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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
December 26, 2014 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
Orange flame or fire ball gliding in the sky. We thought it was coming closer but just as we figured that, it started rising up. I stared at it and in under a minute it disappeared. And not going sideways or down. It went up! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 26, 2014 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Cambria, CA
My husband and I were driving north on Windsor Blvd. in Cambria. We noticed a substantial, bright, white light hanging above the horizon/ocean. We commented that the light had a shimmer or 'twinkle' that reminded us of starlight. However, it was too low to be a star. We continued to drive and our view was interrupted for approximately 2 minutes by buildings. We drove on to Moonstone Drive, which is a beachfront drive with clear view of ocean. We, again, saw this light hanging in same position as before. Our view was much better and clearer. We could see that the light was unique with hints of color and almost as if it had movement within it-much like a plasma effect. As we watched, it began to drop down, towards ocean and as it went below horizon line, there was a faint glow that lit the sky. I would compare the glow to that which lights up the sky at night from a town that is, say, behind a hill. The glow lasted for about three minutes and then the sky went dark, as normal.
December 26, 2014 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Palmdale, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 26, 2014 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Templeton, CA
Standing outside in the afternoon when I heard a buzzing. I work at a military base and know what the electric UNmanned aerial vehicles sound like- a high pitched buzzing. Saw the triangle craft fly low and slowly overhead maybe under 500 feet altitude. Flew slowly along well established flight line from east to west. It was a rounded edged triangles the same shape as the TR-3B (Google it), though without the central light. What I saw looked like a small duty aircraft in similar shape as the Boeing X-48- it even sounded similar thought it's underbelly was white and grey. It had lights like a normal aircraft. Everyone thinks I'm crazy but I know what I saw. Perhaps it was an RC remote controlled craft. Please post of you saw something similar in the vicinity. My dog was out with me but had no abnormal response. Thank you
December 25, 2014 · 9:36 PM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles (Westlake Village), CA
It was a very short encounter. I was taking out the trash from Christmas dinner. As I'm walking back to my front door, I'm looking up at the sky, stargazing, and out of nowhere, with no warning, I see a flash in the sky move at incredible speeds in the sky. The flash of light leaves behind a faint trail for about a second, then vanishes, along with the flash of light. I stood in my front yard for 3 or 4 more minutes, but to no avail. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 25, 2014 · 9:01 PM · OTHER
Fairfield, CA
Sighted a bright orange pyramid-shaped object descending through the atmosphere. I thought, at first, it might be a small plane on fire. But then, it leveled off and kept heading SE. Two witnesses: one a real estate agent, the other a commercial advertising producer. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 25, 2014 · 7:03 PM · FIREBALL
Glendora, CA
At 7:03 PM (PST) December 25, 2014 at (XXXX) South Vermont Avenue Glendora, CA 91740; My mother and I witnessed a fireball yellow at its center and amber red around the outer edges (Circular) but "flame-like" came from the north (Angeles Foothills - San Gabriel Mountains) at approx. at 35 yards distance from us at approx. 60 ft., moving directly south towards us and parallel, as we were proceeding north on the west side of the street. There was "no" vehicle traffic, "no" air traffic, and "no" pedestrian traffic around us. Completely quiet surroundings. The night sky was completely clear, no fog, no rain. This fireball that itself was completely "noiseless" was proceeding fast at approx. 60-75 mph but then immediately stops next to us. No movement, we stop and watch this fireball as I examine it carefully. We were walking our two dogs and they became agitated. I called my girlfriend but was unable to make a connection; however, I then called my friend "Ed" and was able to make a connection that faded in and out but strong enough to talk to him clearly. As we observed this fireball hovering with absolutely no sound next to us, I kept looking down at my watch to ensure there was no missing time. I continue to describe the event to my friend on the phone. I then told my mother to not look at the object, and continue to walk our dogs away from this fireball as she was now very nervous. I continued to talk with "Ed" on the phone. The fireball then starts moving again slowly approx. 30 mph making a looping turn to the southwest direction. After proceeding approx. 1/4 mile it vanishes into thin air. No sound at all. Approx. 2 min. later it returns (Or a second fireball came by); The same trajectory, but this time 1/2 the height in the air, approx. 30 feet up. The fireball slowed to a crawl as it passed by us, and, just as it passed us, poof-gone. Afterwards I was able to make a connection on my cell phone with my girlfriend and told her all about our sighting and event.
December 25, 2014 · 5:20 PM · CIGAR
Hollister, CA
Former Pan Am Flight Attendant 25 years. Black long metallic with something moving like tendrils at the tail end of it, was able to get binoculars changed shape at the opposite end (forward end)shaped like the tail section of an aircraft. It moved back and forth, up and down slightly a few times kind of dancing but also appeared to be floating. No sound. Began to descend slowly until it disappeared out of sight.
December 25, 2014 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Vista, CA
My wife and I and our 3 boys were driving home from Christmas eve at my parents' house. When we crested a small hill in the road, heading south on east vista way, we all saw several orange colored balls of light floating or drifting along heading north over East Vista Way and Mason Street. There were about 10 to 12 of these balls, just slowly floating north toward us. I asked my wife to pull over so I could film the event, but she would not stop do to our scared and frighten kids. She finally pulled over at the corner of Warmlands and East Vista Way, and I junped out just to see the turning off or disappearing. One other guy pulled over and asked me if we saw the lights. He was very excited as I was. I told him I did not know what they were. He jumped in his car and left, and we did the same, since the light were gone.
December 24, 2014 · 11:00 PM · DIAMOND
Nipomo, CA
Diamond shape appeared with a red streak then vanished no trace of the red colored smoked after the other 2 were just floating hanging around slow movement.
December 24, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Vista, CA
To my utter amazement I saw 12 orange glowing balls in 2 wide formation 6 long 2x6 formation then they just faded out after 5 minutes
December 24, 2014 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
Irvine, CA
About every 40 seconds a red fireball could appear do close I could take a shot at them ....total about 8 of them ... They would hover on top of us .... The red bright light would dim ...then shut off ... We could still see the UFO while it fly away going stright up ...... Then two more would appear and repeat the same thing ..... It was beautiful....my dad took video on his iPad
December 24, 2014 · 3:35 AM · CIRCLE
North Hollywood, CA
I happened to look out of my kitchen window, and saw a large, very bright orange light, low in the sky, moving west to east. I immediately knew I was seeing something "odd." So I ran outside to get a better look. It was an extremely bright light (orange in the center, and light orange and white on the very edge). There was no sound, and although it wasn't actually pulsating, the brightness of the object was very intense, so if it actually was a "craft" I couldn't ascertain that. It was moving relatively slowly and then made a slow/smooth move to the south. I lost sight of it when my view was blocked by some trees.
December 24, 2014 · 12:01 AM · FIREBALL
Roseville, CA
3 fireballs in the shape of a triangle came slowly burning across the sky then burnt out going south east towards the north then 4 more appeared and did the same thing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 23, 2014 · 10:15 PM · CHEVRON
West Sacramento, CA
I saw 4-5 lights in a chevron shape fly above a layer of clouds. I only saw the lights and could net see any shape to whatever the lights were attached. The lights were somewhat dim due to the cloud layer. It was completely silent and flew northwest and then made a sharp turn to the northeast. It flew faster than the commercial airliners the regularly fly over my house. No one was present with me. This is the third time I have seen such a craft. Twice, my ex-wife and I saw one fly over the family student housing complex for the University of California, Berkeley, when I was in attending school there (the housing complex is in Albany, CA, and I reported these sightings to this website too). I think these were in May 2002 and May 2003. In those cases, I could see the craft.
December 23, 2014 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rancho Cordova, CA
I am a 56 year old woman of sound mind. I have been married to my second husband for 8 years. He was in the other room at the time. The exact time is not clear, but I believe it was between 6-7 pm. I saw the UFO from my bedroom window in the northern sky. At first, I noticed a flashing light, which at first glance, I thought to be an airplane as we live right next to Mather AFB. Then I noticed the triangle shaped object. It was pointed like an arrow with a space between the two sides. The color is what really caught my attention; it was a bright florescent green color. I knew this was no ordinary plane. Suddenly, the flashing light stopped and it shot into space leaving a bright green trail behind. It was so fast, it could not have been an airplane. It was blinking, then sped away. Amazing.
December 22, 2014 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Fresno, CA
Yes I'm 46 yrs. old, my brother is 52, and my mother is 71. We live in the same house. This past Monday night. I stepped out of the house to smoke a cigarette. I noticed some plane or something with a bright orange light slowly coming towards us and steady climbing. Then I realized that this didn't look or act like a plane. In awe of this glowing orange globe it seemed to start climbing a little more rapidly. Then I saw a second, then third one all following the first one it seemed and at a substantial equal distances and in a perfect straight line. I ran to get my brother and told him to hurry and come look at this and with the tone of my voice he turned and ran for the door to follow me. I ran to the backyard which is the south side of the house and they were still in sight approximately 4-5 miles to the south. All of a sudden the lead one who was climbing in altitude almost strait up but at a slight angle seemed to level out turning in a southerly directi! on then just vanished. The second two were on the same path behind the lead one and 20-30 seconds later they also disappeared. My mom ran and looked through the back window when she heard the commotion. They made me not be a skeptic anymore. You know I've always wished that I could see a UFO just once. And now that I've seen one, I'm not so sure now. It's kinda cool but also really scary!!!
December 22, 2014 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Rancho Cordova, CA
Dim Red glowing boomerang shaped craft looked as if it was hovering but moving forward fast not in a straight line, As if flown like remote control helicopter.
December 22, 2014 · 6:38 PM · CHEVRON
Fresno, CA
Large chevron shaped craft, no lights and completely silent I was outside on my balcony at around 6:40PM on a cold evening in December looking at objects in the sky through my telescope. There was a moon above and wispy clouds, and the night was exceptionally clear. I was late for a dinner date, but I wanted to get as much observing as I could before I left, so I was just about to go inside and I stood up and walked backwards to my balcony door, still looking at the clear night and stars. My balcony door was propped open to my living room and the lights were dim, I was at the door threshold when I saw a distinct shape, like a chevron, or delta-winged shape, it looked like a hang-glider. I said to myself, “cool, a hang-glider”, and I went inside. I stopped and said to myself, “why is there a hang-glider flying? Where did he jump from?” it is flat in Fresno until the foothills about 11 miles away. I went back on the balcony and the craft was right in the middle of the square of Pegasus constellation and the wingspan was almost as wide ! as the diagonal stars across the square. I estimate that the craft was about 800 to 1200 feet in altitude, completely silent, no lights and was moving at a slow pace. It looked as though it was moving back and forth, or left and right as if it were scanning the area, it was low enough to see that there were no windows, the color of it looked as though it was changing from black, charcoal grey and the color shapes were not clear and seemed to be matte, no reflections of any sort. I tried to make out an insignia, a logo, an American military branch, an identifiable anything, there was nothing. The craft seemed to have an underbelly of some sort, like a rounded belly with no other shapes or cutouts that looked like landing gear. The edges of the craft were geometrical and sharp, like a wedge cut around at 45 degrees, it moved right over my head and from west to east towards the foothills and slightly north. The craft flew over me and it was in my view for approximately 30 seco! nds to a minute. I kept repeating to myself, “what the F*** is! that? w hat the f**k is that? What the f*** is that?!”, over and over again. I knew that my camera was just inside and it had been charging all night and I wanted to grab it, but I didn’t want to blink and I wanted to ‘see’ this thing as long as I could. I grabbed a notepad and pen that I use when observing and immediately started to draw what I was seeing. There were two people outside, one walking their dog and another throwing trash, but I didn’t alert them, I just noticed that they had no idea that a large craft was flying just over head. I estimate that the wingspan was about the size of a football field in width at the height that it was flying. It seemed to glide in the air, perfectly and parallel to the ground and never tilted so much as a degree, it flew in a straight line at a slow steady pace. Slower than an airplane would fly and faster than a hang-glider would, but it seemed to float or glide through the air. High enough to push little wispy clouds out of its path, if the moon was not out, I don’t think I would have been able to see the craft as it reflected hardly any light and seemed to absorb light. It flew over a baseball field about a half mile away and the high-voltage lights were on and I could then see that the craft’s underbelly was lower than I thought and that the craft’s shape was just a thin line. I then ran to retrieve my camera and I thought to myself, “I bet this thing won’t work”, like every UFO reenactment that I have seen on television. I turned it on, and the camera was dead in th! e water, no lights, no sounds, no nothing, dead battery. So I continued to observe it as it disappeared in the horizon. I was shocked by my reaction of seeing an unidentified craft, my first and very up-close and personal, I was excited, but at the same time, I was in total fear of what I was witnessing. It brought tears to my eyes that something this ubiquitous could fly directly over Fresno, at rush hour during Christmas season and shopping, fairly low and whomever is piloting this craft, was so blatant and not worried if anyone could see that this craft was something like no other. To me the craft looked as though it was unpiloted, maybe remotely piloted like a drone, it seemed to be scanning the area and moved in such a way that seemed to be autonomous or artificially controlled with GPS or machine logic. After it was gone and out of sight, I was frightened and shocked, concerned and worried that it could be ours, or one of theirs, perhaps an invasion, or reconnaissance before the military strike. I held back tears, and I thought of turning the camera on again to see if it worked, I flipp! ed the ‘on’ switch and the camera lit up ready to shoot, that is when I started to cry realizing that there are things in this world that are kept from us, and I believed in all the conspiracies and every UFO sighting. I was enraged and sad that we are kept from knowing this technology, what else is out there that we don’t know that could possibly harm us? Whatever this thing was, it was magnificent and huge, black, silent, had no lights and stealthy enough to fly over Fresno, CA in the bustle of Christmas season and only one person, myself actually saw it flying overhead. I am hoping that this craft was one of our own military’s and that it is online to protect our urban areas from threats from any enemies. I have the drawings that I made and detailed maps of its trajectory. As a crow flies, it was headed directly towards Area 51 in Nevada, which is very close to Fresno, CA if you look on a map, any crafts that fly out of there, would fly right over Fresno to get to the ocean to do any maneuvers, over Fresno is the shortest route. I hesitated writing this report because I thought I was delusional, but after seeing all of the reports of a similar craft in this area, I thought I would add my event sighting to the database so that everyone can read and maybe someone else thinks they are seeing things, but I saw what I saw, and I can’t explain what it was.
December 22, 2014 · 2:15 PM · SPHERE
Burbank, CA
I was driving near the Burbank Airport and I caught sight of a small silver gleaming sphere in the sky. I was trying to keep my eye on it as I was driving and it seemed to stay in the same spot. All of a sudden it appeared to split into two yellow lights and then it took off quickly and was out of sight within seconds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 21, 2014 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
San Gabriel, CA
Three red burning lights, brighter than the brightest stars. I was walking from Pasadena to Temple City and caught the 3 what first looked like flares at the end of a star in the eastern sky over Irwindale Ca.. I watched as one flashed and ascended straight up, changing to a light color with sections. It then dimmed and went dark in its ascent. The other 2 stayed stationary for a few minutes before moving into a line. One moving in a lower position behind the higher one in a direct line heading up. They both flashed a couple of times in multi colors returning to red. The first rose and changed to a light color as the first had, it dimmed and rose till dark. The third followed the 2 previous in its slow changing and vanishing act from the night sky, in the same direction and spot of complete darken of lights.
December 21, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Tracy, CA
Left half of cicular object in night sky among stars-seven lights in arc with two spokes-one in upper left quadrant and one in lower left quadrant. It is in upper center of screen during TV show "Cougar Country" on NAT GEO WILD and due to repeat at 7AM Pacific time Dec. 28. It occured for two seconds at the 27 minute 24 second to the 27 minute 26 second portion of program. On television presentation of "Cougar Country" on NAT GEO WILD channel I saw left arc of circle in night sky-seven lights among stars with two spokes-one in upper left quadrant and one in lower left quadrant. The sighting is for two seconds at the 27 minute 24 second to 27 minute 26 second portion of program. The program will repeat at 7AM Pacific time Sunday Dec. 28.
December 21, 2014 · 4:00 PM · FORMATION
Visalia, CA
The lights were bright red/orange and were fairly low because there is heavy cloud cover in the sky tonight and the lights appeared to be in front of them. They were positioned in a zig zag pattern at first but were constantly but slowly moving in unison and changed the pattern to a line with a diamond shape at one end, before just disappearing out of site one by one after having been watching them for around 5-10 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 20, 2014 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Westminster, CA
Deep Purple light moving South w no sound....makes fairly abrupt turn and goes North-North East and still no sound. Considering rate of change and light intensity I expected sound from aircraft. Also close proximity to 2 major airfields and hear/see alot of activity accompanied w noise. The color of the light and absence of noise was awkward. Noticed the color change from deep purple to light blue during the turn but went back to neon purple. No strobing of the light like an aircraft wing light...solid purple light. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD