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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 22, 2014 · 9:34 PM · FIREBALL
Orange, CA
On 11/22/14, while standing outside facing West, a silent fireball of orange/red color appeared from the horizon at 21:34. Over the course of a maximum of 4 minutes, it slowly (floating like a lantern) went diagonally up to the right then, at about half way up, it slowly faded then disappeared. Within less than a minute, another fireball appeared, following the exact same trajectory, then faded. About a minute later, a third fireball appeared, floated the same path, then faded away. In total, there were three fireballs within 10 to 15 minutes. We took a video but it is such poor quality that it doesn't seem worth sending. The three observers are mostly novices to astronomy. Two of the three have, on multiple occasions, seen unidentifiable objects in the sky. However, they have never seen fireballs before the previously mentioned incident, only round objects which emitted a red light which varied in intensity. They moved in a way which did not correlate with the current wind direction.
November 22, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Possible hoax. Witness does not provide any details. PD
November 21, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hidden Valley, CA
After a rain storm went through and most of the clouds cleared, there was a sudden darkness that fell of the night there was a large ball of light hovering above the Ridgeline... well above 500 feet when that ball of light was drawn to another's attention and acknowledged, it immediately disappeared... leaving no trail never moved.
November 21, 2014 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL
Roseville, CA
I rounded the HWY 65 North exit from I-80 in Roseville and once over the hill I noticed one large red/orange fireball in the sky directly north. It stayed in the same spot before going dark.
November 20, 2014 · 11:20 PM · OVAL
Torrance, CA
Saw what appeared to be a red balloon at first, but it was traveling quickly, as if motorized, but was silent. Watched it cross the sky only a few hundred feet up, heading northeast, with a red glow as it disappeared in the hazy lights of the city. The sky was mostly clear, except for a few clouds in the distance. No moon, but the stars seemed brighter than normal. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 20, 2014 · 6:20 PM · FIREBALL
Salinas, CA
I went to Costco to get a pizza for dinner I was heading to my car, As I was getting to my car i looked up because I noticed a glowing orange orb in the sky. The orb was very bright in the sky glowingd bright orange red. Then the other two appeared coming out from behind the store the orbs were in a line heading the same direction. The forth one appeared from out of a cloud. The forth one dove down a little then back up and moved towards th-e rest. They were moving slow like if they were cruising the night sky. As I started looking at it the people in the parking lot started noticing them and started recording then. They flew over for about for minutes before they into the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 19, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Woodlake, CA
Two red green clear lights flashing to the east of three rivers ca they look like they are 20 miles a part and they are still flashing out their ,it is now 10:58 weds night
November 19, 2014 · 8:57 PM · SPHERE
Duarte, CA
I went outside with my dog and observed three flickering round red and yellow objects in the sky, the objects were moving away from each other in different directions so I decided to film them, by the time I could queue up my camera phone only two objects remained and I focused on the closest while the other moved up and over my head, the object I was filming then slowly moved west from my location and then sped up quickly and diasappeared. I will gladly share video footage
November 19, 2014 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Rancho Bernardo, CA
I was looking outside my window and noticed a strange black sphere, about the size of a soccer ball, with colorful flashing lights raise up from behind a house and slowly ascend into the sky and disappear. There was one light on it that flashed like a strobe light and changed colors from blue to green to red to pink and all over again. At first I thought the object was a remote control helicopter, but looking closely it seemed just a fuzzy black sphere with the flashing light. The object rose upwards and seemed to be affected by the wind (heading to the west). By then it had raised to at least 500 feet or so. There is a law about no UAVs higher than 400 feet in my area. I looked away for a second and the object disappeared. The incident occurred in broad daylight at around 11:00 am.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 19, 2014 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Grover Beach, CA
Moveing east to west in a triangle formation, the east being the tip an the west two lights made the base. The lights where orange, like hologen street lights in color. Flying just belleow the clouds at 2500 to 3000 foot above sea level. Then just vanished, no noise, very smooth flight path. As they where vanishing they seemed to dim them grow brigther them just truned off or vanished.
November 18, 2014 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
El Cerrito, CA
Hovering triangular shaped ufo spotted about a mile or two away, as we drove closer it stayed in position, at first we thought it was a plane, then we realized it was too low for it to be a plane. We assumed it to be a helicopter, then when we were underneath and to the right of it, we pulled over and it was absolutely silent. It had red and white flashing lights and since it was dark all I can say is that it had a triangular shape over all. Finally, as if it spotted us, it flew away, also silently and eventually turned off the brighter lights. It looked as though it was going to turn around but then stopped and hovered in a different location. My husband and I were the only ones who spotted it so far since there are no other reports; I am a civil engineer student and he is an artist, we both work as servers/bartenders/part-time managers. We were too shocked to take any photos unfortunately.
November 18, 2014 · 7:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Los Alamitos, CA
On the evening of November 18, 2014, at about 7:35 PM, I was walking outside my place of work (a business park), and noticed a bright orange-red colored light hovering in the night sky, maybe a half mile away. From the direction it was, it seemed to be in the airspace above the nearby Joint Forces airbase at Los Alamitos. At first I thought the light was a helicopter, as they fly in and around the airbase quite often, day or night. But at this time, I saw no other air traffic going or coming from the airbase. After maybe 20-30 seconds of watching the hovering red light, which made no noise, as a helicoptwer would have, it began to drop small red balls of glowing light (or a glowing red-hot material?) I thought that this might then be a chinese lantern, but it hovered in one exact spot, not drifting left or right, and dropping about 5-6 of the glowing 'red balls' (which dissappeared after falling halfway to the ground). After 4-5 minutes of observing the above, the 'object' or orange red light then went out - but a few moments later, I saw a non-symetrical object there in the same spot in the sky, very dimly lit from the city lights below, which slowly moved in a North-Westerly direction, and seemed to slowly lose altitude. I lost sight of it after 30-40 seconds, as it was too far or low to see clearly anymore, now traveling behind a building and trees across the street from my location. I also thought the object was a silent drone, but the asymetrical object that I saw at the end of my sighting was definitely not a drone, or a chinese lantern, or any flare - the shape was so strange I can barely even describe it. And the usually busy airbase (helicopters, etc.) was absent of other air traffic before or after the sighting of the object - like they might have been watching it too, and did not want to interact with whatever 'it' was (my own guess here, of course).
November 16, 2014 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Stockton, CA
Late at night, dogs in neighborhood were barking up a storm, went outside to check what was going on. Shined flashlight around property and couldn't see anything. Went back inside to relax, and all dogs started going crazy again, look out window and see these three objects with lights on them flying around neighborhood. At first my wife thought it was a helicopter or airplane so I watched it and I know how a helicopter and airplane look and what kind of lights they have and how long it takes for them to accelerate I to air. So I waited and watched these things go up in the sky and accelerate and go up fast and disappear in the sky not like an airplane or a helicopter. Then about 3 minutes later I went out to sit on front porch they came out of nowhere again and hovered over our neighborhoods house across the way from us, I used my binoculars this time and see a saucer shaped flying object with red lights around it like a ring a glass shaped top and silver color type ship, watched it about 30 seconds, then it drifted up in sky again and disappeared.
November 16, 2014 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
North Sacramento, CA
Then shot left and disappeared and or faded in to the distance n west of hwy 80 Sacramento, CA. It had a red n star look and 3 times bigger. Probably a flare but no smoke trail and it was moving horizontally. Are there any larger roman candle type fireworks at 11;32 somebody at least tell me red flares all have smoke trails.
November 15, 2014 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
La Puente, CA
I seen a red large fire ball hovering in the sky. The object was hovering up and down. It had green lights hovering within the red object. The object was very big in size. The second person seen the object as it hovered lower and out of vantage point. We live in the city. The ufo was behind apartment buildings.
November 15, 2014 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
I saw 4 bright red glowing red orbs in the sky. The objects were moving in one direction very slowly. The back 2 were getting closer and separating, one more than the other. I went to go park my truck and got back to where I could see the lights but I couldn't anymore. I walked back and forth in hope to see them again. I looked up and saw one out of sudden. I quickly got my phone camera and tried to take a picture but the camera lagged to take a picture. The single orb I saw seemed to turn because the bright light started to fade out until if looked like a dim star until there was nothing at all. The orbs seemed to come out strange to me because i knew they weren't planed; There weren't any flashing lights and airplanes don't flight like that. This was a solid red light moving eradically.
November 15, 2014 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
Santee, CA
After visiting with friends on the Barona Rez followed by a visit to the casino, my friend and I headed for home around 5:30 am. While I drove through Santee, (52 freeway headed west ), I noticed what looked like liquid fire hanging from what appeared to be a stationary light, (looked like a star only this was not that high off the ground). I grabbed my friends arm made sure she saw it too. (We couldn't come up with anything to explain what we were seeing) There was a light in the sky, not moving, and hanging off of that light was a large drop of fire (if that makes any sense). It stretched until it broke free and then fell towards the ground. Then more fire replaced that fire but this time in much smaller drops that fell quicker and in groups as well as by themselves. It was so weird. As I got onto the 125 I was facing the action again for a brief moment and even though I figured it was over I not only saw more fire falling from that light, I also now saw! fire globs dropping off of nothing. At least I couldn't see the fire attached to any light or any other object.....probably the weirdest and most undeniable strange event I have ever witnessed. We saw the event up close and for a relatively long time-in other words there is no way I am mistaken about what I saw....no mind playing tricks on me or optical illusions either. This occurred early this morning in Santee, Ca, where I was fortunate enough to be able to witness a good portion of it as it happened. I know that many others had to have seen this as well.
November 15, 2014 · 12:00 AM
San Luis Obispo, CA
We are awaiting a more detailed report from the witness. PD
November 14, 2014 · 10:20 PM · OTHER
Folsom, CA
Enjoying the hot tub with my wife looking up into the very clear night sky and witnessed a moving object never seen before. It had three non-flashing evenly spaced lights in a linear formation moving quickly from east to west. There was no sound emitted and could not judge the elevation of the object but it was moving quicker than any normal plane would. Observers are 40 and 50 and would like to think this was not a drone or something similar.
November 14, 2014 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Vallejo, CA
We were outside smoking and we saw an orange orb in the sky that was flashing and got dimmer as time went on. Skies were partly cloudy but we could see stars AND a plane from a distance. It seemed higher then a plane and unexplainable. I've seen comets, meteors, etc. This I've NEVER seen. Witness corrected the time, to reflect an evening sighting. We have amended the time above. PD
November 14, 2014 · 7:50 PM · OTHER
San Mateo, CA
My son and I witnessed a aircraft that looked like a flying scooter or motorcycle flying just above us, coming from the north towards the west as if it were taking the exit on the freeway but right above us just over the telephone poles even close to rooftops!! I said whoa! What was that...I need one of those so I can ride you on it over the freeway too so we don't have to wait it traffic… I thought for sure it was a something new that was used to transport faster a above traffic to get to an accident or emergency or respond to a child abduction or something serious…
November 14, 2014 · 7:45 PM · OTHER
Fairfield, CA
While walking home from store, my son and I noticed a strange peach-colored curtain, or tear-shaped object that was pulsating and shimmering. We watched it for about a half an hour. A small engine plane flew away from it. The time was 7:45 pm PST on 11/14/2014
November 13, 2014 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING
Menifee, CA
An interesting round object seen in Menifee, CA, 11/13/2014, approximately 8:30 pm. Yellowish with a darker brown bottom color, a darker center. Hovered quietly above park trees, I walked around corner from my house and it made a quick dart away from me, headed west, then another quick dart south and suddenly went up higher and headed west, where it just disappeared. The object made no noise and I would have regarded it as a toy drone, but the speed, the quick ascent and the brisk disappearance could not be done by a drone. Fast planes pass by my neighborhood and I can track them for miles. Hot air balloons are seeing frequently and these do not have speed capabilities. Holiday balloons can be tracked and often easy to track their landing once the little fire dissipates. This object did not move like anything I have ever seen.
November 13, 2014 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Pico Rivera, CA
I saw two lights one was a flashing red light, and the other was a white light that was a distance away from the other. So about 2 minutes later the one that was further out showed a real big bright white light and started moving in a fast pace towards the other that was just in a stand still once it got close, that's when the red light started moving away while the other stood still 3 minutes later the white light slowly started going in the apposite direction until it disappeared.