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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
May 14, 2014 · 8:00 PM · DIAMOND
San Diego, CA
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Around 9pm, I was called by my girlfriend to go to the balcony facing North, she said that there were some strange aircraft hovering in the sky east of downtown. I head out to the balcony to see what she was talking about and yes in fact there were 3 white lights in a triangle formation hovering in the sky, motionless, The sky was very clear absolutely no clouds very calm wind and there was some air traffic but more than usual for the airport nearby you could clearly see what were clearly planes or a helicopter these lights were not a conventional aircraft. Of the three the one in the center was the largest and had the most distinct shape, that of a diamond. At first it appeared to be one large craft but after looking at it for about 3-4 minutes the lights began to separate and move away from each other slowly at first, then in a blink of an eye they seemed to have traveled a good distance from each other. They stayed at a relatively far distance from each other at this time, and stayed in position from what seemed to be an expanded triangular formation. At this point the lights went from whitish blue to flashing red, green, and blue. Sometime after watching the lights sit in place for a while I heard a jet fly by south of the house I looked and did in fact see a jet, what was odd Is that this aircraft was at around the same distance away but I could hear it where as I could not hear the 3 strange objects when they moved. Two more lights appeared after a while but these stayed closely together one was hovering over the other and to the side at a small distance almost like it was supervising over the object below it. Some pictures and video was taken but the quality is not good the lights I observed can be seen but the shape is a bit distorted. All the lights eventually began rising slowly straight up into the atmosphere and eventually disappeared. On a side note I did observe the house pets (cat and dog) acting very erratic, running around and specifically the dog running up my leg, 2 more dogs from some neighbors also began barking.
May 14, 2014 · 8:00 PM · DIAMOND
San Jose, CA
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Around 9pm. I was called by my girlfriend to go to the balcony facing North, she said that there were some strange aircraft hovering in the sky east of downtown. I head out to the balcony to see what she was talking about and yes in fact there were 3 white lights in a triangle formation hovering in the sky, motionless, The sky was very clear absolutely no clouds very calm wind and there was some air traffic but more than usual for the airport nearby you could clearly see what were clearly planes or a helicopter these lights were not a conventional aircraft. Of the three the one in the center was the largest and had the most distinct shape, that of a diamond. At first it appeared to be one large craft but after looking at it for about 3-4 minutes the lights began to separate and move away from each other slowly at first, then in a blink of an eye they seemed to have traveled a good distance from each other. They stayed at a relatively far distance from each other at this time and stayed in position from what seemed to be an expanded triangular formation. At this point the lights went from whitish blue to flashing red, green, and blue. Sometime after watching the lights sit in place for a while I heard a jet fly by south of the house I looked and did in fact see a jet, what was odd Is that this aircraft was at around the same distance away but I could hear it where as I could not hear the 3 strange objects when they moved. Two more lights appeared after a while but these stayed closely together one was hovering over the other and to the side at a small distance almost like it was supervising over the object below it. Some pictures and video was taken but the quality is not good the lights I observed can be seen but the shape is a bit distorted. All the lights eventually began rising slowly straight up into the atmosphere and eventually disappeared. On a side note I did observe the house pets (cat and dog) acting very erratic, running around and specifically the dog running up my leg, 2 more dogs from some neighbors also began barking.
May 14, 2014 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
La Habra, CA
He recorded the orb with his cell phone. I have video, which I can email to you. Witness provides no contact information. PD
May 13, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
While walking my dog as I do almost every night I witnessed an unexplainable, for me anyway, event in the sky. It was what some might call a fire ball or orb of light, but there was something else going on as well. Before I continue let me say that I live near a military air station, as well as a smaller but busy local airport. I am accustomed to seeing all manner of aircraft, both at night and during the day, such as; Osprey (with the rotors up like a helicopter), giant military transport planes, light/personal aircraft, small personal jets, fighter planes, and helicopters of all kinds. I know very little about aviation but this was nothing I had ever seen before. This event happened in the eastern sky, and appeared to be fairly close. It lasted about 10-12 seconds total, but was already happening when I looked up. At first I thought what I was seeing was a meteor falling and burning up very close to the ground. There seemed to be debris falling and burning up in the sky like something breaking up. However, after maybe half a second or so, I noticed two things. 1) It was not falling but stationary. 2) The brightest point of light was at the top. At that point I thought maybe a firework. The debris, for lack of a better word, was almost “dripping” from the ball/orb of light. It seemed to have a liquid quality to it. Not at all like what you would associate with a firework. It almost looked like burning/melting plastic being poured or dripping/falling into the night sky. I then thought maybe it was a lantern burning up and the dripping was just thin paper on fire and swirling around, and the ball/orb of light was the heat source for the lantern. But the ball of light remained stationary and the “liquid fire” kept falling; so much that it would be hard to believe this was all paper from a lantern or that the lantern would even be able to maintain its elevation while loosing that much of its structure. The same would go for any aircraft. It was just so much fire. It also did not seem to be consistent with what I have witnessed as a flare. At this point it has been maybe 3-3.5 seconds. The origin of the “liquid fire” began to glow very bright and appeared to grow larger. It also, at this point, started to pulse alternating between a dimmer light red-orange color and a full, bright true-orange color. The “liquid fire” increased in volume and also seemed to pulse along with the ball/orb of light. It stayed this way, very bright, for a couple of 2-3 seconds and then the dripping “liquid fire” stopped. The ball/orb grew even brighter and more well defined. It pulsed a couple more times; finally sticking with the red-orange color, and shot off heading east at a very high rate of speed. I could see it for 3-4 seconds before it was too small to be visible anymore. There was no sound that I would say could be attributed to this event. This is in a suburban area and near a highway so there is ambient noise. However, it is also in a valley and air traffic is usually amplified not muffled or masked.
May 13, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Chino, CA
I was walking at a park in Chino, CA. (south side of the park) and I saw to the North of me, pretty much over Ontario, CA several extremely bright orange lights moving slowly and low (relatively speaking). Three of these orange lights were in formation like a triangular formation with at least another two single orange lights near it. These lights began to ascend upward and toward an eastern direction with their lights becoming dimmer as well. I would then see another orange light also hovering low and from the North direction it too began to ascend. Finally, the last orange light came slow and low from the north as well. This one hovered for a minute or two and then also began to ascend. I was able to take some pictures with my LG Android camera (older version) the pictures do not do the object justice compared to what I visually saw. FYI: The orange lights were bright and amazing, meaning, nothing I have ever seen before color wise in the sky. For the record, the park where I was at west of it would be as if though you are headed to L.A.; East of it would be as if though you were headed to San Bernardino. South of it would be as if though you were headed toward Temecula or San Diego; and North would be as if though you were headed to Ontario, CA or Upland, CA or the Mountains such as Mount Baldy.
May 13, 2014 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
On 5/13/14 at approximately 1600 hours I observed an object in San Jose, Ca, near highway 237. The object was a sphere or orb, white and semi translucent. The object appeared no bigger than a soccer ball. The shape was very clean, not distorted, a perfect orb or spherical shape. I first assumed the object to be a plastic bag or seagull but the object stopped in midair in what appeared to be 15 – 25 mph winds heading South by South East. The object was at an altitude higher than a six story building but lower than the aircraft taking off at the nearby San Jose Airport. Several commercial aircraft, 2 or 3 mostly 737s were visible during this time. The object moved in an erratic behavior dropping 50 – 60 ft and then climbing vertical another 50 – 60 ft. The object moved right to left in a 50 yard area and then suddenly headed south and vertical in an upward motion at a speed much faster than the surrounding aircraft, birds, or insects that I observed. Another way to characterize the speed, I have worked closely with F-18 Hornets and have never seen them capable of travelling at this speed. I doubted my observation several times thinking it could be a plastic bag, a bird, a drone, an insect, or even a piece of flying pollen. None of the above items match the flight characteristics that this odd craft showed as it seemed intelligently controlled, capable of stopping and moving about in any direction, at any speed despite the winds. There were no visible clouds, no light shining on the windows of the building that I observed the object through. I have never seen anything like it. There was no visible propulsion system, jet intake, propellers, or anything that would indicate the power source this craft used to move about. If I had not been staring where I was at that exact moment I never would have seen it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 12, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Westminster, CA
I was heading south on a residential street when I saw what looked like a falling star. The bright light came down fast, like a meteor falling to earth, then slowed tremendously to look like a helicopter landing. The direction it was in it would have been over the ocean around Oceanside/Carlsbad area. Once the object slowed and I realized it was a craft and not a falling star I recorded it with my cell phone. It went straight down from start to finish, and once it slowed it did not change speed again.
May 12, 2014 · 10:40 AM · RECTANGLE
Comptche, CA
We live in the rural pacific north-west, sixteen miles inland from the coast. There are no other sounds at night out here besides crickets, frogs and the occassional owl.
May 12, 2014 · 9:20 AM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
My friend and I went out for an evening walk after dinner. We went walking outside on the street and we noticed a small blue light in the sky in the direction about 51° NE above the the Big Dipper handle 32° 43 N. 117° 4 W. Then their were five circular blue like crafts were moving in a circular oval clock wise direction diameter of the circulation 15 miles at a high rate speed. Then two of the craft stopped then flashed two white lights (like a cramra flash) both went opposite direction north and south. The other three stop in mid flight and two left orbit; until the one craft headed north pass by the other craft and it followed in East direction Northeast direction. After looking on my maps the third craft was heading over towards the sentiee or USMC Miramar air station San Diego. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 12, 2014 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Glendale, CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swPEMZ8ob8
May 11, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Hawthorne/Gardena, CA
At around 10 pm me and my friend saw some type of aircraft flying in sight from my backyard. It was a bright green orb with 4 red dots on the back. This object was flying in patterns no man made air craft on planet earth could. The ufo was scanning the aircraft on the LAX flight route just where the planes go in for the landing. Every time a plane flew by the UFO scanned each plane. This whole ordeal lasted 10 minutes
May 10, 2014 · 3:45 AM · CIRCLE
Oceanside, CA
Circular red orange blob rose out of water, hovered then disappeared...
May 9, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Santa Cruz, CA
Went out to enjoy the clear night sky...looked up and noticed a V formation of very faint orange lights. They would have been very easy to miss if I hadn’t gone out to specifically look at the night sky. The brightness of the moon may have made them appear dim also...very bright night. Two V formations. One formation of 7 circular looking lights, with an additional V formation at the side of 3 lights. No sound. Moving probably as fast as a fighter jet? I really couldn't tell what their altitude was… It seemed about the attitude of a commercial jet. Moving S/E to N/W. They disappeared over the tree tops before I could get anyone else to come out of the house to look at them. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 7, 2014 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Visalia, CA
Strange, slowly moving fireball like object in the sky.
May 7, 2014 · 6:25 PM
Calimesa, CA
Rocket sound wooshes past me at a tremendous speed only about 5 ft off the ground.
May 7, 2014 · 3:00 PM · DISK
San Jose, CA
Black huge wobbling object disk shape going across sky in clouds
May 5, 2014 · 9:40 AM · SPHERE
Vallejo, CA
Two small objects flying in formation and what appeared to be an F series fighter plane chasing them.
May 4, 2014 · 11:10 PM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
Manuevering Fireballs in the Sky in Souther California
May 3, 2014 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Crescent City, CA
Large, bright object straight up and very high could be seen for 1/2 hour never moving until covered by clouds.
May 2, 2014 · 8:40 PM · TRIANGLE
San Diego, CA
3 dim white lights in a triangle formation, crossed sky east to west, then moved apart.
May 1, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Chula Vista, CA
Dim, bluish spherical object travelling SW over Pacific Coast.
May 1, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
A star like object, flashing red and blue as well as glimmering, in a west-southwest direction in Los Angeles.
April 30, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Marcos, CA
Orange fireball in southwest sky.
April 30, 2014 · 9:03 PM · TRIANGLE
Venice, CA
Drone flying over head. under the airline flight path.