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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
October 5, 2014 · 7:40 PM · DISK
Pomona, CA
Well, I was walking at the park with my mom when my feet got really tired and i decided to take a break and sit on a bench. As i was walking, i saw towards the front of the park this golden-yellow colored UFO that had that stereotypical dome on top (you know the one where the aliens are in and they can see everything? the one where its made of a glass) and it flew very fast behind the trees in front and disappeared. It was a bit bigger than your average car but a lot smaller than the giant UFO i saw before.
October 5, 2014 · 2:30 AM · CIRCLE
Fresno, CA
While driving a tractor trailer north on I-5. Between the Bakersfield turn off and the Fresno turnoff. I don't know the county or the city area. I saw a blue light and high altitude. The blue light appeared to be falling like a rock. I watched it falling for about 5 minutes. As I came up on a closed warehouse next to the freeway. It looked as if this blue ball was going to fall on the warehouse, but when it got about 30 feet off the ground, the blue ball turned red. and it started flying off at an angle away from the warehouse and away from the freeway. I was approximately 200 feet away from the blue ball at that time. The blue ball turned instantly red. It flew off at an angle towards the east. I was 200 feet away I know it wasn't a helicopter I know it wasn't an airplane it appeared to be about the size of a basketball. Intense blue that change too intense red I'd like for someone to tell me what the heck that was. Does that sound like something the military has? I would estimated I first saw it falling at probably 20,000 feet. It looked to be approximately the same height as a jetliner that was flying at about the same altitude but many miles away from the blue ball. I'm sure the blue ball had nothing to do with the airplane. There was only one other truck on the road going the opposite direction. I don't think anyone else saw it I slowed my truck down to a crawl, but the other truck Kip gone. Many of the words may be misspelled I'm using speech to text from my phone to send you this message. Feel free to contact me. (( We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he reports that the sighting occurred on a Sunday morning at about 02:30 hrs.. We have amended the date above, and assigned a time to the sighting. Thi is one of four reports from the same witness. PD
October 5, 2014 · 12:30 AM · OVAL
Fresno, CA
Bright red and blue lights. Start at moon , and shot a cross the sky so fast that it couldn't have been a plane awsome above fresno yosmite airport.
October 4, 2014 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Little Rock, CA
It was a circle shape with the colors of white and orange/reddish outlining it. There was showering lights falling downwards to the earth those falling lights were white it looked as if multiple white fireworks shooting it the sky but coming down from the object not going up it made long streaking lights falling from it and fading away. By the time my husband saw it he saw the object and then it made an erupt noise and disappeared. I've never been real sure if I believe in alien ufo's but that may be because I've never seen anything that could be one. This was the first time I've even witnessed anything like this and I can not explain it and it was unusal. I believe it was a ufo
October 4, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, CA
We see all kinds of strange flying objects out here in the desert, and since we're in the same region as Edwards Air Force base, NASA, Virgin, etc. it's to be expected. However, on Saturday evening around 8:00 pm there was a flying object like we'd never seen. It had a blue light on top and a red light on the bottom. At first I thought it was one of the drones that flies over the valley every night, but then it started going up and down, then sideways and stop in mid-flight. It wasn't a plane and it wasn't a helicopter. I have never seen the drones act in this particular fashion either. It lasted around three minutes.
October 4, 2014 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
San Jacinto, CA
On Saturday October 4th, at 7:50pm in San Jacinto CA., I went out to have a cigarette with my brother.. We were talking and I noticed a bright white star like object in the South West sky at about 33 degrees above the horizon at about 7:55pm., I saw it start to move thinking it may be a jet. As we kept watching the object kept moving from the SW to NE. We did not observe any strobe lights, navigation lights or hear any engine noise. We both noticed the object wobble and descend. Then the object started to come towards our direction still descending. The object stopped then immediately shot up in altitude and the light became red, pink then went out and changed back to red (very small) as it went out of distance in a great climb in altitude.
October 3, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Long Beach, CA
I walked out into my backyard and I looked up to the east to see a bright yellow orange fireball with red tinge traveling from the northeast to the southwest at a moderate speed in relation to its size and distance from my standpoint. I witnessed the object for 25 to 30 seconds. The fireball then flickered out to reveal a white pulsating light on a dark metal looking object which flashed 3 times and then extinguished all while the object turned course toward the south east and appeared to accelerate at a high rate of speed. I thought what I was looking at could possibly have been Chinese lantern but there were no real true signs of fire and the lantern would have been traveling against any wind currents present from the south. Also, when the object burnt out, it did not fall to earth but accelerated away holding its altitude until it disappeared out of view just as an aircraft in level flight would. I attempted to video the object with the camera on my pho! ne for about 20 seconds zooming in on the object at the midpoint of the filming. The video actually recorded was only two seconds. I was able to get a few good stills out of the 2 seconds of video that I did capture. I have witnessed the approaching fire ball which seems to drop its cargo and run once before on 09/30/09 at around 22:50 hours. The first sighting was far more dramatic and I had two witnesses with me who to this day, still do not believe what they saw.
October 3, 2014 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Berry Creek, CA
My friend and I were sitting in our kitchen when I heard the sound of what sounded like a fast moving low flying heli as ran out side to see a heli type craft zoom by with one red LED type light, It appeared to be a drone perhaps. Then all of a sudden out of know where this huge fast tree top flying triangle craft flew right over our roof at super high speed but hardly made a noise with red, blue, and green flashing LED tripe lights and seem to follow the contour of the ridges and valleys. It was out of sight in seconds and everything was silent. Then I noticed off to the West over the Ocean a huge blinking light flashing Green, Blue, and reds lights twinkle in a stationary position. The same sphere with the same lights hovered to the north over northern California. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 3, 2014 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cathedral City, CA
Me and a 3 year old where laying down in the backyard looking up at the moon in the Southern sky. I noticed a big reddish/amber flash of light as big as the moon itself clouded behind what looked to be a cumulonimbus cloud illuminating it. The cloud evaporated in a puff after the flash of reddish light. It was a clear night.
October 2, 2014 · 4:53 PM · CYLINDER
Stanford, CA
On Thursday, October 2, 2014, at 4:53pm, Pacific Daylight Time, I snapped the photo above of Stanford University's Hoover Tower from within the Stanford Quad. I was unaware of anything unusual at the time, and was not aware of the strange object which appears in the photo between the two left-most trees. I first saw both the photo as a whole, and the strange object in the photo, when I offloaded the photos from my camera onto my home computer on Saturday, October 4, 2014. The camera which took the photo is an Olympus Model VR-320, "HD 12.5x Super Wide, 14 Megapixel", although I had it set on a relatively low resolution, so as to save space and be able to snap more photos during my trip to California. Bird with wings folded. PD
October 2, 2014 · 4:40 PM · OTHER
Sacramento, CA
My friend and I, two community college students from Sacramento, had just gotten out of our classes and were hanging out together on campus. We were sitting in a spot of grass near the library, which is a fairly open space with a clear view of the sky. Both having had a long day, we were reclined in the grass staring up at the sky when at about 4:40PM, we both noticed something white making its way across the vast stretch of blue. At first glance, it appeared to be a feather being pushed by the wind, but we soon realized it was at much too high of an altitude and was moving far too fast. Upon further inspection, we could see that it resembled a scalene triangle, and spun about and tilted at odd angles while it flew across the sky. We brushed this off somewhat nonchalantly at first, laughing at the absurdity of the sight. After all, it had been a long day, and we assumed that it was, indeed, just a feather or some other spec of debris, and our eyes were playing tricks on us making the object in question look stranger. That is, until the next object came in. It had only been 10 seconds after the first, if even that, when another white object hovered across the sky in the same manner. This object was perfectly spherical and was not moving about in the same sporadic way as the first. That is, if it was, it wasn’t noticeable because of its shape. It was at the same altitude and was within our view for the same amount of time as the other, a mere 20 seconds or so of a quick and soundless hovering as it made its way across the plain of our vision. We reported the sighting via hotline right when the incident was over. My friend tried to capture photos and videos of the 2nd object in question, but it was so high up and thus appeared so small that it wasn’t picked up by their iPhone camera. Being that these two objects were so small and were silent, we’re unsure of whether or not there were any other witnesses.
October 2, 2014 · 4:38 PM · OTHER
Sacramento, CA
My friend pointed out the first craft to me when it was almost overhead. It appeared at first to be an all-white airplane moving very, very fast. As it flew, we could see it turn over and around a few times, like a plastic bag would when blown about by the wind. It seemed to be in the shape of a scalene triangle with it’s tip bent back on itself. We watched it until it appeared to fly down and disappear over the horizon. I pulled out the camera on my cellphone but the object wouldn’t show up against the sky. The second object appeared about 5-10 seconds after the first one disappeared. Again, my friend pointed it out to me. This one was a sphere, the same color and size at the first one. It only reflected a small amount of light. It followed the same trajectory and again disappeared over the horizon. Event took place at Sacramento City College, and the objects were viewed while lying down in the grass in the courtyard. Both objects were smaller than the sun.
October 2, 2014 · 3:14 PM · CIRCLE
Pomona, CA
From front yard of my house, it was perfectly clear skies when I looked straight up and saw a white dot that I almost looked away and dismissed it as mid day star. But then I noticed it was moving in a Northwest direction. A few months ago I watched the space station move across the sky at night over southern california. It resembled that to me as in the size and speed at which it moved. But then I noticed once it got from directly overhead to a slight northwestern direction it seemed to stop and then move in a flat eastern direction slowly for about 2 minutes. If I had to judge distance the movement from the beginning would have been 3 feet in line of sight from southeast to northwest then about 9 inches in line of sight eastern direction before continuing northwest out of my site behind a obstructing tree. I saw several plans flying at high altitude flying near or directly underneath this object and it was obviously way higher than them. Like I said it looked like a mid day star but moving. When it was directly over my head at the beginning of my sighting it seemed to shimmer as if it was reflective. Which in turn would kind of make it look larger and smaller. The last I saw of it, it was getting fainter but as if something that moves away gets smaller. I have always been into ufo sightings but never had what I felt to be a genuine sighting. I would not report something that I did not feel that needed to be genuinely looked into. I am excited to find out if it was something explainable or not. I wish someone else could verify my story.
October 2, 2014 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Mariposa, CA
We live just outside of Yosemite National Park in a small rural town in the foothills. It was Thursday, October 2, 2014, between 2:30 am and 3 am. I was looking out of my bathroom window towards the southeast sky as I sometimes do to admire the night sky. First I noticed that the Big Dipper was very bright and then something right below it, near the horizon, I noticed a ball of colored lights twinkling. At first I thought it was an airplane but it didn't move. It just twinkled bright red and green lights. I knew couldn't be a star because all the stars are bright and white. I went to the livingroom to get a pair of binoculars to go outside to view it from my patio. My husband was still sitting at his desk at his laptop as I told him what I was doing. He went outside with me to see if we could view it better. Sure enough, there it was...still shinning brightly with red and green lights, like a small ball just twinkling on the horizon looking southeast of our house. It never moved from the spot just below the Big Dipper and the rest of the stars. In other words...its position only moved with the earth's rotation. Since my husband works nights and doesn't get home until approximately 12:40 am, I'm usually up waiting for him to get home. We don't head off to bed until some time after 1:30 am and 2:30 am. So we will probably look again for this bright twinkling ball of light tonight. By the way, my husband called a friend who is a deputy sheriff on duty until 6 am. He acknowledged seeing the same ball of red and green lights in the sky in the same direction as we did. I hope I've provided enough information that is needed to investigate this unusual sighting. Thank you.
October 1, 2014 · 2:00 AM · FORMATION
San Jose, CA
I have been seeing these for weeks now and I know they are not stars, planes or satellites. They hover around in the night skies and some are higher up an some come as close to the ground as flying in between taller trees. Most of them kind of flash a color that looks likes red, white, and blue at the same time (instantaneously) some of them are a lot more active, almost as if they are patrolling areas. I can't describe the shape because they seem to shift and some of them blink just red. As weird as it sounds, I feel like they can tell when you stare at them and when you pay attention to one or two for a long enough time and then turn around there is almost always another new one that pops up in sight that you can tell was observing you when you were paying attention to the other one(s). There are also more circularish ones and square ones too with multiple lights. These are the ones that cruise closer to the ground in an almost sneaky manor. The ones highe! r up almost look like a fleet. As hard as it may be for some to believe, these things are really out there and if they were something easily explainable like planes or satellites believe me I would not keep ending up trying to follow them around and observing them with such interest. I don't know about you but I grew up on one twinkle little star that stayed put and not tens and tens of them that move around and react to my actions. My stars never hid hovering behind big trees and buildings in different colors, fly to different locations, and react to some of my movements(chasing or walking away). These objects seen to be very small by the way too. Can anyone else relate to anything I just said in this giant paragraph?? We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we were not convinced that he was looking at anything but stars. However, we cannot be certain. PD
September 29, 2014 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Weed, CA
We saw the craft at first it was bright red and hovering over a hill then the red light shut off. There was no lights at all but we could see that the craft was still there. Then there was three green light on each point and they were slowly getting brighter but it passed over the hill so we couldn't the craft anymore.
September 29, 2014 · 5:00 AM · DISK
Oakley, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2014 · 8:17 AM · LIGHT
Atascadero, CA
One red light or beem and a green light with yellowish spinning seperatly and spiraling together as well, they went upwards.red one appeared to be beeming in down.
September 28, 2014 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Eastvale, CA
My boyfriend and I looked out my bedroom window that faced the mountains in Eastvale, CA. The past two nights we have been seeing a fireball like light object flashing in the sky. We are currently watching it right now. We have watched it come and go tonight and last night. As I am typing this it is still currently in the sky. We ran out at earlier in the night to get a better view, but by the time we ran outside it disappeared again. This object is bright red. It fades in and fades out. It starts out as a pin sized red dot in the sky and then it grows big. We watched it flash so bright it grew 10 times the size from the tiny dot and it gets brighter and more red when it has big flashes. This is the second night that it has appeared in the sky. There is no sound and it appears to be hovering. It comes and goes every so often, but remains in the same exact position in the sky. We were curious of the location of the flashing fire like object, so we! used my iPhone compass. From my viewpoint in my bedroom the bright red flashing light that changes color is exactly 0 degrees North on my Compass. Exactly. It is very strange. I have witness multiple orange fireballs by my home in the same area, but they normally rise up in the sky one by one and disappear in the horizon after about a minute. This object just sits in the horizon flashing bight red, but changes size as well. It looks like a bright red star on earth. It disappears for an hour or two then reappears for about 20-30 minutes at a time. As strange as this may sound. It seems to know we are looking at it. I wonder if anyone else has reported this object. I felt the need to write this post considering its the second night in a row it has been hovering near my home. I see a lot of strange things in the sky here in Eastvale, but I never saw this type of hovering red fir ball.
September 27, 2014 · 10:25 PM · FIREBALL
Sherman Oaks, CA
After hearing all the reports I finally saw it for myself, the much talked about group of red orbs flying across the night sky. At approximately 10:25 pm PST on Saturday, September 27, 2014, I was looking south out the window of my apartment, located in Sherman Oaks, CA, as I usually do listening to late night radio. My window faces the Hollywood Hills. I am on the second floor and I can look over the rooftops of the building next to me with an unobstructed view of the night sky. Looking out at the night lights and aerial comings and goings I noticed three red lights pop on in the night sky. They didn’t enter in from one side of the window but rather popped on as if they either just showed up in that location or decided to turn on their lights. If one was to try to pinpoint the location I would say the lights came on over the San Fernando Valley between Laurel Canyon and Van Nuys Blvd. The lights moved from east to west. The lights were a milky red color glowing color. Red balls of light as I’ve heard many see through out the United States. They stayed in a V formation and kept pace with each other with none of them pulling away from or falling behind the others and they all kept the same altitude. They moved at a brisk pace and there was no sound as one would hear with a helicopter or plane. This lasted for about twenty seconds before it dawned on me what I was seeing. I moved to a westerly facing window but the tree blocked my view and I did not see them again. Having spent hours looking out this window for many years I know that these were not helicopters as the lights were not those of the numerous helicopters that I have seen at night, nor were they the lights of a low flying place as I could see sky between the red lights. My best guess is that they were about half a mile away from my location and flying maybe 200 to 300 feet off the ground. I have worked in the film industry for over 20 years, mainly in the field of visual effects, and I know of no technological set up that would let one pull this off over a densely populated area and just below the flight paths of Bob Hope and Van Nuys airport. And to that point, having heard and seen everything from Lear jets to military and commercial aircraft to news and police helicopters I can without a doubt say that what I saw was nothing like anything I’ve seen in the sky.
September 27, 2014 · 10:10 PM · FORMATION
Hollister, CA
It was three in a row then they formed a triangle shortly after they become one and took off. No noise
September 27, 2014 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Hollister, CA
The triangle appeared stationary and was very bright. It looked like this: . . The bottom light began to fade first and it then looked like this: . The top-right light then looked like it exploded, almost like a skeet clay as we could see what looked like a a a white smoke trail. The bottom-left light was the last visible and looked like this:
September 27, 2014 · 5:25 AM · UNKNOWN
San Diego, CA
I'm a Marine Sergeant, while being posted for the Boot Camp Challenge held in MArine Corp Recruiting Depot this morning I looked up at the sky and saw 3 perfectly spaced orbs flying horizontally flickering and moving at a fast pace and then slowing down dramatically. At one point the front orbed moved to the back and the other two starting swaying up and down right next to it in the same pattern. Before they disappeared they started shuffling from positions to positions and and then traveled higher in the sky. Now I understand the airport is right next to the installation and planes are constantly flying around the area, but there wasn't no blinking FAA lights to them which military jets also have. Being a recruit training site there is no UAV operations being conducted there and no 3 pilots whether UAV or manned can pilot the way these orbs were traveling. I was always a skeptic until this morning and I seriously apologize to all those that believed before me.
September 26, 2014 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rio Del Mar, CA
It was about 11:00 pm on Friday, September 26,2014 and I was visiting a friend when we decided to go out on the patio that over looks the ocean. My friend was the first to notice it and when I first seen it, I thought it was a small plane or helicopter. I was mistaken!! When looking at the object through binoculars it was very clear to me that the triangle shaped object was no plane or helicopter. It had lights flashing around in different colors almost like a disco ball would. It stayed in the same general area but moved it quick random movements (front2back, zig zagging, left2right). I am a huge skeptic when it comes to ufo and what have you but this incident really has me thinking twice.... should we be scared??