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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
July 22, 2022 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Salinas, CA
I was coming back home with my dad from the atm when I looked up the sky and saw 3 huge lights that I thought were just normal stars until I remembered that they were never there before and that in order for them to be that bright they needed to be really close. Everything changed when we got home and we stood outside watching when they started to move and turn off and on. I highly doubt this was a helicopter or a airplane to the extent that it was in the air without moving for so long. Afterwards I got inside and took my binoculars and I stared at the last light that was leaving and it turn from one night light into two lights shining different colors.
July 22, 2022 · 3:20 PM · SPHERE
Malibu, CA
A silver sphere sat over the coast of Malibu along the PCH. The sphere was stationary, remained in one location at about 200-400' in the air. The object blinked in and out of being visible for a moment, then completely vanished. The weather conditions and visibility were excellent, clouds were near, but did not effect ability to see the craft.
July 21, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Pioneer, CA
Traveling in a west to east direction I saw what looked like a very bright satellite appear and get brighter. It then quickly faded to black. This was followed by 4 more of the same objects. Each was visible for about 3 seconds then disappeared to be followed by another about 3 seconds after the previous object had disappeared. Each object quickly got as bright as a very bright star while moving west to east then quickly faded to black in about 3 seconds. Each was visible for the same amount of time and the same distance, equivalent to about 4-6 inches held 18-24 inches from the eyes.
July 21, 2022 · 12:15 AM · CHEVRON
Oceanside, CA
Dark blue chevron shape object making quick side to side, up and down movements, then falling straight down into a cloud. Darting up, darting down, darting to the left, darting to the right then darting down with great speed into a cloud.
July 19, 2022 · 2:27 AM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles, CA
My friend saw something near the moon and she pointed up. I thought she was lying and looked up and saw a bright light and grabbed her phone to take a photo. I was in regular picture mode and her phone was being weird showing me two locator signs and would not snap the photos until I aligned both of the signs. I then grabbed my phone to make sure it was not just her phone acting up and my phone did the same thing. I then put my phone in video mode which then worked. The next day her roommate came up to us and told us he felt a weird presence in the house. Meanwhile,he was unaware that we had seen a weird object in the sky that night.
July 16, 2022 · 3:30 PM · OVAL
Folsom, CA
There were 6 shiney orbs, like crome tic-tacs flying in formation but in a box like formation, one of these crome objects would brake formation and take off and backwards for a few seconds then come back and perform moves in every direction like it was nothing. They would all take turns doing this, and at speeds I've never seen before, in every direction. And I think they were following a jet airliner that had past over me about 5 minutes earlier. These crome shiney orbs could have with cought the jet air liner with out hesitation. And then with a blink of my eyes they were gone in the cloud cover to there left.
July 16, 2022 · 2:18 AM · CIRCLE
Ridgecrest, CA
It looked pretty much like the fireball that was seen over San Diego at 10pm on the same night. They said it was a meteor but two in the same night? In two different places? At two different times? Didn't look particularly alien to me but what do I know about aliens. I've also seen triangular formations of triangular ships high in the night sky back in the early 2000's.
July 15, 2022 · 10:49 PM · OTHER
Lebec, CA
Green transparent light; falling directly from the sky into the grown, then vanishing
July 14, 2022 · 8:58 PM · TEARDROP
Torrance, CA
Out for a walk, heading east. I am a bit of a skywatcher and a couple of lights had caught my attention. On the second light, a dark fuzzy object popped out from the darkness. It was about 60 degrees up and I estimate about 1 1/2 miles away. It had no lights. Gray and hazy with no discernable edges. An out-of-focus Brillo pad wrapped in yarn would be one way to describe it. About the size of a 3 bedroom house and traveling around 300 mph. It flew from west to the east in a straight line with some up and down variation. My sighting was brief, but I got a real good look before it scooted off into the night.
July 11, 2022 · 10:03 PM · CYLINDER
Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA
After much research, I have come to the conclusion that the lighted, flipping object I saw was most likely "space junk." There must be many UAPs with lights on them that are actually lights on the circumference of a rocket booster or similar. The lights are probably mounted so that the rocket boosters can be located after falling back to earth. And I surmise that rocket boosters are disengaged at a lower altitude and could come out of an initial orbit to end up in a trajectory against the direction that satellites typically rotate around the earth. Still, at the time, it was marvelous to see!
July 11, 2022 · 10:03 PM · CYLINDER
Van Nuys, CA
We saw a round, tuna can-shaped object (a little deeper cylinder than my drawing) with white lights on its two parallel edges, that may have been at jet travel height, flipping over and over while traveling in the same direction it was flipping, in a completely level-looking horizontal trajectory, due east to due west. We had gone out to observe the ISS pass over and when the ISS was almost directly overhead, this thing almost crossed paths with it (although at a lower altitude), its trajectory almost perpendicular to the ISS. Not a satellite or drone. I immediately stopped watching the ISS. I was so awestruck I didn't have the presence of mind to film it with my iPhone until it was miles away, a tiny speck. But, I think I see it flipping in my zoomed-in edit. The original 25 second video became 20 seconds, beginning with10 seconds of nothing prefacing the UAP. As it was only a speck at that point, I did not watch it until it was out of sight. It was only after I zoomed in that I saw that its odd flipping motion was apparent even miles away.
July 11, 2022 · 10:03 PM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
On July 11, 2022, I was in the backyard of a friend's home in Lake Balboa (in the city of Los Angeles 34.207214" N, 118.4815844" W), California, and while observing the International Space Station, I suddenly saw something very unusual, so unusual that I immediately began to watch it instead. The location was near the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley, at the home of an artist friend. My college friend Sally had called me about 9:45pm, and suggested that I look for the International Space Station as it came from the southwest, beginning at 9:59. She said it would be visible for about seven minutes and would look very bright, unmistakeable. I turned out all the yard lights and went outside. I saw the ISS come from the southwest and when it was crossing directly overhead at about 10:03pm I saw a very unusual sight, a round disk coming from the east, flipping over and over, like a coin, its trajectory horizontal, and somewhat perpendicular to the path of the space station, and heading in a westerly direction. There was light emitting from lights on its two parallel edges and it appeared to me that it may have been lower in the sky than the space station, as I could see its shape and its tumbling motion. Although it is difficult to judge size and distance (is something faraway and big, or closeup and small?), it appeared to be very high up, to me. But it all happened so fast - size unknown. I was so awestruck that I didn't even think to film until it was farther away. When I held up my iPhone to film it, I saw that its shape and tumbling motion was not visible at that distance. I got about 25 seconds with my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I edited the short footage, zoomed in and made the background black. It was just a speck from my now faraway vantage point, but I think I can actually see rotating going on, even at this great distance. I lost 15 seconds of the original footage by my editing. In the original video the sky looks grainy and you can see two electric wires. The edited video: Although it is just a speck, I think I can see it turning, but from so faraway and at such a different angle, the disk form, lights, and actual flipping end-over-end motion are no longer visible. You will see nothing for 10 seconds, then a white speck will begin to drop from just left of the right top corner of the video frame for 10 seconds. It is not actually dropping but moving farther away. You will probably think that you don't see anything remarkable. I shared my experience with my amateur astronomer friend, Randy, who asked if I thought it might be a drone. I have only seen drones on videos and since July 11th, I have looked at many, even ones purported to be ufo-like, but I have seen nothing at all that either looked or moved like what I saw. I don't think it was a drone. Randy also said that, because of the direction it was moving, it would not have been another satellite. I also spoke to an air traffic controller at the Van Nuys Airport a few days later. He said that they had "received no reports" and when I said, "Oh, I just realized that your field of vision is east - west - north - south, not straight up, so that may be why no one saw it." He said, “I cannot discuss where we are looking.” None of my 4 friends who were watching the ISS in different cities or locations saw what I saw. My friend who was present at the time, Bryan saw it, though, and he said that my simple drawing is a good rendition of the form of that he saw. The black dots represent the white lights that were on the parallel edges of the disk. After finding your site, I thought to share my recent experience with you. If you like, you may publish my story. Please do not publish my full name, just use Lisa, and please do not publish my email address. Any questions, please email me. Thank you! Lisa Ezell
July 10, 2022 · 9:34 PM · SPHERE
Live Oak, CA
It was round when I zoomed in to it. I recorded 2 videos of it. It was flying like not as a plane. But as a ufo. There was no sound in the object while flying.
July 9, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Santa Clarita, CA
I was cleaning pool with metal pole and attached brush, this requires to reach up and push downwards, as I reached up saw a craft less than 1,000 ft with circular lights. Within seconds it descended and was entering our air space into back yard and over pool. At that moment ran to rear door screamed at family to come out, wife did, we stood along pool deck with craft no further than 20 feet from us. it floated over pool at 30 feet altitude. My wife kept repeating oh my god with no religious meaning but of disbelief. It angled forward at 45 dregrees and we could see interior but no occupants. As it angled i noticed that pool lights were not lighting upper read section but that light seemed to come through it's skin. bottom was concave circular with 2 rectangular devices side by side in center of concave
July 8, 2022 · 11:30 AM · CONE
Torrance, CA
2 white smooth orbs going in circles like they were chasing each other. They were flying in an oval manner chasing each other. Looked pretty high up. Certainty higher than most small engine aircraft. Then they both flew east one after the other. I then saw 5 jets scrambled in different directions
July 5, 2022 · 12:35 PM · CIGAR
Roseville, CA
Midday, amidst a mostly clear blue sky, a singular fast growing cloud overhead caught my attention. While watching it grow, a dark cigar shaped object immediately appeared below it, which I thought was a high flying bird. It swooped through the sky much like a bird in a high air current until it disappeared into the cloud. When it reappeared, it was mostly still, moving only slightly for quite a while. This is when I realized it was clearly not a bird. A few seconds later it changed directions, heading in a straight line to the east. It immediately sped up and then disappeared into the blue sky. About 5 seconds later, a white fighter jet suddenly appeared in the same area of blue sky the cigar shaped object had disappeared in. The jet was heading north. The jet noise was immediately audible. If they were at the same altitude, the cigar shaped object would have been almost twice as large as the length of the jet.
July 3, 2022 · 9:03 PM · SPHERE
Carmichael, CA
At 9:03 PM. Looking south/East from back yard at 3971 Apple Blossom Way Carmichael. A white light that looked liked a sphere about 15 to 20 FT. large or larger….about 1 mile From my location. Came Straight down from the sky stopped at about 500 or 600 FT from the ground. Hovered there for less than a min. went to the left about 600FT. Stopped then 600 FT to the right. Hovered…then about 1min later a green colored craft that looked diamond shape I be leave came up from the ground. I saw it when it was just coming above the house in front of me. And entered the white craft that was hovering. Then around 30 or 40 seconds later the white craft went straight up traveling at about 10 MPH. the light got smaller and smaller till it diapered. Both crafts were traveling at around 10 MPH. not fast at all. The green craft was blinking like bright then faded then bright again ?....the white craft was just a steady light.. Not bright but about the brightness of a car headlight. The green colored craft was also about that bright as well. This all took place in 5min I would say ?????. The green colored. Craft was about a 1/4 of the size of the white craft………… I said that I believe the crafts were about a mile from me but they could have been feather away than that I am unsure. I have never seen anything like this ever before …. I have seen strange lights in the sky before but have always been able to identify them as a star or plane or helicopter….. Never anything like this ????????? Maybe it could be something of this earth. But for now I am not sure what I saw.??????
July 2, 2022 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
ANTIOCH, CA
My boyfriend and I took our dogs to the park across the street after swimming. I always look at the sky and stars and was admiring when I notice a huge sideways lime green oval light up in the sky. Moving much quicker than any plane, helicopter or even jet I've ever seen. No light trails or any other light source like blinking lights. It was only the glowing, kind of hazy lime green light. And I started asking my boyfriend if he saw what I did and we discussed and ruled out several things such as a falling star or aircraft. I would say it looked about 3x the size of a plane and seemed up very high although it's hard to judge. We watched it go from one side of the sky to the other until we couldn't see it anymore past the tree tops. We searched for any information online and found nothing. I wish I had gotten a photo but originally I hadn't even wanted to get out of the car, but did so reluctantly and left my phone in it as we walked into the park.
July 2, 2022 · 5:07 PM · CIRCLE
Ramona, CA
Looked like a white object floating around the Cresent moon for awhile then started drifting away. Real bright. It could of been a balloon but it seemed to big and Bright to be a balloon.
July 2, 2022 · 1:13 AM · OVAL
San Jacinto, CA
It was floating about 40 feet up and made NO NOISE. As we drove, I slowed down and it stayed in place. I purposely SPED UP to see if it was what I THOUGHT it was...(a UFO?!?) and accelerated from 0 mph to 30 mph. As I accelerated, ( the UFO?) Moved Eastbound, keeping.exact pace with us. Then when I stopped, it stopped! My son who's 10, and myself were kinda.creeped out? So we accelerated again and AGAIN this object kept pace with us. We bolted out of the area...and the.disc left my rear view mirror sight. Simply FASCINATING!!
July 2, 2022 · 12:21 AM · CIRCLE
Death Valley, CA
So on July 2nd morning 12.16 am, we were seeing sky for stars and constellation with the help of skyview app. We spotted a fast moving different object in sky myself and my 8 years old spotted that object for a second and we moved our camera and try to find it we spotted again and it moved very fast. Luckily our phone is in screen record mode. So we captured the event in screen recording. But I don't know what that is. Can anyone please confirm. I have video I'm uploading screenshots of the video, I can provide the screen record video if you need.
July 1, 2022 · 12:00 PM · TRIANGLE
El Cajon, CA
We were driving to California for the 4th of July and while on the freeway I was staring out of the passenger side window and got to view it for about 10-15 seconds before it was out of sight from our point on the freeway. It was a fairly large upside down pyramid shaped object, neutral light grey color. I was in the midst of a psychotic episode, but had no visual hallucinations. I was terrified that if I brought the craft to anyone's attention that there would be people coming after me and the ones who knew about it.
June 30, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Santa Rosa, CA
started with 2 distinct stars that caught my attention near each other, same brightness. suddenly a 3rd appeared making a perfect triangle. i said out loud “it’s a triangle of stars!” since i thought i just didn’t see the 3rd at first glance. then that one disappears, as the second starts to disappear the witness sees that one leave, then the third finally vanished. no movement no flashes, just faded away one at a time
June 30, 2022 · 9:25 PM
Susanville, CA
Green and orange falling slowly from sky right of why 395 south of Susanville CA. About 6 seconds of falling slowly just dark enough to see disappear behind a hill.