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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
November 25, 2021 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Jenner, CA
I was in the passenger seat driving up the Northern California coast at night, looking out over the ocean and all of a sudden two yellow/orange lights appeared high in the sky. They were a little closer together than a car’s headlights and didn’t move or pulse. About the size of the moon. After 10 seconds of trying to figure them out they just turned off suddenly and the sky was black again. The driver saw the same thing happen and neither of us spoke until it disappeared to ask if each other just saw that.
November 25, 2021 · 8:00 PM · DISK
San Diego, CA
Round disk with bright light in center with approx five lights surrounding edge.
November 25, 2021 · 6:10 PM · FIREBALL
Cuvina, CA
I was driving yo Thanksgiving Dinner North from workman towards Roland on Barranca Ave. and noticed a low flying helicopter passing above. After it flew out of view I noticed above it three Orange , what looked like, balls of fire or glowing orbs following each other in a straight line coming from the West to the East. I pulled into the gas station parking lot and turned the video from my phone on. By that time the three objects had passed and then formed what looked like a triangle formation. After that they changed into a line from up to down and then the light changed from an Orange glow to White and each object disappeared after turning white. At the same time as this I noticed a fourth object flying almost directly over me headed in the same direction as the previous objects. This object made no sound and could almost look like it was floating along maybe catching up to the other three. I zoomed in on this object but all it looked like was a large ball of fire. When it reached the same general area as the original three it also changed from Orange to White and Blinked off or disappeared from view in the same way as the first three. The video is to long to upload so here is the link to it in my dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/97iiqeb0f0qve2n/VID_20211125_181025391.mp4?dl=0 It is 1 minute 20 seconds long.if you ave any questions feel free to contact me at the number I provided below.
November 21, 2021 · 6:00 PM · DISK
Vacaville, CA
Oval ring/disk like shape spinning and moving. Was NOT a airplane, or a helicopter whatsoever.
November 21, 2021 · 7:00 AM · DISK
Eureka, CA
Driving northbound on Broadway, HWY 101, in the vicinity of 4th street, south of the marina, I noticed an object that resembled a sand dollar, a circular shaped dome, that glided from the west, off the Pacific, toward the east, near the northern city limits. Most striking were several colored rays of light, blue, red, green, and yellow, which appeared to emanate in a circular fashion from the dome. As best I could tell, the object was about 20 feet in diameter, and looked to be traveling between 700 and a 1,000 feet. It was 7:15 AM, just as the sun was coming up, and skies were clear. The object was visible for approximately 3 to 4 minutes as it skirted the city limits.
November 20, 2021 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Sacramento, CA
unknown object viewed in the eastern sky from our location in south Sacramento near hwy 99 approximately 30 degrees altitude, the red light had a odd tint, translucent and panned from west to south and disappeared, no sound to the object. This is not the first time for this object in this area.
November 19, 2021 · 11:30 PM · CHANGING
Oakdale, CA
I was recording these weird lights that did not seem to be stars, planes nor dromes. When All of a sudden I saw this super bright light come out like from another UFO. It stood up for like a split second then it took off over me transforming and changing it's figure. Here is a video clip of what I saw.
November 17, 2021 · 5:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Tehachapi, CA
It seemed to be a triangle craft with red lights flashing in sequence at each point, in a counter clockwise rotation. The object was moving approximately 30 mph or less. At first sight , it was moving in a westerly direction then slowly turned south up and over a mountain out of site. The object made no noise whatsoever.
November 14, 2021 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
The below refers in part to materials I was not able to include because of your file limits. I can send you the materials discussed but not included via Google or We Transfer. Hello - My name is ((name dleted)). I am a music teacher and photographer who lives on the West Side of Santa Cruz, California. I am writing to ask for your help in interpreting one of the strangest things I have ever seen. It has been occurring since late October and continues each night there are no clouds or rain. On October 29th my neighbors and I first noticed two unidentifiable lights in our neighborhood - one smaller and distant, the other large and seemingly closer. I am a layman and not a scientist, but I feel like I can rule out a planet because: - they don't move position in the sky from night to night, or even week to week.They appear to return to the same coordinates each night; Both the smaller light and the large and bright one move in the sky visible to the naked eye. The smaller lights’ movement is very jagged. The brighter objects’ movement is more of a swaying back and forth. When I center the brighter object with my camera on a tripod, it moves out of frame in minutes, to the point where it is no longer visible from my vantage point. After several repositionings of the tripod, I have always had to move to a new location to continue shooting it. The brighter object has many smaller, fainter, fast moving lights near and around it that are very visible in the screen of my camera when it is in live view. The brighter object is usually accompanied by a triangular looking object that moves from frame to frame around and near it, photos 5347-5357. There is some wind, but the tripod is fixed, and to my layman’s eye it appears to show both objects moving in contrary motion to one another. I have also been videotaping the object since October 30th with my cell phone. I am enclosing a few videos and some freeze frames. In movie 1423, I was actually able to film the brighter object arriving in daylight. In movie “Video 2,” taken on 11/13/21, watch for a series of flashes, about 25 in all, starting in the upper right moving left, above and around the bright object. I did freeze frames of these flashes, which are enclosed. In movie 1579, taken November 23rd at 5:48, to the lower left of the bright object is a smaller flashing light, which when zoomed in on looks very curious, almost like a metallic, spinning hexagram. Beginning on November 10th, I started using my Nikon D750 on a tripod (although I had to move the tripod several times when the lights were moving quickly.) After observing and photographing the larger object with my 500mm lens, it seems like there is a pattern to what is occurring on a nightly basis. I want to say again that I am a layman, and so the terms and descriptions I use may not be scientific or accurate, but they describe what a layman has seen and photographed on several nights. The object arrives as a sphere (Movie 1423, taken November 6th at 6:27pm). It seems to grow in size and brightness and then goes through a series of intense flashes, lasting several seconds, where the intensity of the light increases, and the sphere appears to change shape. In the photos where the sphere is not a sphere any longer, for lack of any other way to describe it, multi-colored, worm-like objects that to my layman’s eye resemble DNA strands fill the entire sky. To my unscientific eye they appear to be clones of the object in some way, because these “DNA strands” are the exact shape of the nearby object as it flashes with different shapes in each of these photos. I have taken photos of this on a few different nights. Photos 4812-4912 are from 11/10/21 at 7:55pm. Photos 5615, 5677, and 5691 were taken on 11/17 at 8:30pm and show very similar images to 11/10. 5691 shows a stick like object that appears in many other photos. The last series of photos from 11/24/21 are for me the most puzzling and the most disturbing. I can only describe it in my very unscientific terms. During this stage the object moves a lot, and so I was struggling to keep up with it. They show the main, bright object being surrounded by multi-colored projectiles of some sort. I struggled to get the first shots of this, photos 5364-5378, which are partially obscured by the trees. (One interesting thing to note is the way the triangular object is visible even through the tree in photo 5364). In photo sequence 5379-5385, I got a clear shot of this head on. The projectiles surround the bright object and seemingly penetrate it like sperm to an ovum for lack of a better metaphor, exploding out the other side of the object with a great flash of energy. On November 17th I captured the same images a third time just before the object moved and went out of range, photos 5781-5794. I have many more images that I can send that span several weeks if you are interested. I am simply looking for a scientific, rational explanation for what I have filmed and photographed. Thank you so much for your help!
November 13, 2021 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Hemet, CA
Around 7:45-8pm at an outdoor birthday party I witnessed a bright amber/orange light at about 55 degrees due south. The light was noticably bright amber/orange. I called to others attention. The light was slowly moving in a N/W direction, then stopped and hovered for about 30 seconds then slowly dimmed to darkness. Witnesses were perplexed as to what it was and began to rule out possibilities. As the party continued, about 4 minutes later the object light return in a different location, same horizontal altitude, but a bit father N/W. As I drew witnesses to its attention again it began dimming within 30 seconds and once again disappeared. It did not return. The distance of the object to our location appeared to be over the Temecula or Pala Mesa area.
November 13, 2021 · 5:25 PM · SPHERE
San Clemente, CA
My girlfriend and I were leaving the beach and walking along the bike path at Trestles beach. There were super clear skies and the sun had just set. As we walked we watched the sky change colors from the sunset and I noticed a bright white star which I guessed was a planet. As we kept walking I noticed an even larger light in the sky which at first glance looked like Mars. It was bigger than the other planet we saw and was bright orange and red. I thought it odd because its size was much bigger than usual. Maybe twice as big as Saturn in the night sky. I mentioned it to my girlfriend and we were both curious about what it could be. We talked about it a bit and both thought it was odd. So I set my bags down and got out my phone and opened the Star Walk App. I lifted it up to see what the object could be and the object was gone. I then pointed the Star Walk App at the other planet we saw and that was Saturn. Then went back to the area in the sky whe! re the Orange ball had been. I could almost still see it but it was much smaller - like it had traveled much farther away in a matter of seconds. Then I noticed on the App that Mars was in rotation ahead of the Sun and had set below the horizon earlier - so no way it was Mars. Not anything we could clearly confirm but definitely one of the oddest things I’ve seen in the sky for some time!
November 12, 2021 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
West Hills, CA
Fireball shaped objects( very bright fire like color) took off around Simi valley/ Santa Susanna field Laboratory area and flew toward Northeast with the speed around 200-250 km/h increasing altitude until disappearing. From the visual appearance and the distance, the size of the objects could have been from 1 to 10 m in diameter. We were able to observe objects take off and steadily traveling and increasing altitude up to about 3-4km over thousand oaks/ Malibu mountains area, gradually disappearing from the visual contact. Could have been a fire balloon/light festival, but I could not find any information in the media related to the event at that date.
November 11, 2021 · 6:00 PM · TEARDROP
Ventura, CA
My wife and I had driven to Emma Woods Beach to view the sunset because it had been such an incredibly clear day. There were no clouds in the sky at all. We arrived at the beach as the sun set and walked out of our car to the beach. We both noticed a bright object in the western sky approximately 20 degrees above the horizon. The shape appeared to be well beyond the Channel islands and quite bright. When we first spotted the object it was heading north west. We both described it to each other as it turned due west away from the coast. The profile of the object changed. There was no trail of exhaust from a rocket or condensation trail from a plane. It appeared to nearly disappear as it’s profile was headed directly away from us. In a moment it reappeared as it again angled north west at a slight angle. I went to our vehicle and retrieved a pair of strong binoculars and the light was gone when I returned, but a mark or line of the object remained in the sky for several minutes as dusk approached. We both saw this line with the unaided eye and with the binoculars. It eventually became to dark to see and we returned to our vehicle. The object seemed many miles away traveling at great speed. We both have never anything remotely like this before.
November 11, 2021 · 2:20 PM · OTHER
Whittier, CA
The object looked white in the middle and was casting a shadow around itself when pausing the video, zooming and taking screen shots.
November 10, 2021 · 6:28 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSanta Monica, CA
After witnessing an unexplainable phenomenon in the night sky a few nights before, I decided to observe the night sky again facing the same direction. To my delight, a strange, rainbow orb appeared in the sky that was extremely different than the moon and the other stars in the sky. I recorded the pulsating rainbow orb on my phone and compared it to its neighboring objects in the night sky. I cannot explain what it is. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
November 10, 2021 · 11:00 AM · CIRCLE
Menifee, CA
I took the pic with my iPhone and the only thing I did was change it to black and white no other edits were done, Im'sure you will be able to tell this. Once I noticed the object that appears to be coming out of the clouds, I am convinced that it is a craft of some sort. I hope you can use this photo or disprove it. If you look in the "Red" circle you will see what I saw.
November 9, 2021 · 6:05 PM · CHANGING
Imperial Bch, CA
Moving up and down, sideways, also at the end of video you can see the orb go faster and see light coming out the back.
November 9, 2021 · 6:05 PM · CHANGING
IMPERIAL BEACH, CA
Moving up and down, sideways, also at the end of video you can see the orb go faster and see light coming out the back.
November 7, 2021 · 9:42 AM · OVAL
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA. Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 9:42am I was driving my car eastbound on Bush St. I just got on the 1700 block to turn right onto Gough, when I looked up into the lower left of my sunroof. I saw in the bright blue sky, a silver southwest plane flying overhead to the west and behind it, bright flashing lights higher in the sky close to some wispy white clouds moving to the west. If I had to place where they were flying over, i would say it was over the Pac heights neighborhood. My initial thought was the lights were airplanes higher in altitude, but I quickly realized they were in a fixed triangle formation and were flashing light between the grey body color and a bright white, like reflection of the sun and they were moving together. But the silver plane that flew by earlier wasn’t reflecting any sunlight in the way the ovals were. They were 3 ovals fixed with each other in an equilateral triangle and they floated very slowly and I could tell ! because they were moving and the cloud behind it they were up against was sometimes coming in front of the ovals as they passed through it. They flashed sometimes at the same time and sometimes alternately. The best way I can describe the flashing is if they were coins and when they flipped around they flashed light. The flashing lasted maybe a half second and then went back It wasn’t quite regular. The whole experience lasted maybe 20 seconds while I was waiting for the light to change behind several cars. When I looked down to drive, a couple seconds later I looked up and they were gone.
November 4, 2021 · 7:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Big Pine, CA
Saw a blueish light caught my eye, looked again saw 3 lights coming and going over my location no noise, they changed directions. as they continued north up the valley, I call my husband who went outside to look, he said there were 4 lights still traveling. Did manage to get a picture. Husband says he saw a jet in the flying near them, but not with them
October 31, 2021 · 6:57 PM · CIRCLE
Roseville, CA
It was something I will never forget and I still have the video if you guys want to see it
October 27, 2021 · 5:51 PM · LIGHT
Sherman Oaks, CA
Two friends and I were hanging out by our pool when one of us noticed the ufo’s. One of us is a high school teacher, and the other two are in film production. We could all see at least 8 objects that were hovering very high up. They looked like tiny dots of light that would flash red sometimes. They moved very slowly, staying mostly together, but sometimes moving closer to one another and sometimes moving apart. Coordinated enough to not be balloons, and not ever moving up, only across, southwest. Also too high and not coordinated enough to be drones. We could see them for about 10 minutes and for a few more minutes we could see only one of them. Not sure if they vanished or went behind the building. No sound was made by them.
October 26, 2021 · 5:15 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
Noticed what I originally thought was a plane at about 20 thousand feet in the darkened sky. Immediately noticed another light behind this and my initial thought was wow I wonder if that pilot knows how closely he’s being followed. Moments later, and to my amazement, multiple objects (lights) were in my eyesight all moving roughly at the same speed in the same direction from southeast to northwest. I counted over fifty. None were flying in formation. All random but obviously following some pre-described path. Ran in to the house to get my father who witnessed the event. Soundless and the sighting lasting approximately eight minutes.
October 25, 2021 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Burney, CA
I have been hearing things for the past couple of weeks like sounds of something walking on my roof and whispering. Last night at approximately 7 pm my boyfriend and I were out in the camp trailer that I have been remodeling. We finished out there and we were heading back inside when I saw lights over at our fiends house in the back like flashlight looking. I got my phone out and staring recording while I held my flashlight so I could see. I have been seeing thing and hearing things for weeks and no one has really believed me so I have been trying to capture it on video. Well anyways I saw what looked like people with black clothes and ski masks on and they were on the neighbors roof. We let the neighbor know and went inside. When we got into the house I see lights outside the house and they are like flickering. I get out my phone and I start looking out the windows in the laundry room there are three different windows. What I see shocks me and i am at the p! oint where I don’t believe myself anymore because everyone else thinks I am seeing things. I see things on my neighbors roof jumping up and down I see creatures of some sort in white suits and I see the upstairs of my house which is not a part of the house and is only full of insulation and not live able have a window that is not supposed to be there open with lights on. I continue to film them and then I got scared that maybe I wasn’t supposed to be seeing them and they saw me videotaping them so I shut the curtains and came back inside. But I have seen them before and thought my mind was playing trick on me because I just feel like this is too unreal.