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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
September 26, 2015 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Rocklin, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2015 · 10:35 PM · LIGHT
Temecula, CA
I DID NOT REALLY GIVE IT A SECOND THOUGHT UNTIL I WAS LISTENING TO COAST TO COAST ON 10/02/2015 AND THE GENTLEMEN FROM NUFORC MENTIONED A BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT. WELL, I TOO SAW A BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT ON FRIDAY 09/25/2015 ABOUT 11:35 DRIVING IN TEMECULA, CA. THE LIGHT WAS AMAZINGLY BRIGHT AND NOT MOVING, NOT BLINKING JUST SITTING THERE. I WAS TIRED AND REALLY DID NOT THINK TO MUCH ABOUT IT SO I WENT ON HOME. I AM A 60 YEAR OLD MALE AND RETIRED.
September 25, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
San Clemente, CA
100% Real Sighting and first interest or care of UFO's existence. Coming home from dinner on September 25th, 2015, at approximately 9:30 pm, we don’t drink or do drugs. My girlfriend and I were driving up the hill to our house when she said to me, what are those 3 lights? I replied, probably helicopters as I had no interest. As we continued up the hill she said again, look, what are those lights? At this point I looked up to see 3 bright orangish lights in a vertical pattern a considerable distance apart from each other. I then said, lets stop and watch and see if they are moving, as they just appeared to be hovering. As we stopped and watched I immediately could notice they were slightly moving but very slow. Immediately after I noticed they were moving slowly in our general direction, they stopped and appeared to be hovering again. I still wasn’t too interested until, within a few seconds,I literally blinked and the bottom of the 3 lights had vanis! hed. Now my eyes were glued to the 2 remaining lights as the bottom light disappeared faster than anything I have ever witnessed or known to exist on earth. The next two lights and what they did are why I am writing this and now know UFO's 100% do exist. 3 The top light in the pattern of 3 lights, which is now 2 lights remaining, I watched disappear approximately 10-20 seconds after in a directly upward and out direction at a speed not from this earth. The large bright light I could see fade in a direction, speed and distance that is impossible to be from our planet. Rockets and Missiles are like a turtle to this speed. It was very close to light speed, just a bit slower and enough to notice direction. As this happened I expressed my disbelief to my girlfriend and I am not sure if she saw it disappear as it vanished completely within a second or two. However, now both our eyes are glued to the middle of the 3 lights and last one remaining. Within 10-20 seconds the middle and last remaining light, which was a good distance lower than the top light, began to move in that same direction at a similar speed. As we both watched the light vanish into outer space within a few seconds, exactly like the top light, we knew what we j! ust saw together was impossible to be anything known to exist from this planet. My girlfriend will submit her sighting report in her own words and neither of us care if anyone believes what we saw. We know what we saw and it has shocked our world
September 25, 2015 · 4:00 AM
Wilmington, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Corte Madera, CA
Witnessed multiple lights hovering near Corte Madera bayside hill. I first noticed it and then had a neighbor coming up the road view it with me. We watched these lights for about 10 minutes in eastern sky. We both came to an agreement that these were not airplanes. Seemed to be over the Bay .
September 24, 2015 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
San Carlos, CA
Driving north down lake Murray blvd I saw the first sighting of two orbs that were bright in the sky very close together, flying in sideway motions and straight up and down . The direction and speed was not of any normal craft. I lost sight as I drove, however I had to go back in that direction 15min after leaving the area. I was driving down the same road and searched the sky to see if they were still there. This time I not only saw two orbs again, only they were huge and bright! Like white bright beams. Very low from the sky this time and moving fast! I couldn't believe my eyes and my daughter witnessed this too. They were so low and so bright that I know we couldn't be the only witnesses. It actually freaked me out, too close for comfort! But then within seconds it's like they shrunk up and were tiny lights that disappeared into the sky.
September 24, 2015 · 8:00 AM · CYLINDER
Marin County, CA
Driving from Northern Marin County South on the 101 into San Francisco located in the SE skyline was a prism rainbow in the shape of a squat cylinder, the rainbow effect with a center point radiating outward in a disk. There was no object to be seen, only the reflection of the light off an object of that shape in the sky. It remained visible throughout the drive, lasting 45 minutes to 1 hour without movement.
September 24, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
I walked out to get my niece so i can babysitter. As i walked to meet my sister, i noticed a huge light, brighter then any star out there. I figured it was a plane because they frequently pass ecxept this light wasnt moving at all . It just stood there in the air and would lean as if it was coming forward and sideways. I managed to get two pics and zooming in there are bout three objects of bright light and it makes an L shape of some kind. I know that wasnt a plane. I have a telescope and i have never seen a star or light, that bright in the sky. No noise so it was not a helicopter. Made me get the chills honestly and i dont freak out easily. Well hope someone else saw somethin. Wish i could post the pics. It was crazy to say the least.
September 24, 2015 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Novato, CA
My seven friends and I were camping and in our sleeping bags preparing to sleep. We heard a low rumbling that sounded like a truck in the sky. It also sounded like a helicopter flying very low but was deeper and slower. We then saw a cigar shaped UFO moving over our campsite. It had flashing blue, green and red lights in the middle around it. It continued to move past us slowly and then out of site into the distance.
September 23, 2015 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Fairfield, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 21, 2015 · 11:55 PM
Manhattan Beach, CA
The very large flashes of light, about a minute apart each... and each enough to completely illuminate the sky for a second at a time.
September 20, 2015 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Carpinteria, CA
At about 8:45 pm, my wife and I heard a boy tell his mom to come outside and look at the lights in the night sky. His insistence made us go outside and take a look. We immediately saw in the southern sky 3 very bright, stationary lights that were in a large triangle formation. The lights were much brighter than any star or planet and were many times larger than the planet Jupiter appears at its brightest. It was hard to tell how far away they were, but they appeared to be thousands of feet high. The lights could have been separate or part of a much larger object because their relative distances did not vary during the observation. There was a ¼ moon in the northwestern sky and because of the proximity to Santa Barbara, most of the stars in the sky were very dim. It was impossible to miss these 3 bright objects. We waited for the lights to move, but they stayed stationary for over a minute, then 1 by 1 each light slowly dimmed and then went out. Almost immediately after the last light went out, a small glowing cloud or smudge, as we called it, appeared away from the original triangle formation and started to move rapidly across the sky—heading out towards the ocean. It dropped quickly toward the ocean and followed a long path which took it many miles away into a western part of the night sky. In less than 10 seconds, it disappeared behind the Santa Barbara channel Islands over 20 miles away. Each of these events occurred without any noise. My wife and I are professional people with no previous sightings to report. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 19, 2015 · 9:04 PM · FORMATION
Roseville, CA
Sitting in back yard looking at stars and a movement caught my eye coming from the north. It appeared to be a flock of birds coming together in a vee formation but it was dark and they shimmered. As it progressed across the top of the tree line not more than 100 feet in the air it appeared to be bulbs of orange lights in a vee formation approximately 20 on each side. It went by very quickly but my friend was able to see it as well before it went behind another tree and we lost sight of it.
September 19, 2015 · 8:55 PM · OTHER
Moro Bay, CA
Red green and orange lights, craft, hellacopter? Traveled erratically at 15000 ft with small bursts of movement forward and slightly from side to side and moved north west over the ocean to the south. It would go dark from time to time throw off balls of light that resembled sparks. It through off one last ball of light and it went dark and vanished. No falling AC or flames...just gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 19, 2015 · 1:14 PM · OVAL
Roseville, CA
Saw in N.E. sky a red helicopter flying, looked up and saw white oval shaped UFO flying above the helicopter. Soon as I said "What's that?" We looked down for a minute looked up and it was gone.
September 19, 2015 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Tehachapi, CA
It suddenly stopped the direction it was going in, then a moment later went in opposite direction, then stopped again, then went up a few degrees, then left, then right, then rather quickly went down some degrees before it went up again, then repeated this back and forth,up and down pattern. At one point a small light broke off and descended straight down. I don't know how long this object stayed in that area, as I went back to bed after watching for 45 minutes or more.
September 19, 2015 · 2:00 AM · CHANGING
San Jose, CA
I noticed an object moving unlike an airplane or helicopter so i went to get my binoculars and set them on top of my handrail so they would be stationary and i saw a globe shaped object whose lights resembled lasers switching bluish hues and orange and seemed to be transparent where there was no color and it was brilliantly lite up I can't understand how nobody else couldn't see this object. Venus or stars? PD
September 18, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Sherman Oaks, CA
The other evening, Friday September 18, 2015, we were in our backyard with friends, in Sherman Oaks, CA. My friend was looking at the evening sky. She is an interior designer. She is quite visual and I am a painter and a teacher. She said, what is that? I looked up and we saw a chevron shaped flying something. It looked like a boomerang with running lights along the bottom. There may have been four or five lights on each arm of the thing. The lights were extremely dim, bluish in color, but difficult to describe almost like eyeballs not really lights.. It was completely silent. The only sound was us screaming at each other. It was something real. Maybe a military flying thing, but why would they be flying in Sherman Oaks, unless they were landing in Van Nuys? Maybe a drone, but it looked like nothing either of us had ever seen before. It was hard to tell how large it was. I thought it was larger and higher than my friend. But it had to have been quite high to pass over the tall trees. My husband also saw it out of the corner of his eye. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
September 18, 2015 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Modesto, CA
At a few minutes after 2100 PDT, 09/18/15, I was talking on my cellphone (with a hands-free device) with a friend just a moment after my wife and I had stopped at a restaurant (approximately 4 NM from MOD airport) for a late-night hamburger; as I walked around the back of the car, walking south to east, I stopped to open the car door for my wife to get out of the car and noticed a very bright light NE of the town heading in our direction. The distance of the light from town was initially difficult to judge, not knowing precisely what sort of craft the light was part of, but judging by the rate of its approach and estimated altitude, I am guessing that I first noticed the light 30-40 miles NE of our location and possibly at 14,000'-17,000' (very difficult to judge with any precision). Weather at the time: no clouds were visible; the brighter stars in constellations were all visible from horizon to horizon, so I'm assuming that the weather was CAVU. There is absolutely no possibility that this light was a planet, for Venus had set sometime earlier in the west, and the light was much too large to be Mars, Saturn, or Jupiter. (I served as a volunteer amateur astronomer at a nearby observatory in Oakland, and can assure the reader that whatever the light was, it was not a planet, star, or satellite.) I've flown for a intra-state airline out of Modesto for 7 years and have lived in the city NE of MOD airport for 28 years; the path of the bright light didn't match that of aircraft flying from Sacramento southbound along low-altitude airways; it didn't match air traffic flying the typical arrivals into KSFO or KOAK, where the traffic crosses the Modesto VOR at 10,000' MSL and flies outbound on a WSW radial before being vectored by Bay Approach for arrivals at KSFO or KOAK; the light did not appear to be heading to MOD airport or distant KSJC; I thought that the light might be traffic heading for MOD VOR, but the heading wasn't quite correct (it would pass west of the VOR on the observed heading), so it didn't appear that it was on the Modesto arrival for KSFO or traffic bound for MOD. Judging by its size; the speed of its approach; angle of approach and vertical relative motion, I believe that the light was descending. The closer that the light came, the more impressed I was by its apparent size; it was yellow-orange in color, which may have been caused by smoke from fires that had burned in the vicinity of Modesto in September, but which I seriously doubt is the case as the color had not changed to any real degree in its approach to Modesto since the time when I first observed it some 9-10 minutes before. During this time, I didn't see any change in relative motion that might have indicated that an aircraft had leveled off. When the light appeared to have more lateral relative motion, I looked very carefully for red and green navigation lights and white (wingtip) or red (tail, or fuselage) anti-collision strobe lights and observed none [I can almost always see the anti-collision strobe lights on commercial jets at 10,000' on the Modesto arrival -- procedures dictate that arriving flights cross the MOD VOR at 10,000' and in clear weather, I can usually detect the red, green, and white position lights of traffic overhead, though not the color with the jet being at that altitude (my vision is 20/10 or better in both eyes)]. As neither my wife (also a pilot) or I could not see any position (navigation) lights, after removing the earbuds of my cellphone's hands-free device from my ears, I listened for powerplant noise and could not detect any sound of a reciprocating engine propellor-driven aircraft, no jet engine powerplant(s); nor could I hear the blade noise from a helicopter (our home is less than 3 nautical miles E of a hospital that has EMS helicopter service, or, that of the helicopter that serves another hospital approximately 4 miles WSW of us). Puzzled by the size of the light (at this point, much larger than any I've seen on private civil, commercial, and military aircraft); and the lack of both navigation lights and powerplant noise, I ducked into the backseat of our car to pull my professional Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR camera from its bag, turned the camera on, removed the lens cover (about 7-8 seconds at most), only to find that no aircraft or lights were visible whatsoever. Usua! lly, if police or hospital helicopters are flying away from me, I can see at least one position position and two or more strobe anti-collision lights of aircraft that have over-flown my zenith -- and usually, there is just enough dust or haze in the air that a landing light will display an apparent "beam" down to the ground which can be seen from all over the city. (The street that our restaurant is on is Oakdale Road, which points directly at the midfield of the MOD airport to the south of us: any aircraft landing at Modesto airport should havqe clearly been visible for several minutes more.) I scanned the sky east through northwest several times and could find absolutely no lights in the sky except those heading to or away from the MOD VOR at an altitude of approximately 10,000' MSL; the strobe lights of commercial jets on Jet-One ("J-1") at high altitude heading southbound; or transiting the skies far to the far south, apparently jet traffic heading into KSJC. No lights could be seen flying left- or right-traffic in the traffic pattern for landing at MOD airport or going in to either of the two local hospitals. The light had apparently and simply disappeared. Any aircraft going into MOD or the two hospitals should have been visible another 2-4 minutes if landing at the airport or 1-2 minutes if landing at one of the two hospitals. Even looking through my camera's zoom lens, I should have been able to see at least some of the usual lights aircraft display, but saw nothing.
September 18, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Hayward, CA
A line of 3 colored lights (green, blue, and red) traveling south in a vertical formation, changed into a triangle shape (still traveling south) followed by 4 sets of two vertical white lights. The collection spread out, changed from lines and triangles and into an almost snakelike shape slithering across the sky, the lights flowed together as one massive looking spineless serpant slithering left and right across the sky. The space inbetween the lights were darker than the sky and made the stars it passed over shaded or not as bright. The lights turned east and all of the colored lights turned white and spread into different directions. Less than 5 minutes later, another 3 vertical lights (red, green, and white) (moving much slower than the first set) shifted into a triangular shape heading south. The shape looked like it started sputtering, then turned onto it's side. I could then see it wasn't just a flat object there was a distinct thickness to it. It stayed sideways for about 45 seconds then flipped back and 2 of the lights went out. The last light went out as the object flew between 2 stars and disappeared. The last object i saw was circular, traveling north, the front of it was covered in multiple different colored flashing lights with no lights visible on the base. As the object flew over me, it turned face down with the multicoloured flashing lights staring down at me. I could see layers of different colors flashing in front of and behind one another. Once the object passed me the front faced back up and North. Again no lights visible from the bottom. No lights visible from the back until the object was 1 maybe 2 miles away. There were 2 orange lights, one on the left and one in the right. Throughout this whole experience there was no sound made by any of the lights or objects I saw.
September 18, 2015 · 11:00 AM
San Diego, CA
Witness elects to provide no contact information; does not send photo. PD
September 18, 2015 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Madera, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 17, 2015 · 10:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Loma Linda, CA
2 red lit spheres appearing as 1 vehicle moving to slow to be an airplane. Observed for approximately 10 seconds. Turned to grab my phone, and it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have amended the time above to indicate a nighttime sighting. PD
September 17, 2015 · 7:48 PM · SPHERE
Orange, CA
My son 9 years, old, came running into the house in a huge panic scared that he witnessed a large glowing orb being chased by two military jets. He said the jets were on either side of the orb chasing at high speed. About the time he saw them I was sitting in my neighbors' house and loud jet like sounds stopped our conversation and we commented how loud that was and never heard a ghetto bird (helicopter) that loud. We are in the flight path of john Wayne flight path so he knows what airplanes and helicopters are. He said the jets were black/dark in color. He has NEVER made anything like this up and he was truly scared and out of breath.