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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
February 10, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fortuna, CA
Two strange whitish-yellow lights hovered in the air like fireflies, floating slowly down to earth. At first we thought they were parachuters. I took a video with my phone, and upon a second viewing I realized the lights were also moving sideways! About 5 minutes later we saw the same kind of light again, only this time is was purplish and there was only one. It also meandered about the sky before floating to the ground in the distance. Drones? Aliens? Parachuters? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Fresno, CA
At about 10pm, my friend and I were on the way to my house and I noticed three bright lights in the sky making the shape of a triangle. At first I thought it was lights for a tower like the ones you would see at a airport, but since I drive down that particular road at least 10-20 times a week it was not usually there and it was too far away from the town airport to be a tower for it. As we drove south more, I noticed that it seemed we were getting closer to it so it was staying still and I also noticed that I couldn't see any metal connecting below it so it had to be floating/flying in the sky. It was kind of low like when a airplane is going to land, but it stood still in the same spot not moving side to side or up and down. After looking at it for a couple minutes my friend driving finally saw it and asked what it was, he was intrigued and pulled over so we could get a better look, by the time he pulled over and turned to look it was quickly fading away and! then was gone. It took off very quick.
February 8, 2015 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Marina del Rey, CA
My boyfriend and I were leaving Ralph's in Marina del Rey around 6:40pm tonight, when we noticed a bright green glowing light in the southern part of the sky. It was just a tiny bit larger than a star. The object was green in color and the light faint, almost transparent yet very visible. We suspected it was a helicopter or a drone, but due to the transparent green glow of the light there was no way it was a helicopter. We're not sure if what we saw was extraterrestrial in origin, but if was for sure an unidentified flying object. The sighting lasted just under a minute while we were stuck at a traffic light. The entire time the object seemed to be moving back and forth in the sky, but not like a helicopter would move. It proceeded to change it's color to bright red then zip away in a straight line. It went behind a building as our car began to move. We passed the building after we proceeded through the intersection and we couldn't see it anymore. It vanished out of sight.
February 7, 2015 · 11:15 PM · CIRCLE
Antioch, CA
MY WIFE CAME HOME LATE FROM A FRIEND'S HOUSE WITH MY 3 YR OLD SON. I WENT OUT SIDE TO GET MY SON OUT OF HIS CAR SEAT, THEN I LOOKED UP ONTO THE SKY AND SEEN 2 FLOATING FIREBALL OBJECTS. WE WATCHED FOR A WHILE UNTIL WE COULDN'T SEE ANYMORE. I TOOK SOME PICTURES AND VIDEO.ITS HARD TO SEE ON VIDEO, BUT YOU CAN STILL KNOW IT'S NO AIRPLANE OR ANYTHING ELSE.
February 7, 2015 · 2:41 AM · SPHERE
Novato, CA
at 2:41am, my fiancee and I were using the google sky app to try to identify strange star formations, and the google sky app wasn't able to identify the constellations we were seeing. Then, we realized that the supposed constellations were moving from southwest, coming from the direction of the coast, and moving across the sky toward north east. We realized that the entire constellation had moved from one part of the sky, directly over us, and continued moving in formation until we could no longer see them. Waves of what looked like constellations or formations of flying stars kept coming from the southwest and crossing the entire sky, all passing over us. It took roughly five minutes for each wave of them to appear and cross over the entire skyline. However, there was one brighter "star", and once it crossed above us, it seemed to go only a few more degrees toward the northeast, until it hovered in place, then seemed to go back and forth as to stay visible to the new waves of "star" or craft formations that appeared. it would get up to 80% brighter than it's original appearance, as if it was guiding the waves of flying "star formations" that continued to appear from the southwest and travel to the northeast. We went and got our mom and her boyfriend after 2 minutes of witnessing the first wave of stars, which we thought was a constellation-but once it was over the house we realized it was moving and brought them outside. After that, we witnessed at least 6-7 formations moving across the entire sky-each had approximately 6-9 stars in formation with each wave. It looked as if Cassiopeia started to move and cross the sky, with a wave of more cassiopeia constellations successively moving across the sky. There was a lot of fog, but the moving "stars" would go behind the fog and emerge so that we could see that they had traveled and kept their momentum while continuing to fly in the! direction of the one bigger, brighter craft. They were all s! ilent. With the exception of the bigger "star" that seemed to oscillate within a small area of the sky to stay somewhat in one place as its lights grew brighter, none of the other starlike craft grew brighter. All maintained a veritable "starlike" lighted appearance. Again, no noise heard at all, no blinking red lights, and they were all way too close together to be actual airplanes. I have never seen 40 planes so close together and all traveling the same altitude, the same direction, and without any noise or without some kind of blinking identifying light for safety, especially on a foggy night. Each time the fog and clouds had a break, you would see more and more of these moving constellations, all following the brighter craft. The brighter craft seemed to have illuminated its sides, and looked triangular. However, you could only see this feature when it increased its brightness every few minutes, as if to light the way for the next wave of craft. I tri! ed to take a video with my iPad, but it captured blackness. someone please let me know the best equipment for filming at night. Please! Thanks!
February 6, 2015 · 10:03 PM · LIGHT
Cerritos, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 6, 2015 · 6:20 PM · TEARDROP
Lake Elsinore, CA
We saw a craft hovering about 300 ft in the NW hemisphere - it was not conventional aircraft or helicopter but no sounds, suddenly there was a bright pulsating light blinked 2 or 3 times and then the craft dropped to the ground behind the tree line about 10 minutes later it appeard in the eastern hemispher and gluided towards the Eastern hemisphere. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 6, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Bright, orange-red, light slowly moved from west to east. There was no sound. The light slowed, turned sharply to the south, and then disappeared into the sky at rapid speed.
February 5, 2015 · 8:10 PM · OTHER
Perris, CA
weird lights in Perris. I walked out of the house and looked to the left to see what looked like two sets of 5 lights, the top light on each side would go off and on same time and the whole thing moved left and right. I know the top of that hill I have been up there. There are no homes there for about a mile or so. If you could imagine a string going vertical 15 feet up with 5 red lights on it and then another string same as the first with the same 5 red lights on it about 5 feet apart is how I can kinda describe it. here is the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQgn2r92OQ&feature=youtu.be
February 5, 2015 · 2:33 PM · CHANGING
Encino, CA
What appeared to be a white triangular craft rotating and had appeared in the same location I had seen on one other occasion. Though previously the craft did not travel across the sky, and was just hovering for a few mins and then vanished within secs. This sighting lasted about 20 mins, slowly making its way from the Eastern sky crossing diagonally to the Western sky. I was able to photograph a series of images, on a standard DSLR camera w/ 18-55MM lens so it was hard to catch the details of the craft. After the sighting, and upon inspection of the images, it's clear that the object was shape-shifting from "Triangle" to "V" to "Ball of light". During the course of the migration across the sky there were airplanes, helicopters, birds flying in the shot, but I could not tell how high up the object was. It did pass through the clouds which were all wispy angel-like formations and surprisingly not many chemtrails today! Also I observed what appeared to be a plasma field surrounding the object that looked like waves of energy that were actually affecting the clouds as it passed through. Video footage captures its movement, then holding position in the sky, changing direction and then continuing on the path from the East to West. The object made its way into the distance and visibility was lost.
February 5, 2015 · 1:45 PM · DIAMOND
Santa Ana, CA
I was walking outside of my building at work this afternoon and I heard some birds making noises overhead. I looked up to see what they were and when I did, I saw this small, shiny object in the sky that caught my attention. I stopped to watch it. It was similar to what a bright star would look like at night, only this was during the day time. It was about 1:45 PM, and it was sunny and clear, no clouds. I sat down at a picnic table and watched this “star” looking object. After a few seconds, it started to glimmer so I figured it must be something metallic. Since I had no idea what it was and what the size of it was, it was hard for me to judge the altitude of this object. But if I had to guess, I would say it was between 5 -8,000 feet high. I started thinking to myself what it could be. It wasn’t a star because it was moving but it wasn’t moving fast enough to be a satellite. It was glimmering when the sun would catch it. It would go from a dull white color to a bright silver color at random intervals. At one point when it was nearest to my location (it moved away slowly over time) the sun caught it and this silver object appeared to have a silver appendage below it that was shaped like a stubby pencil. This appendage was also metallic as the sun lit it up and it was pointed straight down from the object. At this point I started to think it was a weather balloon. But then I was thinking that most weather balloons are non-metallic and the payload is usually wrapped in Styrofoam or some material that would cushion the instruments during a fall. The wind was blowing in its normal direction, from the southwest to the northeast which is the typical wind direction for our area. This object, however, was moving from east to west and eventually headed towards the north. It was moving very slow. (In total, I watched the object for at least 45 minutes and it moved only what would be about 10-12 degrees from east to west.) After about 15 minutes of watching this object, the security guard for our business came along and we started watching it together. Then a few of our employees came outside to see what we were looking at and they saw it too. After a few minutes, one of the other employees said, “Oh look, there is a second object now…it’s above the other one.” So I looked up about 5-7 degrees above the initial object and I saw a second object that was very similar. This second object was also glimmering in the sunlight, except this one had an obvious reddish color to it. The second object was moving away from the first object in a completely different direction, in a northwest to southeast direction in almost a perfect arc. It was glimmering pretty regularly almost like it was tumbling and the sun was catching it. I started to think that maybe this was a satellite but after about 2 minutes, it slowed down. It had been moving laterally at a pretty good speed and now it was almost stationary. Like the first object, this second object would also glimmer in the sunlight occasionally with its reddish hue. I stayed there looking at both objects for a few more minutes and I ultimately said to our security guard that I had to get back inside and go back to work. About three minutes later, the security guard called me to tell me that he could now see what looked like a “tail” on the initial object. What he described to me sounded like the “appendage” that I had seen earlier. I had taken a video of the initial object with my phone. When I got back to my desk, I looked at the video. Of course the video is blurry and the object has no edge definition since the camera was trying to focus on infinity. As I write this narrative, the security guard is still outside watching the objects.
February 5, 2015 · 12:40 AM · LIGHT
Santa Barbara, CA
Midnight-ish of February 5th, in UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara), my friend and I were looking out to the ocean (southward), when we spotted a star-shaped, red-orange object in the sky. It looked as if it was slowly swaying inconsistently left to right, and perhaps drifting closer to us. A bit concerned (perhaps "frightened") we ran inland to where it eventually vanished. The object was alone and, to our knowledge, was not preceded nor succeeded (we checked for succession) by any other objects of its kind. It emitted five (natural) rays of light (not "beams" or searchlights) that almost shaped in a star, with one ray shining upward and the other four fanning downward. A plane flew by shortly after. We considered it may have been the aircraft emitting the light, but immediately decided against it as it flew in from the opposite part of the sky, and was in no way close to illuminating as bright as the red-orange glow.
February 3, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TEARDROP
San Jose, CA
Then shot off into distance out of sight. It was a large blue light and pretty bright. We have corrected the date above. PD
February 3, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Costa Mesa, CA
I was talking on the phone, looking up in the sky at the Orion grou, and on the lower left, I thought at first it was the lower left star. It started slowly moving and then slowly faded away and was gone. It lasted about 45 seconds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 3, 2015 · 2:30 PM · CHANGING
Lynwood, CA
At first, I saw it by eyesight only, but then grabbed my telescope and it looked kind of metallic square but with dents that sunlight reflected off from making it seem like lights were moving on it facing me then it started changing shapes like if a blob of mercury was placed there and started forming something that looked to resemble a metallic man take in mind i witnessed this through my telescope it was very large object in the sky east of Lynwood California it was about 2:30 PM it lasted till 3:30 pm pacific standard time not sure if it was over the state of California or another state or country but it was east of where I stood my mother, roommate and 5 year old daughter saw it through the telescope also pictures are available from cell phone it stayed in placed for a while then moved but very slow almost as it just wanted to observe suddenly a smaller white object appeared like rain drop shape heading toward metallic object suddenly the metallic ! object move more east and was no longer visible to me for about a good 5, 6 minutes then reappearing back in same spot I spotted it first at and again it stayed observing then it moved towards south east and then it was really gone.
February 3, 2015 · 9:30 AM · SPHERE
Anderson, CA
The 3 of us were at Walmart, and right next to Walmart is some sort of factory that always has white smoke coming from these giant pipes. I wanted to take a picture of the smoke in the sky, and so I did. But when I went back to review, in the picture it looked like some sort of orb of light was shooting out and away from the white smoke. There was another orb of light inside or behind the smoke, it looked as if it was not moving. There was also a beam of light coming from the top of the smoke. We suspect that the stripe of light that appears to be radiating from the top of a column of steam is a lens flare, caused by the camera's being pointed at the Sun, but we cannot be certain. PD
February 2, 2015 · 12:05 PM · OTHER
Solromar, CA
Observed an object that, at first, appeared to be an instrumentation balloon. Vertical configuration of a mass "suspended" below three bright, what appeared to be rotating, or flashing alternating primary colors, R-G-B in random duration and speed. These were not aircraft strobe lights. Too bright at that range and not a discharge flash. From my position on PCH highway, I first noticed it at a bearing of about 15 degrees and a few seconds of observation revealed it to be apparently drifting to north-northwest laterally at approximately 8500 to 9000 feet altitude. Observed craft for 11 to 12 minutes until it "drifted" to a bearing of about 385 degrees, flashing colors alternately, randomly, with no obvious apparent relation between the three active parts of the craft. Observed Southwest Airlines SFO to SDiego flight at cruise altitude clearly behind this craft as it passed behind the craft in my field of view. At about 12:15 it changed direction of motion to the northest and picked up speed linearly and went behind Boney Mountain out of view. No sound other than the low rumble of Southwest Airlines. I estimate the speed to have been about 200 knots and increasing when it went out of view. 35 year Aeronautical Engineer, Flight Test Engineer/Pilot. 10X25 binoculars. Clear, sunny, cool.
February 2, 2015 · 5:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Tustin, CA
I was going to work in the early morning by riding my bike to the bus station in long beach California taking OTCA 50 Bus from long beach to Tustin. So the bus arrives in Tustin I get off the bus and start riding my bike to Irvine where I worked. I'm riding up Redhill ave and as I ride over the train tracks my bike chain pops off. I get off the bike to fix the chain. I just happen to look up in the sky,I see a UFO racing across the sky then a fireball appears the UFO enters the fireball, then fireball closes in on itself and disappears.
February 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Jose, CA
On Sunday night, my husband called me outside to see something in the sky. When I got out there I saw 2 red objects heading into the Eastern sky. As we were talking and facing South, several more appeared to the West and went up and over our house to the East and disappeared. I ran inside to get my camera and the binoculars. It was hard to tell if they were in any organized pattern. Two of them went East and it seemed one almost caught up with the other, they moved around a bit, and then disappeared. It was also hard to tell the shape even looking through the binoculars. One of my pictures shows a perfectly round orb and yet they also seemed to be on fire. As one would disappear, we'd look right (West) and others would show up. My husband saw several more than I did. What was odd is that they seemed close and far at the same time.
February 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Encinitas Carlsbad, CA
Triangular craft with tail flashing and changing multi color lights- Purple, red, orange, yellow, green. Stationary except for tail. Over ocean
February 1, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
The moon was bright and it was a cloudless night. I was in my hot tub just looking at the stars and there appeared a round red fiery light with red flame-like flares coming from the sides of the UFO. It was traveling in a straight line from the West going East. It was the most spectacular thing I have ever seen in the sky. As I watched it travel across the sky, I was wishing I had my camera. To my great surprise, right before the UFO disappeared, another UFO came into view following the same path as the first one. It was exactly the same, flying the same speed and everything. I yelled louder and louder for my wife to come outside. She came outside half dressed to see what I was yelling about. She saw the UFO and was greatly amazed also. She went back into the house and got her camera and started taking shots of the UFO’s. I went into the house also and got my camera so I could try and get some shots. I was able to shoot about 50 shots but only some came out. I do have some interesting shots even if they are not great. My wife took about 10 shots and some of hers came out good also. It was very amazing because the UFO’s kept on coming out of the West. As soon as one got about three-quarter of the way across the sky another one would show up. There were a total of 9 or 10 UFO’s that flew over my house. At one point it appeared that one of the UFO’s stopped and the other one that was following started catching up. One of the craft appeared to be higher in the sky as they got closer to each other. The closes they got together was about the distance of two moons apart, then they move on and disappeared. At one time I could see three UFO’s all in a row traveling the same path then one would wink out and the the next one would disappear and so on. It seems some of the craft had different spacing that others. They were not all the same distance apart as they traveled across the sky. This happened between 8:30 PM and 9:00 PM on Sunday February 1, 2015, above San Jose, California 95111 USA. In general the UFO’s were a round shape. The craft was round and the red fiery like flames were toward the front on both sides and also toward the rear on both sides. The UFO’s came out of the West (Pacific Ocean), they were traveling almost due East (East Coast) The first 5 or 6 UFO’s all had a “halo” of red-flame-like-flares coming from the front sides of and the rear sides of the round body of the craft. All craft followed the same course West to East and also about the same path (a straight line across the sky) There were no commercial planes in the sky that I could see during this time The moon was very bright it seemed I almost needed sunglasses The red glow of the craft got brighter as they came from the West and when they were three-quarters of the way across the sky they were the brightest. When they passed the three-quarters mark they started losing their glow and soon winked out and were gone. It seem they all disappeared in about the same part of the sky My photos were taken with a Nikon D800 with AF-S Nikkor 23-120 mm 1:4 G ED lens about 50 photos My wife’s photos were taken with a Nikon Coolpix P510 Nikkor 42X Wide Optical Zoom ED V 4.3 - 180mm 1:3-5.9 lens The craft had different distances between them As I looked to the South the crafts were traveling West to East below Orion’s Belt and below the moon’s position in the sky I will submit Photos as soon as I figure out how (on February 4th, 2015)
February 1, 2015 · 11:05 AM · OVAL
West Covina, CA
Was outside about to do some quick work on my house, felt some pressure in my ears that was not "normal" looked up, there were 2 orbs. One was the "leader" the other followed behind it. The leader was brighter than the other I say orb but the shapes were changing to oval in a rotating motion. I called my witnesses out, One has seen them with me before, the other 2 were amazed. The duration of the event lasted about 30-40 minutes they were heading north east toward the mountains. Up until the leader stopped and it looked as if it was waiting for the other one to catch up. Then that one stopped. They were motionless but still shining bright then dull, bright then dull, since I have seen this pattern before in previous sightings I knew it would not be long till they were gone by completely going "dark". Just as they were about to get to that point of going dark, they both started moving in a southern direction then BAM both lights out, cannot see them anymore. And just as if on cue also in the air were the planes spraying the trails tracking them and spraying the trails so they would eventually be covered. Amazing to watch. This is the 4th or 5th daytime sighting for me. And now with the 2 other witnesses, I was able to describe what was about to happen with the planes' actions and sure enough like predictable clockwork they did exactly what I said they would do. To the point when after the orbs were gone a white plane flew real close above my house, that was not the strange part, what was strange was the plane had NO SOUND at all, at this point I was discussing the event with my neighbor, and I noticed there was hardly any jet engine sound at all. I thought it was cool and so be it..... It's the powers that be doing their job which I fully support. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 31, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, CA
Strange orange-yellow hovering not in formation but grouped together, then slowly each one dimmed away, came back slowly dimmed again, no flashing, blinking,or sound.
January 31, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lincoln, CA
Husband and wife saw bright blinking light in the night sky, changing from red to green to red. May be moving very slowly, hard to tell. We strongly suspect the sighting of a star, but cannot be certain. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD