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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
La Quinta, CA
Light traveling upward giving off light beams and an expanding spiral cloud. Started radiating a bluish-green glow as the light disappeared Blue-green glow and spiral continued to grow and remained in sky for several minutes after the original light/beams disappeared. 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 · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
Me and my two boys watched something enter the atmosphere from SW sky. You could see a bright dot and then a cone form behind until it was within the atmosphere. The cone turned into t rail that was blue-green in color. We then watched whatever it was move slowly towards the West until we lost visual sight of it. Its entry was so bright it could not be missed. It could have been anything but most stuff I am aware of burns up on entry, not come in and then slowly float away. I did not have my phone with me, I was in the center of our condo complex to take out the garbage. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Carson, CA
US 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 · SPHERE
Escondido, CA
Light greenish hazy cloud perfect spherical in shape, about the size of a football stadium. Three witnesses approximately three miles apart and saw it at the same time. Stayed in the same location and had soft edges. Cloud was due West of Orange Glen High School and due South of Escondido High School, both in Escondido, CA. Elevation approximately 600 feet. 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 · UNKNOWN
Napa, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Sylmar, CA
Starts off as blue flash, moved to the side, left a green mist trail. As it moved away, it changed from a circular shape to a vertical and continued morphing as it moved away.Shot out a projectile(?)Moved away until no longer visible. 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 · FLASH
Seal Beach, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego/Mira Mesa, CA
At approximately 6:03pm I received a call from my friend who was delivering a pizza in the Mira Mesa area, where I live. He told me that there was a bright greenish/blue spot in the sky and it was unlike any atmospheric anomaly he had ever witnessed in San Diego. I walked out front of my house and looked around, and spotted it immediately as it was VERY vivid. The sky was pretty clear that night so it looked like an oval indigo cloud just hanging in the middle of the atmosphere west of my position, presumably over Sorrento valley or maybe La Jolla. I confirmed on the phone that I saw it too and walked into the street a bit to get a better view. I spotted a formation below and to the right of the cloud, not moving in the sky. It was far away and hard to see unless I looked at in my peripherals, but I could define at least one white/red pinpoint light and what appeared to be another but was too dim and too far to visibly distinguish. There could have been a cluster of them but I couldn't get my telescope out in time to see. In between the formation was a faint stream of light running vertically, looking like a stream of glowing fog. The formation would become brighter and dimmer periodically, staying in the same spot. Over time the blue light cloud got harder and harder to see, and the formation below began to tilt clockwise, about 30-45 degrees before I lost track of it. I observed the two from the roof of my house until they slowly faded away and eventually disappeared. I can't be certain of it but I believe the source of the blue glow was the formation I saw below, or it was possibly projected from the ground at Miramar MCAS nearby. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
US 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 · FIREBALL
Oceanside, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
San Jose, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Looking west of my location, I seen a bright light (like a helicopter spot light shining at me at first) moving Northwest. The light started very bright then was obstructed by marine layer. I could still see a green light beam southwest of my location piercing through the marine layer as it continues westward. 30 minutes later the marine layer and object gone. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Riverside, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CYLINDER
Indio, CA
I saw what looked like a flashlight shaped object the size of a sedan car with a large light moving from left to right, then it exploded and a large amount of green smoke came out of it. What was strange was that the object never made any noise even when it exploded. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CHANGING
Fairfield, CA
A little before 6pm tonight, to the West, Southwest, about 30 degrees above the horizon. It looked like a comet at first, with the tail pointing down to the right, but it traveled very slowly to the North, lasting 10 to 15 minutes before it moved out of my sight. At times it broke into several white lights, almost a vertical streak of light with two or three white lights that fluctuated in brightness. To the south was a horizontal streak of blue light. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CIGAR
Grand Terrace, CA
I was driving over the 215 overpass headed from Redlands to Riverside (at the 215/I10 junction) when I saw a cigar shaped object moving from south to north, parallel to the earths surface in the western sky. The object initially looked like a blow torch flame, or the after burn out of a jet engine. I initially thought it was a rocket, but it looked nothing like the rockets I have seen launched from Cape Canaveral ( I live across the river from the JFK space center in Florida and have seen many launches). The flame/after burn died out and left only a white dot of light. This light slowed and there was a large conical white light that emitted from where the initial white dot was. I thought it could have been a spot light reflecting off clouds but it was a cloudless night, and it didn't look like a spot light. I also thought it was a search light from a helicopter, but it was totally different. The conical light stayed for about a minute or two then started to ! dim, and a green blob of haze started to form adjacent to where the white conical light had been. The green haze was fairly bright for another minute or two then it too slowly started to dim. This was all seen over the lights of the inland empire. I could see planes with landing lights, and what I saw was not a plane. I could also see stars through the light pollution, and this was not a star. I have no idea what this was, but would like to hear from someone else (other than myself and my three children) who saw this. It was mind boggling. I am not a big believer in UFO's but I felt obliged to submit this because I don't know what else to do. Very interesting stuff tonight. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · LIGHT
La Jolla, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 5:50 PM · FIREBALL
Hemet, CA
Object came from south west direction, stoped over hemet, exploded like a fiework , making a large bright light, and leaving a green glow in the sky.the object then changed coarse and headed west loosing sight
November 7, 2015 · 11:30 AM · OVAL
Castro Valley, CA
Around 11:30 AM I am on my back deck talking to my wife and scanning the South West sky’s with binoculars when to the right of the moon in the 2 o’clock position I see a metallic orb sitting stationary. It appear big enough to see with clearly with 7 x 35 binoculars but hard to see with the naked eye. The sun is high which may be causing that. The sunlight is reflecting off the object like a planet would but this appears to be in our atmosphere as you can see clouds behind it. I have been watching it for an hour now and it has maintained distance from the moon but is now in the 3 o’clock position. This is no sound or anything emitting from the object. I am continuing to watch it with my wife…