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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
March 16, 2022 · 8:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Los Angeles, CA
Dark, apparently triangular craft, no visible tail against dark sky, bring central light with lights at each point flashing in sequence, one at a time, in a clockwise rotation. The light from the preceding flash was still dimming as each new flash started. Center light was constant. The center light may have been a different color than the point lights, but I'm having a hard time remembering that detail. My recollection was that the center light was warm white and that the point lights were somewhat cooler white. Flight path was straight west and relatively slow for an aircraft at its apparent altitude, speed was consistent. The object was apparently relatively low, but well above the highest points of Elysian Park (so, at least 1000 feet, and I was never directly below it). The object was already east of me when I saw it, flying over the area of Dodger Stadium, due east (approx.) toward the San Bernardino mountains. I watched for approx. 2 minutes until it passed behind a nearby hill, obstructing my view. There was no sound that I could associate with the craft. I did not have a clear reference for the size of the craft, and only the lights were clearly visible. I'm not a trained aircraft observer, but I am not familiar with an aircraft with this lighting configuration. This is a busy area for commercial aircraft of all varieties and there were other aircraft in the sky at the same time. At virtually any given time, I can see an airliner, a private plane, or a helicopter in the sky from this neighborhood, and I had observed at least one airline jet in the minutes prior. Those clearly fly at a much higher altitude. The object I sighted was flying at more of a helicopter altitude (again, apparently). A helicopter at that location, in these viewing conditions (ambient sound level) would have been clearly audible. If the object was a plane at a higher altitude than it appeared, It may not have been audible under normal conditions. I often watch the sky when I walk at night. I have never seen or reported a UFO prior to this report. I did not take photos. It occurred to me that at that distance and lighting contrast they would not have captured much—at the time it did not occur to me to make a report.
March 16, 2022 · 8:15 PM · CHANGING
Kirkwood, CA
Driving through the Sierra Nevada Mountains / Carson Pass, we saw Two Huge Silver sparkling Spinning spheres flying above Kirkwood Ski mountains. It then kinda hid behind the mountain and we saw an opening of bright illumination and a red and white smaller object started flying towards out direction, following us through the tree tops, moving from right side trees to left side trees as we are driving. After about 15 mins of this, I pulled over into a turnout to allow a faster driving car behind us to go past us, as I was pulling over we saw the bright red and silver object coming through the trees and directly over us and it was in a shape that looked like a Naso Space shuttle. It was directly above us like it was going to take us up. I had my sunroof open and it was so quiet, we only heard a quick soft unfamiliar sound. It had red and silver flashing lights to outline its shape. I started praying we were so scared. It then kinda slowly flew to otherwise of raid and was back along the tree lines for another 20 mins.
March 16, 2022 · 4:24 AM
Oakland, CA
I've been sitting here for 2 days watching people walk out to the strange fog and walk back looking refreshed. Came back today and there it is the mother ship with smaller ones coming off it.
March 15, 2022 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Tarzana, CA
https://youtu.be/IFQHNzPUQuI I attached my iphone to the railing of my and set my camera to timelapse to catch the sunset. The camera filmed for a little more than an hour. The total time of the video is 31 seconds. As the sun sets four lights appear one by one in the upper left of the screen. You see other planes zipping around but these lights are stationary. I’ve no idea what this is and have not altered this recording in any way.
March 14, 2022 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Vista, CA
A bright light came fast from the East to the west until right in front of me and about 2000 feet high (I'm guessing). It quickly slowed and stayed still for about 4 seconds or so then it turned north and flew high into the sky, kind of toward the north star, until it was very high and looked like a tiny star with all the others. It continued higher until it faded from view such as in outer space. The trip up took about 5 seconds. Sorry I may not have given the correct date but I didn't know I could report this so I didn't "save the date". I think it was Sunday or Monday March 13 or 14.
March 13, 2022 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ventura, CA
Was sitting in my car around 11:00 pm, when I saw 10 blue lights come out of an orb that formed in the sky. The lights hovered for a few seconds and then took off at lightning speed in different directions. I'm not able to download the video I recorded from my phone so I am sending you the link to it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/UiAPMQVPkfG3wKdS7
March 12, 2022 · 11:00 AM · CIRCLE
Bakersfield, CA
Please help verify Please contact me for actual video
March 11, 2022 · 5:10 AM · FORMATION
Santa Rosa, CA
The glowing lights were exactly parallel and seemed to hover. There was a plane taking off from the airport and it was very very small compared to these lights. The plane disappeared into the atmosphere but the lights stayed. I turned my head for several seconds and thy were gone. They weren’t climbing in elevation like the plane so I was very very surprised when they were suddenly gone . I second guessed myself and what I had seen, so I didn’t report until now. I have been studying UFO sightings since that day and am now 100 % sure that is what I saw. It was unbelievable.
March 10, 2022 · 7:50 PM · CONE
Oceanside, CA
I was on my balcony looking at the ocean and saw a cone shaped thing with a weird flight pattern flying. It was just too straight. Thought I was seeing a plane wrong, but the more I watched it was cone shaped and the green light that it was emitting was like a beam and it wasn’t a star. I finally said out loud (but didn’t yell) “hi, can you hear me?” And the green light went out and I never saw it again. I recently saw a coastal news article with a lady’s picture from 2014 and it looked exactly like one of those cone shaped things in her picture over the pier. That’s how I found this site.
March 9, 2022 · 11:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Mountain Center, CA
I deliver propane to rural areas in the San Bernardino mountains. While I was filling a customer’s tank I observed a small dark speck directly under the sun and over Santa Rosa mountain. I tried to focus on this small speck to see if it was moving but it appeared to be stationary. I was thinking to myself that whatever this object was, I wish I could get a better look at it. The very next moment a large (maybe 40-60 ft long) black rectangular shaped object just appeared directly in my field of vision (in between myself and the mountain). The object was black and extremely bright white light emanated from the bottom. It seemed to me that I was observing the object edge-wise so I can’t exactly say what shape it was but from my perspective it appeared rectangular. The object moved a short distance and disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. Even though the close-up portion of this sighting only lasted a few seconds, it shocked and even frightened me a bit. I’ve had several other night time sightings in these mountains but this was my first day time sighting.
March 8, 2022 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Ventura, CA
I was sitting in my car and the inside of it lit up blue. That's when I looked up and saw the blue orb in the sky trying to open. I grabbed my phone and started recording it. I could see the blue orb open up and the swirling vortex around it. Then 10 bright lights came out of it. They hovered for a couple of seconds and then took off in a blink of an eye in different directions across the sky.
March 4, 2022 · 5:35 PM · CIRCLE
San Bruno, CA
Subject appeared into my field of view, while I was laying in my back stretching my lower back ,hover for several minutes, then disappeared. Seemed to disappear as a opposed to flying out of my field of view.
March 3, 2022 · 10:08 PM · CHEVRON
Laytonville, CA
Caught on security cam. These orbs were all over the place. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5038579032861698&id=100001289529323
March 3, 2022 · 9:35 PM · DISK
Solvang, CA
Extremely bright light, aircraft looked 6 ft lonh but seen from a great distance. It had a hump on top of the disc in the middle.
March 1, 2022 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Alameda, CA
These balls of lights are between 2 major airports. Because of this I don’t believe drones are allowed in the air space. I have not heard nor read anything about these lights. One night I drove out to the bay to try and get a better look with binoculars and I could have sworn I saw things coming out of these orbs. I don’t drink or do drugs. It’s something I can’t really explain. I would like to be contacted via e-mail only.
February 28, 2022 · 3:53 AM · TRIANGLE
Indio, CA
My husband took the dogs outside at 3:47 am on 2-28-22. He came back to the bedroom saying he needed his glasses because he thought he saw a UFO outside. I went out and saw lights darting around the sky rapidly. I ran back in to get my phone to record it and both of us watched two interacting craft / orbs moving rapidly. Disappearing and reappearing thousands of feet away. The orb moved separately from the red looking craft . At the end of my first video, we can hear a small airplane in the distance so we feel someone other than us saw this. There was no sound up until the small plane. I HAVE THE VIDEO and it looks like there are 3 round (thrusters?) On the colorful craft. It moves incredibly fast and went from West to East , up and down within nano seconds. The orb was glowing white. My husband is 65 and I am 61. I have lived in the Coachella Valley for 34 years and am the owner of a business for 16 years.
February 25, 2022 · 4:05 AM · FORMATION
At sea (Long Beach, 3 hrs. S of), CA
We were on the cruise ship Carnival Panorama, returning to Long Beach from the Mexican Rivera. We were approximately 3 hours from docking when I awoke at a few minutes after 4 A.M. to relieve myself. We were in a balcony cabin on the eighth floor. Returning to bed I decided to look out the cabin curtains (which were closed) to see if I could see the lights of the city. When I pulled them back, I couldn't believe my eyes, there were two glowing orbs holding relatively steady fairly close to level with our cabin. I opened the balcony doors to get a better view and they slowly started to move towards the front of the ship. they appeared to be less than a hundred yards from the ship. I hollered at my wife " Holy Crap, do you believe in UFO's" Fortunately she was awake (probably from my getting up). She came to the balcony and observed them as they slowly moved towards the front of the ship, they appeared to rise a little and passed almost level with the bridge of the ship. The orb on the right moved hard right in a maneuver that was almost a 90 degree turn at high speed and then stopped and came back over the top of the other orb and then came back underneath and resumed station on the other. They then began a climbing right tun to the east and seemed to merge and then at a very high rate of speed vanished. To my estimate of size, they appeared to me to be between 5 and 10 feet in diameter, but distance is hard to estimate in the dark of the night. We thought that was the end of it and started to go back in the cabin, when I noticed a glow under the water approaching from behind the ship at a high rate of speed, I pointed it out to my wife and she became frightened at that point and exclaimed "Oh my God". The glowing object came up to about midship and stayed there for a few seconds and was clearly visible as a glowing orb under the sea. It then turned east for aways and then came back towards the ship, stopped circled around and then departed at a high rate of speed back the direction it came from. It was hard to estimate the size of this object as the depth it was at couldn't be estimated. there was no surface disturbance, but the glow was clearly visible. The speed of these objects and the maneuvers they made were not something we are capable of. I am a pilot myself. Needless to say, we did not get back to sleep. After talking we felt these objects were checking out the ship for whatever reason. We were close but I never felt threatened, more amazed than anything. I can't believe the bridge crew did not observe these things as they passed by level with the bridge. We went from sceptics, by passed believers, straight to I firmly know in a few short minutes. It was an amazing, incredible encounter for us. We don't claim to know what these objects are, but we now know there are things beyond our comprehension that are clearly directed by unknown intelligence. Additional observation is that the light of the orbs seemed to be kind of a haze or moving, kind of like translucent. Hard to describe. Also, there was no sound that we could hear.
February 25, 2022 · 12:16 AM · CHEVRON
Laytonville, CA
Numerous craft est 20 plus coming in off Pacific ocean west of me heading east. Almost like an invasion force
February 24, 2022 · 12:57 AM · CHANGING
IMPERIAL BEACH, CA
Circular craft with different hues surrounding it, moving sporadically and at rapid speeds. Going translucent at times. Followed from Coronado home to imperial beach home.
February 23, 2022 · 9:10 PM
San Diego, CA
The night sky was 75 % cloud covered from on/off rain storms. There were 4 white circular shaped lights just behind the cloud cover that were darting very rapidly round and round and back/forth. After minutes of watching them, it seemed as though they were chasing each other. One light seemed a little larger and the other 3 lights may have been chasing after it as it seemed to be either in the lead, or the main one that was flying away from the other 3. It was difficult to tell. There was no sound at all. All 4 of the white lights remained just behind the cloud cover, shining through them as they darted around and around then back/forth at a very fast rate of speed. It was very cold outside so I finally went indoors, leaving the lights still chasing each other. I have no idea how long they were flying around before I went outdoors to walk my dog, and noticed them. All 4 lights darted/turned and changed positions in the sky "on a dime", nothing any plane could do.
February 23, 2022 · 4:30 AM · DIAMOND
Oceanside, CA
First time I saw it was Feb. 25 @ 4:30 a.m. It was hovering over a fenced-off empty field behind my home in Oceanside. It was diamond/cross-shaped with bright white lights around the outside & it disappeared after a minute or so. I did get a not-very-good photo with my phone. The row of lights below it are from a neighborhood behind it. I've seen it briefly 4-5 times since at the same location between 7:30 p. m. - 4:30 a. m.
February 23, 2022 · 3:50 AM · CIRCLE
Los Angelas, CA
The moment I saw them, I looked for the beacons than are on planes and helicopters and I didn't see any at all. I saw these six, pretty looking, circular lights (seemed like a bright white LED lights ) flying fast, in unison, but making it look so smooth. They were gliding straight for the first 10-15 seconds. Then all the sudden they all made a very fast maneuver and peeled up into the sky breaking through the clouds, then i lost sight of them.
February 22, 2022 · 5:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Johnson Valley, CA
There was a large bright white light that looked like a planet or star, but it was barely getting dark so there were no other stars out. The 'star' then got bigger and bigger until it was taking up a large portion of the sky and it was clear it was being controlled. It then transported quite some distance away in an instant, at this time the craft appeared as a triangle and was emitting an orange light. It then disappeared as fast as it appeared, leaving only a trail from the assumed engine. This was between 29 Palms Marine Base and Fort Irwin Army Base, in the middle of the desert. I didn't feel scared but rather thought this was a casual observation.
February 22, 2022 · 5:46 PM · CIRCLE
San Francisco, CA
Was on an evening stroll and spotted a black ball shaped object moving through the clouds. Could be a balloon, but could also be something else.