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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 29, 2022 · 9:30 AM · RECTANGLE
La Jolla, CA
The clouds parted and a small rectangular shape object was seen stationary in the sky for several minutes rotating clockwise. Object was several thousand feet in the air and the slowly moved back into the clouds.
May 28, 2022 · 3:40 AM · RECTANGLE
Bakersfield, CA
I was walking back to my car at the campsite we were staying at for a festival called Lightning in a Bottle. It was about 3:30 a.m. after the last party ended and it was completely dark out with extremely clear skies. My friend and I stopped for a moment to look up and right when we looked up we saw the rectangular object, which appeared to be 2 dimensional or we were looking at maybe the bottom of some kind of craft or celestial phenomenon. It appeared in the shape of a rectangle but was divided in half to form two triangles (please see attachment). Please not the photo attached is a graphic design that I mocked up for reference but is not an actual photo. The object had very opaque tails of light and it was divided in two colors; red and green. The object lingered for a minute and then it began to ascend rapidly and eventually disappeared. I asked my friend I was walking with what he was seeing to cross reference that I wasn't losing it and he said he was seeing the same colors and shape of object in the sky. The festival had drones which we saw moments ago, but this was much larger, faster, and made no noise. It was also at least 10,000 feet off the ground.
May 24, 2022 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Cruz, CA
Where I live I look out to the ocean and a dark night sky. Last night I saw these lights in the sky that at first I thought must be fireworks since that is common to see where I live at certain times of year, but I realized that what I was looking at was not fireworks. The objects were a glowing orangey color and they appeared to be stationary for a bit- at first I saw a collection of about 7 or 8- not sure exactly how many of them. They changed formation, but they did not move in a constant way. I grabbed my binoculars and looked at them but I couldn't see anything better. Then they completely disappeared while I was watching them. Five minutes after I saw these glowing lights in the sky that I can not explain what they are, I emailed a bunch of my neighbors who also live in homes where they might have looked at the night sky to see if they saw them but no one else saw them.
May 24, 2022 · 9:08 PM · CIRCLE
Carmel, CA
While on vacation from TX, admiring the beautiful night sky approximately 9:08pm, I saw 3 very bright, huge, round, orange/red lights that formed a triangle. I looked away and within a minute the sky lit up with probably10-12 very bright orange/red lights in 3 or 4 perfect lines of 5-6 per line. They were stationary and for a few seconds they took up a very large area. They didn’t move around except to disappear and appear again. Many remained and I had my husband look, he filmed only the very end. The video is of the last 31 seconds…Many in the middle had disappeared and left a few in front of me to my right. The few on the right didn’t form a specific shape but others to the left were disappearing and appearing in a perfect line much smaller and closer then the first lines. When the film is slowed it shows the line of lights changing colors to red, white, yellow and green. They didn’t move at all except for disappearing and appearing a few times and then they were completely gone. At the time I didn’t see the bright orange/red change colors but my husband had. When we watch the film 1 frame at a time you can see that the light farthest to the left is definitely in the shape of a triangle and the color change, but they all looked round to me. It was completely quiet during the whole sighting.
May 24, 2022 · 9:05 PM · SPHERE
Carmel, CA
I was sitting on my shed's porch after a very warm day, enjoying the night's coolness and looking at the stars coming out. Looking west over the Pacific ocean from my home in Carmel, I saw huge (larger than stars or planets) bright red-orange fireballs or orbs bobbing and moving around over the ocean, for about 4 minutes. I went to get a camera and when I came back they were gone.
May 23, 2022 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
2 witnesses parked at Torrey Pines State Beach facing the water just after sunset. Observed two crafts several miles offshore - one obvious helicopter due to the pattern of flashing lights and predictable motion, and one smaller craft moving much quicker with a single unwavering white light. The paths of the two crafts appeared to nearly intersect and once they passed each other, the smaller craft abruptly changed its course heading due north to at first follow and then pass the helicopter. The helicopter pursued the smaller craft for several minutes, but the smaller craft was visibly accelerating ahead of the helicopter. Eventually, the craft decelerated, the brightness of the single light increased significantly, and then it vanished. The helicopter continued heading north. Sighting captured on dash cam - video submitted is enhanced with noise reduction (to reduce artifact from night filming), color correction (to brighten footage as it was night), and zoom (to view objects far away). Video is quite compressed due to file size limitations of submission site. Please contact via email for full size video file.
May 22, 2022 · 12:48 AM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
I was checking out a steel post I installed for my shade in the backyard, eyes up to the sky, when a flash of light (yellowish/white) surprised me in the sky. It was not far away like a star, maybe lower than a plane would be, it's hard to tell because it was night time. In a blink of an eye the thing that was moving forward (straight line movement) emitted a blue light (blinking) and totally disappeared, vanished. All of this happened very fast, like crazy fast! I didn't perceive any sound emission from that thing. I felt like that thing was defying the law of physics.
May 18, 2022 · 9:30 PM · DISK
Big Sur, CA
At the top of a hill over looking the Pacific Ocean. Looking at the stars. Looked to our right and saw 5 bright orange lights close to each other, the farthest left light was the brightest. Then, one by one from the right hand side going towards the bright light, each one went dim until they all disappeared. Continuously looking for it again, 3 minutes later, it was further in the distance to the right, farther away, and at and angle, where the brightest light would be towards us. Then disappeared. 3 ish minutes after that, three red vertical lights were in the sky, assuming they were military, got in formation then all went south inland over the CA coast. I first explained it , in the moment to my boyfriend, as a shooting star staying in place, with lights as the tail.
May 18, 2022 · 4:59 PM
Los Angeles, CA
I saw a live alien! A saucer flew near my home, the alien jumped off it and came to me.
May 18, 2022 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
I was outside my front porch smoking and I saw a bright light high in the sky blinking and moving in an eastward direction very quickly. I thought for a second it was an airplane but it was moving faster than an airplane and the light blinking was not red - it was a blinking bright white light. It disappeared from my angle of view behind tall trees and didn’t reappear.
May 15, 2022 · 9:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Northridge, CA
It was 9:40 PM during the lunar eclipse. It was dark out and there were three of us standing in the driveway of a Northridge home including a child. We were gazing up at the moon when the child raised his voice asking “is that a plane?” That’s when I took notice of what the child was referencing in the sky. My eyes opened wide and my brain slowly began to process and try to understand what I was seeing. A triangular shaped object with no hard lines just 7 lights distinctly keeping the shape of a triangle almost as if the actual craft was invisibly cloaked. These lights moved in unison as if they were attached to a craft. Try to picture not bright lights but lights that are similar to how the stars look. (No blinking lights) I’ll attach a drawing. The object had the size of a commercial jet that would be landing except this thing was high up in the sky leading me to believe that this UFO was of gargantua‘s proportions. The craft slowly moved across the sky from the North and then began to make a wide left turn heading east towards the lunar eclipse without a sound being made. The sighting lasted about 1 minute and then the craft disappeared out view due to distance. I was stunned by what I saw and didn’t pull out my camera phone. I was trying to understand what I was seeing. I’m an avid stare gazer with decent knowledge of the cosmos and sky’s. This was not a plane or helicopter or drones. This object was massive in size and in plain view in the sky over a heavily populated suburb of Los Angeles for everyone to see. Description of the observers. I’m a male in my mid thirties with a job in residential construction. I’m an avid star gazer with good knowledge of the cosmos, skies, and craft. The 2nd observer is a female in her 40s who is a registered nurse at a private school. A very level headed and logical thinker. The 3rd observer is her son of about 7 or 8 years old. Such a blessing to see. Keep your eyes to the skies.!
May 15, 2022 · 9:31 PM · OTHER
Studio City, CA
Took several photos from the street to capture moon as it started to re-emerge from lunar eclipse. As I looked through pics, I saw these two green glowing objects with curved tails and small body with two glowing lights that I hadn’t noticed when I was rapidly taking photos. Thought it might be some sort of weird flare or flash. On closer inspection, the objects were not identical. One is slightly smaller, higher and more blurred. The flash was off because the glare was too strong from the light in the building
May 15, 2022 · 9:07 PM · UNKNOWN
Playa del Rey, CA
I was standing on a first floor balcony looking east toward the full moon. This photo was taken just after another trying to capture the lunar eclipse that night. The first photo was successful, this photo…I don’t know what it shows. Is it a plane out of focus? Planes often do fly in and out of LAX in that direction, I’m just curious as to why the first photo would have turned out well and this one shows something entirely different, in a different place, and does not show the moon at all which was at the time still visible in the sky, despite the eclipse (visible with red tint). I’ve seen many unidentified things over the years, this is one I believe may be easily explainable, but I’ve only reported four sightings before, and never to your organization. Thank you for all you do!
May 14, 2022 · 11:07 PM · RECTANGLE
Tulelake, CA
A group of college students and myself the instructor witnessed a very large light moving rapidly across the sky. I have witnessed many space X satellites and this was not a group of objects but a single one. It was also traveling perpendicular to the bar of light. It was traveling lower than satellites and a plane was spotted a few minutes later in a similar area. The plane had typically lighting and was less that a 10th of the UFO. It was bigger than any aircraft that I am aware of. It had a single large blue light for the entire width and a faint grey outline was visible. We had time to get phones for pictures and videos and even tell others in their tents to look. It hit a clear part of the sky and disappeared without any trace or trail or indication of direction. It was actually one of the strangest experiences that myself or any of the students had ever had.
May 14, 2022 · 2:15 PM · CIGAR
South of Corona, CA
It traveled slowly like a blimp but I feel it wasn't a blimp. Can you let me know if this was a space ship. I believe in aliens and ships. It glided so softly behind a mountain and then came out from behind. Wow. I really believe it was real. Took me a few days to come to terms that is probably was a space ship.
May 13, 2022 · 6:53 PM · OTHER
Riverside, CA
The all the edges kinda glowed even its helicopter like blade's spinning fast glowed and it was day light it was silent with a slight swishing sound it was like a helicopter with a sack and in the sack was something black it came up to the tree looked at me for a second then went into a pattern then took off very quick it was not a drone this was unlike anything I've seen and my mom said it shows up early in the morning like it did
May 12, 2022 · 4:51 PM · EGG
San Rafael, CA
I was working outside on a deck job when I saw a crow chasing off a large hawk that I assumed was getting too close to its nest. It had been occurring over the course of several days, I'd look up and notice these two in some sort of acrobatic aerial dance, almost playful so I decided to capture some of it on my iPhone 13 camera. One day I saw the birds were doing their thing and moving closer to where I was working so I decided to film them. As I was filming I noticed a small bright glowing object moving slowly from right to left at the bottom of my screen. At that point I began to focus on it and after a second or two it paused and reversed direction I followed it and noticed it stopped again and switched back as I was adjusting to the switch and starting trying to lead it in the screen it switched again and by the time i noticed and panned back to try to locate it again, it had disappeared. The whole thing lasted about 16 seconds.
May 9, 2022 · 12:00 PM · EGG
Ragged point, CA
The Southwest airliner was flying at 30000 feet. Sitting by the window on the left side and looking towards the coast I saw an object flying at approximately 5000 ft east to west at an incredible speed and going over the ocean in just a few seconds.
May 6, 2022 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Clovis, CA
I was walking and noticed a bright ball of light in my peripheral and turned and saw a giant ball of fire. Fiery orange orb light. When I looked into it the light was pulled away and I saw a metallic black craft that blended with the sky. I watched it flying away until I could no longer notice it because it was camouflage with the black grayish night sky.
May 5, 2022 · 11:01 PM · CIGAR
Fresno, CA
Cigar shape
May 4, 2022 · 9:43 PM · CIRCLE
westlake village, CA
I was sitting in my backyard and saw several lights bouncing through the trees on the golf course. I jumped my fence and ran onto the westlake golf course looking south east fairly low on horizon 6 to ten large lights that were white and fuzzy and bright move and change formation. the lights would disappear and reappear eventually changing to a soft blue color before disappearing completely. I am a 53 year old white male living in westlake village ca i have a wife and 4 kids and have never seen or reported anything of this nature before. I have two videos that are good quality I am having trouble uploading. I am happy to send via text or another way if someone is interested in seeing them they can contact me.
May 2, 2022 · 4:23 AM · SPHERE
Redding, CA
At approximately 4:20 A.M. P.D.T. I went out to my backyard in Redding, California for meditation. Looking up I observed many (hundreds if not thousands) individual points of light maintaining a set distance from one another moving towards the southwest. A very few were moving in the opposite direction over the course of my hour observance. Multiple planes going various directions were also noted, seemingly flying at lower altitudes. At one point off to my right I caught a flash of light moving at an incredible rate of speed towards the northeast. Its speed and light trail made it seem not as a meteor. This sighting lasted for about an hour, after which cloud cover precluded further clear observation. A cell phone captured some photos and video.
May 1, 2022 · 3:06 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
At around 3:00pm, I walked outside to take my dog on a walk when I spotted 3 star-like objects over the San Gabriel Mountains moving slowly but something about their movement caught my attention. I had seen similar stationary light sightings frequently during the months leading up, but since these were moving I immediately called for my dad to come outside and observe them as well. By the time he came out and I started to record on my iPhone, there were two lights left. One seemed to hide behind some clouds over the mountains but the last light kept traveling into the clear sky so I decided to record it. I expected it to drift like a balloon, but once I began recording it started zigzagging as if to evade my eyesight. I had on sunglasses which made it hard to see anything on my phone due to the lighting. It was a bright sunny day and my phone screen had a glare under its shadow as I was pointing it directly up over the roof of my house. So I was mostly looking at the light in the sky and only taking occasional glances at my phone screen. I move my phone in an attempt to mimic the movements of the light so as to keep it on the recording screen. The light appears to accelerate and stop suddenly at sharp angles before "disappearing." The moment it disappears, I was actually looking at it in the sky, not my phone screen, but coincidentally, my phone goes out of focus at the same time. When it focuses again, the light reappears, however I had already lost sight of it which is why I stopped recording. Basically, it tricked me into thinking it had vanished or taken off.
May 1, 2022 · 4:25 AM · SPHERE
Roseville, CA
Awoke about 4:30 am to see out my window that faces NE two very bright golden orbs. The one to left was much bigger and wondered if it could be three close together and that there was four. I went outside at 5:30 to if they were still there. They were closer and a bit higher in the sky. I took a picture- looked like two orbs one a little bigger. Checked again at 6:30am they were gone.