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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
October 10, 2015 · 6:55 AM · CHANGING
Diamond Bar, CA
Was driving my transit bus around 645 heading south on reservoir Ave in Pomona and saw a round shape object flying low heading westbound on mission blvd it was about 30 yards in the air, I thought it was a ballon but i kept observing it until i saw it change shape and it went from a round ball shape into what i could only describe as a crumble up piece of paper that what floating away. I thought maybe it was a ballon and it exploded. So im traveling south on mission and get on the 60 westbount towards los angeles I try to see if i see the object were it was traveling and i did not see it no more, but then after passing diamond bar highschool and note im on the 60 westbound in my bus passing golden springs i see the object again and i saw it change shape from a crumble up piece of paper to a ball like shape and the change to a square and finally turn in to a triangle i was amazed because i habe never seen nothing like it and the object was black by the way. I could not belive what i saw next it was following a creature of some sort i look like a jelly fish like snake but move like it was in water in a up and down motion and it look like it jad fins but the were glowing purple it look like a flying snake but jelly fish like i was surprise i wanted to stop but i couldn't because i was driving my transit bus and i was deadheading from yard to my start up location in rowland heights and the weird thing os i heard stories of friends and family members seeing thing over the skies of pomona but never belive until i saw it my self i put thease here because another driver told me they saw some like what I saw but it was on the 10 freeway also in the pomona area i really think something is going on here and it would be great if some of you guys could check it out for your self. The time of my sighting was around the dawn hours and the other driver also saw his in dawn my other family seen it around 2am morning hours.
October 9, 2015 · 10:25 PM · FIREBALL
Lakewood, CA
Me and my friend were sitting in my car and all of a sudden we saw 5 fireballs going the exact same speed following one another and now it smells like fire 20 minutes later outside then I also saw a maroon parachuter mini one.
October 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Laytonville, CA
This evening in the western sky, my husband and I saw a cluster of connected lights flashing red, orange, green and white. The lights hovered in one spot then moved left to right, up and down. It bounced all around the area. Then it disappeared from sight. At first we thought it might be a star and due to atmospheric conditions it might just appear to be moving. After watching it hover and behave so erratically and the flashing lights, we felt that no star could do this.
October 9, 2015 · 5:06 PM · CROSS
Santa Rosa, CA
Object appeared in the southeast sky of Santa Rosa, California. I saw the object move into a stationary position in the sky and stay in that position for 15 minutes. The object had two bright red-orange lights in the center of the craft that pulsated, and 5 smaller lights around the craft that were blinking in all four directions. I saw distortion similar to heat waves around the craft. After about 15 minutes, the craft started to travel south and faded away gradually over two minutes.
October 9, 2015 · 6:40 AM · DISK
Pacoima, CA
seen by a cousin of my employee... cannot verify that it is or is not a craft... hope other reports from same event will provide clarification...
October 8, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Martinez, CA
We were driving home and were 3 blocks from our home when my girlfriend pointed out this black shape to the right and above our car. It was about a block away and was moving very slowly at first. It was huge, triangular and its bulk blotted out the sky. I estimate it was 1-200 feet above the tree line as we were near a stand of trees near our local park, across from our 3 story apartment building. It was higher than our building as well by at least 1 time. It moved silently and slowly from right to left (We live 8 blocks from San Francisco Bay and it was headed in that direction ). It then sped up somewhat and by the time we went 1 1/2 to 2 blocks it had disappeared. NO engine noises were heard. It had 2 bright lights on each corner from left to right and a bright blinking light at the top corner but looked like a triangle if you stand it on its base. I am a former member of the Civil Air Patrol, have attended dozens of air shows across the country as well as military open houses and this object did not display any of the characteristics of powered craft. Since the local refinery borders our area as well as the courthouse and county jail, no aircraft would be flying that low. It was not a helicopter either. The police and sheriff use them here on a regular basis and I am familiar with what they look and sound like. They fly near my building and are very noisy. This object made NO noise.
October 8, 2015 · 10:05 AM · TEARDROP
Fresno, CA
Thursday October 8, 2015. At 10:05 am, my wife and I were traveling on Freeway 180, between Fowler and Clovis Avenues, about a mile south of Fresno-Yosemite airport in rural Fresno, CA. In the clear sky about what we thought to be a mile or two west of the airport, out of our front window we saw about thirty to forty black objects maybe more stretching across the sky. We viewed them for about ten seconds until our line of sight was blocked by huge winery tanks off the freeway. As an estimate this fragmented formation could have been up to a mile in length moving across the sky in a slow hovering motion. The largest body of the grouping was closest to us and narrowing down in size as it distanced away. My first impression was a mass parachute dropping near the airport? A few seconds later driving past the tanks the sky opened, and again we saw them but now they were clumped together in a tighter formation. After again losing sight as the freeway dropped behind the trees I rushed ahead for about a minute, to where the freeway was above the trees giving us a full view of the north west sky. To our amazement there was nothing, only helicopter circling above and a black SUV off the freeway with the two occupants looking up with one pointing to the western sky. I assure you these were no parachutes or birds, but something I have never witnessed before. If my judgment of distance was correct they had to be at least the size of a small airplane. If they were actually farther away they were then much larger. This formation was not like one you would normally see displayed by an air force flight but that of a semi-scattered group in closer proximity to each other but yet looking fragmented and not necessarily pointed in exactly the same direction. Trying to determine their shape and size was a bit confusing as they first appeared to be more square on the left end and sloping down on the right. Like a fat eyebrow to even perhaps a delta look, but their shapes, though seeming somewhat uniform, were not. Trying to get my mind to focus on them was strange to say the least, as if they were trying to change bits of their shapes as I watched. I called the airport tower spokesman asking if they had seen anything as such and he said he wasn’t on duty this morning and there was no report. The Tower spokesman then gave me the number to the UFO center and encouraged me to call. I am a 1967-69 Army veteran and retired fire captain and have never before witnessed such a sight. Incredible …
October 8, 2015 · 10:05 AM · TEARDROP
Fresno, CA
October 8, 2015, At approximately 10:05 AM my husband and myself were driving west on Hwy 180 and between Fowler Ave and Clovis Ave I noticed, I thought a flock of birds in the right hand sky above the tree line. I said "look at that flock of birds or maybe it's ducks." My husband responded "that can't be birds, they're too big for birds." The formation was kind of round to the left and gradually & sparsely dwindling to the right, kind of like the tail. The formation was made up of black shapes, some large, some larger and some smaller. Their shapes were bigger on one rounded end than the other rounded end and the sides were straight lines. Some of these shapes were moving and the smaller ones in the tail section were fading. So, right before Clovis Ave, the winery storage tanks cut off their view until you're almost under the overpass. At that point the sky opened up again and the shapes converged into a larger mass (left) that still had the shapes, but they now were much darker and they were NOT moving, but kind of hovering in the air (the tail, for lack of a better word, had disappeared). It is hard to describe in words, but easier to describe verbally. I think it was kind of hard to look at, meaning hard to describe something that made "no sense!" They disappeared again because of the freeway embankment, but my husband said we'll catch them at Hwy 41 where the road climbs and the embankment disappears. Well, needless to say, the mysterious "thing" in the sky had disappeared!
October 8, 2015 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Los Alamos, CA
Was driving northbound 101, when suddenly noticed what looked like a floating bright orange flame that seemed to rise upwards from the top of the hills, fading away with the fog..... Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 8, 2015 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Near Woody, CA
We saw a red glowing ball/circular object moving slowly over the hills! This is actually the second time I have seen it and it was approximately the same time of year only this time my hubby was with me and saw it too. They come the same time every year. It had no flashing or blinking lights(I know a helicopter or plane when I see it) it was solid red and it suddenly vanished. It was NOT a meteor as the red was deep and the object was never as intense as a meteor nor was it moving fast. It was a deep dark red color and huge. It was not a flare, known aircraft or meteor, as I am familiar with all! It's the same one I saw a year ago! I tried to get a picture but we turned down a different road and the object disappeared as I tried to get the picture through the car window! Ugh!!
October 7, 2015 · 9:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Redlands (heading nw), CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 5, 2015 · 7:06 AM · TRIANGLE
Escondido, CA
Also, a twin rainbow (reason I took photo) in the picture. I'm a U.S. Army veteran, know military and commercial craft and have seen UFOs before and am just now finally attempting to share my experience.
October 4, 2015 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Saratoga, CA
I was out in backyard with dog looking up at the night sky as i usually do. I noticed 2 stars that were real bright one above the other, I thought it was a part of a star formatation this was in the north east sky, in fact everything I saw was in the north east sky last night. Anyways these 2 bright star shapes just got real bright and both just went dark one after the other. I was looking at the spot they had been and noticed an orange light very faint streaking very fast heading north, i thought maybe a satellite, but the about 2 minutes later i see 2 more of these faint orange lights going across the sky but they were headed in opposite directs at the same time, they passed by each other one going south and the other going north, i have never seen that before if they were satellites, but 3 of them in a 3 minute span is odd. I thought wow that was alot of action in the north east sky. I sat down and looked to a star I saw that was sort of dim in the north ! east sky, then right below it a bright orange light flared up and went dark, this happened about 3 times in a 5 minute span of time. that was the last of the activity I saw the rest of the night, I'll be out there tonight with telescope and camera hoping to catch something.
October 3, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Armona, CA
At around 8 o’clock in the evening, the sky was dark and I noticed a bright yellow light in the distance toward the West, just over the horizon. What I first considered to be a bright star, this light happened to catch my eye when it appeared to be moving! I thought to myself, “Okay, it’s a plane, but I’ll watch for the blinking red and green lights just to be sure.” It was heading East from the direction of the Lemoore, CA, Navy Base (NAS), which is close to 15 miles West of me. There is always heavy air traffic in this area due to the Navy Base. As I watched this light come closer, traveling at the altitude of what appeared to be that of a single-person prop plane, it reached my proximity in about 30 seconds from a distance which I calculate to be about 5-6 miles away. As it reaches my proximity, I notice that this bright light begins to slow down SIGNIFICANTLY. It has NO blinking lights at all; not red, not green, NONE. At this point, the bright light covers about a half-mile in distance in the same time (30 seconds) that it took it to travel the 5 or 6 miles toward my location. It never came to a full stop, just a slow cruise. NO noise was admitted by this object as it slowly hovered nearby. After these 30 seconds, the bright light begins to speed up again in the same direction previously being traveled. About 5 seconds after picking back up speed, this bright light began to shrink (not dim) as it appeared to be moving rapidly away and out of orbit until I could no longer see it within 4 seconds of its initial ‘shrinking’. And without any noise being admitted, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 3, 2015 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Crescent City, CA
Watched a triangle form and then lights sped away in the opposite direction from each other. Then lights came very quickly following each other and they flashed very brightly and then would disappear. More and more came. Couldn't be planes or satellites. Then the lights would pulsate and disappear and reappear and pulsate again.
October 3, 2015 · 6:50 PM · LIGHT
Winchester (French Valley), CA
Stationary and hovering in the sky, maybe 2,000 feet. Live nearby an airport but I saw a plane fly in a couple minutes before the light.
October 3, 2015 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
San Diego, CA
On 10/03/15 at the San Diego Mir Mar naval air show, Me and my son and family were watching the French jet team perform their stunts. My son saw a light in the sky near the jet team. He took this picture and noticed that night at the hotel room the object with his camera. He called me at my room I met him and we were surprised! The object has lights elevated above its surface (you can see shadows) with one light appearing elevated on the other side of the sphere magnified. someone said this is a lens flair, but he saw it before the picture was taken. If you look close there might be some kind of exhaust is coming out.
October 2, 2015 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Chula Vista, CA
It flew over my house from the west, heading east. I tried to get a picture, but by the time my camera app opened it was too far away to see anything on the camera.
October 2, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Copperopolis, CA
I was trying to figure out what it was, and I noticed it wasn't moving. It looked as if it was a car headlight in the sky. If you took a dime and held it at arm’s length it would have been about half as big as the dime. It was much larger than a star, satellite, plane or shooting star, and brighter. I looked away for a second and then looked back and it was gone. I looked thru the branches of the tree thinking maybe it had gone behind the tree, but I didn't see anything. As I continued to look, now with my wife's help, all of the sudden in the same place it appeared again. It was there for a several seconds and then it disappeared again. It was as if someone turned a light switch on, paused, and then off. All of the sudden it came back on again. It seemed to be in the same location. It was definitely in the sky, well up in the sky. Then we saw a much smaller, dimmer light go on and off in the same location a couple times, and then the big light again. My wife said it looked kind of like it had a short fat tail, not like a shooting star tail or trail, but I did not notice that. We continued to watch for it and saw it again a little higher in the sky than where we saw it before. It disappeared once more and appeared again a little bit further south from where it was. That was the last we saw of it. The whole thing lasted over 4-5 minutes before it disappeared. This by far did not match anything I have ever seen before. It was much bigger, much brighter, did not have a specific path and stayed in a certain spot before moving. When it did move it wasn't in a straight line. It wasn't a helicopter, there was no noise, no flashing lights in any color like a plane or helicopter. I can honestly say I could not identify it.
October 2, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FLASH
Magalia, CA
Looking up in the north-eastern of the sky a extreamlly bright flases in a non fashened order it would flash really bright then do a dull flash then nothing for a min or so then flash again and then move it moved extremley fast but it would move when it was dull colored kinda of a dull grey color when it flashed it was so bright it almost reminded me of like a flash from a camera but a hundred times brighter we saw one then at least two more were in different arreas of the sky but all were in the general area of the original one that we saw first after about thirty mins it started moveing south ward and then we lost it in the pine trees since we live in the mountains but very strange I've seen so much up here that I can't explain and this was one that was pretty weird my dad is retired air force and even he said hes never seen anything like it before which was odd to here him say cause he's a non-believer of other things out in space one more thing we see satellites all the time up here in the sky and when that what ever it is was there all of a sudden satellites going every which direction was going around it just out of the blue kinda like they were gravitating around it tio get pics of it or something all together I saw approximately 8 or 9 satellites that came out of know where when that object showed up one more thing when the objects left we saw 6 or 7 aircraft going in different direction that showed up just out of the blue to.
October 1, 2015 · 3:30 AM · CIGAR
Barstow, CA
It was as high as the clouds, cigar shaped, white, made no noise, had no chemtrail, was faster that any jetliner at the hight it was going, must of been huge, or atleast large. I grabbed my binoculars to try to see it, but I couldnt get a good view, but as i was trying to look, it disappeared without a trace, it could have gone behind a cloud, and that could mean it was a plane, but there was no trail at all. Im sorry if it could be a false alarm.
September 30, 2015 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
Signal hill, CA
I looked out the front door of the house in the evening and saw 3 strange red lights. I got my phone and started taking pictures and immediately they ignited their engines and they went from red to White and one by one shoot up to the sky leaving a hook smoke Trail going way up to the night sky and became a star in a matter of seconds.
September 30, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
Again tonight, saw a very high-altitude craft which presents a bright white light like a strobe every minute or so. Moving about in the sky just north of me and eventually moved off north-east. Slow strobe of white light approximately 2-3 seconds duration with magnitude similar to Jupiter. Faster strobe follows in approximately 15 seconds after the first, is of less than 1/2 second duration and significantly brighter than the slow strobe. This craft may remain in one position for a time or it may move in different directions. I cannot tell if it is in our atmosphere or beyond. It makes no sound. I know of know aircraft, or space craft that behaves as this does. Have been seeing this phenomenon for over 2 years now, every couple of months or so.
September 30, 2015 · 7:51 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
Between 19:51 and 19:57 a single bright light flashed on and off in four different non-linear locations.