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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 18, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Mission Viejo, CA
From 10:30 to 11:00 p.m. on June 18th, 2014, my sister and I, along with many other by standers, saw two orange lights in the sky. We were in Mission Viejo, California. These lights were huge and would dim in and out. We noticed a white trail or attachment coming from the top of the lights. The two lights would both be lit for a little while until one would go out, like they were taking turns. This went on until 11:00 when they both went out.
June 18, 2014 · 10:30 PM · DISK
Lake Forest, CA
I was driving home at night and i saw something in the sky It was so bright orange pulsing lighting up the night sky all orange like a super lightbulb not moving much but obj odiously birhgt orange going to red yellow 2% of the time turning to purple glow. I got my neighbor to come out and my parents to come look at it, my neighbor said her husband witnessed the same display a year earlier at the same time and he even saw the object split in two i mind blowing feat not capable by anyones technology. Anyways this same night a second object of similar appearance appeared out of no where and there there two they began slowly moving making no noise keeping in mind i was 5 miles away and these objects were 1 mile above the earth 5 miles away from me for 15 minutes lighting up the night sky like flares except the did not fall or arch like a flare would they were stationary for the most part
June 18, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Chino, CA
First it was 1 light then another appeared next to it just as big and bright. Then then one that appeared disappeared and about 8 mins later the one that was there the entire time vanished. Multiple other sightings received by NUFORC on the night of the incident. Witness provides no contact information. PD
June 18, 2014 · 10:24 PM · LIGHT
Temecula, CA
Hovering ultra bright orange/yellow stationary lights in the western sky about 20 degrees above horizon - 2 times multiple objects appeared together and the one that appeared second remained while the previous object disappeared suddenly - same thing happened 2 times, with dual objects and then all disappearing suddenly.
June 18, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Niguel, CA
We live on a hill with about 200 degrees visibility of unobstructed skyline from the mountains to the ocean. On June 18, 2014, I went to bed at 8 pm with a headache. I looked out the window and saw a bright orange light in the sky, which at first glance I assumed to be the moonrise, a bit south of east. I realized the light wasn't as large as the moon. I then thought I was looking at a plane flying in my direction, since it appeared not to move. But it was a single large orange light, not the multiple white and/or red lights of a plane. After about a minute of bright stillness, it seemed to collapse in on itself and disappear. It was odd, but I thought maybe it was a weird reflection, or projection or a helicopter. I dismissed it and fell asleep. I'm an artist, with a vivid imagination, and so didn't take the sighting seriously. At 1030 pm, I woke up and looked out the window. To my surprise, the same light was there again. My husband walked into the room and I asked him to verify what I was seeing. He agreed that it looked like an incredibly bright, fiery, unmoving orange ball and was nothing he'd seen before. A software engineer by trade, he is also unrelentingly logical. As we watched, another orange light appeared to the north of the first. A few seconds later, the first light went out. I got up and got my binoculars and looked at the object. I couldn't see much detail--it was a large ball of fire, unmoving, with smoke trails. My husband looked through the binoculars and saw the same thing--an unmoving fiery ball with smoke trails. He took a video with his iPhone, showing one light going out after another has appeared, but the video doesn't portray well the size, brightness or orange color of the lights. A third light appeared further to the north and the second light went out. When the third light went out, no other lights appeared and we went to sleep. There is a military base about forty miles to the southeast of us, so our assumption is that it is unknown military tech, but we have no expertise in this regard.
June 18, 2014 · 2:30 PM · OVAL
Madera, CA
Myself and two other co workers witnessed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 18, 2014 · 2:25 AM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
Sound of alot of bees flyin all we can see was lights red and green it was flying low.
June 17, 2014 · 8:36 PM · OTHER
Huntington Beach, CA
Also, appeared to create a debris of glitter. NOT A FIREWORK.
June 17, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Ukiah, CA
About midnight. Bright point of light (not blinking) just above hills to the west and at first presumed to be a helicopter due to often seeing helicopters at that low elevation coming from the west. Waited for it to continue on a horizontal path, seemingly towards the east or east/southeast, but that was not happening. This point of light was about five times the magnitude of brightest stars and appeared to be rising up. At first perhaps at a 45 degree angle. Then that changed and it clearly was going up straight, steady and not too fast but it was getting dimmer and dimmer and obviously ascending straight into the atmosphere. And, progressively dimmer and dimmer until it just disappeared. It didn't shoot straight up like a dart; it took about 15 to 20 seconds to disappear. The dot of light easily seen getting dimmer and dimmer, and then just not there anymore.
June 16, 2014 · 10:36 PM · SPHERE
Big Pine, CA
Our group of five were camped near Big Pine, California. At 22:36 Hours on June 16, 2014, my brother and I were looking north east towards the White Mountains. We saw what at first appeared to be a satellite on a north to south orbit. We realized this white light was brighter than any satellite we had ever seen and appeared to be within the atmosphere. It followed the crest of the mountains. During the approximate 20 seconds the light was visible it travelled from White Mountain in our north east to a position due east before blinking out. We heard no noise signature coming from this light. It had no aircraft navigation lights or strobes. Witness elects to provide little contact information. PD
June 16, 2014 · 10:23 PM · CIRCLE
Shasta Lake, CA
As I go out to smoke my last cigarette of the night, I enjoy looking at the sky. Lately, more nights than not, there is a circle light in the sky. It moves rapidly across the sky in an easterly direction, it seems to come from south of Mt. Shasta and heads toward Lassen. Traditional aircraft have also been seen on every occasion, they head up from the south and just as they cross paths, (traditional plane at an obviously lower altitude) the circle craft begins to dim and then totally disappears. This craft has only been seen (by our family) between 10 pm and 11:30 pm. Once the craft is spotted I typically have time to alert the family and get them out there to watch for a couple of minutes so I think it lasts at three minutes each night that it is there.
June 15, 2014 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Newport Beach, CA
I was leaving a Father's Day party at my friend's house and we were saying our goodbyes out in the front lawn. Someone mentioned a plane departing from John Wayne Airport and we all looked up to look at it. I then noticed that there was another "plane" but it was of an orangish-red color. I thought it was strange and told everyone to look at it and then it all of the sudden stopped; we all thought that was unusual, as planes don't just stop mid-air like helicopters. We were trying to figure out what it was, assuming it was a plane, but then it started to disappear. It got more faint, but in a pulse-like fashion. Then it was gone. As we were all looking at the sky wondering where it went, we then saw a little dot of the orangish-red color shoot straight up into the sky and we couldn't see anything anymore.
June 15, 2014 · 8:31 PM · FORMATION
Napa, CA
The UFOs moved in the sky in curcular motion and formed different geometric patterns. The show last for hours and seen by multiple witness. The way the UFOs moved were not like any aircraft that we have today. These UFOs were luminous objects that demonstrated the ability to appear and disappear at will. Also, the UFOs could launch more ships from a what appeared to be one.
June 15, 2014 · 3:04 PM · CIRCLE
La Puente, CA
I caught a silver disk shaped object quickly appear, then disappear, from my home surveillance system.
June 14, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
It was traveling South to North, at what seemed slower then most of the air traffic in the area and at a higher altitude. It seemed awkward because all the local air traffic travels East to west. I have witnessed Satellites before and they appeared to move at a faster speed. The object I witnessed could be seen with the naked eye and was traveling slower than anything I have witnessed before, but the path was very specific, not like a weather balloon.
June 14, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
Approx. 10:30 in the eve I stepped outside to smoke a cigarette, I normally see air traffic from the airport and view the skies often, this eve I was looking up toward the ocean beach are and noticed an odd light, it wasn't a helicopter or plane of any type. What brought my attention, it was abnormal in color and flickering and standing still just above the horizon. I watched for a few moments then at an unbelievable speed it zipped to the left and stopped, I knew because of the speed it moved it was something to watch. it sat there for a few moments then zipped again this time towards my location, that's when I thought to myself this thing has amazing speed, then all of a sudden it zipped up at an angle again towards my location traveling so fast it disappeared to what must have been the upper atmosphere, it wasn't falling it was climbing at such a speed, that nothing I have ever seen before compared to it. Then 2 days later the local news stations reported! UFO's spotted on or around that same time frame
June 14, 2014 · 9:50 PM · FORMATION
Fairfield, CA
I SAW ABOUT 8 RED LIGHTS IN A CIRCLE IN THE WESTERN SKY, ABOUT 20 DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON, JUST BELOW THE BIG DIPPER. THE LIGHTS MOVED INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER AND THERE WAS NO NOISE. ONE BY ONE, THEY FADED AWAY OVER ABOUT 2 MINUTES. THEN 2 MORE APPEARED TO THE WNW. THESE 2 LIGHTS SEEMED TO FOLLOW EACH OTHER AND APPEARED TO BE CLOSER (LARGER). SIZE APPEARED TO BE MUCH LARGER AND BRIGHTER THAN MARS APPEARS TONIGHT. WE HAVE NEVER WITNESSED ANYTHING LIKE THIS!
June 14, 2014 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
June 14th, 2014, 7:10 PM PST Odd sighting of unknown airborne objects. My family with, my kids and their kids were out on our deck in East Hills, San Jose, CA (just below Mt. Hamilton). My daughter was pointing out a large jet airliner traveling South from the North to our grandson, and she noticed way above the jet two objects traveling West from East that were moving very slowly together much that appeared to be much higher than the jetliner. We all then looked from her pointing them out. My first thought was balloons, but because they were moving so perfectly together (in sync) slowly and going against the wind and clouds. The clouds were coming in from the North West going east. Not sure if it was light reflecting off of them, but they appeared to have small arced wings, again most likely spheres? We watched for about 15 minutes and then it just disappeared in some clouds. My whole family saw them, and we can only say there were like nothing we've seen before in our area. We do have a lot of jetliner activity over our area going from SF to LA (North to South). Spheres, commercial sub-orbitals, balloons, or small drones? I do know that NORAD had two Russian jets that flew 50 miles outside CA coast, not long ago. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3166571/posts
June 14, 2014 · 6:45 PM · CIRCLE
Los Angeles/Burbank/Palmdale, CA
This sighting occurred during one of my frequent weekend hikes up the Verdugo Mountains. After reaching on of the the peaks,(an altitude of 2940 feet), I reclined to rest on a concrete platform near one of the newly constructed transmission towers, I witnessed four "extremely high altitude" white circular objects. They "appeared" rather than "approached" as would be the case with any traditional aircraft. These objects were not unlike a satellite in size but unlike a satellite they did not move across the sky at the expected speed. They hovered and moved very slowly in a more or less linear formation in the direction of Palmdale and Lancaster. These objects seemed to leap frog one another at times, appearing and reappearing. They eventually moved out of sight. Five or ten minutes later, my interest peaked, three more objects appeared very near the same position, directly above me. Similarly, the three objects were small white circular lights hovering at an extremely high altitude. One of the lights was flashing, reflecting light back, unlike any of the other lights previously observed. I interpreted this as the one object to be rotating with a reflective surface. Like the other objects, these three moved away slowly and eventually out of sight. As I observed these truly unusual objects I had plenty of time to consider the possible explanations. I ruled out conventional aircraft. These things were hovering. They moved much too slow and were at too high an altitude. I ruled out satellites. They were too close to one another and satellites don't just "appear" and they don't move in mass formations. I ruled out stars. Duh. I could not, however, completely ruled out high altitude weather balloons of some kind. They were not any sort of balloons I'm aware of at the least. If they were balloons, they were huge and moving in formation with one another and one was flashing or reflecting light. With Edwards AFB so close, I am guessing these things were military in origin. The funny thing is that moments before I saw them I said to myself I wonder if I'm going to see any UFO's this time, and sure enough there they were. Pretty cool and interesting sighting for me. I'll never forget it. I just wish I had a telescope with me!
June 14, 2014 · 6:00 PM · DIAMOND
Chula Vista, CA
I noticed something in the sky (clear blue sky with some faint scattered wispy white clouds lower on the horizon) out my big second story window that faces east at approximately 6:10 PM. I thought at first it was a small airplane pulling a banner but the shape and movement was wrong. Then I thought it might be a parachute but it was not that. There were two objects, a larger and a smaller one, it was like the smaller one was being towed by the larger, both very high up in the sky up over the 805 freeway. Both were kind of floating, moving slowly yet steadily. Maybe diamond or triangle shaped, if I had binoculars I might've been able to see more detail. It seemed almost like a kite type of a floating or debris of something that caught the wind but they were not kites. I looked out my other bedroom window that faces south and there was a larger one that was slightly closer yet still high up in the sky. It was similar to the other objects but I just couldn't make out what it was. I had never seen such objects in the sky before, they weren't planes. I watched the third object until it disappeared in the blue sky. I went back to my east window and the two original objects were gone. I should note that I could see airplane traffic in the distance to the north-east, planes travel a set path to land at Lindbergh Field and I could easily see even from a far distance they were planes. The objects I saw were not the same. Could not identify them as anything specific. I thought maybe I could see a very faint aura around the two in the east but it might've been the light or my eyes adjusting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 13, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Ventura, CA
Looked like it was shooting right up to a star before disappearing.
June 12, 2014 · 6:20 AM · DIAMOND
Fontana, CA
Driving to work in broad daylight, it was a bit smoggy, but it looked like the object was flying under the smog. Too low to be a plane, and was two diamond shapes all black connected, it was no way it could be a helicopter. I looked up and had to take a double look. It was much faster. Truly amazed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 10, 2014 · 12:50 AM · SPHERE
Murrieta, CA
This sighting occurred on June 10, 2014 at approximately 0:50 I was driving north on the 15 freeway, on a three mile stretch of road between California Oaks, and Clinton Keith. It was seen shooting north across the sky. With a quick glance I first thought it was a shooting star until it came to a sudden and complete stop in the middle of the sky. After this occurred I gave the object another look, this is when I noticed the actual size of the orb, it was made of pure white light. There was only one orb seen at a size much to large to be an aircraft, the light did not flicker or dim, it stayed exactly where it had stopped and did not bob up and down or move side to side at all. After staying in place for approximately 45 seconds, it shot off again this time at an unfathomable speed within a few tenths of a second it was out of visible range. One interesting thing is that after looking at maps and trying to see where the orb came from in such a hurry. Almost exactly the direction it appeared from is where Camp Pendleton military base is located.
June 10, 2014 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Santa Clara, CA
I was watching TV at home when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a green light, what caught my attention is the fact that it went from flying towards the right to the opposite direction in seconds. It would go towards righr, then zip going up, then down, back to one direction and another. I was able to record it but because it was dark it's hard to see its direction change but you can still notice it. It went from solid red, to mix of red and greem, to solid green. In the recordings I caught it changing colors and directions. It ended up flying behind a palm tree then out of visible sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD