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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 5, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Folsom, CA
I pulled over into a parking lot, got out of my car and took 1 photo before the objects disappeared. I was just about to shoot a video, but they were gone as soon as I started to record. The entire event lasted approx 1 minute.
June 5, 2015 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cobb, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 4, 2015 · 10:45 PM · OVAL
Anaheim, CA
My wife and I were at Disneyland on the night of June 4th 2015. We were sitting on a low railing around a planter, waiting for the 11:00 pm light parade to start. It was approximately 10:45 pm. We were directly in front of the "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" building, facing west toward the circle that is the beginning of Main Street. A man sitting to my right on the same railing got my attention by saying to me (while he was looking to the sky directly above the circle), "Are you seeing the same thing I'm seeing, or am I going crazy?" I followed his line of sight and observed what I at first glance appeared to be a giant dark smoke ring at cloud level (approximately 2000 feet). I answered him, and said, "No, you're not crazy I see it." I then said, "What is that?" He then said (as neither one of us took our eyes off of the object), "I don't know, that's what I'm trying to figure out." At that time, my wife (sitting to my left on the same railing ) said to me what are you looking at, looked in the same direction and observed the same thing, she then asked me what it was. I told her I did not know. Clearly this was not a smoke ring of any kind because by this time (by which a couple of minutes had passed), if it had been a smoke ring, it would have dissipated. Upon further observation, this was an object partially obscured by being at just the bottom level of the cloud layer. As if it were using the clouds to camouflage itself. This object appeared to have a slight oval shape. And I would approximate it to be (at being 2000 feet above us) about 300 yards long and 250 yards wide. As we watched it began very slowly move due north (towards Cinderella's castle ). I would estimate its speed at no more the 30 mph. The object traveled a distance equivalent of about six times its length and slowly disappeared upwards at that point, the clouds around it envelopeing it until it was out of sight. I remember as the object moved slowly through the clouds you could see the clouds billowing around the leading edge of the object. It emitted no sound that I could detect and hid so well in the clouds that you could only see its dark silhouette, the front of the object having a darker appearance than the rest of the silhouette, giving it an almost transparent appearance. At about the same time the object started moving, my wife and I stood up and walked five feet forward to the curb of the street to get a better look at the object, and we remained there till it was gone from sight. I did not get the other man's phone number as I should have, but after I acknowledged that I did see the object he showed no interest in talking about what we had seen, and when the parade was over, he walked away into the crowd of people. So unless someone else happened to see this and comes forward with what they saw, it's just the corroboration of my wife and me, and we will not deny what we saw. I did take photos of the object that are difficult to make out because you are looking at an object obscured by clouds at night. Although in one of the shots you can make out the leading and trailing edges of the craft.
June 4, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Santa Rosa, CA
Watched it for total of 5 mins and filmed it for about 1 minute, before it slowly dimmed and turned light orange and went east. Witness provides no contact information. PD
May 30, 2015 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Orland, CA
As I walked outside, I thought I was seeing Venus in the western sky. As soon as I realized it couldn't be Venus, the light got brighter, much brighter, and then quickly faded out to nothing. Possible "flare up" of an Iridium satellite?? PD
May 30, 2015 · 11:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Vacaville, CA
We saw a unusually bright light moving from West to East. It was moving at a satellite speed. What caught our attention was how bright it was and large. Satellites are small and not so bright. This was bright. And the brightness did not change with the distance it traveled. No blinking lights so I can safely say it was not an airplane. Weird! (( We suspect an overflight of the International Space Station. http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=38.3566&lng=-121.9877&loc=Vacaville&alt=54&tz=PST PD))
May 30, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Galt, CA
Strange orange ball shaped lights appearing and reappearing in sky not anything that looked like a plane or anything seen before. Witness provides no contact information. PD
May 29, 2015 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
Santa Rosa, CA
We observed a luminous white circular object fly slowly overhead for about 1 1/2 hours. Total time was from about 15:45- 17:15. It looked like a small moon. It moved very slowly from East to West. We were able to watch it through binoculars but could not make out any details or dimension. Our sighting was verified by a friend who was about 5 miles to the west of us. It was hard to tell how high up it was, but it seemed like many thousand feet as we could both see it at the same time and it appeared generally overhead. Because of the distance, we have no idea of the size. It never appeared to vary its course, just slow and steady in a straight line. As it got farther away (up and away?) It looked like a very bright star/planet. Much brighter than Venus.
May 29, 2015 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Geyserville, CA
White object in the sky looking SSE from Lake Sonoma at an inclination of approx 60 degrees. No stars when the object was first noticed, but the 3/4 moon had already risen in the SW. Object was brighter than the daytime moon, looked to be extremely high in the atmosphere. Was too big to be a star. Object remained stationary as compared to the horizon, while the moon progressed through the sky. The early stars also appeard in the sky near sunset, and the object still remained stationary, even though the moon and stars progressed across the sky. Object disappeared as soon as the sun had set. Used 10x binoculars, but could not make out any distinct markings, other than it appeared to have a round shadow cast from the sun, and potentially a red marking in the upper right
May 29, 2015 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Big Bear Lake, CA
Friday, May 29, 2015 at approximately 10:30am, my 11 year old son & I were driving East on Highway 18. We were roughly 20 minutes West of Big Bear Lake. The morning was clear. Blue skies, not a cloud in any direction. As we were driving on this narrow two-lane, winding road, I saw a shiny, round ball in the sky, I’m guessing it was a couple thousand feet up. It looked like metal, and reflected the sunlight like a really nice chrome finish on a classic car. It was textured, like it had different shapes of metal covering the outside; it was not smooth or flawless. We were listening to music, so I can’t confirm if there was any sound associated with the object. We had the car windows down, but all I heard was music and the sound of our own engine. It didn’t look like it was moving, and appeared to be stationary in the sky, although I can’t say that positively because I was in a moving vehicle. I looked at it intermittently for approximately 5-10 second! s. It didn’t look like it was connected to anything, however I figured it must be. Then we drove around a curve in the road and my view was obscured by trees and hillside. This mountain area has a good amount of forest cover. I remember wondering what it could be, and figured once we came around that curve it would be obvious what it was… I was expecting to see the ball connected to something else, maybe on a wire. It didn’t look like a vehicle of any sort. But once we were around the curve, maybe 10 seconds later, it wasn’t anywhere to be seen. I was looking all over, as best as I could while driving, but didn’t see it anywhere. Before I could say anything about it, my son commented about how he had seen a shiny ball in the sky. He had seen the exact same thing I did. But like me, now he didn’t see it anywhere either. We talked about it for a few seconds, then I pulled over to the next turnout on the road, and it happened to be a part of the road which came to an overlook for a huge valley. We were mainly facing East, but we had a good view in all directions, due to the fact we were at a valley overlook. There was no shiny metal sphere in any direction, nothing in the sky, nothing on the hillside in the trees. No balloons, no helicopters. I’m willing to accept any logical explanation, but it didn’t look like anything I can think of, and the fact that it was up in the sky and then gone within a matter of seconds throws me off even more. I have no idea what it was, but “unidentified” certainly is an accurate description.
May 29, 2015 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Rohnert park, CA
Around 4pm, I was observing and recording all of the unnatural and odd cloud formations in the sky. I saw a white sphere/orb high in the northeast sky that I at first thought might be a balloon. It was not rising and disappearing like a balloon would. It was stationary, yet slowly coasting west and northwest. I have 4 others who witnessed this as well. For the next few hours, I watched this white ball in the sky drift west towards the sun that was beginning to set in the sky. It was intelligently controlled whatever it was. It would stop and remain stationary for a while, then it would start to coast west again. I have video footage of this orb and will send it.
May 26, 2015 · 7:20 PM · DISK
Glendale, CA
Please see youtube video at: https://youtu.be/O66e9clQ9Bk ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hi Peter, It was not very easy to see. I had to use zoom. The date was 05-26-2015 I am attaching pictures which are much more clearer. Thank you. ((END ADDENDUM)) We have amended temporarily the date above, and requested a correction of the date from the witness. PD
May 25, 2015 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
West Sonoma County, CA
Viewed from a motorcycle on The Bohemian Highway, at around four-thirty pm. The focus was on the sliver of Moon present in the day sky. An oval object, the size of a planet in the night sky, was traveling southwest across my field of vision. It was only noticed because I was looking at the moon. It was white ; the same shade as the moon. After approximately twenty seconds, it changed to a more southerly direction, where it proceeded until it was blocked out by the tall redwood trees, around two minutes later. There was no sound associated with the object that was detectible. The shape was unlike any aircraft I am aware of, and looked like a flying saucer or oval or cigar shape depending on how you discern that. My vision is perfect. It appeared like so many photos of these things to be an other-worldly craft.
May 25, 2015 · 2:20 PM · OVAL
Rohnert Park, CA
I was in my backyard getting sun and heard a plane. I looked up and saw a black plane flying in one direction and then I noticed a shiny chrome oval shaped object flying across the sky in the opposite direction. The sky was clear of any clouds where the object was flying. I stared and watched the chrome oval flying (it was flying faster than the plane). Then I saw the black plane (military?) had turned around to head in the direction of the chrome object, as if it was going to see what it was. when I looked back toward the area in the sky where the chrome oval was, it was gone. I watched the black plane continue flying in that direction until I could no longer see passed the houses.
May 24, 2015 · 9:37 PM · DISK
Visalia, CA
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May 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Visalia, CA
Photo indicates a single, orange light, hovering in the nighttime sky. PD
May 24, 2015 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
San Rafael, CA
Extremely fast white v shaped object, bright white zipped across sky and vanished. It was high in the sky and flew in a straight line. Crossed the whole horizon in 5 seconds.
May 23, 2015 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Antioch, CA
My husband and I were star gazing and were getting ready to go home when I looked NE and saw 3 bright orange lights in a triangle formation in the sky. I grabbed my husband and told him to look and he was just as amazed as I was. They started to spread apart from one another, still staying somewhat in a triangle shape and their brightness began to fade which lead to the one on the right/top to disappear and then slowly the other two did as well. We could not believe what we had just experienced nor could we understand what they could have been. We thought about what city they were hovering over and realized it was near Fairfield and thought maybe it could have had something to do with the Travis Air force Base but then we both shook our heads and NO WAY!!! We both tried to video tape it with our cell phones but they were too far away. Safe to say this will be a night we will never forget, we both know that this was a once in a lifetime experience and now when we look in the sky we wonder who or what could be out there!!!
May 23, 2015 · 6:26 AM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
I am hobby drone pilot that owns two such crafts and have been flying for fun and amateur video for about a year. On the morning I have indicated, I was flying my drone early one morning in a park very near my home and was recording as I normally do. I shot this video at 1080P 60 FPS and did not notice the anomaly until viewing it later the same morning. While shooting toward the sun and into the middle of town this "orb" of sorts came rushing toward my craft at a high rate of speed in a straight line but not straight at me. At first I thought it might be a hummingbird, but seems much too fast and if you watch it pass into the lighter sky you will see that it just disappears as if it is made of light only. The video I will send is clipped from a larger 4 gig file and if you want the whole file I can arrange that. I would be very interested in any thought you may have regarding this anomaly.
May 21, 2015 · 11:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Santa Barbara, CA
I have pictures of 2 flying squares that my wife took on our way to San Francisco to watch my daughter graduating SFSU. I was discarding old picture and playing with the zoom, when I realized she got a picture of something
May 21, 2015 · 12:30 AM · FORMATION
Santa Ana, CA
Looked like an L shaped lights at least 5 of them disappearing downward into a v shape and gone. After about a 1 min or 2 it appeared againg straight from where they were first seen at. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 20, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Temecula, CA
object was flying east to west towards Gemini looked like a satelite then took an immediate upward direction and disappeared straight to Gemini.
May 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Reedley, CA
At a distance, I believes the craft to be a helicopter. I thought it was shining a spotlight on us. As we got closer, I realized te shape was not that of a helicopter. Also, I realized it wasn't making any noise. As we got even closer, I realized it was a triangle. It looked to be about the size of a car. It made no noise. It flew just above the tree line. I knew it couldn't be an airplane because it was flying no more than five miles per hour. As we got closer, it flew across the road and flew back in the direction it came from. It just circled around us. I was frightened, but my comrade stopped to observe. It was triangular, about 30 feet across, and flew no more than 70 feet above our car. It flew about 5 miles per hour and had white and red lights on the bottom. I thought it was a helicopter, but I could hear no propellor.
May 18, 2015 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Napa, CA
I went outside and saw a huge orange crescent shape object in the sky. It was north west just above the hills that have grapes planted on them. I got my binoculars to see it better and could see that the crescent shape was diminishing. As the light was almost gone, I could see the shape of the object in the dark. It was like a huge ball and three times bigger than a full moon. It faintly glowed. Then when the crescent light faded the object disappeared.