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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.
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July 18, 2015 · 2:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
I was on my living room sofa, watching late movie with the volume down since kids were just went to bed after their summer school at Ridgecrest. I heard humming sound with the electric current from outside. Initially I thought it was someone is driving their EV or Hybrid, because my Optima Hybrid made similar sound at its EV mode. However, sound seems very loud compare to any other hybrid car that I have seen. So, I looked out the window, which was just next to my sofa. There was nothing on the street. But there was a triangle shape flying UFO hovering, or very slowly moving, on top of my home. I was looking at it for may be 10 to 15 seconds or more. I was speechless at first, but I think I said to myself, "What ((deleted)) is that? What the hell is that thing??? OMG!!! How can it hovering, without making any sound...but I can feel electric humming sound." These are the words that I was talking to myself during the observation. So I was probably witnessing less than 20 seconds or so, approximately. I need to stop the incidence report here for moment and describe my initial sighting of this object back in January 2015. I was walking outside my home on the night of January 5, 2015, approximately around 07:50 PM, I witnessed a strange flying object that does not flying like a plane or helicopter. And it was flying at very slow speed with not so high altitude. It was definitely higher than tall trees in PV, but much lower than conventional flying altitude of helicopter. I went to my car and grab a binocular and saw the object and, it was a somewhat triangle shape (not the perfect triangle, I was not too sure about the perfect or not due to the visibility was not clear) with the 3 flashing red lights on each corner. There was a center bright light on bottom and top which was on and off. Ever since, my curiosity lead me to follow the object whenever I saw it. It used to come up in the same area at same hours. It seems to have regular schedule of flying hours. Then sometime in May or June, it was stop showing itself. I was pretty much forgot about it since it did not show and had busy work schedule and with the kids... Now going back to the story that I paused for minute. This almost perfect triangle shape was hovering very low on top of my home which is probably about at 4 story high, less than 40-50 feet high. I was able to see very clearly..its shape, material of the body. When I first saw back in January with my binocular, I thought it was a black color, but it was more like a silver or gray, hard describe its color, but very materialistic color, may be like graphite. However, it was not pulsating red flash light in three corners. It was a white flash lights in the three corners, but no center light. My phone was at my computer desk and was charging and I did not want to miss the opportunity to witness the close up encounter with this object. Suddenly, my cat jump up to the window and I was surprised by sudden presence of my cat and made a sound. The object seems to notice that I was watching it at that moment. It quickly began to emit very bright center light with the high charging electric sound which last only may be less than two seconds, then it began to accelerate toward the ocean very fast for about 50 feet then got disappeared. After I witness the UFO, I searched online and trying to find out about the object online and close thing that I discover was a flying object called TR3B. However, it was not entirely the same from one that I saw. If you type TR3B on You tube, then you can see video image from France, it was illuminating center light bottom and top and disappeared in front of your eyes. However one that I saw was only from the bottom portion center was illuminate. and moving speed approximately 50 feet was just blink of an eye, less than second or so. It was not very big. It was probably only about 1.5-2 times bigger than my Optima. I was able to feel our window was vibrating at that time when the object was hovering our home. Perhaps, I am exaggerating, but it seems like it was checking on me because I was following it for few months every time I saw it. My wife told me to stop thinking about it and maybe I better stop thinking about it. I did not expect it to show up on top of my home.
July 17, 2015 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Bakersfield, CA
this craft was moving very slowly it was a cloudless evening and this started as a pinhole size light and got larger and appeared as though it was behind a fog like blurry. It looked like a very slow moving light house light in a fog rotating very slowly. It then started to shrink in size again, until it was no longer visible.
July 17, 2015 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mount Shasta, CA
716 976 un-believable mount Shasta Started the day with a hike and a prayer. Reached some 12,000 feet. Shimmied down. Looked for communication. Had burritos at bunny flats. Drove downhill and saw a series of triple shaped red lights, that blink each second......and many white lights down the hill. Those may be cars, parked and looking too. Went down a few feet, quarter mile, and the first two campers were dim. Saving gas. Still see the red lights. Appear to be a circular shape. Tried to photo them, but couldn't capture. Was able to capture lights down the hill. They are still there, (July 17th, evening around midnight) and have changed the flashing to a gentle dissolve. I counted seven sets, horizontally, bu now there seem to be more, and slightly smaller. The ship is to the southeast....beyond the forests and seen through the tree line, above the tree line, but down from a steep viewpoint......this is a ship. A pleiedians ship. I said and say, thank you. Earlier driving up mountain, around eight, a black bear ran across road and up hill, the opposite direction of ships presumed location. Appears to hav e changed angels, though spell checker said angels. God is here. They are red with a tint of orange. There has been occasional lightning, in the same sky view. There was a dense cloud cover, in that area, earlier, as I drove up the mountain, towards, Bunny Flats.
July 16, 2015 · 9:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Palmdale, CA
Went outside, and saw two fast moving objects in the sky. The first one had a triangle shape with lights on all 3 corners, and there was another fast moving object flying behind it that had two lights on each side. (possibly tailing aircraft) Both objects were headed to the east.
July 16, 2015 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Escondido, CA
Tonight, I was lying on my couch – my patio is facing South and I live on the top 3rd floor apartment of my building. I saw a very bright light in the sky and thought it was a star. It was round and was moving towards my building and getting larger and then the light started to turn into a cross shape the closer it got to my building. I was in awe at first and wanted to keep looking but was too afraid to take a picture and stand looking at it so as it got closer and bigger I ran towards my outside door and hid in the door way away from my patio window and the bright cross light shape. I waited a moment or two and went back to the patio window and assumed that it passed over my building.
July 16, 2015 · 1:45 AM · CIRCLE
Encinitas, CA
A friend I were walking down the 101 in downtown Encinitas, when I noticed three bright lights staggered vertically and stationary that were hovering over mountains looking East. They seemed strange so I watched them for two minutes or so before the bottom two started moving horizontally back and forth, slightly out of synch, as if the middle light was following the bottom light. The mountains were probably around 2.5 miles from us and the lights were hanging rather close from my perspective. The movement was so bizarre I alerted my friend and we both watched them for another couple of minutes, before the highest light started moving back and forth horizontally as well, but more slowly than the bottom two. It's as if the lights were dancing or playing with each other. This went on for at least 25 mins before we just gave up looking at them. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2015 · 10:11 PM · TRIANGLE
Torrance, CA
Possible model a/c? We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
July 15, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakeport, CA
I am sorry I did not report this until now. I know it will be hard to believe but I know I saw it and now there have been other sitings I will report individually. I have been an amateur astronomer since 1994. I have an 8” Dobsonion telescope. I took it to a friends house to look at Jupiter, Andromeda, etc. I cannot remember the exact date, so I am guessing. I grew up in the USAF and love planes and aircraft of all types. I watched every Apollo mission as a kid. I have seen hundreds of launches! I have flown hundreds of times all over the world. I am an avid sky watcher. I started seriously learning astronomy in 1994 to assist with my sailing certifications. I have spent hundreds of hours watching the skies at night at different altitudes, locations, and conditions. I have seen hundreds, probably thousands, of meteors, satellites, planes, helicopters, etc. I can quickly identify a planet or constellation. My friends and me were outside on their deck. It was a beautiful and clear-as-a-bell night. No moon. Minimal light pollution. My friend asked, where is Jupiter? I looked up to get oriented. I looked over the peek of my friend's house and saw the usual comparatively large, slightly yellowish, non-twinkling dot of light that is Jupiter. We have all seen it hundreds of times. I knew it was out that night because I had already consulted my constellation software and noted objects, locations and times. However, I was not 100% sure this was Jupiter because I looked up knowing it was out and knew I would see it quickly. I assumed it was Jupiter because it LOOKED LIKE JUPITER ALWAYS DID! I pointed up and started to say “there it is” but before I made a sound, “Jupiter” moved to the right from a stand still, did a U-turn and took off. Hold your thumb up to the sky at arm's length. It moved to the right about half a thumb nail. When it made a u-turn, it dropped down about 1/4inch and moved about two inches to the left and disappeared. There was no dimming of the light as it “flew away”. It did accelerate. It appeared exactly the same as Jupiter in size and light intensity and characteristics. It did not appear to be in earth's atmosphere but rather, to me, it seemed to be in low earth orbit or higher. I said, in a fading volume voice, “did anyone see that”? The only response I received was “what did you say”? I had goose-bumps and felt weak suddenly. To myself “Uhm, Jupiter flew away. Did you really see that? Yes, I did see that. Are you sure you saw that? Yes, I am sure. Was it a bug? I wish it was. Where is Jupiter?” I frantically looked around until I found the REAL Jupiter. I could not talk and did my best to hide it. I never mentioned it again. It scared the hell out of me because nothing I knew of, in my experience, could do what I just saw so clearly. I had never seen a UFO before and was very skeptical because I could always identify what I saw from the many databases of flights and fly overs of all types of aircraft, space debris, meteors, etc. I spun my telescope around and locked in to Jupiter as fast as I could. I was shaking but I found it. I was so relieved when I saw the yellowish planet with its four large moons in my sight. OMG! I took a year of astronomy online at Ohio State. I have had physics, chemistry, biology, lots of math and am very aware of critical thinking and the scientific method. I did some quick and rough calculations when I got home. I guesstimated its possible altitude, speed and distance. The most conservative number I came up with was that it pulled too many G’s for any life form to survive, when it did it’s u-turn, and it sped away at a minimum of 200,000 mph. I started laughing (I was alone). I threw my pencil down and tore up the paper I was writing on, into as many pieces as possible and threw it away. No one will ever believe this! There must be an explanation. I cannot find one. Now what? Sometimes, I cannot get this out of my head. I think about it often. I don’t know what to do with it.
July 15, 2015 · 8:40 PM · FIREBALL
Sacramento, CA
It was in a very controlled floating direction moving downward, like aircraft landing position, but at the same time leaving a laser like red trail that could be seen as the sun was going down across the horizon. I have never seen this before. Very interesting event to be seen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2015 · 4:40 PM · OTHER
Ivanhoe, CA
((name deleted)) Apr 13, 2023, 7:01 PM (21 hours ago) to ((e-address deleted)) Approx.. 10 years ago an elongated, fiery red, white, orange, object flew over highway 216, on a heading of Approx.. 080 degrees magnetic, half way between Ivanhoe, Ca. and the Saint Johns river, directly in front of me as I drove my vehicle northbound on highway 216. The horizontally elongated object was quite low and possibly descending slightly at roughly 2000 to 3000 feet agl; it appeared to be on fire and seemed to be trailing fiery debris slightly above and behind it. I could not discern a specific shape only an elongated fiery blob with trailing debris, yet the debris remained connected to the main fiery blob. As the object passed by me I continued north bound and ended up directly behind the object and observed, two, distinct, totally unobscured, features resembling afterburners; One smaller, in the upper debris area and one larger, in the lower elongated main portion of the fiery object. The lower afterburner appeared to be three to four times larger than the upper afterburner, yet they were otherwise identical. It suddenly dawned on me this was some sort of cloaked aircraft accompanied by a chase plane employing cloaking technology. It reminded me of the chase planes I had seen as a youth at Edwards Air Force Base accompanying the XB-70. As I continued north bound the object disappeared behind the foothills and because it was so low I listened for an explosion thinking it might crash but obviously it did not. When I returned home I projected its course of 080 degrees on the sectional chart, over the mountains, and it lead directly to China Lake Naval Air station Air Space.
July 13, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Monterey, CA
One to three red light entities hovered over the marine canyon in Monterey Bay about 6 miles west and offshore of Moss Landing. Lights remained for two to fifteen minutes in one spot, varying in brightness then typically moved off eastward and north toward the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains and brightness diminished until gone. A few times the entity left in a more northerly direction, directly away, towards and above Aptos, growing faint to gone from view. After the spot was left vacant for several minutes, another red light would appear faintly, and from our perspective, usually over Aptos (due north), and then grow in brightness as it came again to the same spot over the marine canyon and west of Moss Landing. When we arrived at our coastal outlook on Del Monte Beach at 10:00pm, about 12-miles due south, we initially saw three entities hovered in an east-west line along the marine canyon, from 5 to 8 miles west of Moss Landing, at different heights, maybe 500 to 1500 feet above the water. At first we thought they were mast lights on an historic "tall ship," but they were too far away so the scale of the ship would have been huge. Visual clarity was confusing with high clouds, but after several minutes, we could see there was no ship, just lights holding reasonably steadily, though not rigorously in place. Though spaced apart a mile or less, when one began to relocate, the others moved in an apparent coordinated fashion. One left and another would return and locate at the same spot over a 1.5 hour period, with one, two or three visible in collateral locations, of varying and changing brightnesses, at any time. Or one would leave and the adjacent entity, already in view, would take its place. The spot was occupied and vacated at least ten times. Several aircraft were observed in the same direction but we could not determine if there was any interaction with the entities. We could not make out any shape, yet the light generally appeared spherical. At least once, while the entity was at its brightest, it appeared that a light was beamed downward at an angle, from the entity toward the ocean. The beamed light was an extension - a ray - emanating from and connected to the spherical light entity, and tapering toward its end. The length of the ray appeared to be three to four times the diameter of the entity at its brightest. It appeared to reach at least half-way from the entity to the ocean surface, yet at our distance away this was uncertain. At other times it appeared as though the ocean surface was being illuminated by a moving flood light in the immediate vicinity of the entity, yet the moving flood lights were faint and we were unsure that we actually saw this at our distance. This were not as the beamed light noted prior, which was relatively spectacular. We have no information of how long the entities were present before we arrived. Sightings subdued by 11:30pm: no more than one or two, less bright, short stay time at the spot and longer vacancies. No entities were visible when we left. Observers are a bakery manager and a registered engineer.
July 13, 2015 · 9:54 PM · LIGHT
Firebaugh/Mercey Hot Springs, CA
Another night soaking at Mercey Hot Springs, looking at the numerous stars and planets. I've seen whatever this is occur about five different times now at various evening times, during different seasons over the years. This time my brother was there with me and also observed the phenomena. It's a bright, silent white light that flashes anywhere from one to four times per instance. They are brighter than the planes going by or the stars in the sky. This time they were in a different part of the sky, and it happened two separate times. As I have seen this occurance before, we were watching and waiting for it to happen, and we weren't disappointed. My brother conjectured that they are maybe meteors coming directly at us? But, we really have no idea what they are. This is the first time I've observed it twice in one night. We also saw readily indentifiable planes, meteors and satellites, as usual on a clear night.
July 12, 2015 · 10:00 PM
Huntington Beach, CA
It was a very quiet and clear night but there was no sound to be heard as would be caused by an explosion. I believe it may have been a supernova because no aircraft lights had shown after the flash.
July 12, 2015 · 12:06 AM · TEARDROP
Westminster, CA
After about 2 minutes, it appeared to hover so more. An airplane passed by and we realized that it was lower than a plane. As the plane passed, it shot straight up and disappeared.
July 12, 2015 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
My friend pointed something out, it was so weird because it happened so fast. I saw something spin and by the second spin, the lights disappeared. I was in total shock, never in my life have I seen anything close to looking like this. It scared the hell out of my friend, too. We have changed the time and date above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. However, the source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2015 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Long Beach, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2015 · 12:11 PM · LIGHT
Sebastopol, CA
It was 12:11 and I saw a reflection of light on my blinds. I very slowly lifted my blinds and I saw 8 light in a straight line and 2 red lights under it and they were flashing. Occasionally there was a very small dim light shooting under it towards the ground. It took it a hour to start moving and when it did it moved slowly but then it appeared a few miles away. I was watching youtube so I jumped on to that and 20 minutes later it was gone. I have yet to see it again. I fear that it was over my house because it was only 2 or 4 houses away from mine. We suspect that the report may be a hoax. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
July 11, 2015 · 10:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Lake Arrowhead, CA
I was driving on Hwy 18, east from Lake Arrowhead to Running Springs, along the "Rim of the World". It wa clear and sunny, except for high cirrus. I topped at a turnout to take a photo of geo-engineered clouds, facing South. When I began to drive East, I saw a very bright light flash in front of the clouds toward the south. It was very small, but very bright white, brighter than a sun reflection off an airplane. It was gone in an instant. I stopped and looked, but could see no movement or airplane in the area. I continued my drive for approx. 1 mile, stopped at another turnout on the north side of the hwy, and took another photo toward the North. I then continued East on Hwy 18 when I saw another flash like the first. This one was further east than the first. I stopped in a turnout, and got out of the car. I saw the bright light, then it faded to a black as it moved west, then a smaller flash and then it was just gone. I looked at the area to see if it was an airplane between me and the clouds, but there was absolutely no movement of anything, and no more of the bright light. I was alone but I saw that two people who had been traveling west on Hwy 18 had pulled over on the south side of the highway and were looking in the same direction. I have lived here all of my life, and know what an airplane looks like from the Rim. This was far brighter than anything I have ever seen. It must have been pretty far away from me, but it was in front of the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2015 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Lancaster, CA
July 11, 2015, 5AM ~ Round, solid, white lighted object moving slowly over Antelope Valley, CA. First seen from the south, moving in a wide back and forth (meandering?) motion, ultimately disappearing in the east/north-east skies of the valley. I thought it was a plane or helicopter at first, but it made no sound, had no blinking lights, and moved oddly for a craft carrying people. It was too bright, and didn't fly in a motion similar to satellites or the ISS. When directly overhead it appeared extremely high in the sky. As it moved north-east of my position it headed towards a small, very high cloud formation that had that "wind swept" look to it and I expected it to go under the cloud. Instead, it disappeared into the cloud and emerged a few moments later. I lost view of the object soon after, due to the distance from my position. The entire time it took to travel over the valley took about 15 minutes. The reason I was out at that time in the morning was being awakened by emergency vehicles that had been at my neighbor's house. I am a retired aerospace technician. I worked over 20 years, with experience on aircraft and spacecraft. I have also lived in the Antelope Valley, off and on approximately 25 years beginning in 1975. This is the first time I've seen something like this in the skies over the Antelope Valley, California.
July 10, 2015 · 9:15 PM · FLASH
Playa Vista, CA
Tonight around 9:15PM I saw what appeared to be a swirling lightning bolt swirling towards the sky. It was going away from the earth. It also appeared out of nowhere and then vanished just as quickly. The object resembled a bright white and yellow cork screw lightning bolt. Only it did not act like lightning. It was moving away from earth and was bigger and had two different distinct colors. The location of the object was directly north in the horizon. It was just above the mountains. It was not high in the sky and not too low. I was on my balcony looking towards the Santa Monica Mountains when I saw the glowing bright light rod appear. It resembled a strange swirling corkscrew bolt of lightning, but it came out of nowhere. It was bright! It resembled a lightning bolt, but slightly different. It looked like the corkscrew motion was going towards the sky. It was a glowing. It has two distinct colors to the bolt. One part was a bluish white color and the other part was yellow. The colors were separate from one another, but were swirled together like different colored shoelaces. The bolt resembled a swirling portal. It was unbelievable. I've never ever seen anything like that. It was massive. Just eye level in the sky and appeared out of nowhere, swirled towards the sky, then vanished. A helicopter immediately came to the seen right after. Not sure if it was coincidence, but very odd timing. If I had to guess the distance from my balcony to the object over the mountains, I would say it was 10 miles away directly in my viewpoint. It was in the center horizon of the sky, eye level just above the mountains. It appeared to be 3 feet in height vertically from where I was located, so it was huge! It was the weirdest bolt of lightning that I ever witnessed. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds at the most, but it seemed like a long time because I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. It wasn't a craft, but it was definitely extraordinary.
July 9, 2015 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Shafter, CA
We saw big round fire in the sky but was moving very slowly. Straight in line for about 5 min we wear driving in car then pulled over to see it then few min later the round fire object vanish living no trace it was moving very slow this happen 920 pm thrusday over a resindtial
July 9, 2015 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
Buena Park, CA
The sun was reflecting off of it and there were no clouds around it vanished moments later because I was distracted. My friend saw it with me and her description was the same as mine, large square shaped object spinning in the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 8, 2015 · 12:30 PM · OTHER
Porterville, CA
No information provided by witness. PD
July 6, 2015 · 10:27 PM · TRIANGLE
Lancaster, CA
I heard a sound like a helicopter outside. I saw the whit light shining on homes but realized it also had rainbow colored lights. It circled my building several times before leaving. It was shaped like a triangle. We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD