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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
November 29, 2022 · 11:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Napa, CA
My wife and I were traveling back from a dinner in Palo Alto, CA to Napa, CA. On CA29, we noticed three white lights in a triangular shape. The craft followed the road in the same direction as our travel and then veered off to the left. We did not hear any noise from the object and it quickly disappeared after turning left. Although we were near an airport, the lighting, shape and size are what captured our attention. The lights were at the corners of the craft, were white, and we could see no port or starboard lighting (red or green). The craft was dark colored. My wife was able to take two pictures with her iphone from the car. They are not great, but the lights and triangular shape can be seen. Background: I am a former naval officer, and both my wife and I are business professionals.
November 29, 2022 · 9:27 PM · RECTANGLE
Somis, CA
It was different than a shooting star, which is what I thought it was at first. But it was more yellow and bright. It was intense, and appeared and unlike a shooting star, it was a very straight line. And it didn’t fizzle out like a shooting star ,it appeared very bright, and then traveled in a straight,horizontal line to the right. And then appeared to leave the atmosphere.
November 26, 2022 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Richmond, CA
I was looking at Jupiter around 6pm pst . I noticed a gold colored object that I believed was a distant star . I then seen it drop rapidly . It then stopped it descent rapidly and begin to travel away from me headed East at the speed satellite travel it disappeared from my sight. I did not notice any flashing light coming from object the color was constant,
November 25, 2022 · 10:16 PM · CIRCLE
San diego, CA
As they started moving south west, they change directions to south east. I could hear the helicopter but I couldn't hear what I was seeing. As it got closer to me, if changed from a ball of white light to red and green blinking lights. It took a while to report because I wasn't sure what I saw until I read another report about a medicine ball of white light that made no noise
November 25, 2022 · 7:05 PM · TRIANGLE
San Jose, CA
I was star gazing with my dad Thanksgiving night and noticed an object falling from outerspace. It was coming from outerspace because i was using my telescope and zoomed out pretty far to capture it. As i was trying to focus my father said it was closer. I would have to readjust my telescope due to the object moving so fast. Then it was close enough to be captured by my Galaxy s21 which has really good focus. Capture it as it was coming down. I have a super hd version of the video if it seems distorted.
November 25, 2022 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING
Lemon Grove, CA
Every night around the same time. These lights, come out. There's no way there satellites, you can see planes coming un, helicopter etc, it comes low enough and will hide from the camera. They come in a cluster that almost looks like a triangular big ship. If I record the object it's starts to hide from my phone amd will flash back a red beam that you can hear pulsating my phone
November 24, 2022 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
lockford, CA
was driving home from thanksgiving dinner westward on highway 88 1-2 miles west of lockford california. the wife and i spotted a stationary red light hovering for about 1 second then rapidly descending down towards the ground. it did not make a sound or leave a smoke trail like a meteor. i grew up observing the night sky with my father who is astronomer dave barosso so i have seen my share of fireballs and large meteors. this red light was red like a flare but was not a flare as it was too big. there were no sparks or break-ups of meteor parts as would be expected. it also did not diminish as you would see when a meteor streaks across the sky and gets smaller as it travels away from you. it seemed to be within a 2 mile distance judging from how fast we were travelling and its movement. it did not travel across the sky. it appeared maybe 45 degrees above the horizon-line and went to ground in 1-2 seconds. i kept my eye on it incase there was some kind of impact or secondary flash like if it hit the ground. no flash or explosion of any kind. from our vantage point driving roughly south west, it appeared approximately due south out of the left side of our windscreen. it did not re-appear. we turned off highway 88 onto victor road heading due west about 30 seconds after sighting it placing the location of the red object roughly behind us and to the left.
November 24, 2022 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Fairfield, CA
We were out looking at sky with telescope so kids could look at venus which was visible that night with telescope, then noticed a bright orange, red object in the sky east of where venus was. It was visable for approx. 25 to 30 seconds then it disappeared.
November 22, 2022 · 4:54 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
I was sitting outside, noticed one bright light in the sky longest up and there was 4 lights randomly in a horizontal line. 2 in the middle switched places from (counting left to right ) 2nd to 4th and 4th to 3rd. Then i recorded it, sent it to my friend and even they were confused. They then flew away from each other. I seen one a plane fly right past then too oddly enough it's a blessing i guess to live by San Diego airport. That's when i realized these lights weren't planes. If they were, very odd planes and flying formation/plan between 3 or 4 or flying objects.
November 22, 2022 · 2:36 AM · FIREBALL
Menifee, CA
I woke up in the middle of the night, and went downstairs with my dog. I have large windows and I had them opened, as I was watching the sky a Blue disk appeared instantly in the sky and floated momentarily, once I looked at it for a second, it flew into the sky faster than anything I have ever seen. It almost looked like a comet but it did not move like a shooting star. There is military craft that is trained near us, but this was almost your stereotypical flying saucer, it just did not stay at all, and moved as fast as the speed of light (299 792 458 meters / second, not metaphorically.). Today this morning there are Jet Streams in an X shape in the same sky line as well as some clouds, I'm not sure if its related but somewhat interesting.
November 20, 2022 · 4:25 PM · CIRCLE
Fremont, CA
Ok I was outside on my balcony smoking a cigarette and I looked up. I saw this orange object moving south towards San Jose in different directions up down sideways throughout the evening sky. I even lightweight heard it. I thought it was a drone at first but it’s way different sound than a drone. It sounded very powerful at times it would stop the noise would become silent and they would come back after a few minutes of watching 4 more popped up in different parts of the sky all go in the same direction from left to right also some were closer than the others. They were all at different heights it seemed. In the video that I uploaded, it only shows 2 because my actually phone died as I was recording, so I only have video footage of 2 of the objects not 5 that I mentioned.
November 20, 2022 · 10:45 AM · LIGHT
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA
Object appeared to hover at a high altitude slightly to the east of us. Maybe 5 to 8 miles. Appeared very small to the naked eye and I lost it. Why I’m contacting you is that 4 or 5 minutes later, the same, or a similar object appeared in the opposite part of the sky, to the west. Slightly lower altitude than previously. Moving slowly and deliberately to the east, then to the north, increasing in altitude, getting smaller to the naked eye. I attribute the brightness of the object to its reflecting the sun. The brightness was inconsistent, making it appear that the object was flashing somewhat. This attribute of this sighting makes me think that the object was reflective on only one side or portion of it. I have never seen nor reported a UFO before, but this sighting was unique enough that it left me very curious and if there’s any way to more about what this is, I’d be interested to know more. I have seen satellites and this did not behave like a satellite. An astronomy app confirmed that there were no planets in our sight line. It felt way too high in altitude to be a helicopter or a drone. If it was some form of weather balloon, there would have to have been two of them, because one balloon could not have traversed that distance in such a short period of time. The attached photo is statistically close to worthless but I am including it in any case
November 19, 2022 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Orcutt, CA
Object in sky at night which appeared to be flashing red and possibly green or blue. It was still and hovering for about 10-15 minutes. I then check on it again and it moved to a different location and kept hovering.
November 18, 2022 · 6:18 AM · CHANGING
Pacific Grove, CA
At 6:10 I was walking my dog. As we walked toward the parking lot, my dog kept staring in the sky and walked with caution. I didn’t know what was wrong. I had to pick her up because she didn’t want to walk anymore and as I picked her up I saw a bright light reflection in her eye. I turned around and saw an object with different lights blinking in the sky around it at which I thought was a plane since we live close to an airport. However, this object had no sound as it traveled and no exhaust coming out the back but was moving fast. I took out my phone and began to record. When I started recording, the object looked like a plane, then changed to another shape zipped right and left then flash a large light or the illuminating light which was reflected off the clouds changes the object and it then disappeared, again with no sound or exhaust.
November 18, 2022 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Fallbrook, CA
So i look up at the sky every night because I love astronomy and u notice something flashing in the sky so i look a bit longer the colors were from green red and blue white and i know it was not the Vega star because this object started moving then stopped as a cloud covered once the cloud moved along and passed i notice triangler light which in the photos i circled the single light in red and the triangle in white the noise that came after they appeared sounded as if it was breathing while wearing a mask it's hard to explain i am sending the original photo i took as well as and enhanced one to
November 18, 2022 · 1:19 AM · OVAL
Northridge, CA
Moving east to west, inside atmosphere. Moving too fast for satellite and elevation deceptive. Could have been 10’ wide at 10,000 ft. Or ? At 50,000 ft. Silent.
November 17, 2022 · 11:02 PM · CHANGING
West Hollywood, CA
It was super bright overhead while I was walking my dog. It was oblongish color changing. Bright yellow with flashes of red, blue and white. It remained motionless, fixed in the sky. I also saw 2 other bright flashing smaller lights that were on each side making a perfect triangle shape. After about 20 minutes the 2 smaller lights disappeared. The remaining largest color changing light dimmed and slowly disappeared. I was watching this and wondered why everyone around me wasn't even looking up. They were to far away for me to engage. I saw a smaller plane fly across right under this object. I read Roger Marsh's last nights UFO report and his picture's. That is exactly what I witnessed but also the added 2 other lights. There was no sound from them, only the plane.
November 16, 2022 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER
Acton, CA
Two Tic Tac shaped craft traveling together from North to South at high speed about 4000 ft up, they caught my eye while I was driving NB on the 14 freeway, when the setting sun reflected off of one of them for a split-second flash. Fast movers coming towards me, they were traveling side by side with one slightly ahead of the other at a consistent speed, both white in color, no wings, no sign of propulsion, got a fairly good look at them as they went over just in front of me, and they looked like flying propane tanks. They came from over the Sierra Palona mountains, went across Acton, CA and were headed south towards the San Gabriel Mountains and they were perfectly round as viewing the tail ends of them as they went out of my view.
November 14, 2022 · 1:21 AM · LIGHT
Barstow, CA
My freind and I were heading to Vegas late night. We first spotted a light sitting still in the sky. Then a second light joined and it stood still. Then the second light went left ( we were driven towards Vegas) and it zig zagged in w formation. The unit that was standing still just disappeared. It was so bizarre. The one that was moving kept going left and it eventually vanished. By the time we got off the freeway it was to late. We were perplexed.
November 13, 2022 · 12:33 AM · CIRCLE
Newbury Park, CA
I was driving a friend home from my girlfriend’s house in Camarillo. While driving up the grade, a steep mountain on the 101 connecting Thousand Oaks to Camarillo, I noticed what I had assumed to be a plane also going over the mountain, south towards the beach. I began to realize that the craft was a lot larger, as well as closer, than I originally thought as we got higher up the mountain. As it got closer to the mountain, the lights on it shifted from being horizontal to diagonal. I told my friend that “I don’t think that was a plane next to us.” When we got over the grade I was excitedly pointing south towards the direction i saw it heading in, and she said she didn’t see anything. Then she said “oh, my god,” and pointed east. The lights were straightening out, and it very slowly disappeared over the Santa Monica Mountains- towards Lake Malibuo. Right after it had disappeared over the mountains we had noticed a plane flying above us towards the same direction. However, the lights on this one looked normal from below, it’s altitude was low, and it was flying in the same direction as the UFO. The only photo I have is of the plane flying away.
November 12, 2022 · 9:41 PM · CIRCLE
Oakland, CA
Me n my bf was outside having a smoke n j love lookin at the stars ,n we both seen a orange light right next to the moon ,and i told him look babe a ufo ,so i recorded it as we were videoing it i looked behind my bf and right when i turned to look up i seen a bright orange kinda redish light and i had told him look babe what is that n he looked were i was pointing at and saw the same light coming towards us n he asked were did that come from n i had said i dnt know it just came out of know where ,so we videoed it passin right over us n my daugthers apt thrn as it passed it go smaller n further waay then dissapeard n that was it .i seen 1 light turn into 5 lights back in 2017 right arount the cornner from were we were.
November 12, 2022 · 7:03 PM · CIRCLE
Compton / Paramount, CA
We witnessed 7-9 unidentified objects emanating a bright red light. These objects were traveling north bound and disappeared quickly. We could definitely tell these were not aircraft as aircraft have a beacon light you can see flicker away into the distance. These items maintained a constant red glow and vanished.
November 12, 2022 · 1:15 PM · OTHER
Suisun (Soosoon) City, CA
I was driving westbound on Highway 12 about 2 miles from Suisun City in Northern California on 11/12/22. It was about 1:15 PM on a very clear day with some white fluffy clouds. Looking to the Southwest maybe 10 miles away at an estimated elevation maybe less than 2000 feet or maybe 1 finger lengthwise above the horizon, I witnessed a flash of bright light in broad daylight. It disappeared and then a second later it flashed again. Way faster than I would imagine commercial or military aircraft could fly. I don’t know if it was one or two objects. The flash was about the size as the very tip of a sharpened lead pencil. I didn’t think anything of it until I saw it the second flash perhaps several miles later making me believe it was traveling at a unusually high rate of speed. Then I never saw it again. I consistently see C5s take off and fly around and land at nearby Travis AFB. But they are big and lumbering Aircraft that makes one wonder why they don't fall out of the sky. And they are grey anyway and wouldn’t reflect the sun like that. Commercial aircraft don’t reflect light like that, besides these flashes were extra ordinarily bright beyond what I would consider reflection from the Sun. Other military A/C in general are gray also. They were not in any flight pattern I have witnessed from aircraft flying in or out of Oakland International Airport or SFO. Having been a jet mechanic and involved with Naval Aviation for 20 years I can’t tell you what I saw as brief as it was. Some may say they were meteorites, which I can’t argue against. But they were parallel to the surface which doesn’t seem to be like meteorites I’ve seen and read about. I think also the second flash was higher than the first making me think it had gained altitude. I also had the sensation they had turned some. So to be honest I don’t know what I saw and maybe it can easily be explained away but my gut feeling upon reflection is that it was something extraordinary. I hope someone will submit a report if they saw the same thing.
November 11, 2022 · 8:23 PM · CIGAR
Needles, CA
6 months of searching! I found it.