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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
July 11, 2014 · 11:30 AM · CROSS
Carlsbad, CA
I work in a warehouse located in Southern California. Standard cloudless, blue sky. I was looking out of my office window and watched a plane taking off from Palomar Airport, about 5 miles away. In that plane's line of trajectory, I observed an object that appeared to fly directly into the path of that plane, but make a sudden 180 degree change in direction before impact. As I watched, it disappeared in the blink of an eye. The object was silver in color and larger than the plane in my field of view. It appeared to turn, hover, then disappear. Witness provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2014 · 6:10 AM · DIAMOND
San Marcos, CA
Hello, I'd like to share what I saw today for science. I live in an apartment where cars are subject to tow so I always need to get up early in the morning to move my car. I got up and walk to my car to move it which is about 300 feet from my apartment. As I was getting in to my car I happened to look up and saw a black object in the sky. I am used to seeing helicopters and military aircraft in the area since this is north san diego. But I knew right away something was different about this object. It was far away enough that it just looked like a baloon. Luckily enough I had my binoculors in my car which they said 10 x 30 on them. As I observed the craft it had an irregular flight pattern.. (going up and down left and right). As I focused in with my binoculors I could tell right away what it was. There first thing I noticed every now and then on it was it had what appeared to be a set up lights on what appeared to be fins on the craft. As I observed it spin, it appeared to be shape shifting and spinning its mass as it was moving with some lights visible. Once I saw that I started to get excited and look for any other person in the area to point out what I was seeing. I kept an eye on it as I was moving, I found to construction workers talking in their trucks and walked up and pointed to what I was looking at. They thought it was a balloon but with my binoculors I could see what it really was.. As all this was going on it was drifting south east and gaining altitude. I did get a view of the craft when it was not shape shifting and it was diamond/teardrop in shape and had an organic appearance with fins in the middle with low light lights on it. The surface had a vein like appearance of something like a vegetable with black and dark red in a striped like organic way. I may have seen a windscreen but it was too far too tell. After seeing that I ran back to my apartment to get my camera and try and get a view shots through my binoc! ulors but by the time I came back out it had already been lost! in to t he clouds. I have a broad knowledge of all kinds of aircraft and balloons and can say this was not like anything I have every seen in my entire life and has changed my perception about life as I know it. I have attached a sketch and a video of the area of its flight. Sadly I could not get any hard evidence of it.
July 11, 2014 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Livingston, CA
Three family members and three neighbors, none of us acquainted with each other, saw the “moving stars” traveling from NW to E behind unusual cloud cover. At least a hundred that would alternate between brightening and dimming. Some moved past each other faster than others, some in formation and some not. Lasted for almost two hours. About an hour into the event a high altitude airplane flew very quickly under the moon on the opposite side of the sky, so we know these lights where not airplanes. None of the lights made a sound, but the Earth had a strange vibration. None of the sounds were from a train, a/c unit, or from highway traffic; there is a difference between these vibrations. Even some of the backyard dogs started barking and howling without any seeming provocation.
July 10, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Patterson, CA
The object was just hovering in the sky for six minutes. It was a bright orange light. I took a picture and when I looked at the picture the object looked like a white circle with a black dot in the middle of it. It did not fly off it just vanished. This was my second time seeing this object and the first time I was able to get a picture.
July 10, 2014 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Ventura, CA
Above the cross in ventura california at around 21:15 my wife and I got out of the car seen 3 redish orange lights in a line then they formed a triangle s yelled out look at that as I pointed to the sky two passers-by stared in amazement as the lights faded in seconds with unbelievable speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 9, 2014 · 4:40 AM · EGG
Beaumont, CA
Egg shape and very bright. Did not move at all . Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 9, 2014 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Santa Rosa, CA
Technically this is ufo, but I don’t know if it was ‘one of our’s. About a month ago (this is 8/11/14), I saw an object in the sky that caught my attention. We live in Santa Rosa, CA, and about 3 miles from the airport. It was about 9:00 pm, the sky was dark, no fog. I noticed out of my second story window that there was an object and I thought it was an airplane coming straight on to the airport. But it wasn’t moving at all, and there was only one light. I laughed at myself, thinking ‘oh sure, you just want to see a ufo. I got my husband to look at it. I kept track of it for about 20 minutes- it’s possible that it moved a tiny bit, but when you are staring at something like that you can be fooled, so I don’t know. It also seemed to maybe have some periodic flickering colors on the right side. For those 20 minutes it did not change course. When I went to bed it was still there, same place. It was south from here, very small. San Francisco is 50 miles from here, and I supposed it could be in that direction. I don’t know if I could actually see that far, but it was a dark cloudless night and the object, although very small, was bright. I figured the angle was about 50 degrees up from the ground where I was. Now here is a funny thing. My sister lives about 50 miles south of San Francisco in the area of San Jose. I never mentioned this siting to her (I actually pretty much forgot about it). About two weeks ago we were talking and, guess what, she saw the same thing! But hers was a few weeks after my siting. I did not say anything as she was relating it to me; I put my hand over my mouth and let her finish talking about it, and then told her. What a shock! She saw hers later than mine, more about 11:00pm. And hers was somewhere over the Lockheed area (I think a little east from her). She watched hers for about 10 minutes- it did not move. Other than the time and date, and a little more east from her place, it was exactly the same description! Today we were talking about this and I decided to write you. We decided it must be a drone. Do you know?? I don’t like the idea of drones lurking in the sky any more than an ET.
July 8, 2014 · 10:40 PM · UNKNOWN
El Cajon, CA
I was driving back from a restaurant around 10:40pm. I was at a stop light, and I saw this red/orange orb in the sky so I told my friend who was in the car with me to check out that red light. He looked up too, and within seconds it was flashing lights from each side, at that moment I thought it was just an airplane but I kept looking, and this orb dropped a red light which disappeared within seconds. The orb was still in the sky, and had stopped blinking from the sides. About a minute later the Orb looked like it was flickering, and started to disappear, but my friend said he could still see it in the sky while I was driving, and the light was very faint by this time. I think it disappeared about 30 seconds after that.
July 8, 2014 · 9:15 PM · CHANGING
Torrance, CA
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at about 9:15 pm Pacific Time. Torrance, CA looking west toward the Redondo Beach coastline. There was a marine layer several hundred feet high and appeared to be off the coast. I stepped out of my house to make sure the cars were locked and noticed a bright red-orange light rising from the horizon. Looking in this direction you can often see aircraft departing from Los Angeles International Airport. I am a pilot so when I saw the odd and very bright light I looked to see if there were any of the flashing position lights normally seen on aircraft. There were none. As the light rose to what I estimate to be about 1,000 feet I noticed two additional red-orange lights rising from the horizon. I refer to these as lights 2 and 3. Recognizing this was unusual I called by two adult sons to come witness what I was seeing. Light #1 dimmed to a faint white light and stopped in the sky at about 2,000 feet. The other two rose together then separated their formation. Light # 2 appeared to track out to sea in the direction of the northern end of Catalina Island. Both dimmed like the first one but could still bee seen. Light 3 continued to rise and stop at roughly the same altitude as Light 1. This pattern continued with four to six more lights. Some of the lights moved in a straight path. Some changed directions and stopped in one place at times before continuing to move. I continued watching Light #1, as it approached us. As it got closer it appeared translucent and white. It was wobbling and the closest thing I can describe it resembling is a modern parachute. However, this was no parachute! It passed us to the south and we lost it as it went behind some trees. Very bizarre!
July 7, 2014 · 1:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles, CA
I was at Hollywood Forever cemetery in L. A. sightseeing with my husband, when I felt strange and had the sensation that maybe an earthquake was going to take place, and also noticed birds stopped singing. The trees in the area, which was an empty part of the cemetery with no people and many palms, started to move strangely and bend from the tops as if pulled. I felt odd. I took a picture of the palms and then applied a simple vignette filter to the photo in-camera (Canon EOS 60D) and saved it, not noticing the object at all at the time. Afterwards, we went to our car, which was a ten-minute walk away, and found the battery completely dead, to the point we had to buy a new one from AAA to start the engine, and the alarm was going off only when switched off/battery removed, which was impossible. We went home, and when I downloaded the photo we saw the object. When we returned home I had severe red sunburn even under my clothes. Since this day I have had severe sunburn even if I go in mild sun, whereas before I could sunbathe without sun protection. We now live in Spain but I would like to know what happened.
July 7, 2014 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Phelan, CA
Being was able to stand with 1 leg inside the bed and 1 outside the bed. It had no clothing. I looked at face 1st and it was looking at my wife. It had bumps where ears would be, no hair anywhere, it had a bump and ridges in the crotch area. I was just about to go into a paralyzed state and I had the lights on in the room. I have had instances for 44 years. I was going to fight it but it grabbed my upper left arm then vanished. The head was same size as ours and eyes were black. It had no lips. It was powdery bluish gray in color. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
July 7, 2014 · 1:05 AM · OVAL
Corona, CA
there are mountains behind my house and it was around 1am as I was opening my room window and I looked outside and in the distance where the mountains are, I see a white bright light in the shape of an oval for about 10-15 seconds then the light slowly dropped behind the mountains but you could kind of see some of that light Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2014 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Upland, CA
Four red dots in the dark sky were spotted. The dots were blinking in a circular formation. These dots moved east then west again in the same city. The brightness of these lights seemed to reveal a shiny aluminum metal color behind the light. After 5 minutes of flashing in a circular format they changed into a cone format. This has never happened in the area and it seems to be placed of the city's water tanks.
July 5, 2014 · 11:25 PM · LIGHT
Fallbrook, CA
Driving south on the I-15 Freeway just south of Temecula and Fallbrook, CA, approaching the Highway 76 exit. My husband and I had just entered unincorporated San Diego County when from the car we saw an unidentifiable object in the low sky on the east side of the freeway. We saw a cluster of between three to five very bright white lights. The cluster formed a sort of circle, but it changed formation. The cluster flew erratically over an area relatively low to the ground—this was an area of undeveloped land for the most part. It would move around, dip down towards the ground, then move upward very fast, then move around again in a formation, kind of dipping and shooting up and making sudden turns, all fairly low to the ground in ways that no plane or helicopter or other flying thing I know of could do. Certainly nothing of this size. The lights on this were incredibly bright. My husband asked if we should turn around at the 76 exit and go back to try and see it again once we passed it. I didn’t think I could take a picture of it since it was moving so fast and erratically. My husband said it must be a drone. I went home and read about drones and none were described like this. My husband is a lawyer and I have a Ph.D. in education. We have no particular interest in UFO’s. We did see the hovering amber lights over Orange County from our home in Dana Point earlier this year, but didn’t think to report it. This sighting was, to me, much more unsettling
July 5, 2014 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Del Mar, CA
Me and two other witnesses were at the Del Mar Fair when I looked up at the sky and saw four lights close together in a square shape. Two lights were green and two lights were blue. The object was hovering high in the air and there was no sound. It then started flying horizontally across the sky at a high speed then came to another stop. It hovered there for a couple seconds before flying vertically away from us. It stopped in the distance and hovered there before flying vertically towards us again. At one point it was directly over us. This went on for about 20 minutes. Sometimes it would fly in a straight line and other times it would be flying in a curve. When it would accelerate from a non-moving position, it would slowly start moving and quickly gain speed, as well as quickly come to a stop. There were a lot of people at the fair but most didn't seem to notice. There were a few that did notice and some of them were taking video and pictures with their phones. After the 1st craft disappeared, I saw three light in the sky that looked like a triangle shape flying very high up in the sky. This one only flew through once. During the time of the sighting we saw helicopters flying around the area as well as air planes. The craft we saw were non of those. One of the people with me took some pictures as well as video tape of the first craft. The phone they were using for some reason did not manage to capture the distinctive four colored lights that we saw.
July 5, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Anaheim, CA
The object looked like a semi-bright star in the south east sky. The color of the object matched the color of the night stars. At first, I thought the object to be a star, it did not move in the night's sky. Looking away for a couple minutes, I looked back, and the object was gone. I do not believe the object was a plane. I am leaning more toward the object was of Earth, not alien. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 9:49 PM · CHANGING
El Monte, CA
At around 21:49 on Sunday August 7th, 2014, we were coming from the market and taking the groceries into the house. I looked up into the sky and told my girlfriend "look babe Mars." The object looked like a star, but since it was red I believed it was Mars. Then it started glowing orange also, which was odd. Then my girlfriends mother also started looking at it and said it might be a helicopter but it was way too high to be one. And planes do not shine that bright at that altitude. Then it started moving slowly towards the west. It looked like it was turning and just like that it disappeared. No plane that I know of or helicopter can disappear that quick, or turn at that radius as quick as that object did. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Menifee, CA
Object 1 was multi-colored oscillating rapidly, Stationary, appx. 200ft from ground. Object 2 Aqua Blue solid color, zigzagged over object 1 by 40 ft. Both objects disappeared Object 1 reappeared about 3000ft to the west of its previously seen location.
July 5, 2014 · 9:05 PM · DIAMOND
San Diego, CA
July 5th, 2014 Time: between 9:05 to 9:08 pm Area: South West of Lindbergh Field Duration: 1-2 minutes While watching an airplane on approach to Lindbergh Field, I noticed 3 flying diamonds that were flashing a bright orange color. They appeared to be in formation and moved at a moderate speed toward the clouds. As the first one entered the clouds the second and third object hovered outside the clouds. Within seconds the second object disappeared into the clouds. At least 30 seconds went by before the third object disappeared into the same clouds.
July 5, 2014 · 8:16 PM · CYLINDER
Westminster, CA
In the west sky about 240 decrees west (approximate) Between 30 and 35 decrees high (approximate) Small bright (silver) missile like shape traveling what appeared to be upward but slow (My first thought a rocket from Pointe Mugu), almost looked like it was standing still. I was looking for about 30 seconds for a trail but I didn’t see one develop till about a 45-60 seconds. It started getting longer slowly but almost imperceptible but definitely larger than when first spotted (very bright both tail and object). Both my girlfriend and myself were wondering what it was. I said I’m going to video it, turned on my Iphone camera looked up and then it just faded or (dimmed out) to nothing. The fade or vanishing took about 3-4 seconds. That was it. I suspected some test aircraft and sun reflection fading but I don't know.
July 4, 2014 · 11:18 PM · LIGHT
Baldwin Park, CA
Went outside to see if I can watch some last minute fireworks throughout the city so I was scanning the sky. From my location looking towards Mount Wilson which is north of me in Baldwin Park, CA, what caught my eye was a bright light I thought it was a shooting star at first but it just got bright almost near the brightest star and it dimmed down. I thought no that's not a shooting star, then I thought was it a satellite? no I continued tracking it it was headed in a straight line towards north east. It got really dim especially cause the light pollution and the smoke from the fireworks but i could still make it out that it was going in a straight line. What happened that it grew bright again and dimmed, when I continued watching it it continued to go bright and get dimmed, so it would go bright like a star then dim to almost unseen, I even lost it for a bit, but since it continued in a line I could just make out where it should be, but I also noticed that it seems to go farther in the distance. It just was really weird never seen anything like that. what it did was go bright then dim right away then travel maybe 3 or 4 sec then repeat about 3 times then I lost it then it did it again but lost it cause I guess it either was too far or it flew fast away or just stopped blinking. so at a count of one its bright then one sec dim then 3 or 4 count dimmed. but it was really bright that's why to me it was a UFO cause I never saw anything like that, it was not a plane cause it had one light and it was really small almost invisible when not lit. The color was like star light color and bright.
July 4, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Elk Grove, CA
Was watching what I thought was a satellite, but shortly after I noticed it, it flashed a very bright flash (very eye catching if looking even slightly up). I called three other adults on the patio to watch. We watched it slowly cross above and it flashed a very bright flash again. It did this only twice and began to fade away into the big dipper (south to north). Suddenly, there was another trailing behind it. Again it looked like a satellite on a straight course. While watching this one it suddenly JUMPED ahead and caught up with the other one covering a vast space in the blink of an eye. Then there was a third, then a fourth, then a fifth, then a sixth, in succession, spread out with many miles beteween them and all traveling south to north in the same line. At times they stopped and displayed a bright "light" ray coming out of them in a search-like mode. The light moved around. It didn't just flash once.
July 4, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
La Mirada, CA
On 4th of July, 2014, we were driving through La Mirada, CA, between 10:30 & 11:00 PM and on the enter section of La Mirada Blvd and Rosecrans I notice a Police officer pointing his exterior spot light directly up into the sky as we drove closer to the enter section I looked up and there it was red and yellow glowing Sphere above us I'm guessing around a 1000 ft above us, my wife was driving and our niece was in the back seat I told her to look up and she also saw the Sphere, my wife couldn't see it cause she was driving but noticed the officer shinning his light upward. I only looked up because of the expression of the officer's face in disbelief as too what he was seeing. That's what caught my attention. we did not pull over but I stuck my head out the window and saw that the Sphere began to go straight up and disappeared
July 4, 2014 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Garden Grove, CA
Watching fireworks on the 4th of july. eight orbs (orange bright circles) appeared one at a time over the top of the house in front of me from a southern direction to a northern direction. They would appear one at a time go across four houses then go diagonally up into the ski in to the same spot and disappear as if it was a doorway then the next one would appear a minute later and slowly do the same thing (no sound notied) this happened 8 times while my daughter and i watched.