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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
July 6, 2015 · 10:03 PM · FIREBALL
San Bernardino, CA
As I looked up to my eastern sky, I saw what I thougth was a airplane, or a jet. It heading nouth. As I looked harder, I notice it was orange in color and was round in shape. It was just was different. It was the only thing in the sky in the northen sky. At this time I got out my truck and called out to my friend. I thought she can't hear me, or she's asleep. I then ran back to my truck anb got phone that's when l started to take these picture I sent. I was the only person that was at my location. This site lasted about two or three minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Anaheim, CA
i yelled to my friend to come and see, but by the time he got their it was gone. for many days after this incident i felt sad like you do when your homesicf.??????????????????????????????????????????????? I am retired from health care/ human services .
July 5, 2015 · 4:21 PM · FORMATION
Santa Clara, CA
Prior to these appearing, a small plane created a visual smoke effect of a peace sign and a lightning bolt by releasing smoke and making several maneuvers. After these smoke effects were broken up and dissipated but still remnant, after about 20 minutes. These two fairly large clouds were just hanging out right around where the peace sign was. The details were incredible, every detail of human skulls, with eyes. Every part of each cloud was a significant feature, nothing was obscure and cloudlike except they appeared as clouds in every way with the light, shadow and color. They appeared to be living, with facial expression and eye movements. The grateful dead were playing the stadium a few hours later. I did not discuss this with others there at the time or notice if others were observing them. I figured that this is what those deadheads out in California figured out and it all made sense. I didn't get a picture, but there were thousands of pedestrians there that all could have seen the same thing. Pictures may exist by others.
July 4, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
East Los Angeles, CA
As we got close and kept looking south of the freeway the lights appeared to remain the same distance apart from each other. My wife saw it and since I was driving I asked her what it was. She got excited and took a picture, but she says it didn't come out, just a lot of smoke. She says they were floating above and not going down. I speculated flares on parachutes, but she said they weren't going down and seemed like they were slowly headed west. maybe flares on balloons? I don't know. But I was curious if anyone else saw something ! and maybe got a better look.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Whittier, CA
They seemed to just watch and then they suddenly went up into the sky. I have a picture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we are not able to request that he/she send the photo. Hoaxed report?? PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
San Mateo, CA
Moving light much faster than that of an airplane. Spotted while looking for fireworks from our backyard. The light was speeding for around 45 secs to a minute before fading away with a flash. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Mira Loma, CA
Object was hovering in the sky for about five minutes just a little south of our location. The object had very bright non-flashing white, red and green lights. At first I just thought it was an airplane, but then I realized that it was standing still. After about five minutes the object started moving in a zig zag motion downward and was out of sight behind the tree line within a minute.
July 4, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Redlands, CA
At about 8:30 PM on Saturday, July 4th, I was sitting in our front yard in Redlands, California, waiting with friends and family to watch the annual fireworks display at the University of Redlands Football Stadium. I had been sitting and talking with my friend who is a medical doctor at an area hospital. There were a number of small aircraft flying around the area, which is typical around here on July 4th, but one aircraft really stood out. Instead of the typical red and green blinking position lights as seen on the surrounding aircraft, this particular aircraft had one amber-orange light. It appeared to be the size of a large, bright planet…possibly a bit larger. It moved in a west to east trajectory north of Redlands in the direction of Mentone, California. My friend and I watched it for 30-45 seconds. As I continued to watch the light, I kept saying to her, “That doesn’t look like an airplane.” It appeared to be moving about the same speed as the small airplanes in the area, but unlike those other aircraft it maintained a constant altitude. My friend looked away briefly, but I kept watching it. Then before my eyes it abruptly disappeared. When it disappeared, I exclaimed to her, “It disappeared!” She looked back at me and said, “That must not have been an airplane!” I am kicking myself because we had a yard full of people, and I didn’t say anything to anyone else but my friend. I didn’t even tell my husband, who is a retired USAF navigator. He reprimanded me, saying, “The next time you see something like that tell me!”
July 4, 2015 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Gilroy, CA
As we watch them they proceeded to move in there own directions independently. We ruled out everything as planes , or satellite. We determined since the were just small white star like points, they had to have been outside our atmosphere. There were 5 people to whom witness this and all agreed they were UFOs.
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Merced, CA
While shooting fireworks, I noticed my daughter not looking toward the show, but up toward the sky. I asked if she was okay and she pointed her phone. Curious I asked what she was doing and she kept asking me if I saw "it". She said it was an orangish/coppery rust color and it just faded away. The area below where she sighted the object is a fallow field, with dry brush, so there was no fireworks being shot over the area for fear of fires. The next morning she showed me her picture she took. She originally thought she didn't get it but in the morning light found it on her phone as you can see by the picture, it is difficult to see. We did not hear anything and there was no smoke trail. The object seemed to show up and vanish quietly with not lights.
July 4, 2015 · 1:15 AM · DISK
Carmichael, CA
And was defending south west from a distance, it was not real close to me.
July 3, 2015 · 10:17 PM · OTHER
Universal City, CA
The UFO sighting occurred in the Universal Studios theme park. My party and I were on our way to exit the park and we used the escalators to enter the upper level. We stopped on the third escalator pathway of the four in total to view the city skyline. I used the app "Snapchat" to record a short clip of the skyline that I intended to post as my story. I recorded the video and panned horizontally from left to right at a steady pace when afterward I came to realize I had caught something odd in the video. I then proceeded to share with my family the anomaly that I had caught. My cousin had also photographed the UFO in the picture attached in which it appeared to be hovering above the skyline motionless. Soon after, the object was no longer in sight. It was undetectable to the naked eye. It was only captured with our electronic devices. What I will point out is that the object does NOT come from the edge of the frame, it appears to materialize within ! the videos frame and move a different rate than my panning motion, therefore, I rule it out as being a mere reflection. It also does shift altitude for a brief moment. The photograph was taken within 30 seconds after I had captured the video. The object appears to closely resemble a boomerang.
July 1, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Madera, CA
As we stood in our back yard, we noticed the craft flying fairly low through broken clouds. It made no sound. It was triangular with large dome lights on each point of the triangle. Red and white lights flashed on the bottom of the craft. It flew West. An electrical storm was approaching.
July 1, 2015 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Long Beach, CA
While watching an article on news.yahoo.com about some unusual lighting strikes/weather in California, there are several lights in a grid formation in the clouds from time index 0:29 to 0:41 in the KTLA news video. Refer to.... http://news.yahoo.com/video/unseasonable-thunderstorms-rain-expected-hit-124239590.html We cannot rule out the possibility that the video may have been taken through a plate glass window, and that the lights in the video may be a reflection of ceiling lights behind the camera. PD
June 30, 2015 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Willemstad, CA
Saw three single lights in straight formation. Would appear far in distance, then come closer, and go back. Lasted maybe 10 minutes
June 30, 2015 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Santa Barbara, CA
I noticed a small metallic circular object in the North East sky. I thought it was a foil balloon at first but I noticed that it was stationary for over 10 minutes, and it was pulsating from bright to dull at a precise rate that lasted for 10 minutes. If the object was a balloon I don't think it would have pulsated between bright and dull so precisely for such a long time. I think it would have been a lot more random in its flickering of sunlight.
June 29, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Ventura, CA
While walking to my car at Ralph's shopping center I saw in the sky 2 extremely bright lights looked round, one smaller than the other, the smaller on top. Sat in my car for several minutes and lights were stationary. Drive off but a couple miles down the road the lights were still visible and in same location. Not blinking just bright and stationary. Friend also spotted and posted on Facebook. Jupiter and Venus. PD
June 29, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
San Pedro, CA
We suspect that the objects are Venus and Jupiter, which are very close to one another in the western sky, on this date. PD
June 29, 2015 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
Shell Beach, CA
while napping on chase lounge in shade two jets flew over, first one with contrail, and then one lower without. during this observation, noting that the jets were flying close to the same course, a stationary object could be seen slightly to the south of directly overhead. I got my binoculars out of the trunk and pushed back in the chair to find it. The object was reflecting a round shape, but it seemed not necessarily to be round. I checked It with each eye and without binoculars several times to rule out eye or lens issues. I am guessing it could not have been a balloon because it was stationary, so my best guess is a craft that can hover. While I could plainly hear the jet noise after crossing the spot, this object produced no sound that I could hear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 28, 2015 · 12:47 PM · SPHERE
Moro Bay, CA
On a family trip to Moro Bay, I took a photo of Moro Rock, only later to see this orb in the photo. Photo indicates a quite round object, suspended in the daytime sky. PD
June 27, 2015 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Newbury Park, CA
Last night June 27, 2015, was thick marine layer in Newbury Park, CA. It was after 11:00 pm, I was on the internet, and heard a low loud roar outside, like a plane too close to the house. Went outside in the back yard and looked up…didn’t see any plane but saw three what I thought were at first glance very white bright round clouds…..kept looking at them, they were strange and they were not moving and they were too white bright to be clouds, it looked like lights coming through the marine layer. Lights were stationery and I ran to the front yard to look at it better. It’s darker in our front yard. The three lights were there for about six minutes total, and then suddenly, they all three disappeared at the same time. These clouds turned themselves off. I waited and searched the sky for half an hour but didn’t see anything else. Went on the internet and found one other person who saw what I saw just minutes before I saw it and that person lives in Anaheim, CA.
June 27, 2015 · 10:07 PM · CIRCLE
Long Beach, CA
On the evening of March 20th, my wife and I had an incredible UFO sighting that I posted about here. Last night we had another UFO sighting. Same part of the sky - south of Long Beach, CA, over the Pacific. At about 10:05 PM, I went outside to sky-gaze as I often do. It was fairly overcast. The Moon, which sat high in the WSW sky, was shrouded by the low clouds and cast a diffuse glow. A couple of minutes later, due south and about 30 degrees above the horizon, another diffuse light appeared behind the clouds. It was white and looked similar to how the Moon looked, but it was a little smaller in diameter. It gradually grew brighter, and as it did, two other similar looking diffuse white circles of light appeared, forming an equilateral triangle. At this point I yelled for my wife, called her on my cell, and knocked on the pane glass living room window to get her attention. She came running out with her i-phone and saw the triangular formation just before it faded out. As those three lights faded out, a brighter and less diffuse white light between where the other three lights were appeared and grew brighter, casting a bright glow against the surrounding clouds. All of the lights were perfectly stationary. She managed to catch that final light on video before it faded about 30 seconds later. All of these lights were perfectly stationary. I stayed out for another hour, but I didn't see any more.
June 27, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Rialto, CA
I was in my backyard around 8:30-9pm and I look up to the slight NE of my location and see what I think is an airplane going from East to West. It was moving slowly but the weird part was that it looked like it was on fire. I see planes all the time and know what flashing lights they have but this was way different. I was wondering if a plane had an engine fire and was about to come down. It was flickering like a fire would as it headed West. Then it got really strange. It just stopped in its tracks and didn't move except for the fire like flickering. It stayed in this spot for maybe twenty seconds as I went into the house to get three others to come look at this. But by the time I went back outside with everyone (5 seconds or so) it was gone and it never reappeared. Just to add one more thing. When it stopped I immediately thought it might be a helicopter but I quickly dismissed that because it was way too high up. But even if it was low enough for a helicopter I would still swear it wasn't one.
June 26, 2015 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Fairfield, CA
I saw 2 round bright lights descending out of the sky from my drive way I went down to the store and got back home and they were still there went in the house and got my video camera and started filming .then back in the house to get my daughter and here grandma to see we watched them leave they went back in the house I came back out side that's when I saw them again this time three coming over the hill moving in a trangle formation one broke and darted away the other two come to stop in the place close to the area I saw them before . I texted mother in law who lives in the area and she saw them to. We suspect an evening sighting, and have changed the time above. The source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD