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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
June 30, 2014 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Sylmar, CA
While driving on 118 East saw a cluster of slowly moving orbs (like flashing fireballs) high in the sky.
June 30, 2014 · 10:34 PM · CHANGING
Corona, CA
They appear yellow orange in color the shape seems to morf from round to diamond shape. They hover for long periods of time. We have amended the time above, assuming that the sighting occurred at night. Possible hoax?? PD
June 30, 2014 · 10:03 PM · CIRCLE
Elk Grove, CA
Sitting outside watching the night sky when I noticed what I thought at first was a sattelite. This thing appeared and was moving rather swiftly toward the South West. The altitude seemed pretty high which is why I thought at first it was a sattelite but it was moving too fast. A few seconds after I began watching this thing it stopped, zig zagged back and forth a couple times then lit up extremley bright with a very white light which made it also appear larger in size. Right after it lit up all bright it changed direction and quickly started heading back in the direction it had just came from, stopped again then shot straight up and out of sight at incredible speed. This was absolutly not a sattelite or any conventional air craft. It was also silent and made no noise.
June 30, 2014 · 8:15 PM
Chino Hills, CA
I went inside my house to grab my cell to take a photo (about 5 sec) and it was gone Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 29, 2014 · 3:42 PM · SPHERE
Laguna Niguel, CA
I was sky watching on June 29 in the morning with binoculars & calibrated the zoom when an airplane passed by. I then saw an orb pass the plane & followed it until it was gone. I thought since I saw this one, maybe there's a decent chance I'll see another if I hike up the hill near where I live & bring the video recorder. I was up there for a few hours & saw one other orb that was larger, slower & I believe closer for a short time. I took some videos of planes passing & there really wasn't anything very exciting. Then again, I could hardly see the screen in daylight, even with something I brought to cover my head with the screen. I wrapped it up & went home. Then dropped the footage in a video editor. I viewed a short clip of a plane in the distance that was a bit shaky & short, I was about to hit the delete button, then thought first I'd zoom in on the plane first. I'm glad I did wow. I saw an object facing the pilots in flight, but then thought it might be a speck on the lens or screen. So I continued looking frame by frame & the object was still there. When I toggled through the frames, the object appeared to be blinking. I was still not convinced because it was faint. But then, on ONE particular frame, the object got very bright & much larger with some detail. My jaw literally dropped, I gasped & covered my mouth. I submitted it on a popular video site. I show it in the editor including placing some textures to show it & some frame by frames. It's quite amazing. I thought this could be quite a big deal since the Malaysia flight 370 disappearance. Also, while I was editing the video, I was listening to KFI radio & they announced that there was an "accidental chute deployment" which was causing the plane to have to be diverted from going to John Wayne Airport, which is where this plane & UFO were headed. When you view the footage, clearly there is no way the pilots didn't see what was right in f! ront of them. So maybe we got this on radar? At least at the ! very minimum, the pilots MUST have told the control tower what they were seeing. Maybe that flight diversion was on purpose to avoid a danger like what happened to the Malaysia plane?
June 29, 2014 · 1:48 AM · CHEVRON
Los Angeles, CA
The whole object would shut completely off for about 3 seconds then flash back on as it was drifting away as it was moving left then back to right. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 28, 2014 · 11:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Ana/Tustin, CA
Description of craft- When it appeared over the horizon it was just a red and white blinking light. As it peered closer, the object turned off the red and white lights, and on went blue lights. Keep in mind that the sky was about 65% clouds so it was out of sight here and there. As the craft came closer it had a boomerang shape, and the blue lights were on, it looked like this. (sorry I’m a very bad drawer) http://puu.sh/9P5h6/7bf8839289.png After it was there for less than 30 seconds, it shot off, over 1000 mph. The craft was not as large as seen in the picture; it was at the cloud line. This object was not right above me, it was about 3 miles away, but it was large. What the craft did- All they did was hover in and out of the clouds before shooting off into the distance. It stopped after less than ten seconds of flying and lowered. It was over 2 miles away at this time. At this time I had returned with my phone, and recorded a video of it. I cut out the time in the video when the craft had disappeared. Shortly after the craft left for the last time I heard a faint boom, I presume a sonic boom from the craft leaving the atmosphere. Shape and Color of Craft- Triangle with blue lights Backgrounds-I myself am a straight A student, that looks at everything. I want to know how stuff works. I love looking at the sky, with my mom’s boyfriend. Were interested in aliens and stuff like that. Our family is super poor, so we wished we had a 30 mm camera to snap good photos of the craft. At the moment he is a restoration worker, he fixes stuff. THIS IS THE VIDEO I TOOK AS THE CRAFT WAS GOING AWAY- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVwMgWsNdr4
June 28, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Antioch, CA
So I'm driving home at around 11 pm Saturday night and I see two glowing orange spheres in my 11 o'clock position which appeared to be hovering I couldn't really tell how far away they were but out of nowhere I was watching them and they just disappear out of nowhere it sent chills through my whole body my girlfriend seen the same thing in January but I really didn't believe her in the same area but she said there were six of them I don't know what these things are but I would like to know I know a few different people who don't know eachother that have described seeing the same objects
June 27, 2014 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Beaumont, CA
A friend and I were talking on the porch I looked up northeast and saw a real big bright light that was going east and dimming at the same time then the light turned off it was not a plane just thought I would report it because they are real
June 27, 2014 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Montebello, CA
While on a call for service (Police services) I was facing south on Beverly Blvd. at Poplar Ave. in the city of Montebello California. I then observed a round illuminated object in the sky. I noticed there was two 747 type planes in the air space at the time of the incident. For approximately one second, I observed a round illuminated object travel across the sky. The object traveled at a high rate of speed, passing the two airplanes in air space. The thing that made me believe this object (UFO) was not a shooting star, was the fact it had no trailing line. It traveled alone as a solid object. It started at a slow rate of speed and disappeared into the nearby clouds.
June 26, 2014 · 10:45 PM · CHANGING
Temecula, CA
We saw giant fire balls in the sky, it started off as three in a triangle formation then they changed into linear formation, then they disappeared and re-appeared several times during 30 minutes. The number of fire balls increased then decreased but at the end it went from 5 at the most to more than we could count. The large amount of fire balls were visible for att least 10 minutes so 40 minutes total, approximately. When filming and photographing the balls they looked like blinking lights. We were at least a 45 minute drive away from them but they were still very large and visible, we are about 3500 ft above sea level and they were still way above us. I have numerous photos and three videos.
June 26, 2014 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Oceanside, CA
We were outside on deck a talking when I saw a small orange light floating up above the person I was speaking to. First just one light as it descended into the clouds another began to rise up, soon there were 6 small orange lights following one another. All appeared to be drifting along as if following the coastline then they too began to float upward, one by one disappearing into the low bank of clouds. We are about one minute from the entrance to Camp Pendleton army base. After these small orbs descended into clouds a very quiet helicopter flew overhead four time, making a five mile radius circle around the area but flying each time flying directly over our heads before flying off south in the direction where the orbs came from. I am a female artist visiting Calif. and the other person is a male Electrician doing electrical work on new construction for the military on Camp Pendleton itself.
June 26, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
Was on the phone outside when I saw two lights off in the distance in the sky, not blinking like a plane's lights do. They were flying next to each other so immediately I thought they were military aircraft in a training exercise. They seemed to be coming toward me, but after second thought I think they were going up. They started moving away from each other, and then one disappeared, followed by the other disappearing about twenty seconds later. Then, from the horizon, a similar light went up and disappeared, this time by itself. Next, two more lights came from the horizon, just like in the first description, and disappeared after parting ways. The sky was a bit cloudy but not enough to block out stars, etc. I'm sure it wasn't a commercial aircraft because I saw commercial aircraft flying when I saw the lights. Very interesting sighting; never seen anything like it before. I was thinking maybe it was a missile but I've seen those too and they were moving too slowly to be missiles. Still scratching my head. Couldn't get a video because my phone ran out of battery as soon as I turned on my video camera, but this link depicts what I saw almost exactly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9NJlijVb0 Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 26, 2014 · 10:45 AM · TRIANGLE
San Clemente, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 25, 2014 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Orange County, California- My Dad and I were driving home around 11:30 pm. Suddenly, he said, “Look up and tell me what you see.” As I was searching the sky, he swerved into a parking lot to get a better look and my dad looked for them again, but they were gone. He saw about six bright, red-orange, circular lights grouped together but not in any particular pattern. They were bigger than stars. My dad is a pilot and is constantly looking up, instinctively searching for planes and observing what the weather is like, so of course, it was not unusual for him to be seeing the sky. Shortly after the sighting we went to report it and discovered the very recent other sightings of lights with the exact same description, many in Southern California. First time is chance, second is a coincidence, but over 210 sightings is a pattern. Weird.
June 25, 2014 · 10:54 PM · OTHER
Alamo, CA
I was standing outside my house, and I heard a very loud noise and an oval shape hovering in the sky. It was moving slowly, so I watched it thinking it was an airplane too close to the ground. But after about 45 seconds the craft suddenly disappeared. It had 5 very light blue lights.
June 25, 2014 · 10:40 PM · OTHER
Mission Viejo, CA
The object, once first seen, appeared as a V of bright, large, orange lights that seemed to be staying still. The object then morphed into what looked like two triangle shapes composed of many lights, as some lights drifted up toward the object. It morphed once again into what looked like two diamond shapes connected. At this point, an outline of a large object could be seen moving. The lights slightly dimmed, and some even faded out. I witnessed one light in particular drifting down to the ground. The object was covered by trees as I exited the freeway to park and get a better look, but the object had completely vanished, as well as the lights.
June 25, 2014 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Rough and Ready, CA
As I usually do each evening just before retiring, I look at the stars out of my window. This evening it was overcast and I couldn't see any stars. As I was about to leave the window I saw a very large bright red flashing light, it wasn't like the usual airplane white light with smaller red one. This flashing light soon became a straight up and down line of red flashing lights. I watched wonder what it could be,a satellite? After watching it a few minutes it became a triangle of flashing red lights, the same first column in the same up and down position and the two other columns forming a triangle to the left. It remained stationary for a minute and then slowly moved in a westerly direction. I thought Oh Gosh that is a UFO, as I watched it slowly move to the left it was about to go out of my sight, I exclaimed out loud "Oh no! come back this way." To my amazement it started back toward the direction it had just come from, all the while the large red lights are continuing to flash. It returned to the starting point where I had first observed the light and stood still for a time. The triangle then started to move away from me and slowly disappeared in a north West direction.
June 25, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oxnard, CA
Me and two other friends were observing the flight paths of planes landing at Pt. Mugu Air Base and Camarillo airport. One guy said to look at a certain patch of the sky that was directly above us. We saw a light that looked like a faint star moving slowly through the sky going north. A few times it would disappear and then reappear a bit down the way on the same path. Then around a couple minutes later we saw a second one going in the exact same way, northbound. The only difference is that this one was a bit more west of the first one. It behaved the same way as the first one by fading in and out at irregular intervals. Then it flare up into a larger very noticeable light and then completely faded out of sight. And then we saw a third one around five minutes later that behaved similar the first one, it did not flare up like the second one. Then around 25-35 minutes later, we saw all three going back down south in a straight line, spaced apart similar to the! constellation orion. All three were the same size, they looked like regular faint stars. This was awesome to watch! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 25, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Orange County area, CA
June 26, 2014 Dear Mr. Davenport I have written to you twice in the past week, regarding the lights in the sky over Orange and Riverside County. This morning on KTLA (Los Angeles Station), they reported two lights in that same vicinity last night, and they were recorded once again. The news anchor reports, Camp Pendleton Marine Base, Miramar Naval Base, (which are located in the Oceanside, San Diego area) and the FAA ,have put out a statement, they don’t know what these lights are. On the MUFON California site, I clicked on Orange County, I checked it out last night, it goes to some other venue. They claim it was maneuvers at Camp Pendleton and that they have solved the issue. My foster son who served 4 deployments to IRAQ and is an active Marine at Camp Pendleton said, there is no truth that these lights were caused by maneuvers at Camp Pendleton. I guess if the issue is being investigated, we will never hear the outcome. Very unfortunate. Thanks for listening.
June 25, 2014 · 2:45 AM · OTHER
Petaluma, CA
Looking out my second story bedroom sliding glass door, in the north west sky, I saw what I first thought was a very brilliant multicolored star. I put on my glasses and knew it wasn’t a star. Red, blue, green, white lights were glittering in an indeterminate pattern on a stationary object. Occasionally, the lights were a crystal white bright, but always changing and moving. The object did not move up and down at all, nor did it appear to move toward or away from me. I grabbed binoculars and that improved my view a bit, but the object seemed to be quite far away. I awakened my spouse who confirmed he saw the same thing. After about 20 minutes the oject tilted to the right, maybe a 20-30 degree angle, then stayed in that position for the duration of my ability to view it. The lights continued to glitter, change color and move mostly from the left to the right of the object, but sometimes the colored lights moved more up and down. Nearing 0330, the fog began to roll in and the object seemed to sink very slowly, over about a 5–10 minute time frame, until I was no longer able to see it at all.
June 24, 2014 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Avenal, CA
11:30 pm-ish.... There were three of us driving on the 5 north when my passenger could barely speak and told me to look up. I must say it was very clear out and there were absolutely no lights ahead of us in the sky prior to this. When I looked up, there were 4 blue lights, and some object hoovering about 30 feet above my car. The moon-roof shade was open and we could clearly see the whole object. As soon as we looked up and started to point at the object, it began to fly away from the car, covering what we discussed and concluded was about a mile at most in 5-10 seconds. The object stopped and started to land. It moved and turned in ways that we all have never seen anything do before. I must clarify this object was bigger than a jet but smaller than a commercial plane. About 10 seconds after it landed there was a helicopter that appeared in the sky ahead moving very fast toward the downed object. There were many other lights in the sky that started being noticed in the next few seconds much higher up in the sky but above where the object landed. This vehicle made absolutely no noise and covered a lot of ground in a very short time. The passenger in the back seat, as the object landed, became obviously frightened and fell into a deep sleep 20 min after seeing the object. The front passenger and I have had weird visions, tingling, and nervousness, nauseous, and other interesting things since seeing the object...it was like we had to fight something off inside our heads talking to us.
June 23, 2014 · 9:30 AM · CROSS
Westminster, CA
Black cross shaped drone with four propellers buzzing at 45 degree angle to Springdale Ave. as if it came from Los Angeles and was flying to Google? Irvine/Newport. Did not seem to have a package or anything attached below. Was traveling South/East at about 40 mph, over homes north of 405 fwy between Springdale and Edwards, headed seemingly towards Newport direction. I was in the garden. I was not aware they are allowed to fly around town like this whether it is for commercial or law enforcement/traffic use.
June 22, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Mojave, CA
A coworker and I observed a bright white light moving swiftly as if gliding from west to east. The light was bright enough to create a halo or star beam type effects. We never took our focus off of it, then it dimmed until no more light was visible. Its range seemed as though the light turned off with a fade, and not due to being out of range. It had no other lights, just a solid bright white light. There were no stars visible at this hour, just pitch black night sky. Possible sighting of the ISS? PD