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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
June 26, 2015 · 10:15 PM · DIAMOND
Discovery Bay, CA
Two very bright-white large lights on either side, and a blinking white light on the back tail, but it didn't look like a tail. My phone wasn't handy, so I did not take a photo. It had a distinct diamond shaped outline. It went directly over our house, slowly, flying in from the north, headed south. I have never seen a plane on this flight path. They always run west to east, or east to west. I found this link online. This is very close to what I saw: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/diamond-shaped-ufo-california_n_1415261.html Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 26, 2015 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
Catalina Island, CA
Sat on the beach with my wife at Desconso Bay on Fri June 26, 2015, and approx 200ft directly above us, saw what appeared to be a drone hovering. Didn't think anything unusual until it took off directly out to sea (Easterly) at a speed that I would imagine to be too great for a civilian use drone. It also continued until it was out of sight - I was under the impression that civilian use drones had to be used "within sight" as per FAA regulations - and I don't know what civilian use radio signal could possibly go that distance? I am an aircraft mechanic an hold a Sports Pilot License and have no explanation as to what this could be...
June 24, 2015 · 10:10 PM · CYLINDER
Livermore, CA
The first object appeared from the northwest and was flying in a large "S" pattern. The object was approximately 10,000ft in altitude and made no sound. The object was cylinder in shape with lights on each end. This object was traveling at a high rate of speed. As the craft moved away toward the south continuing its "S" flight path another craft appear from the same direction and appeared to be chasing the first one. The second craft was very large with four lights in a diamond pattern. This aircraft was also very low and moving at a very fast rate of speed. The most amazing aspect of this sighting was the first craft made no sound and the second craft made a low humming sound that was barely audible. Any objects flying at that speed traditionally make a loud sound trail.
June 23, 2015 · 10:26 PM · RECTANGLE
Hanford, CA
One summer night, I looked out my window and looked at the sky. After a minute I saw a distortion in the sky. It was a black rectangular flying object that basses offer (sic. passes over?) the house I was in. The event only lasted seconds but I remember the craft from the distance from me; looked like a large coffee table. After the craft left my sight, I saw nothing more than the stars. While in sight the stars were all blocked out, as if there were none. Craft just flew in a straight line. During the time I saw it, there were no animal sounds. I have no idea how long I was looking out the window. The object made no sound.
June 22, 2015 · 8:02 PM
Long Beach, CA
A low flying object was floating northbound along the Los Angeles River in Long Beach California. I could only describe the features an white egg shape in the front, a gold color midsection, and white Egg shape rear. I took a video to watch later. When I viewed it, I knew it was not normal from the way it reversed slightly, before continuing the original path. I feel whatever I was recording knew I was. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 22, 2015 · 8:02 PM · EGG
Long Beach, CA
Seen a strange flying/floating object. I'm used to airplanes flying around here but this was different. It moved very slow. It looked like two eggs separated by a gold mid section. I wasn't sure what it was so I did take a video. Image in video looks to us to be a jet aircraft, at mid altitude. We have corrected the date above. PD
June 22, 2015 · 1:00 PM · CIRCLE
Santa Rosa, CA
My son and I were playing catch, around 1pm, when in the sky above his head, I noticed a large white "dot." I was facing northeast. I didn't think much of it at first but when it hadn't moved at all over the course of a couple minutes I asked my son his thoughts. He went and got son binoculars. I couldn't believe my eyes! It was a transparent round "blob" with the consistency of a clear jellyfish. In a way it resembled a hoop. The entire outside edge of the "hoop" was a light. It stayed lit but would blink periodically! I didn't tell my son what I was seeing. I ask him to take a look and tell me what he saw. He explained seeing the same exact same thing I was seeing. It sat stationary for 8 minutes or so the watched it slowly float to the west out of sight. The whole thing lasted 10 minutes or so.
June 22, 2015 · 11:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Anaheim, CA
I was driving my family from Carlsbad on the coast, back to LAX Airport. Off to our left were some rolling hills. In front of a hill was a large dark silhouette. Seeing the long shape in a stationary hover, i thought helicopter at first, but immediately it was clear that it was not. As we grew closer, it was clearly a very boxy shape. My wife likened it to a flying train boxcar. I was thinking more aircraft carrier. It looked dull gray with some brighter rounded ends to me. It looked very large. My estimate was well over 100 feet long. Maybe 200 or 300? Big. It slid to the left, hovered up over the hill and down into the ravine behind the hill. My wife and two sons saw it for about 30 seconds? As we passed, my wife saw a helicopter following it. This happened in broad daylight off a busy multiple lane highway. I always wonder if others saw it too. It was right around fathers day 2015.
June 21, 2015 · 9:13 PM · CHANGING
Los Angeles, CA
My husband and I were on our deck, watching for the ISS to appear in the WNW and cross the sky going SSE. The scheduled time was 9:11pm, but the ISS appeared 2 minutes later. We watched it diagonally come across the sky near the crescent Moon, and from the same direction, we saw a zig-zagging object coming across on the same trajectory, changing colors, traveling faster than the ISS. I called my husband's attention to the 2nd object and said, "That UFO is trying to catch up to the Space Station!" By the time the ISS was slightly S/E of our deck, indeed, the zig-zagging object did catch up with and surpass the ISS. When the 2nd object was slightly ahead of the ISS, the object slowed down and kept pace with the speed of the ISS, slightly ahead of the ISS. The objects were approximately the same size, and the UFO was still zig-zagging back and forth just ahead of the space station, changing colors as it winked out in between the zig-zags. As we watched both objects disappear over the ridge to the east of our house, they appeared to be about a dime (held at arm's length) apart.
June 21, 2015 · 8:38 PM · FIREBALL
La Mirada, CA
I was visiting family in La Mirada, California. I was about 2 blocks south of the La Mirada Regional Park. I had just finished talking on the cell phone and looked up in the sky. It was 8:38 pm on Father's Day. There were several planes in line to the north and northeast of me heading towards the Los Angeles airport. And they was a police helicopter west of me; but what I saw south of me was not a plane nor helicopter. It was not a Chinese lantern. It was low, about the height of a police helicopter and was silent as far as I could tell. It was traveling about the speed of a helicopter, but no noice coming from it. For the first 10 seconds I could hear the police helicopter west of me and further away, but when the police helicopter flew further away, I could not hear it and could tell the object I was seeing was silent. The object was closer than the police helicopter had ever been. What I saw was first heading about north, towards me. It was a very odd color. No one looking at it could confuse it for the landing lights of a plane. It wasn't solid yellow nor was it solid orange; but almost seemed light swirling parts of yellow and orange; mostly orange. For just a few seconds, I thought a plane was on fire. It then was moving eastward towards La Habra. I am not sure if it turned, or if it was always moving in an arc. Anyway, now that it was not heading directly at me, I could see a small reddish light near what looked like the top of the swirling yellow/orange light. The red light was not directly on top, but near the top. It was not blinking, but a solid light. The red light was much smaller compared to the yellow/orange light. The last 10 seconds of the sighting, as it was heading about east, I could see a very black tube-like craft. This blackness, at least from my angle, did not reflect the city lights. In this part of Los Angeles county, the sky is not pitch black due to so many city lights. So the craft was darker than the sky. I could not make out a shape for the black craft. But I could tell that the craft was about twice the size of the yellow/orange light parallel to the ground and about the width of the light. And then then it just turned off. First I thought, maybe it disappeared behind some haze, but no, I could see a few stars where it disappeared.
June 19, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Windsor, CA
Possible hoax. All the information provided by the witness is non-functional. PD
June 18, 2015 · 10:36 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
I was standing in the West Lewis Mini Park in Mission Hills, which is part of San Diego. At 10:33pm I saw a faint satellite coming from the NW and heading SE. Since most satellites I see usually are flying either N-S, S-N, E-W or W-E; I guessed it was probably the International Space Station. As it got closer to being almost directly overhead, I noticed there was not just one light, but a second light traveling the same path and speed. The second light was the leading light and was dimmer. At an arm's length, the 2 lights were only the width of my thumb apart. I checked the time when I saw the 2 lights. It was 10:33pm. I went inside and checked the ISS TRACKER web page, and sure enough, the space station had passed by San Diego at that time. I have seen the space station pass overhead several times, but this was the first time I saw another craft by the space station. I checked the NASA web page, and there was a Russian space craft docked with the space station earlier in the day. In fact, they had a planned and successful space burn earlier in the day to change the space station orbit. The article I saw did not mention if the Russian space craft that was docked at the space station was planned to undock yesterday. Maybe someone else can figure out when or if the Russian space craft left the space station before my sighting. Anyway, I have pasted part of the NASA article that was posted on June 18. The International Space Station got an orbital boost this morning after a docked Russian re-supply craft fired its engines for four minutes and eight seconds. One more re-boost is scheduled for July 10, when the station will be at the proper altitude for a new Soyuz crew to dock at the end of July. The crew onboard the orbital laboratory conducted a wide array of experiments today looking at such things as radiation, liquid crystals and life science. The trio of station residents also continued more eye checks with assistance from specialists on the ground. One-Year crew member Mikhail Kornienko participated in the Matroyshka and RADI-N studies monitoring space radiation and exploring how it affects station crew members. 6055 : 08 : 39 : 00 Station Time in Orbit Benefits to You NASA Astronauts Headline Public Events in Washington Area. This report was first reported for a time of 2033 hrs.. The witness later corrected the time to 2236 hrs., and we have reposted the sighting with the corrected time. PD
June 17, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
At the above listed date and time, I was walking into my kitchen to go out in the back yard, and could see an orange ball of light, with just a small tail behind it (like flames coming out of the back). It was coming from the north, going south, and I tried taking a picture of it, but couldn't focus my iPhone. I want to say it slowed when it was right overhead, but I can't be certain. It seemed like maybe it wasn't going at a high rate of speed at all. It was completely silent and there were no flashing lights at all. I watched it until I couldn't see it anymore, and if it continued in the way it was going, it would be going over the Grapevine into LA with Edwards Air Force Base off to the east.
June 17, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
At the above listed date and time, I was walking into my kitchen to go out in the back yard, and could see an orange ball of light, with just a small tail behind it (like flames coming out of the back). It was coming from the north going south, and I tried taking a picture of it, but couldn't focus my iPhone. I want to say it slowed when it was right overhead but I can't be certain. It seemed like maybe it wasn't going at a high rate of speed at all. It was completely silent and there were no flashing lights at all. I watched it until I couldn't see it anymore, and if it continued in the way it was going, it would be going over the Grapevine into LA, with Edwards Air Force Base off to the east.
June 15, 2015 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
We were sitting outside in our backyard, with the lights off, when we saw a very bright golden-like light coming towards us from W, going towards to E. It made no sound at all. It was glowing when all of a sudden it quietly and QUICKLY took off towards space. It was amazing. I felt uneasy about going out into the open to observe it, so I watched it from a place that kind of hid my body. There were no green or red lights, and the only thing I know of that can move that fast is a rocket. This craft made absolutely no noise at all. Nothing. Absolutely amazing! Not the ISS, which was visible from San Jose at 21:37 hrs.. PD
June 15, 2015 · 11:45 AM · DISK
Gridley, CA
While sitting in the backyard, my friend and I talked about the day and we saw a green light, appear on the power line, at the same time. Assuming this was a neighbors lazer light, or some sort of decoration, we kept talking. We realized quickly the light was not a lazer, as it weaved in and out of trees across the street, admitting an orb similar to what a flashlight looks like three ft from a wall, except there was no center. We continued to talk, but we're looking about now across the street at the trees. The green light zipped on the power lines next to us again, causing us to turn around. One craft was spinning. It had green lights lining the center of the one craft, they were no more than 200ft from the ground, and 300ft from us. Both were clearly visible. The other was not moving, and it had no lights. The material was a dark metal. It did not reflect light at all. We heard no sound. My friend exclaimed some curses, and ran to the front door, going in! side. I stayed at the table we were seated at, and continued to look on, as I've seen many UFOS in my life, but never so close. I walked to the front door after 3 seconds of contemplating if I should stay. With my back to the front door, I watched a black helicopter head directly to where the crafts were,from the direction of the street we were watching. I quickly headed inside and recounted the experience with my friend immediately. We checked our bodies for marks, and checked the time. We were okay. This was my idea, since I have had many close encounters before. So as stereotypical as this can get, I know, but they were actually Saucers. I have seen lights, triangles, orbs, but never, saucers. Worth reporting I thought.
June 14, 2015 · 12:30 PM · FORMATION
Reno, CA
I was driving my car along the 395 North leaving, Reno, NV, on the 14th June, 2015, when I saw 5 silver objects traveling in a cluster between me and a mountain which looked a bit like an asteroid but there was no fumes or smoke. They were travelling at a steady pace east. I pulled out my phone and opened the camera and pressed record, but when they were gone, I stopped and then I realized it never recorded. It recorded me screaming with excitement from when I pressed stop in started recording.
June 12, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Beaumont, CA
DATE OF SIGHTING: June 12, 2015 TIME OF SIGHTING: Approximately 7:00 pm I was standing in my backyard. The weather was odd; very tropical for a pass situated just about seven minutes west of the desert. It feels more like Florida today than Beaumont, CA, which is located in Riverside County. The sun, while setting, was still lighting up the sky enough to call it daylight, rather than twilight or dusk. To the south, the clouds were generally spaced apart with large patches of clear blue sky in between them. To the north, there was a complete cover of darker clouds. There was a light sprinkle in my backyard at the time, and I was indulging in the few scattered cold raindrops, which were a welcome escape from the heat that had prevailed during the earlier part of the day. As I looked up into the sky to watch a small number of tiny birds flapping around above me (almost straight up and a little south), a small, spherical object caught my eye. At first, I thought it was just another bird. But as I followed its course, I realized it was an actual craft of some sort on a particular flight path (moving in a straight line from the west to the east). I also realized that it was much higher in the sky than the birds I had been watching. In fact, as it passed a few of the scattered clouds in that area, I could see it actually pass through the very bottom of a few of them. The object was black (almost a matte black, to be exact), although I’m sure that at that height, it’s impossible to be sure that it wasn’t just shadowed due to the weird time of day and the strange, partly rainy, partly sunny weather we were having at the moment. To my naked eye, it was a smaller, black sphere going about the speed of a prop plane. As its straight vector took in either into or behind a fairly small darker grey cloud, it disappeared from view. I waited longer than needed given its speed and trajectory, but never saw it emerge from the cover of that cloud. There was no sound, may have been multiple witnesses (I’m not sure, it being less than an hour since I saw it) due to the fact that the Beaumont Sports Park is only separated from my backyard by my picket fence, and from the time I noticed it to the time it mysteriously disappeared, I had personally viewed it for maybe 20-30 seconds. One small final detail that somewhat solidified for me that what I had just witnessed was not normal was this: Maybe 2-3 seconds after the object had disappeared behind the cloud, a fair sized propeller plane came into view from behind the same cloud, on nearly the same trajectory as the sphere, but moving in the opposite direction (from east to west)! There was absolutely no way that what I had seen was this plane for three reasons off the top of my head: One – The sphere had no extensions protruding from it anywhere. It was just a perfect sphere, while the plane was instantaneously recognizable by its perfectly distinguishable wings and tail… Two – There was no way a plane could have banked and done a complete 180-degree turn in 2-3 seconds… And Three – The plane, as it passed overhead, made the humming sound that all propeller planes do, while the sphere that I had seen only seconds before emitted no sound whatsoever.
June 11, 2015 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Galt, CA
My husband and I saw 2 bright orange round balls of light moving through the dark sky at around 11:50 pm. At first they were moving fast then slowed, then stopped, started moving again then faded to a faint light, then disappeared. They lasted about 5 to 10 minutes.
June 7, 2015 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Berkeley (above), CA
I was just looking outside of my window, having a smoke; admiring the Oakland Hills until I noticed a large bright light in the distance, just right by the radio towers. It was had quite a large shine and would begin to fade after 5 minutes. After the first light, another small orb began to glow what looked like just a couple miles away from that, but seemed to be even brighter. That one blinked quite a few times, and even changed color. At one point. (green, red/ orange) it slowly died off, and then it got really bright, like a flash. Almost like someone was taking a picture from really far away (I live in Emeryville). After that light stopped, another light appears not to far from the last blinking. The three lights became sequenced, but only one at a time. They look like signals, really. Really bright signals…
June 7, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
La Canada Flintridge, CA
LOW FLYING LIGHTS THAT RADIATE GREEN AND RED BURST LIKE JUST HOVERS IN THE SKY BOTH ARE SIMILAR IN THAT SOLID WHIT LIGHT WITH RADIATING SPARKS IN RED AND BLUE SIMILAR. THEY ARE STILL UP THERE AS I AM TYPING THIS. WE LIVE NEAR NASA AN THE VIEWS OF THE SKY ARE ALWAYS BETTER THAN IN LA. THE LOCAL NEWS ARE CURRENTLY REPORTING HUNDREDS OF SIGHTING IN RIVERSIDE INLAND EMPIRE AND MURIETTA. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 7, 2015 · 9:29 PM · CIRCLE
Tehachapi, CA
Tehachapi, CA. 9:29 pm. 6-7-2015 I received a phone call from my brother in-law he told me to go outside of my front door. He told me he could see what looked like helicopters flying by. My wife and I looked due north. At about 30 degrees above the horizon what at first looked like orange balls in the sky. After observing them and seeing one more come from the west, the other ones seemed to be flickering and fading out. I’m pretty sure they were Chinese lanterns. Whatever they were they were moving with the prevailing winds from the west heading due east. Holding my hand out at arm's length I would say they were a little bigger than a bb. The next day, after talking to my sister and brother in-law, they said when they first spotted them, there were about 30 that passed by.
June 7, 2015 · 9:18 PM · LIGHT
Avenal, CA
We were driving North on I-5 (about 5-10 minutes north of the 76 gas station in Avenal, CA) and noticed three bright round lights moving East to West) about 1/2 mile in front of our vehicle. All this happened anywhere between 9:18 - 9:19 pm at night so it was dark (and I had just gotten off the phone with my brother, which is why I know when this happened)... One light was ahead of the three lights, while the other two were closer aligned to one another... In unison the lights then changed their flight path and headed south west and looked as though they were landing on the tree Orchard west of the highway. Before we knew it the lights were gone. They disappeared into the Tree Orchard. As it was dark, I was unable to see if the lights were attached to one aircraft or if each light was attached to an individual aircraft. We did not hear sound coming from the lights... This happened over the course of 3 seconds (or so), so there was not enough time to take a picture or video of these lights.
June 6, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Barbara, CA
I was looking up at the stars in sky when I saw steady,bright, white lights in a huge, narrow, V-formation, like an isosceles triangle, moving slowly, silently across sky and close to the ground, in a North to South position. The point had one light with equal number of lights along sides which I didn't count but guessing at least 10 lights on each side. The body of object blended in with dark sky and could not be seen. Googling images resulted in one UFO seen in Europe.