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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
April 3, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Los Banos, CA
As a I was out for a walk with my niece and my son. I and my niece noticed a glowing ball in the middle of the street. It gave off a reddish gold color and was spinning but was completely silent. It caught me off guard me and my niece were afraid of it. It was about three feet in diameter. As I stared at it, it disappeared after 15 or 20 seconds.
April 3, 2015 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Yountville, CA
I focused on it as it moved trying to determine if it was a plane, helicopter, or satellite. It moved in a straight line and seemed to be dropping in elevation slightly. It was very quiet and I could not hear the usual helicopter compression sounds. As I focused on it, it seemed to get bigger and brighter with no visible shape other then a very bright white and large light. It slowly moved North and seemed to drop in elevation slightly, that is when I ran in the house to grab the binoculars. Before I left, it was dead center of the large open space seen in from my backyard. When I returned with the binoculars, it was gone. Given the speed and location and how long I was gone, it should of been in about the same area but it was gone. I scanned the night sky with the binoculars and found nothing. I am confident it was NOT a satellite, star, meteor, or any type of known aircraft. This now my 6th sighting of an unknown to me object in 40 years of gazing at the night sky. I really need to keep the binoculars near the backdoor from now on. Thank you for what you do online and on the radio.
April 1, 2015 · 11:40 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 1, 2015 · 10:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Granite Bay, CA
During meteor shower, biggest in years. Myself and my wife laying flat on our backs in a secluded grassy area on a picnic blanket around ten pm. Huge meteor shows up, we track it w our eyes, as we track it, this rectangular ship LITERALLY APPEARS, not flew into our view, NO, this thing was "cloaked", and it became visible b4 our eyes. Simply moved slowly out of the way of the oncoming meteor and cloaked again. Literally happened in five seconds. Wife saw it too. Clear as day. There wasn't even time to grab a cell phone shot. This was two years ago? I think. And I wanted to report it to somewhere more credible than Mufon. I hope this helps. I do not mind answering any further questions you may have. Thank you. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
March 30, 2015 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Chula Vista, CA
While driving home from work I was traveling on I-5 in the south bound direction, shortly after passing under the 54 freeway overpass, I noticed to the left of me on the eastern side of I-5 a bright light traveling Northern direction but coming towards me, I then noticed another light following the first light but not quite as bright, it appeared to me at first that it might be two fighter jets doing maneuvers, the first light then quickly turned West crossing I-5 at a very high rated of speed I'm guessing about 250 to 300 Mph quickly pulling away from the second light. When the second light passed in front of me I noticed it to be a helicopter, I know this because I work with helicopters and it had the distinctive shape of a helicopter red light on the top of the tail and I could see that the tail rotor was enclosed in the tail pylon. I believed the helicopter was chasing the light because when the light quickly turned south over the bay and disappeared the helicopter turned north and broke off the chase. I could not make out any shape to the first light it just looked like a very bright light moving at a very high rate of speed, and because I'm a military veteran I've seen many types of aircraft at night and I have always been able to make out their shapes, such as a helicopter, passenger air plane or fighter jet. I could not make out any shape at all around this speeding light so I can only believe that I was some special military project or something unknown to me.
March 29, 2015 · 11:10 PM · FIREBALL
Cottonwood, CA
I Was sky watching before going to bed I saw bright ball with what looked like fire coming from the back going from South to North and it just disappeared. So quick. I just wish I had my camera on.
March 28, 2015 · 11:42 PM · CIRCLE
San Pedro, CA
Sepulveda and pacific walking down towards sepulveda and center the 2 balls of light were moving side to side and no airplane that we are aware of can move like that and it was before drones were even available
March 28, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
San Francisco, CA
Solid blue light traveling slow to the west, immediately changed direction and turned into a solid red light. Again, effortlessly changed direction and slowly faded out.
March 28, 2015 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Highland Park, CA
I was sitting down waiting for the bus with my wife. I was telling my wife how pretty the moon looked. About 10 seconds later. Four circle objects appear from nowhere and flying North East. I am guessing they where moving or flying around the Pasadena or Aldadena Direction Mountains or area. There way they were flying where in four by four formation. Two close to each other. heading East. Even my wife couldn't believe what she saw. We are 100% sure that they were not planes.
March 27, 2015 · 1:41 PM · OTHER
Santa Maria, CA
I was sitting outside of Panera bread with my dog on my lap and above him, I saw a momentary glint up in the sky like the sun reflecting off of a windscreen on a plane. When the object moved the glint disappeared and then would come back (I have a picture of it from a tracfone,). I sat there and watched it slowly move across the sky from west to east and then back west and elevate altitude a bit. I guesstimate its elevation to be a few hundred feet. This is not the first time I have seen UFO's in this area. It seems to correspond to the Vandenberg launches when I do. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 27, 2015 · 2:08 AM · TRIANGLE
Valley Springs, CA
Triangular Form 8 total sitting above Bear Mountain facing South word for visual. They are formed in Circular formation At first you see one craft. But then 8 other formations turned visible. Several accounts of loss of time 4 hours to be exact. What species are these Alie s are they aggressive? Blinking Red Blue Green Blinks like similar Jet Planes but then hovers below as they pass. And change to bright green. Are these any of significance?
March 26, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Huntington Beach, CA
I arrived home parked in driveway noticed blue & reddish northern Star decending I got out observed after 10 min it had passed 4 house shadows from afar wich concludes it was traveling at thousand of miles per min? Then it slowly faded to a small spec as it went deeper into the unkown universe scary makes you wonder
March 26, 2015 · 12:15 PM · DISK
San Jose, CA
I was at the Diridon transit station in San Jose, California, waiting for my train on my way to work. Diridon station is a busy station, in an urban setting with lots of city noise and bustle. I decided to take some pictures of cheery tree blossoms. The time was 12:13 p.m. I took two photographs of the blossoms and then noticed a security mirror on a pole that was reflecting the trees and the rail tracks and I thought it would make a nice picture so I positioned myself to photograph that as well. I snapped one photo, glanced at it and decided to take another. The second one is slightly closer to the mirror and more centered. The two photos were taken at 12:14 and 12:15, respectively. Both photos show three lamp posts on the right. I sat down on a bench in the shade to review the photos. In the one taken at 12:15 I noticed a white shape above the lamp post in the foreground. Wondering what it was, I zoomed in and was amazed to find I had captured an object in the sky that was the shape of a flat half-circle and appeared to have a light emission or vapor trail surrounding it. I'm convinced I managed to photograph a UFO. I did not actually see the craft in real time, as I was focusing on photographing the mirror. I did not hear anything that led me to look at it, either. There are airplane flying in the area as this transit station is not far from the airport; however, the flight path is in the opposite direction of the photographed object. This morning I was reviewing the photos and zooming on each of them and have seen in both photos of the cherry blossoms that there are glowing objects, lines and discs in the sky. In total there are 5-7 between the three photos. I am a 42-year-old female, mother of two and I work at the public library as a circulation clerk. I have also sent a photo via email.
March 22, 2015 · 9:35 AM · FIREBALL
Ladera Ranch, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 21, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Sacramento, CA
Wife and I sitting in our hot tub at 22:00 on 3/21/15 when we saw what appeared to be a square soundless object with dim glowing lights in each corner. 15 seconds later following the 1st object appeared an identical object traveling the same northwest direction, same speed. Last night 3/31/15 my wife and I again were sitting in the hot tub approx. 21:50, when we saw the same exact objects traveling a slightly different direction (west), this time they were side by side.
March 21, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fairfield, CA
I was traveling east on hi 80 and noticed 20-40 bright orange lights in different formations to the east. I pulled over as soon as possible but by then a lot had disappeared, but still about 6-10 were visible. I took a video with my cell phone but they didn't turn out great but are still visible crossing the sky. There was no apparent pattern and was certainly NOT one object. They would come from what is approximately Travis AFB, and travel slowly across the sky, and then just fade away. Then a new group would come from the south and repeat the above. Interestingly, I appeared to be the only one looking at this phenomenon. I google with my cell phone and found that approximately March 15, 2013, someone took a video which pretty much looked like what I saw. Someone gave the opinion on this site that they were “lanterns”
March 20, 2015 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Riverbank, CA
Sitting in spa the black of night, I first saw this toward the beginning of winter heading north. I've never seen a triangle plane that blended in the night sky with no sound, or fly that fast in my life. I saw it again this evening however it was flying south. Once again it was fast, low and no sound. I thought I was seeing things the first time it happened however I know now it's real. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 20, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Roseville, CA
Deep orange lights, slow moving and glowy, at approximately the elevation of a helicopter, but I didn't hear any sounds, even though I was almost beneath them. They appeared to move in their own trajectories, near each other but not coordinated, and there were at least 6-8 of them. I was able to observe them for about five minutes, before they'd moved too far away for me to track. Movement was generally southwest to northeast.
March 20, 2015 · 8:10 PM · CIRCLE
Petaluma, CA
The other one then got farther and farther away until it was lost in the clouds. They moved slowly, and there was no sound associated with this at all.
March 20, 2015 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Long Beach, CA
My wife and I had a spectacular UFO sighting tonight. We were all settled in for an episode of Vice (HBO), when I heard a loud whoosh, but I thought it was part of the soundtrack of Vice. My wife exclaimed, "What the hell was that?" So she's looking out the window behind the couch explaining to me that the sound was coming from outside. I followed her as she dashed out the front door. I could still hear the trademark military jet-type whooshing sound in the distance. It's sort of an irregular pulsating whoosh that starts suddenly and ends as suddenly as it started, and then repeats that maybe five or six times afterwards, the sound fading off. So we're standing out front looking at the cloudless sky, and I'm telling her "You know, sometimes when military jets are sent low over areas they don't usually don't fly over, it means there was a UFO spotted in the area." And not 30 seconds later, out of my left eye I see a light-orange-yellow spherical-shaped light moving NNE to SSW high in the SSW sky moving SSW through the constellation Orion. About a second later, as I'm alerting my wife to what I'm seeing, a second light that looked just like the first light appeared about 3" at arm's length to the west, moving exactly parallel with the first light. A second later, the second light faded out, and the first light continued on with its SSW trajectory a couple more seconds and quickly faded out. I've seen probably 100 meteors, including 2 fireballs, 6 or so comets, satellites. And I've seen some unidentified stuff, too. But this was by far my most spectacular and unusual sighting. I'm 58. They moved slower than a meteor but much faster than any jet I've seen at that apparent distance. We both got the sense that the lights were at least 10,000 feet up. They certainly weren't real close. I got a real good look at the lights. They weren't steady, like light bulbs. Nor did they strobe. They were distinctly round, but diffuse, and they gave the appearance that they were moving behind a sheet of water, or slightly translucent film with an irregular surface. At the point of fade they were maybe 40% of the diameter of a full Moon. Some years ago when I spent a lot of time during the day at home, quite a few times I'd hear the same identical sound of a military jet overhead or nearby. They're tremendously loud. Only once did I catch a glimpse of it. It was flying north to south towards or maybe past downtown Long Beach, which is due west. I didn't know about the UFO connection back then. I wonder if some (all?) of those incidents were UFO related. By far the most unusual "object" I've ever seen in the sky. And I kinda-sorta predicted it. ;) ((ADDENUM FROM WITNESS)) This is a better and more detailed synopsis than the one I submitted to NUFORC a little while ago. *** 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 not as diffuse. It gradually grew brighter, and as it did, two other similar looking diffuse white circles of light appeared, forming an equilateral triangle. They were all about a third to half the diameter of a full Moon and two to three finger widths apart at arm's length. 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 light appeared in between where the other three lights were, and grew brighter, casting a bright glow against the surrounding clouds. We could make out a fairly well-defined bright star-like light at the center and the surrounding glow it cast was about three-quarters the diameter of a full Moon. 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. ((END ADDENDUM))
March 19, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Merced, CA
My neighbor had been outside with me last night (3/20/15) and as we were smoking our cigarettes. She was stuck on a star....the only one in the whole sky, and it appeared to change colors. Then tonight my brother comes knocking shortly after midnight and I happen to look at the sky and saw a crazy round like barrier or out line in the sky being created by the lights. Each light moved in a slow sway motions, reflecting an almost completely transparent threat like light, which connect them in specified groups. Each time we heard the strange kind of baritone rumble in the sky only a few would zip full speed ahead and vanquish. I made an attempt to photograph on laptop but my laptop shut down every time I took it outside. We have corrected the time and date above. We are uncertain as to whether this is intended as a serious-minded report. Contact information for source is defective. PD
March 19, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Van Nuys, CA
While driving home noticed a VERY bright red light in sky towards Van Nuys or Burbank. Kept an eye on it while I pulled onto my street. It appeared to be moving and getting closer. Got home and it was still there. Got out of car and continued to watch. Bright Red Light was now hovering in place. It appeared to be at low altitude, like one would see the LAPD helicopter. But this had No noise nor did it have any of the other obvious helicopter indicators. Then the light got small while it was hovering. A moment later it was as if someone turned off the light. Gone! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 18, 2015 · 11:40 PM · SPHERE
Redwood City, CA
I arrived home late from dinner Wednesday night at 11:30pm. As I took the garbage cans outside, I just happened to look up at the clear sky. To the northwest, close to above the 280 freeway, I saw a blue bright orb. As I saw it, it steadily moved in the opposite flow of airplanes circling around to land at SFO. It then appeared to move vertically down, hover, then vertically back up. The blue light then turned bright red. It was bright enough to create a halo or orb around the object. The now red light ascended and moved horizontally across the sky. Definitely not an airplane or heli. I also thought drone, but way to big and fast unless it was a huge commercial drone. Drones don't also make them self visible as bright blue/red lights. The red light moved all directions in the sky very rapidly. After about 5 minutes of tracking it across the sky. It seemed to go straight down again and eventually went behind the Canada College parking lot bright lights we can see from our place. I'm excited in what I saw and took some video. Never seen anything like this before. I always look up at night and finally caught something I couldn't identity. I only hope others saw it as well.
March 18, 2015 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Glendale, CA
On the nite of 3-18-2015 I saw two lights moving from right to left and a circle motion on the top of the mountain at forest lawn in glendale from my window facing my back yard where my bedroom is located in da adress XXXXX oakridge dr glendale ca 91205. About 45 min later I saw the shining light on the right side of the two that where there two located in the sky I got a chance to take some pictures befor the ufo became a image that looked like a quarter moon blue in color the took off in to the sky by becoming a blue lighting linage and diapering in to the dark sky I still have the pictures in my phone that I can show you I also called 211 the next day and was connected to a company named KFI in Los angeles where they gave me a confemation # 2931472 I need someone in Los Angeles to investigate this sighting that I had I think I might of been abducted to please give me a call back at 818-XXX-XXXX thank you for your time and effort