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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
October 16, 2023 · 1:25 PM · RECTANGLE
Pasadena, CA
My husband pointed out the object in the sky as we headed East on the 134 approaching the 210 freeway East in Pasadena. We agreed that it was not a plane. It did not move. Appeared to be rectangular in shape. Clearly white in color. It just disappeared without traveling. During the day, sun was over our car. About 15 seconds duration of our observation.
October 15, 2023 · 7:23 AM · SPHERE
Ione, CA
On 10/15/2023 at approximately 0723 Hours I noticed the light by chance as I merged from buena vista road in Ione, Ca onto highway 88 going east towards Jackson, Ca . The sun was bright and there was some condensation trails in the sky . As I admired the sky for a brief moment I noticed a small star like light that was light green or blue, possibly both . I noticed the odd star like object was bouncing and at first I thought it was a drone but realized it was not because the aerodynamics of the object was wrong and the altitude of the object was rather high in the clouds . It bounced and reversed up and down and then left and right he and would come to a sudden stop . The object then shot up into a condensation cloud left by an aircraft in the sky that was already dispersing . I attempted to video the object but only caught slight glimpses of it that are hard to differentiate on film . The object seemed to be flying/hovering over Jackson,ca or it could have been further east in the foothills as it was hard to judge distance . The sighting only lasted a few moments and then it was gone . I saw no trace of the object the rest of my ride home . For being very bright already outside I ruled out stars and the movement of the object and altitude rules out drones.
October 15, 2023 · 5:51 AM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalHollywood, Los Angeles, CA
It appeared as if it was moving up and down a little bit to the side but it definitely look like it was spinning rotating and the lights were yellow and red coming off of it. You can kind of see an aura. My video shows it really quite clear but you have to zoom in with my phone while you’re playing video, it appears to change shape or the light patter and then would just hover and stay still then appear spinning.. i took pictures but, the pictures appear that it’s at a 45° angle and you can see the light shooting off of it as a beam like a 45° beam but when you zoom in in the video it looks completely different than a picture.the pictures appear that it’s at a 45° angle and you can see the light shooting off of it as a beam like a 45° beam but when you zoom in in the video it looks completely different than the picture. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
October 12, 2023 · 7:43 PM · TRIANGLE
San Pedro, CA
I like to sit in my San Pedro backyard and satellite watch. Tonight, at about 7:43, while facing south toward Catalina, a silent, dim, compact triangle with about 5 lights flew from the east toward the west. It looked almost translucent. It was about the size of what I imagine an F117 would be. The speed was brisk but not fighter-jet speed, if that makes sense. There was a light hazy cloud cover hanging over the coast that served to amplify the sighting. Stars and satellites could be seen in spite of the clouds. At first I thought it was a ‘V’ formation of seabirds. My next thought was, ‘that’s a flying triangle, omigod!’.
October 11, 2023 · 3:27 PM · DISK
San Jose, CA
Video 1 10/11/23 03:27pm: The video here is a sighting of 1 ship, the other left 2 minutes before (have video too). If you watch this video, at the 10/11 second frame, you will see it cloaking into a bubble. Because it is a sunny day and cold, the destoration shows up in the camera. Throughout the video, you will capture a clear ball, moving erratically. At 21/22 seconds the craft reforms and then recloaks and moves around the video. its best to do a frame per frame view. I make the mention of a plane at the end, but that sound is behind me. Its not a plane. Video captures everything. Video 2 10/11/23 03:25pm: This is the ship that left before video 1 taken. It was 2 minutes earlier, so this one shows a craft at high speed shooting off. Video 3 12/1/23 03/33/pm: The best video, shows detail of one craft, cloaking, moving back and forth erratically, and doing things not capable by us. *** Everything filmed is in the 3pm timeline. Not sure it means anything. Alos best to do a frame by frame analysis is you have the time. It moves so fast, you will miss it. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
October 11, 2023 · 4:36 AM · DISK
Sacramento, CA
I saw that it was hanging in the sky for a second, while I was on the freeway, it was like disk shape with the body having light and it was moving away from me faster and faster disappearing in the clouds.
October 10, 2023 · 10:52 PM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
Weather Conditions: Clear skies with good visibility, no cloud cover, and a new moon. Description of the Object: The object was disc-shaped with a diameter of roughly 30 feet. It had a metallic surface with a silver hue and emitted a pulsating blue light from its underside. It made no sound, and it didn't have any visible propellers, wings, or engines. Trajectory and Speed: The object was first noticed hovering about 300 feet above the ground. It then moved in a nonlinear pattern, making sharp turns and changing speeds abruptly. It accelerated rapidly and disappeared from view within approximately 30 seconds. Duration of the Sighting: Approximately 1 minute. Witnesses: The event was observed by four of my friends, who were camping in a rural area. Physical Effects: No immediate physical effects were reported. However, both witnesses experienced a feeling of unease and mild headaches following the sighting.
October 10, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
South Lake Tahoe, CA
They come in about 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. when it's dark they were over heavenly Ski Resort and above ski run Boulevard down to the lake but I spotted them as far as Emerald Bay Cave Rock and Incline Village so they're everywhere over 50 I saw it was a cloudy night a little bit of rain they use the clouds as cover and they blend well with stars they look like stars and tell you really pay attention and then you can see them kind of going up down circular motions zipping quickly some steady they even appear to be sitting just above the water on the lake and I seem to be searching for something not sure what but it was a very large Gathering it seemed like they brought the whole colony I see if she thought it was going to be an invasion based on how many there were never seen anything like that in my life I have lots more videos and pictures summer too big to upload but I I have pictures and photos
October 10, 2023 · 5:44 AM · RECTANGLE
Ventura, CA
I wake up and see usually one very bright horizontal object, containing 5-6 white lights, moving extremely slowly from east to west high in the sky. I watch until it disappears over my building, continuing on it's westward path, I guess. The sighting times range from approximately 4:55 am to 6am on most days What am I seeing ?
October 9, 2023 · 12:22 AM · TRIANGLE
Hollywood, CA
Grey triangle shaped UFO flying sideways no lights flying about high as a 20 story building very close not government aircraft very active and scary activities and activity of unknown origins
October 8, 2023 · 10:07 AM · FORMATION
El Cajon, CA
While having my trees trimmed on Sunday, October 8th at 10:07 AM my wife noticed a bunch of shiny flying objects. I immediately started filming. I captured 1.5 minutes and iPhone quality video. I wish I gave it my full attention until they completely disappeared. There were no sharp movements that I could tell. My wife thought they were drones. They were very high altitude and seemed to flash a little. After the video I checked back a few minutes later. The large group seemed to be disbursed. The few remaining visual objects i could see were further west than previously spotted.
October 6, 2023 · 2:34 AM · UNKNOWN
Hollywood, CA
Formation of light that is hovering and moving slowly twinkling a bright lights of colors of lights other forms of light splitting off
October 5, 2023 · 7:05 PM · TRIANGLE
Swanton, CA
I saw what looked like a jet chasing a weird three sided craft. I was unable to determine on drive if it was a triangle or a pyramid. It stopped in the sky for a short time and then a jet chased it to the coast and back over the mountain. Looked obscured and very dark.
October 5, 2023 · 5:03 AM · SPHERE
Auburn, CA
My husband and I are both 75 years old, retired professionals and have lived in this house for 37 years We live in eastern Sierra foothills of California on 4.5 acres at 1400’ altitude on the top of a hill. I have a view of both east and west from my house. The back of my house has many large decks that have a spectacular unobstructed western view of the valley and west coast hills toward San Fransisco. It is from one of the decks that I viewed this event in the sky looking west. There are no street lights in my neighborhood. We do have some local ground lights from stores about 2 miles away. This particular early morning had no clouds so the stars were very visible. The moon was not in sight. I also live the flight path of Sacramento airport and have flown over my house many times. The time it takes from passing my home to touchdown at Sacramento is 7 minutes. I can easily see the plane lights on their dissent. They are very low. This object that I observed was so high that I thought it was a star. It was obviously not an approaching airplane. AT 4:50am on 10/05/23 my dog started barking aggressively (something she has never done). I got up, went to her cage and let her out. She ran very fast still barking down the stairs to our very large fig tree in the back yard. I was trying to call her in and looked west to the night sky and noticed what appeared to be a star moving very slowly in a horizontal direction from south to north. At first, I thought it was an airplane but because it was moving so slowly, I then thought it must be a satellite until it changed direction and started moving east. My husband by then was on the computer checking our security cameras to see what the dog was barking at. I told him to come and see this light in the sky that was now moving northeast very slowly. Then the object stopped. No movement for a few minutes then it started moving slow again. At 5:03am I got my phone and started taking videos of this light. I then zoomed in (12% as far as my zoom would allow) and to my amazement I saw that it was now an orb and it was strobing multi-colored lights while spinning. The orb itself was white and the colors around the outside edges were green, blue, red, yellow and orange. It started moving again eastward then it stopped again. I took many videos with some being over 2 minutes. During one of the videos the orb expanded to 3 to 4 times its’ size for about 2 seconds then returned to normal size. It did this 3 times recorded on my video. My husband watched as I was video tapping but never did so with his phone. My cat was acting very unusual also by running around crazy on the deck while the dog barked on and off at the fig tree. Very unusual for this behavior. I watched this event until 6:15am when the sky started to lighten up from the sunrise. Also to note, our security cameras did not pick up any movement even though we have one on the deck that points to the dog door that my dog ran out of.
October 4, 2023 · 6:32 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
Three black balls or spheres were following a plane and surrounding it as it flew by. 3 black individual non reflective spheres. I observed trying to see if the balls were something else but I could clearly see large black spheres.
October 4, 2023 · 3:10 PM · OTHER
Fair Oaks, CA
I just made a report of what I saw 2 days ago, come out to the backyard and see them again, but only about 5. They seem to be flying very high, because they appear in the middle of the blue sky, do some circles, and vanish again in the blue sky. They were about 5 white dots. They could be birds, but I don't see where they come from or where they go. It just looks like they come from a high altitude and go back vary high.
October 3, 2023 · 11:22 AM · SPHERE
La Habra, CA
At approximately 11:22 A.M. I looked up at the sky and saw two orbs slowly moving from North to South, in the direction of the Pacific Ocean. They appeared to be small in size and they were both blinking. Their color appeared to be white. At times they appeared to quickly fizzle out, then appear with more luminous intensity as they moved. The orb flying at a higher altitude seemed to be brighter and more active than the lower flying orb. I made an initial video recording of what I was seeing on my cellphone, then I watched as the orbs drifted across the sky. They moved overhead from where I was standing so I recorded a second video. At this time, the orb flying at a higher altitude moved quickly, going down and then in a circular motion. You can see the speed it was moving, by referencing an outdoor commercial building lamp in the video. I called my mother who was nearby so she can witness what I was seeing. She met me within a few minutes, and by this time, the orbs were farther away, heading towards the Pacific Ocean to the Southwest. She was able to confirm what I was seeing. The last video is short and shows the last of what can be seen, as the orb blinks brightly. After that, the distance was far so I stopped recording.
October 2, 2023 · 4:04 PM · UNKNOWN
Fair Oaks, CA
Laying down on lounge by the pool and looking at the mostly clear blue sky, I saw a white dot (could not identify shape) doing circles high above (it seemed to be at high altitude where planes navigate or higher). While trying to identify it (at first I assumed it was a bird, although the height was unusual), I saw two more dots appear from the blue sky (as if altitude was reduced, therefore making them visible to my eyes), also going in circular motion and then in undulated paths, then back to circles. As I was watching the 3 dots, more began appearing, as if materializing in the blue sky. The amount kept increasing rapidly, and I began counting them. When the count got to 20, I noticed more dots were already appearing high in the sky, in in what I estimate twice the amount I had counted or more. I estimate between 60 and 80 dots flying in circles, and then I assumed they were drones. Most of the dots were visible for about a minute, leaving about 7 that kept doing circles and undulated paths for about 4 minutes. As I tried to identify what they were, they began fading in the blue sky as if their altitude was increasing and my eyes slowly lost them in the blue. At the end of the sighting, I saw an airplane passing and it seemed to go underneath the altitude of the dots, I also saw some birds at much lower altitude, which is when I decided they could not be either planes or birds. They did not take off from the ground nor did they land: They appeared from the blue sky and vanished in the blue sky, which led me to think they were not commercial drones. I look at the sky daily t clear my mind, and it's the only time I have seen a phenomena like this. If they were drones, I would certainly like to know which kind flies so high, to the point of giving the illusion that they come from high in the atmosphere and go back to it, as if leaving away towards the space. When they began disappearing, I followed just one (the total amount was overwhelming to my eyes and very hard to follow) to see where they were headed, but it simply became smaller and smaller in the blue sky. Sometimes they circled at slow speed, which made me think initially of birds. But they would accelerate suddenly to which seem like faster than an airplane. One more person was with me and saw them as well, without being able to identify their nature. I took video, however my phone captured mostly blue sky, and two blurry dots, so something is visible in the images yet very blurry (I assume because of the altitude at which they flew) and the images don't give an idea of what are the blurry white dots in the sky.
October 1, 2023 · 3:43 AM · CIRCLE
Los Angeles, Fontana, CA
I routinely look up at the night sky especially when full moons are out and seen something floating around just east of the moon. It was circle shaped and it's brightness would undulate through various shades of white light. I started recording with my phone camera and when I zoomed the details showed something completely different from what I could see. The shape looks like an elongated oval with a void in the center that's circular in shape. I drove home to see it flash in and out just above the horizon during the freeway drive & when I got home it returned to it's original sighting spot next to the moon. There was only one of these objects and the whole thing lasted about 2 hours. I am the only observer. I was actually working at my second job at the LA yard moving trucks to different cities containing customer furniture. By day I am a Letter Carrier for USPS.
October 1, 2023 · 12:06 AM · FORMATION
Modesto, CA
On my way home I saw a formation of orange lights in the sky not blinking but some were getting brighter I have a video of it
September 30, 2023 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Fontana, CA
As I was leaving my house , I realize two bright red orbs going at a very fast speed and one looks like it was following the other. I kept filming and the first one suddenly vanish , it’s not the first time I’ve witness weird activity in this area , around October last year around 10 ish at night I witness a huge laser beam in the sky and saw it slightly vanish and turn into a dot
September 28, 2023 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Folsom/El Dorado Hills, CA
In the evening three of us were outside smoking and looked up to see an orange orb flying across the sky. It was flying northeast in one direction seemingly above the house line in the distance but closer than the red flashing aviation ground poles on the hills in the distance. It was flying straight until an airplane started going toward it's direction. At that point the orb turned at about a 45 degree angle and dimmed away into the distance directly away from the airplane and us and disappeared in a matter of seconds. After that we saw about 30 airplanes heading in that direction but we live near two airports a private local one and one air force base within a 30 mile radius. We always see Cessna planes and jets but this was decidedly different. Every other flying object we've seen we can also hear before they're in eyesight and well after they're out of sight, but before the other planes showed up, we heard nothing. The orb was silent the entire time it was observed.
September 25, 2023 · 9:30 AM · CHANGING
Los Angeles, CA
Thought I saw a plane in the sky, but then it turned into different shapes and three or four lights and then it was in a straight line nose and a blob. It was very weird and it was [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
September 25, 2023 · 1:50 AM · FIREBALL
IdentifiedTehachapi, CA
I was sitting on my 2nd story back porch facing south at 1:50AM when a large fireball erupted up and over the hill and silently billowed out colorful flames. They were blue, orange, and pink- very vibrant with a smoky trail. It then changed to a horizontal trajectory and faded into an orange orb in a vertical column if light with a faint orange trail. It then slowly and silently floated from southwest to southeast of my location, taking a curved path across the valley Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]