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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
August 4, 2015 · 11:00 PM · DIAMOND
Modesto, CA
It was sparkling like a Fourth of July sparkler. Light yellow, orange and white in color. It was coming towards me and was very bright and close and then lowered over a backyard of a neighboring yard a few houses down from my backyard and houvered there for what seemed like forever. I was scared thinking it might be a hobby drone with lights and camera looking in people's back yards. I finally decided to go in and grab my phone so I could film it, and when I came back out, I could only see a tiny red light moving slowly across the sky away from my neighborhood, but I was only gone maybe 6 seconds and it was fairly small and far away, by then. That's what I was afraid of leaving, because I wanted to see if it would disappear or take off fast or slow and I missed it. It was very close and I couldn't hear any sound at all. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2015 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
Buena Park, CA
This isn't the first time I have seen these same lights, I have emailed George Noory other nights I can find the dates. I was eastbound on 91 Freeway. At first, there were 3 the one in the center had a bright white light then the other two evenly spaced apart on both sides. Those two were lighter multi color lights, then near the center one another one appeared all at the same elevation across the Eastern skyline. The appear to be near the Santa Ana Mountain Range from where we are. When we walk they start appearing anytime after 20:15 and will last up to as late as 23:00. We have scene as many as 5 or 6 one night. With one other person walking. Many people in our area say they have scene them. The same night when I picked up my roommate her friend was watching it also. To the North of these "Objects" is the airline up for LAX so they are not airplanes they stay still! When I first saw it and called into Coast to Coast and most likely to see it is a Jr High School we walk the track do South of KFI transmission Antenna. FYI
August 3, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
San Diego, CA
Oval object with green glow. Not very bright but easy to see. Followed by a helicopter. Flying east towards Romana. Almost like it was being escorted. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 1, 2015 · 2:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Ventura, CA
Object slowly rising, then took off like nothing man made.
July 31, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Stockton, CA
I was looking at the moon around 11pm, and immediately noticed about 7 massively bright orange/amber "orbs," perfectly aligned in almost a triangle shape. They were still at first, and then started to dance around each other, and some even merged into one another to form a bigger and brighter ball of light. They were pretty far away, but massively luminously bright and pulsating. I yelled for my girlfriend to grab her phone but by the time she grabbed it and opened the video app, we only managed to film the last one that was fading away in the distance. It was like nothing I've seen before. So beautiful! No air craft or drone that far could emit such massive light, travel so fast, and move in the different directions, that I witnessed. They disappeared headed northeast from Stockton, toward Highway 99, maybe more toward Lockford, CA. So beautiful and majestic and defied laws of physics in my humble non-expert opinion.
July 31, 2015 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Coalinga, CA
Traveled about 110 deg arc, just under 5 mins traveling north by north east. Possible satellite or ISS??? Not a comet as too slow. Was a steady light until disappeared faded about 20 degrees above horizon. Not the ISS, which was visible from Coalinga at 21:31, and again at 23:09 hrs. (local). PD
July 31, 2015 · 5:00 PM · CYLINDER
San Francisco, CA
Did not see until after I viewed the photo. Photo indicates two bright objects ahead of the a/c wing. May be reflections of bright objects inside the cabin, we suspect. PD
July 29, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Salton City, CA
4 circular shaped, bright yellowish, lights, shining and moving across the dark sky. Lining up into one three disappears, and then the 4th also just vanishes into the sky.
July 29, 2015 · 8:27 PM · LIGHT
Ramona, CA
I heard a pulsating sound, thought "that's a weird sounding helicopter looked up and saw a jet following a light. Since I have a good idea how big fighter jets are, the light was between 5 feet across they flew directly from Poway to the Ramona airport should have gone right along the north end of highway 69 Ramonas Main st. About 1000 feet in altitude as slow as the jet could fly.
July 29, 2015 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
San Bernardino, CA
July 29, 2015, at approximately 530 pm. I witnessed a strange phenonmena. At this time I lived by the san Bernardino mountains ant attended San Bernardino valley college. There was a 50 mile distance between my home and school. I park at a nearby field by my school, note that I am parked facing the san bernardinotn. I notice northeast of my vision three bright lights entering the horizon, slowly crossing the mtns. From there it began a steady decline just above my head. It hovered over me for about a half hour. I continued staring at the lights and recorded 3 different videos of this unexplained phenomena. It looked like these lights were connected to something invisible. I don't know what I saw. It was so quiet and it left the same way it arrived. It was about a 45 degree angle on how it went towards me and upward back into the sky. One of my video attempts on this object I record a normal plane flying by over the object. The lights and object itself looked ! as if it decreased altitude so it would not be hit by the plane. This even is the biggest question mark in my life. If you guys can help and somehow work with my videos that would be great. It took me this long to come out with the event because I just didn't know what to do or who can help.
July 28, 2015 · 1:15 AM · FIREBALL
Antioch, CA
I was driving eastbound on Hwy 4 on my home from work. As I approached my exit, I saw an orange "fireball" in the sky. It was moving unusually for any air plane. I watched it as I drove to my house, pulling over twice because it was changing direction suddenly. When I arrived at my home, I called my son to come outside. When I showed it to him, he was speechless. We watched it for several minutes, now moving slowly north to south. It suddenly stopped. It stayed in one place for a good 5 minutes. I took a photo and video. Then it drifted slowly to the west. And then it disappeared but instantly reappeared far to the west within a second or two. Then it started moving south and we could no longer see it. We are both completely stunned by what we saw. When I look at the enlarged photo, it boggles my mind. We could tell this thing appeared to be spinning and that is evident in the picture. I can also see what appear to be lights!
July 26, 2015 · 1:08 PM · DISK
Los Alamitos, CA
My family and I were at a hotel in Orange County and enjoying the outdoor pool and hot tub when I noticed a weird white pearlescent object in the sky. At first it was just hovering and then as I began recording on my phone the object slowly became flatter and flatter until it completely disappeared. As I was recording my sister noticed there were jets seemingly chasing after the flying object. When the aircrafts got closer to it is when the disc disappeared.
July 26, 2015 · 8:15 AM
Whittier, CA
They were moving lightly, then all of the sudden they took off. All you see was a black line in the sky.
July 25, 2015 · 11:02 PM · FLASH
Antelope, CA
Hovered silently for about 15 minutes then slowly moved south, until it disappeared behind trees from our view. The all white lights were very very bright... I have never seen anything like this object on my 59 years ... Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Irvine, CA
I was walking my dog and we were passing through two buildings in my Condo Complex. I heard a buzzing sound like a drone but didn't see anything. After I came to the side walk I looked up and I saw 3-4 red blinking lights. The aircraft was hovering high in the air, but the lights were extremely bright. Within a few seconds of noticing the 3/4 bright red lights, a green light blinked. The craft moved in a line and then stopped again. Hovered for about 30-45 seconds and then moved again in a horizontal line. At this point, I noticed another green light blinking. I was quite mesmerized by the sight of this and it was definitely not a helicopter. I was curious if anyone else saw something on this quiet night.
July 25, 2015 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Salinas, CA
There's a blue light inside of the clouds and marine layer. The blue light is inside of the clouds only in one space glowing through the clouds and marine layer.
July 24, 2015 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Highland, CA
It began as a glowing object in the sky moving from the west to the east. Embers started to drop as it moved. The glowing started to flicker then went out. After the light went out we could see that it was triangular in shape and rotating as it moved until we could not see it anymore. This is the second time we have seen this object.
July 23, 2015 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Aptos, CA
Two bright orange lights appeared in the eastern sky, about 5 degrees apart. They were headed in a west/southwesterly direction about twice as fast as the other visible airplanes at the time. When viewed through the binoculars (7X35) they looked like spheres lit from within and the light source appeared to be at the relative top of the sphere to me. My friend who also looked through the binoculars saw the light at the bottom of the sphere. We watched them long enough to call to our friend sleeping upstairs, have him get out of bed, come to the balcony, view the objects with us for maybe 45 seconds more before they began to dim. One sphere appeared to stop and then head 90 degrees from its first trajectory. A few seconds later they both faded to nothing. We spoke at length via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be quite eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that she is a very good witness. PD
July 23, 2015 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Dunsmuir, CA
I'm reporting this now because of some strange things I keep hearing about this area. Castle Crags is located about 10 miles south of Mount Shasta. I pass through this area almost every other year hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and always see unusual lights in the skies after dark. They usually have triangular configurations. And occasionally I find Bigfoot tracks hiking along this route. I was outside my tent and it was really late at night, I was unable to get to sleep because of the heat that summer. A flash of light further up the canyon caught my attention. A shining, white-blue globe of light I estimated to be about the size of a vehicle was seen hovering over the cliffs of Castle Crags, about two miles away from where I was camping. It hung in the air, glowing with a cold white intensity for a few seconds, crackling like a ball of lighting, and then instantly vanished. Almost like a portal opening and closing again. This is a very weird area to explore, there's a lot of Bigfoot activity, mines, caves, stories about lost treasures, and even some strange rock carvings located along a creek up this canyon below Castle Crags. But this was the first time I ever saw something like portal-related activity occurring in the area.This sighting was also seen by 3 other witnesses camping nearby. We all gathered and talked about it but weren't sure what it was. We thought maybe something burning fell out of the sky, but that didn't make sense, because it just hung in the air for a few seconds. It was one of the closest encounters with a weird object I've ever had. I hiked up the creek the next day to the rock carvings, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. I've heard a lot of stories about this place, and after seeing this I'm more inclined to believe they might be true.
July 22, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Maria, CA
Then on 7/22/2015, at 22:30, I saw a identical object take the same flight path. When the object disappeared in the same location I went in side to retrieve my phone. Upon returning outside there was another indentical object taking the same flight path. Then I called to my wife to show her. When she got outside that was when I noticed five more identical objects fly across the western horizon eventually taking the same flight path of the other two objects and disappearing in the same location one after another. The objects were orange fireballs.
July 20, 2015 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Rocklin, CA
I walked out front of my house in Rocklin, California, around 2 am on Monday Morning, and I noticed a distant star like object that seemed to have a glowing tail. At first I thought I believed it to be a star, but then I noticed it was wobbling and appeared to be falling. It was glowing from red to blue, at which point I ran inside to get my mother and my nephew to make sure they saw the same thing I did. They came outside and confirmed what I was looking at. The star like object was wobbling back and forth while changing colors. Then it appeared to throw tiny sparks out of the northern end. We concentrated on this object for a while trying to figure out what it was. Our perception led us to believe it was taking place in outer space because the physics are not possible due to earth’s gravity and atmosphere. We knew it was not a star or a plane, we did not know what it was. We were bewildered by what we were looking at and we started looking around the night s! ky at other stars. Then we saw something truly remarkable. A large black object which had 3 bright lights shaped as a triangle with a red light in the middle, and it was hovering for a couple minutes directly north of us. We started to point at it, and were shocked and were not sure what we were looking at, then it started to move, and it flew directly over us. This object made little to no sound, which did not make sense considering how big the lights were, at that point we knew we were seeing something unexplainable. This object flew right over us, picking up speed until it moved behind a tree and then it was gone. The triangular object moved much faster than normal planes and helicopters. This object was almost silent and we are not sure the distance to the ground because the lights were huge and very bright. Once it passed the trees we lost track of the object. We focused our attention back to the original star like object. The star like object was still hovering and ch! anging colors while the triangular shaped object was gone. Abo! ut 1 min ute later we saw what seemed to be a helicopter that made a circle around the area we saw the triangular object. The helicopter was loud and had normal looking lights thus we believed it to be a helicopter. Also a few planes flew in that direction afterwards, again, they were loud and contained normal lighting, and the speed of the helicopter and planes were normal. The triangular object moved faster than both the helicopter and planes. The triangular object also was silent compared to the helicopter and planes that came next, (Almost like they were tracking this object) We believed the helicopters and planes were tracking this object because they flew in the same direction and made a circle around the star like object in the distance. We must have sat outside for 45 minutes at least trying to figure out what we saw. The Star like object in the distance was still hovering/and blinking which looked like it was falling. But did not actually fall, we watched the star like objec! t grow dim until it to was gone. At this point the night sky was silent again, we decided to go back inside our house, and none of us were sure what exactly we saw. The craziest thing was how big the lights were on the triangular craft like object, and the red light directly in the middle, we are still not sure what we saw. We cannot explain it. We all agree we have never seen anything like this before.
July 19, 2015 · 10:12 PM · CIRCLE
Santa Barbara, CA
Leaving Santa Barbara airport, watched aircraft on aprouch to land when daughter noticed a odd object some distance behind. At first thought it another plane. Object was circular, a yellowish orange color and much larger then plane on aprouch. As plane came in on glide slope to land, we noticed object drop straight down to about level of plane and get brighter as it got closer. After about 2 min., object then changed direction (without turn or other movement) and went east. We noticed a long comet like tail for several seconds before it quickly disapeared. A few minutes later we saw the object again towards northwest as we headed north on hwy 101. Object was higher in sky, brighter and quite large, about the size of a nickel held at arms length. Watched object for about twenty more seconds till clouds obscured it. Object was circular and brighter towards the edges. No navigation or other lights observed. Very odd looking thing.
July 18, 2015 · 8:15 PM · CIRCLE
Palm Springs, CA
Blue circle moving up side of Mt. San Jacinto, maybe 1/4 mile from the tram line. Moved up into the sky, went right. Motionless for a while, then moved forward, then left. Turned red briefly. We were about 4 1/4 miles away. The tram light was a speck, this was larger, maybe 2 cms. It went to the left and down the mountain to the left of the tram line, and disappeared behind a lower mountain ridge.
July 18, 2015 · 12:21 PM · CONE
Chico, CA
I was driving home north of Chico, out passed Richardson Springs when I saw bright cone shaped beams of clear/white light. Extremely bright. I arrived home then went out side and starred in that direction, I continued to see it flash at random for about an hour. Sometimes in different locations.