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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
December 15, 2021 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Visalia, CA
Saw multiple red lights moving in the sky in what appeared to be uniform motion, but could be wrong. Lights appeared to be traveling north or northwest slower than a plane. I viewed the phenomenon standing outside the planet fitness gym on Demaree and walnut in visalia CA, and I was facing west while filming them. The weather was cloudy at the time, very clouds where no stars were visible and I viewed the phenomenon at exactly 9:43 pm. Eventually the lights faded into the clouds and disappeared. I was able to capture footage of the event on my Samsung galaxy s10e smartphone. I drew an image of the phenomenon on a screenshot of a map and my location, although I believe it was much farther away. Hope this helps!
December 15, 2021 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Mojave, CA
I took pictures of the snow fall we had here in Mojave. I was using my cell phone. After showing friends I just let the pictures stay in my phone. A month ago I started cleaning out all the pictures I no longer wanted when I saw the cylinder shaped object in my picture I had not noticed. I enlarged and it is definitely something I cannot identify so I am sending to you professionals to evaluate.
December 15, 2021 · 1:10 PM · CYLINDER
Mojave, CA
I went out to take pictures of the snow we had the night before on 12/15/21 Mojave California. I took pictures and did not noticed what I had captured in the picture until I was clearing out pictures I no longer had a use for. In the picture I provided just to the left of center was a cylindrical object. I enlarged it and I could not identify what the object is so I'm sending to your staff to identify. NUFORC: reflection
December 11, 2021 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
San Leandro, CA
From the San Leandro Marina looking West over the San Francisco Bay, we noticed a small cluster of clouds with a pulsating pin point of light within the clouds This light would illuminate to the same brightness as the moon and then fade to a much dimmer light. This was repeated in the same section of sky for 30 minutes until we left the area. The light was the same size as you would see on a jet aircraft as it heads toward you. This light kept pulsating very slowly. It would be dim for about two to three minutes and then brighten up for a minute before rwturning to a dim light. This was happening within a very small cluster of clouds and stayed in the exaxt same area of the sky for 30 minutes
December 11, 2021 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Norwalk, CA
My Nephew ask me to come and look and tell him what this was in the sky. I went out and saw a line of six objects in the sky moving from the west to the east. You could see more were coming up from the horizon and this continued for about 20 mins. They were in a straight line and were disappearing as they got higher in the sky. They were orange, had three lights in a triangle shape and a white light in the center. The pictures and video don't look like what we were seeing. ( to far away) Blowing them up didn't help because they were moving.
December 10, 2021 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Tecopa, CA
I was in a hot spring and as I got in the water and couldn’t see l
December 9, 2021 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Cisco Grove, CA
I'm a long haul truck driver. I got a short load that picked up in Tracy California and delivered in Sparks Nevada. Driving on interstate 80 eastbound at 2057 the sky was clear on Thursday December 9th 2021, I saw an object to my right which would be due south of Cisco Grove towards Monumental Ridge. It was 6 lights amber to milky white in color in the shape of the number 3 if you were to turn the number 3 clockwise a little and have it look like an odd W. The lights were peculiar in that they were reaching towards the tops of the trees but the lights never touched the tops of the trees nor did they illuminate them even though the object and lights were only about 50 feet above the trees. I saw this object and lights for all of 7 to 9 seconds then the object and lights both slowly faded out once they did a cherry kool-aid or stop light color light brightly lit the forrest floor the trees were dark but behind the trees it was brightly lit,an intense red colored light. I was still driving and could not see that side of the mountain anymore so I have no idea how long the red light lasted.
December 8, 2021 · 1:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Newbury Park, CA
While on my daily walk at about 1:08 pm, an object in the sky caught my attention flying SE. At first, I thought it was the experimental aircraft from the local airport, minus the very loud sound it usually makes. A couple of seconds later, I realize that it is not the experimental aircraft that I often see in the area when it started to rotate about the x-axis as it flew in a straight line. The craft rotated +/- 180 degrees, back and forth, and still maintained its SE heading. I quickly got a glimpse of the structure of the craft when it rotated. It looked like a light gray "T" structure with the bright white sphere at each end of the "T". Then a semitransparent "film", if you will, formed the triangular shape of the craft, encompassing the "T" structure. No apparent form of propulsion and it traveled faster than a commercial airplane. It disappeared over the horizon in about 10 seconds from the time I noticed it. I couldn't tell whether or not it emitted a sound as I was next to a busy street. No other witnesses on foot in the area. A jet liner was flying above the craft in question headed in a SE direction also. A small aircraft in the area headed W should have seen the craft as it headed towards it.
December 4, 2021 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Simi Valley, CA
Stationary large ovular bright object Spotted off 23 hwy off-ramp to Tierra Rejada Rd, to the Northeast over Simi Valley. Reporting on behalf of son (14) and his mother, retired USAF and can attest she did not recognize the object. Reported that the object appeared to be at or above normal flight path. Lost sight of object as hills began to block view on the drive west into Moorpark. Unfortunately terrible quality picture (live pic) was taken
December 4, 2021 · 3:00 PM · CHANGING
Long Beach, CA
filming the sunset, I captured the sun breaking through a cloud. Now I film it almost every day,and everytime there is a vehicle parked right in front of the sun. It disappears,re-appears,changes shapes and colors right before my eyes,DAILY
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedCathedral City, CA
I stepped out onto my driveway at 5:40 PM and looked up in the night sky and saw towards the south what I first thought was a shooting star or a plane/ satellite breaking up. I continued to watch and realized the string of lights were not dissipating as you would expect with a meteor breaking up. Instead the string of lights continued to move in a northerly direction, eventually traveling nearly directly above me. The lights all appeared to be the same size but were spaced at irregular intervals and all were traveling at the same speed as if they were either flying in unison or were part of a single craft. They emitted no sound and were moving much slower than a regular aircraft. It was hard to gage the size or distance as I was looking up into darkness and had no other visual reference points. All the lights were the same color, a whitish glow. I tried filming with my iPhone but nothing shows up on the recordings. I did snap two photos. The lights passed over me, again moving at a constant speed in a northerly direction. They eventually faded from view, faster than I would have expected as they were so bright, almost like they disappeared in a fog. I would estimate the whole sighting lasted three minutes and the distance the lights traveled from the time I saw them to when they disappeared to be approximately 5-10 miles as the crow flies. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedIrvine, CA
At 5:42 pm on december 3rd at pavilion park in irvine, me and my 2 little siblings and 2 kids playing at the basketball court next to us saw a strange long craft that looked hundreds of feet long. It was skinny and had lights going all the way down it. It was moving quite slow, and it took about 5 to 10 minutes to fully pass the area of view. I have video footage. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
IdentifiedWoodland Hills, CA
Out front of our house and it caught our eye in the sky. A long snake like craft with bright lights in front and dim lights in the back. Had to have been at least a mile long if not more. It was heading 36 degrees NE from Woodland Hills, CA. Not moving real fast but steady until it was out of our view. I have seen many many craft and have a ton of experience with UAP’s but this one was new and I’ve never seen before. I tried to get a video but phone was acting up. Got a bad photo at last moment unfortunately. But it’s something at least. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Valencia, CA
My husband called me to come downstairs and look at this thing outside. It was dusk so there was still a lot of light out, but the sun had just set. It looked like a cigar shape but tilted like a forward slash with 1000's of lights all over it (like you put on a Christmas tree not in a straight line just all over it). The lights were moving in perfect sync in the shape of a tilted cigar from right to left, not up, as if attached to something we could not see. It was heading northeast. It looked like it was really really far away but, it took up a lot of the view as if it were humongous, as big as a city block but 100's of miles away. I ran upstairs to look at it from the balcony and get a picture, but the iPhone wouldn't focus on the lights. It was heading northeast and I watched it for a few seconds and then it was gone. I still should have been able to see it, but it disappeared. We watched it for a total of about 2-4 minutes. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 2, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedLoomis, CA
At first glance, I though it might be a small passenger plane with all of the windows screens open, but there were no other lights (on wings or tail), and it didn't move like a plane. Moved slowly traveling North. I took my phone out to video it and it then went strait up and lights faded away slowly. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Elk Grove, CA
First, I looked on line to locate a UFO site to make a report, I became discouraged as the sites I found seemed to be complicated and had their own agenda. A couple of days ago my wife was talking to a friend who is retired from US Navy Intelligence telling my incident and she said look again on line and make a report. So, I located your site. On December 2 2021, 620pm I walked to our community mailbox a few houses from ours and across the street. This is in a northwest direction. Upon getting our mail and walking to return home in a southeast direction I normally look to the south and observe the exisiting planets and stars if visible. This night a couple of planets were visible, I believe Jupiter and Saturn. I then scanned toward the east above the two-story homes and slightly overhead. What caught my eye was an object in this direction (east) appeared to be 6 to 8 white lights in two parallel rows, it is now 624pm (according to the camera phone photo). I stopped to observe the lighted object. I could not tell if this was one object or multiple. As tight as the lights were, I would say one object. Absolutely no sound or blinking lights were observed from this object. I tucked the mail under my left arm, took my phone out with my right hand, activated the phone and snapped a photo which of course it turned out blurry since I had the phone camera in an exposure mode that delayed completion of the photo. I should have activated the video. As this was happening, from the east - northeast we had a very high layer of cloud cover approaching the object. I trotted to the house to get my wife to step out to the back patio and observe this, however the object was gone or hidden by the cloud cover. Total observation time was 1 minute. My wife looked on the site Next Door to see if any reports of lights had been reported, none have been.
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedGarden Grove, CA
12/2/21 at 6:24 PM cigar shape object light bar traveling north east. Object appeared in the city of Garden Grove CA for at 10 to 15 seconds. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CYLINDER
Modesto, CA
There were no lights, there was no trail, no wings, no sound. Just a solid white slender cylinder. It was dark outside and the craft may have been glowing white, or just reflecting the sun from beyond the horizon.
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Clovis, CA
I just got home from work and was getting out of my car when my attention was initially grabbed by a bright shooting star that I saw in my peripheral vision to the north-west. I looked up and saw another unusual light to the south-west which I then turned to look at. It was a big bright cigar-shaped light. It was travelling slowly and steadily in a roughly north-eastern direction. I have lived near an airport for over 30 years and am used to seeing airplanes and drones but it was immediately clear that this was something that I hadn't seen before. It was a thick line of light. It did not blink or change. It made no sound. I stopped what I was doing to look at it. The sky was clear. I pulled out my phone to record a video but later discovered, to my great disappointment, that it was in picture mode instead of video mode so all I got was one blurry photo. The object was very bright and to my eye it appeared larger and had a haze around it, giving it a halo effect, which was not captured in the picture my phone took. Interestingly the picture also captured a second oddly shaped light which I did not notice myself at the time. I estimate that the object was visible for between one and two minutes. It slowly travelled in a straight line. If straight up is 0 degrees then I observed it from about 45 degrees to the south-east until it was about 15 degrees to the north-west, travelling not quite over my head but a bit to the north of me. Then over the span of about 15 seconds the light slowly and steadily faded out. It seemed like an oddly long time for the light to dim. I continued to watch that part of the sky for another minute. The object was big enough that I felt that I should still be able to see it even without the light but it was as if the object itself had faded away. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
November 30, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLos Angeles (Malibu), CA
As you see from the video, we all saw what appeared to be a craft with a long set of lights flying across the sky at a steady rate. The lights did not flash. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 28, 2021 · 11:21 PM · CHANGING
North Highlands, CA
It was about 1130 in the evening, I was sitting in my car stargazing with a friend. We noticed a very large thing hovering right over us, It seemed to be living, I referred to it as a sky whale, because I had the distinct impression that it was some sort of giant organism that was responding to our requests to validate its presence with a sign, a series of shooting stars appeared . We were not believing what we were witnessing. I asked aloud why they were here, the answer that came to me was that it was a major galactic event. I went on to ask if they had been watching me over the years, the answer that came to my mind was Yes, I was upset and asked why did they not help me in my times of trouble? the answer I received was observation without intervention. The person that was with me was brought to tears. the reality of what we witnessed affected both of us. this was in one respect an honor to have been chosen to witness and communicate with this amazing strange thing. On the other hand I felt a change come over me, as though I was changed, or enlightened. As phenomenal and amazing as it was and is, its not something to bring up in conversation, I remember it looked like intestines that were wriggling in different directions, lights or crafts would fly into pockets where they would cloak their presence, I had the feeling that it could hear and see with amazing accuracy. The craft or thing was silent. it made no sound the colors of the light were gold, silver, red, and green
November 27, 2021 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Menifee, CA
Three orange objects the center object passed the first object all three continued on course west south west. Took cell phone video.
November 26, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
San Francisco, CA
Traveling on our tugboat from Long Beach to San Francisco we me and my watch partner saw a giant flash of light which lit up the entire night sky like it was daylight. It lasted about two or three seconds. We both saw the flash of light and I turned my head to look out the side window to see where it was coming from and I saw one round craft right as it disappeared. The flash made no noise at all. Also, the craft made no noise. After the incident there was chatter on the radio about it from ships in the area. It was seen by ships as far away as 35 miles, so it must have been up pretty high in the sky. It definitely was not a shooting star or space junk falling to earth. It was something else. Whatever it was, it was big. Some ships reported it as a flare, but it wasn't a flare, as it didn't hang in the air at all. It just flashed off and disappeared. It wasn't lightning either. It was a clear night. Very odd. I can't stop thinking about it.
November 26, 2021 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Carmichael, CA
It was an orange orb or fireball that moved in one direction at first like a plane, then seemed to hover, then moved from side to side, and within a couple of minutes, vanished.