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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
August 25, 2021 · 8:48 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
At 8:48 PM PST, I was sitting on my balcony like I do every night. I am clearly able to see the flight paths of airplanes and helicopters in my vicinity. Also, I occasionally see satellites at much higher altitude with a much higher rate of speed. The object that I witnessed may have only been up to 5000 feet off the ground, traveling at a very low rate a speed. This ball of white light was fairly large and I would assume an object that big would’ve fallen out of the sky at such a slow rate of speed. This object did not blink whatsoever and traveled from the west to the north east. The wind was moving to the south at 2 MPH. Clearly, this ball of solid white light did not correlate to any of the conventional aircraft I have seen in the area. Also, to make sure it wasn’t a satellite, I cross referenced when I saw this object to any satellites on a live map and nothing appeared. According to Brown University, a satellite needs to maintain 22,000 miles ! in altitude traveling at about 7,000 mph. This object was like seeing a car drive in a school zone it was that slow…
August 22, 2021 · 11:15 PM · OVAL
Alameda, CA
I say an oval shaped craft that was about the size of a 707. It had orange lights all around it and what appeared to be red lights in the middle in the shape of a cross. It was flying at about 3,000 feet then all of a sudden went vertical through the cloud cover very quickly. I've watched planes my whole life as my dad was an Air force fighter pilot and also worked at the Naval air station in Alameda. I've never seen anything like this.
August 21, 2021 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
Pine Valley, CA
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August 18, 2021 · 9:00 PM · DISK
San Diego, CA
I was visiting San Diego and noticed the bright light, I started recording and couldn't believe what I was seeing. But was I really seeing anything at all? Shortly after I spotted it the last time there was a huge black helicopter that started circling in the exact area. Can someone give me advice or opinion on what I saw, or didn't see?? If you zoom in on the light in the photo it looks exactly like a disk shaped object.
August 17, 2021 · 3:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Antioch, CA
1st saw it above the delta slowly moving over old downtown. About 2/3 miles away it slowly moved towards our location as it climbed up above us. No sound, no lights but visible because the outline blocked out the starlight. We could make out the depth too incredibly we saw no windows or beings. It hovered above us maybe 3 or 4 minutes then shot straight up quicly?
August 14, 2021 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Davis, CA
My racing pigeons were flying around the property and while watching them I noticed a bright object in the sky coming from the south. I assumed that when it got closer it would turn out to be an areophane, but something compelled me to keep watching it. When it did get closer I saw that it did not have wings and was somewhere between oval and Tic Tac in shape. It had a metallic appearance and had bright lights at either end (this could have alternatively been reflection from the sun to the west). As it got closer it gradually changed directions and began heading east. It did not change orientation as it changed its direction of travel by 90 degrees. As it moved away the lights appeared to switch back and forth between the two ends. I continued watching it as it got further away, but I looked away briefly as the property owner’s dog had seen me and began barking. When I looked back to the object it was then dark with no bright areas and after looking away bri! efly again I could no longer find it. I estimate the time of day to have been between 18:00-19:30 and the duration of the sighting to be approximately 5 minutes.
August 13, 2021 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Morongo Valley, CA
From the north east to south west I spotted a faint dot of white, very small, shoot in a straight line across the sky the object left no tail. The tiny pin pointed object was in comprehensible in its speed. There was no point in standing up to follow its trajectory. I have viewed UFO’s in my life, but never have seen such speed. There was nothing about the observation that remotely resembled a meteor. This object traveled like a laser line. It was not a laser.
August 11, 2021 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Folsom, CA
Driving home on hwy 50 towards El dorado hills, around 10pm. We noticed a tall office building. It looked like 80 windows with silver metallic covers that were rippling. Then the windows turned metallic pink. Then all of the sudden it turned into a ufo disk. Vibrant colors. It was hovering. Then it became bigger. Then the UFO started having rings come down. I snapped pictures, until we passed it. People were slamming on their brakes. That's when I called 911. The next day, my daughter told me it was an Intel drone. The day prior to this I was reading about someone on TikTok? Was claiming to be from the future and wanted to warn us about aliens coming to earth on Aug 11th.
August 10, 2021 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Woodland, CA
The object was a spherical/circular shape and was bright orange. It was moving up and down and then quickly vanished. Inside the circle looked like another dimension of some sort it was extremely bizarre. Only 1 object maybe 300 feet up in the air. I alone witnessed it and I’m 18 years old. I attend the University of Southern California. After I examined the video I took it looked more like a donut.
August 7, 2021 · 6:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Northridge, CA
I saw several triangle shaped aircraft with white lights cutting through the sky which appeared to light up and reappear across the sky somewhere else very quickly and turning very quickly. They were darting in and out on a clear blue sky afternoon.
August 6, 2021 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Newport Beach, CA
On the above date and time my wife and I were casually backyard stargazing, looking at Venus, which was getting low in the sky. From our location, we can observe numerous aircraft constantly come and go in various approach patterns to both John Wayne airport and Long beach airport, and we are quite accustomed to seeing these. All aircraft display navigation strobes and can be tracked on OpenADSB, which I use for fun. To the left of Venus we noticed an unidentified light in the sky approximately 5º above the horizon. Neither of us had noticed the light just a few minutes earlier, and there was no additional detail that would suggest a distance from us. The light was larger than any of the stars in the sky and indeed bigger than Venus itself. It therefore appeared to have mass, and it was illuminated, alternating between red and green solid light - not strobes - with a period of approximately 1 second or less. The light was located in the direction of 240º from Corona Del Mar, CA. As we observed it, the light ascended vertically approximately three times the distance from the ocean from where we initially noticed it. The ascension took approximately 1 to 1.5 seconds and was clearly not aeronautical in nature, as airplanes do not move vertically in such a near-instantaneous manner. I called to my 15 year-old son to join us, which he did, and he began observing about 5 seconds after the initial, vertical move. Approximately 5 seconds later, while all three of us watched, the light descended again to its original location, and then, after a second or two, plunged out of site, presumably into the ocean. END OF REPORT
August 6, 2021 · 1:00 PM · DIAMOND
Whittier, CA
On August 2nd I witnessed ufo 8 a.m. in the morning but couldn’t take any pictures as it was traveling northeast because I was in a meeting with my co-workers outside, but on August 6th around 1:40 p.m. I noticed the very same object, traveling the same direction as on the 2nd and took a short video of it.
August 6, 2021 · 10:48 AM · CHANGING
Carlsbad, CA
On Friday, August 6, 2021 I saw an unidentified flying object. I would say the time was 10:48 a.m. I was standing on the tennis courts at La Costa resort in Carlsbad, CA. When I looked up at the sky (facing east) I was something in the sky. At first, I thought it was a balloon high up, but then thought maybe it was a blimp. It was too high to be a balloon, but changing shapes, so too inconsistent to be a balloon. I pointed it out to my tennis partner. After we watched it for several seconds, we pointed it out to the other 2 women on the court. We then told the other 4 women next to us about it. The 8 of us watched it for 2-3 minutes. At one point there was a 2nd object in the sky close by. It was changing shape, like a cloud of smoke. One lady said it was "like a jelly fish" which I thought was a good analogy. After 2-3 minutes, they both disappeared into the clouds to the northwest, over the water.
August 6, 2021 · 10:30 AM · CHANGING
Carlsbad, CA
I called my husband who lived nearby but he saw nothing. All 8 of us stopped playing. We got a couple photographs and a video.
August 3, 2021 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Palmdale, CA
Approximately at 8:30pm on August 3rd my girlfriend and I had returned from our normal walk. We stopped at our neighbor’s house to chat with them as they were sitting outside. During the conversation I was looking up as always to spot satellites. I spotted what I thought was one and excitedly pointing it out to them. It was single white light like a typical satellite and was moving straight above our heads from the N/W to a S/E direction. My girlfriend spotted it but I had to help my neighbor spot it. It took him about 5 seconds to locate it. A few seconds later my girlfriend and my neighbor turned away and that’s when a few seconds later I saw the light take an instant U turn. I screamed out “It did a U turn”. They both look up and acknowledge that it was going in the opposite direction. As all three of us watched the UFO going in the opposite direction and In a matter of seconds it stopped moving and stayed in one position above us. I yelled out”It stoppe! d”. They agreed with me that it had stopped. They watched it for a short time and then turned away but I kept my eyes on it. After 10 minutes my neck started to hurt from looking up for that length of time. The light never moved and I kept on telling them that they don’t realize what we were witnessing but they didn’t seem as enthusiastic as I was about we had just witness. We went home and it had never moved as I entered my house as I watched it until then. I also pointed out to them a plane that was flying over and explained that the planes have blinking lights and aren’t that high up in the sky. I am 66 yrs. old and have 20/20 vision. I have seen thousands of traveling satellites and have never witness one traveling at that speed and that altitude and do a U turn instantly and then slow to a stop. No plane or helicopter could ever do what we saw tonight. I’m glad I had two witnesses to verify this report.
August 2, 2021 · 8:25 PM · DISK
Ontario, CA
UFO disk shape seen on 8/2/2021, traveling at a fast rate, NW to E, 20:25 pm, 0ntario, California 91761, at the same time as ISS was passing our trajectory.
July 31, 2021 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Benicia, CA
Saturday 7-31-21 11:42p.m. My friends came to see me again tonight. Knew it, (I think they've been talking to me, memories, words...long story), 2 sets of doves came by, some land, some sit in the tree across the road and some pairs that just circled. This is 3 nights in a row. Last night, I ask them to mend my heart...our agreement, "They" flash a star just like last night, a pure white colored, bowed like a kite, star shaped light! Tonight was amazing, I said OK...you confirmed your desire and agreed to mine, I asked for a tiny orb in my hand.... got tinker bell,(what I call a series of flashes I witness in the sky many times, some as many as 13 flashes)...and a little later a star, and I said if you can’t put an orb in my hand how bout planted thoughts and such. Oh, I get that in spades now. All day yesterday I recieved images, thoughts, smells, memories, letters and words. Before my wife got home and after and in front of. I had a visitor over today for 5 hours, and it felt good cause they stopped all images, words etc... during those hours. Had a hunch this was going to be a big night. I start ce5 at 6, ask for something bigger, like beckoning them to come out of the clouds and closer...nothing, watch Olympics, go out at 10...ce5, I do everything in 3's when I perform CE5 meaning dots and dashes of threes.! <-- A bright light, diamond white appears over my right shoulder up in the sky, my 1st thought...satellite. Looks, acts, travels in a straight line. Traveling South to North, maintaining elevation. But then I notice the location/elevation. Not high enough at all, airplane height at best if that. Tell my wife about the sighting after I can’t see it anymore. No sooner than when I get back outside into position the very same light appears from the same direction I had lost sight of it from in the North, it flew/glided and went off over my right shoulder till I couldn't see it anymore. North to South, the exact same line it was on when it traveled South to North. I tell my wife again, so that she can help me remember details. So suspicious. I go out back sliding door after telling my wife, she’s watching the Olympics, when I round the corner of the back of our home where the Big Dipper is on my horizon. I see a bright light just like the two that flew by. I can’t believe my eyes! NO WAY! When “nameless” said they were shouting at me, they are. WTH is happening here?? I thought at first, it’s the big dipper arm star, should be right, then my eyes adjust and see the arm star I'm referring to in the background and this light looks like it's directly approaching me! Watch long enough to determine it is indeed flying straight at me. And it’s NOT a satellite. It’s blinking and shifting shape. I grab my binoculars and can see two elongated, rectangular bright light like windows, and between the lights is a blank black area. I grab my somewhat better camera I’ve had for years and mounted on a tripod earlier. I hit record and held in my hand trying to capture what before you I have captured. In the beginning, you can see the big dipper arm star faintly twinkling. Freeze frame it and Walla. Especially at the end. There’s a lot of dead space because I ran to get my wife, it was directly over us headed southeast. (I’ve since edited and shortened that video and will share both original and edited copy. I yelled for my wife and she came running out the back sliding door. My wife looked up and saw it as it passed over the rear of our home. I had this sudden feeling, HURRY honey, that it would stay just long enough for her to confirm the sighting. Soon as she was saying, oh yea right there it started to fade. I saw it go out, my wife said she saw it flash a reddish hue a few times before she could not see it anymore. (I was not able to upload the original video as it is quite long but it is available to you if you need it).
July 31, 2021 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Fremont, CA
Shortly after 9:30PM, me and one of my family members spotted a mysterious blue light doing weird maneuvers in the sky. The object wasn’t that bright, just a blue dot. It did many maneuvers like shooting straight up and making 90° turns. The object was dimming and then getting bright again. Finally it dropped below the horizon causes a loud boom that set off car alarms.
July 31, 2021 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
El Dorado, CA
I noticed a strange light up in the sky that seemed to be moving very erratic, quickly back and forth, up and down. I called my husband out to look. We stood there for maybe 15 minutes, and within that time there were several more lights just like it on the right and left of the main one that we spotted first. It is a cloudy night so they were moving in a out of clouds. These things were not moving like an airplane at all. They were very erratic, back and forth, up and down. After about 15 minutes my husband and I went back in house.
July 31, 2021 · 2:00 PM · OTHER
Carlsbad, CA
I was out with a group of friends during the day in Carlsbad, CA. It’s hard to describe on paper, I was siting down at a restaurant and I saw this lady walking down an alley way and she had extremely gorgeous hair that caught my attention and my friends attention. How ever she also looked disheveled and had a interesting gate. When I looked at her face it was not human. She had snake looking eyes and a snake looking nose with a very wide mouth like a reptile. I elbowed my friend and asked if he saw that and he said I saw her hair. When I turned my head to look at her again she was staring right at me in a crowd of people like it knew I saw what it really was. It sounds crazy. But it happened in broad daylight and I’m still shooken to my core from this experience. Also it was like time slowed around me.
July 31, 2021 · 3:36 AM · CIRCLE
Ukiah, CA
I was with my boyfriend at our normal hangout spot in the hills by Vichy springs, when I noticed the first strange bright light in the sky, so I pulled out my iPhone camera and started videoing it, when I looked on my phone camera the light didn’t look like a star at all but more like a sphere with a whole in the middle. Shortly after we drove to Safeway and I saw another strange looking light in the sky once again I pulled out my phone, just a few seconds into recording the video it seemed as though this object started projecting itself in other parts of the sky.. I kept seeing strange things in the sky for about a month and took pictures and videos throughout the whole month. Unexplainable things started happening to my body but I was afraid if I told anyone they would call me crazy so I just kept all of this to myself. It’s been five months now since this happened. And I hadn’t seen these lights at all until a couple days ago.
July 28, 2021 · 11:13 PM · FLASH
Bakersfield, CA
Sitting outside in Northwest Bakersfield, clear night, just happened to look up as an intense bright blue light in the sky about 200 yards up, flashed, burned out and left a small puff of smoke behind, which quickly dissipated. Absolutely no sound before, during or after flash. Initial thought was that it may have been a strange firework, or unusual rocket. But that theory was not plausible, being as no sound proceeded or accompanied it. It may have also been witnessed by an aircraft traveling south but at incredibly high altitude.
July 28, 2021 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
At approx. 11 PM, I witnessed a bright blue light (the shade and density of an aqua neon sign) in a thin, long, oval shape sitting in the sky at a 110 degree tilt through the translucent shade of my window. It was motionless, just hanging in the sky, and as I stood to take a look out the window I saw it for approx. one second unobscured by the window shade. As I was half up from my seat, looking straight at the light, it faded like a film dissolve in a second or less. What remained looked like a dark cloud in the shape of the light that was there previously, though it was hard to see due to the darkness of the sky. In about 4 seconds, this cloud disappeared. It was hard to judge distance and size, but it looked to be over Silver Lake or Glendale (depending on how large it was). In my field of vision, it took up about an inch.
July 27, 2021 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Benicia, CA
Tuesday 7-27-21 I woke at 8. Went downstairs, opened backdoor, immediately felt OMINOUS, like we’ve had unusually high, constant blowing winds for a few months now. No wind whatsoever, ominously calm. I noticed also, not one single squirrel came to eat, I leave almonds out every night, because I sleep in and not available to feed them when they come early. So, my 1st job is to fill the picnic table cup. Then I look across the street and notice two doves just sitting in a white birch and immediately I knew, something was going to happen today. I seem to be getting a sense of connection with nature, animals, insects, birds mainly etc.… CE5 at 6, 10:00 I see out towards Napa in the North an orb zig zagging in distance for about 3 minutes till it simply closed, vanished. I asked it to appear again, speaking to it for 10 minutes or so when it did in a triangular constellation of stars to my right. I got a big bright flash of diamond white light in the shape of a Kite/Star, looked bowed in front like a kite, but rays extended from it like a star and the center had a flamingo pinkish hue to it, almost glassy reflective pink to bright diamond white out towards the edges. Saying like, here I am and goodnight as it simply dissolved or someone switched it off.