaller but much wider cone of whitish light emanating in the same direction. However this object was way too high to be a helicopter. The helicopter comparison would seem logical if the object was 100 or 1000 times closer. We stared at this object for what felt like a few minutes discussing what it could be. During this time it became obvious that is not a helicopter and not static as it seemed. Then we noticed the object was moving west and the white light in the shape of a cone moved with it, the blue light column was still there pointing east (not at the ground). At this point it looked like the bright spot of light was the rear of the object and the cone seemed to be the effect as the object moved, kind of like a wake. This conical wake was impossibly big though. As we drove the object moved an extremely long distance West or WSW. The crisp cylinder of blue light appeared to smear and slowly fade over a few more minutes. During this time we could see the cone of light remain while the bright light of the object continued west. As it moved, narrower cones were created. While we were still looking at the blue light cylinder (now smeared, no more distinct lines) we commented how it was blue. I traced the object west and we saw two pickup trucks pulled over on the side of the road liking in the same direction as the event with their phones out. Eventually you could trace the object until it was extremely far away. At this point a fainter cone of light was behind it and looked to pointing up. To better clarify, the blue cylinder looked like a very bright light until it dissipated 5 minutes after it showed up, the conical "light" seemed to not really be light. A good analogy would be that space craft reentry vehicle having a large cone of disturbance behind it, however it would have been impossibly large as the object was so far away. I am an electrical engineer specializing in real time digital signal processing for high precision GPS receivers and the other observer is a general contractor. Both late 30s driving back from a fly fishing trip. I am VERY interested in hearing back from anyone with an explanation for this, whether it can be explained by a natural phenomenon and any other reports of this incident. I would expect 100s or 1000s of people should have seen it due to the duration and nature. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Anaheim, CA
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 · 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 · LIGHT
Palmdale, CA
Object was a small bright light in the sky that left behind a glowing blue/green light. It also had a very bright triangle of white light behind it. After a few seconds of travel, a burst of white light came from the traveling dot. It was a large, growing, circle of light that grew bigger. The dot then increased in speed and disappeared. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Rancho Cordova, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Nuevo, CA
The object was a blue with a slight green color within an orb of cloud. There were no other clouds in the sky as we had a windy day. After about ten minutes the cloud dissipated and a faint white light, almost looking like a faint star was observed fading off into the west. The star like light had a cloud coming out of it in a narrow conical shape. I have video of the light in a cloud. I could not get a picture or video of the distant light, as it was too far away. The blue light remained for another 15 minutes after the event, slowly dissipating. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Cardiff by The Sea, CA
My husband and I are driving South on Interstate 5. I noticed an unusually bright light off to my right over the ocean. I thought it was a plane at first, but it was too bright and it didn't appear to be moving although there were the remains of a tail (a dusting barely noticeable). All of a sudden, the bright light dissolved into a ball of fog. The fog kept growing and growing, but in a very clear circle pattern. After a couple of minutes, the fog started disappearing. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Soledad, CA
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 · 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 · FIREBALL
Rio Vista, CA
saw an object in the sky at dark white light with a blue tail behind it made a bright flash in sky and speed off you could see it in the sky as it went further away the blue trail light stayed in the sky for a long period of time after objet was gone. U. S. 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 · 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