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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 7, 2021 · 9:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Kensington, CA
At around 9:20 PM my wife and I were on our deck and saw a line of lights in the sky, perfectly spaced, moving west to east. We saw approximately 50 of them go by, evenly paced. They were too far away to see a shape. I took a video.
May 7, 2021 · 9:12 PM · FORMATION
Marin, CA
A constant line of star like forms, moving on a single trajectory slowly along Marin headlands west to east at first in front of us. A few minutes elapsed then they returned flying from the same direction but more north westerly to the south easterly direction and this time more overhead. The lights were spaced at different intervals, some seemed to be catching up and varying ever so slightly in speed, some were flying closer together, some more spaced out.
May 7, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Antioch, CA
They were moving from West to East. In all there were probably 15-20 pairs before the phenomena ended.
May 6, 2021 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Redding, CA
High altitude string of non-blinking yellow lights viewed in eastern sky traveling north. Most were evenly spaced apart. Looked like a very long string of military formation planes but way too fast, lasting way too long, no blinking lights and so many it would have to be some sort of massive movement larger than I’ve ever seen outside of the history channel for a world war. Giant tracer rounds would make sense if they were not so precisely traveling straight across the same path at the same speed across the entire skyline without changing color speed or drifting. All 4 of the 5 witnesses work in healthcare
May 6, 2021 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
I looked up into the night sky to view the little dipper and I saw multiple round bright moving objects moving from left to right in a straight line. i viewed them until i couldn't see them anymore. there was no vapor streak, or sound. they were not planes. they were all moving at the same speed in a straight line.
May 6, 2021 · 4:45 AM · FORMATION
Palm Springs, CA
Ten lights were moving in a southeasterly direction in what appeared to be a formation. Lights were spaced evenly apart at approximately one to two degrees separation. Their speed seemed to be constant, they were not accelerating. The lights were bright white, there were no colored lights visible and no sound at all. The lights were not moving in the direction of Palm Springs airport and disappeared to the southeast about 2 minutes after the initial siting. I did not have my camera with me to take pictures.
May 6, 2021 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Bishop, CA
Around 9:30 p.m. in Bishop California a fleet of at least 20 in a straight line, evenly spaced formation moving slowly across the sky from west to east. Color white / silver ... looked like a sattelite but much closer. I have seen quite a few interesting mysterious sky phenomena on the eastern side of the Sierra (Mammoth Lakes last summer) and in Bishop a similar formation Winter of 2020 (Decemeber i think - did not report - but this formation had at least 10 more) I'm open, non-fanatical, grounded. This formation tonight was awesome. Woke my friend to witness it with me.
May 5, 2021 · 10:04 PM · OTHER
Kelseyville, CA
I was walking down by the lake and saw this long what looked like a contrail left by a jet airplane but all lights it was the weirdest thing I ever saw.
May 5, 2021 · 9:05 PM · CIGAR
Sutter Creek, CA
I saw a line of approximately 60 aircraft flying south to north in a very straight line. It was very similar to watching a freight train from a distance.
May 5, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Sylmar, CA
UFOs sighted May 5, 2021 around 9pm. Lights in a single line flying similar distance from one another. It had been seen by my husband first. I went outside about 1 to 2 minutes after his sighting. I saw the last 10 lights flying south west. My husband said there were about 100 lights flying in the form I saw of the last 10.
May 5, 2021 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pinon Hills, CA
A large group of small star like crafts flying in a straight line heading from north east spaced out evenly about 5 to ten feet apart and made no sound
May 5, 2021 · 8:58 PM · FORMATION
Madera, CA
A perfectly straight string of lights was moving fast across the sky North West Bound The lights looked just like other stars in the sky in terms of size, color and brightness. The sky was completely clear tonight with lots of visible stars. There was no sound.
May 5, 2021 · 8:57 PM · UNKNOWN
IdentifiedTollhouse, CA
On Wednesday, May 5th at 20:57-59, I looked southward out my bathroom window as sirens had just gone by and I could see a sheriff's helicopter in the far distance south of me, then out of the corner of my right eye, following the large electrical lines going North, were what looked like 10 to 12 Canadian geese flying in sequence one after another with lights on each object, silently flying medium speed but close to the ground or at least on the horizon, just above the high power electrical lines. I ran outside with both my glasses and binocs but didn't need them because there they were, 10-12 similar objects, flying one in front of the other going north, no sound, but lights under each one. They were just flying in sequence, going north towards Fallon, following the same trajectory that jets from Lemoore to Fallon follow. They were soundless, there were other aircraft in the sky close enough to see this spectacle but I see no mention of it on the internet. H! owever, it is similar to one sighting in the April sightings near the east coast of the USA but the difference is they were all staying the same altitude and in formation like Canadian geese with lights under their bodies. Please someone tell me they were drones? Not likely. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
May 5, 2021 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Camarillo, CA
These objects were flying quietly in a very long straight line.When I first looked in the sky I thought it was a bunch of stars until I noticed that they were moving in a perfect straight line going in a northeastern direction.I watched for about ten minutes.
May 5, 2021 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Henet, CA
At about 8:50 pm, I looked slightly to the west, almost directly overhead and saw a long string of little round lights in a perfect line moving north/northeast. They were going at least three times the speed of typical airplanes we see flying over us. The flight path of passenger jets is always from west to east I counted 30 of them, all in a perfectly straight line about 2 degrees apart from each other. That means that the total angle from the first one to the last one was about 60 degrees of angle flying across the sky. There might have been more, but when I spotted them, the first one was getting low on the horizon and was fairly dim.
May 5, 2021 · 4:45 AM · FORMATION
Garden Valley, CA
A string of non flashing lights in a straight line moving from Sacramento to the Tahoe direction. No noise, no trails, no apparent interference of digital equipment or power.
May 5, 2021 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Los Osos, CA
At 4:45 AM this morning I saw a line of 10 lights that looked like super bright satellites but they were moving in a straight line going south east towards San Luis Obispo. I was in los Osos and thought that was odd and waited a minute and then saw another line of them and went to wake up my wife. Then we watched a line of 50 or 60 of the same kind of bright lights without sound moving south east in line in close formation at a steady speed going from the coast towards San Luis Obispo down los Osos Valley. The cameras wouldn’t capture the trail of lights.
May 4, 2021 · 9:56 PM · FIREBALL
Clovis, CA
I am a police dispatcher and on my night off I observed several objects rising in the sky. The first appeared as one then split into two, followed by a third. They moved quickly in a southeast direction. Around 5 minutes later, 3 more rose and went into a southeast direction as well. 4 more came up and went in a southeast direction. That occurred all within about 10 minutes of each other. At 22:14, 5 more came up and went in a southeast direction as well. They appeared to have a flickering light almost appearing as though it was a flame or fireball. They were round, disc shaped in a white or light silver color but it was reflective as you could see their flickering lights reflecting on them. There were several witnesses to this as well as people running in the street to record and see as well as several vehicles driving in the area to see if we could find where they were coming from. They all disappeared in the southeast sky. There was absolutely no sound to! these discs but could be seen very clearly that they weren't drones or planes etc. Several pictures and videos were taken but certainly do not show the detail that could be seen in person.
May 4, 2021 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Encinitas, CA
I've seen these same objects multiple days in a row at the D Street Beach in Encinitas, CA, although most of the other nights it was only one of these multi-light shifting orbs, when last night I spotted 3. The three I eventually spotted were rather far out over the ocean—a few miles and were arranged in a perfect equilateral triangle with the apex the furthest out over the ocean. On other days I've had different friends who also witnessed the object(s) which have looked very similar—a brightly lit, multi-color orb that hovers and sometimes changes in shape, sometimes expands and contracts. And sometimes it is moving up the coast like a bright light. Before last night, 5/4/21, for the last 10 days, I had noticed only one of these orbs but in the same location, near where the star Sirius in the western night sky, which is also near the constellation Orion. The orb appears planted in the sky at about the same height as the normal flight path of the military he! licopters, or maybe a little higher, (which are out patrolling every single night) but the orbs were unmoving and almost disguised as a star. For a long time I didn’t notice it because it looked just like a brightly lit star but upon videotaping, it clearly is not a star. I've also videotaped it with helicopters flying past it, too, and it is definitely different than the helicopters. I've witnessed these orbs on different occasions off the coast of San Diego over the ocean, infrequently now for about a year, sometimes playing with the military, sometimes being followed by them, and sometimes much closer than they were last night, but haven’t made any reports until now. But now the frequency has changed dramatically as they have shown up every night. Last night the orbs were just planted in the sky and the military helicopters were ignoring them. The strange thing is how long they seem to just be planted there without moving—far longer than a helicopter or a drone can hover! , totally without sound, and the strangest part was that they’! ve been planted there for many days in a row. I start to notice them just as the sky gets dark enough. Unfortunately all of my videos are shaky and don’t show the way the orbs are just planted in the sky but the colors of the objects are dancing and shifting—you can see that much. I’ve ordered a new lens and tripod for my camera phone to continue collecting data which is very shocking to me. I was a big skeptic about all of this until I had other witnesses confirm. I fully expect them to be there again tonight. They have stayed in place without moving until I got tired and went home for the evening all of these nights. Last night I don’t recall missing time but I have had contact experiences in the past. The beach here where I live is very quiet and dark and private with tall hundred foot bluffs behind me. I generally watch the sunset on the beach every night and started seeing strange lights a year ago but for a long time believed it was just the military until some very strange th! ings happened—like the orbs sometimes shoot across the sky. I also saw a recent display of 4 or 5 of them together fading in and out disappearing and have that on video as well.
May 4, 2021 · 4:40 AM · CIRCLE
Zamora, CA
We just saw strange lights in the sky while responding to a 911 call. They traveled in a straight line and two by two. They were exactly the same length a part. It was nothing I had ever seen before.
May 4, 2021 · 4:30 AM · FORMATION
Madera, CA
Went outside @ 0430 and saw a line of stars which I have never seen in the north eastern sky. After a few seconds I noticed they were moving right to left. There were about 10 at a time, and as they were moving the front one would disappear and another would appear at the other end. Towards the end several would get close together and then separate. And several would stop and go. This lasted for several minutes. Then they disappeared.
May 3, 2021 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Pismo Beach, CA
I walked out onto my deck around 9 pm and sat down. I looked up and immediately saw a big black triangular shape floating above me traveling north from the south. It had three dim orb-like lights at each corner of its triangular shape. I watched as it passed overhead in complete silence and then looked in the direction it was heading, but I couldn’t see anything. There was a commercial flight in the sky at the same time that was much higher and brighter, so I could tell this was only a few hundred feet above me, nowhere near the altitude planes fly at. It was closer to a drone in its movement, but it made no sound. The object was moving north from the south, approximately over highway 101. Vandenberg Air Force Base is south of here and it could've been coming from that direction.
May 1, 2021 · 12:45 PM · EGG
West Hollywood, CA
Viewed from the pool deck of the Montrose West Hollywood. Took note of a passing helicopter and saw the object in the distance at a higher altitude and further out. Object was dull grey and oblong in shape and as it turned it reflected the sun in a glint flash. Observed object make orientation changes in perspective and conduct maneuvers not consistent with fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft. Took picture on personal iPhone. Object ascended in altitude until obscured by cloud cover.
April 27, 2021 · 5:26 PM · OVAL
Palmdale, CA
I was sitting having dinner at the dining table and I was looking out the sliding glass door when I noticed this dark object. I watched it for about a minute trying to see what it was because I did not see any wings tail or props anywhere the whole time I watched it go across the sky from what I figured to be a direction of east to west would be my best guess. I would say that I think the distance from which I watched the the object travel is probably a distance of 5 to 7 miles as the crow flies as for my distance i would have to say I was probably between 3 and 5 miles if I were looking at the object directly. It was not fast probably like a cessna plane. As for the color it seemed a tone of gun metal gray but not metalic from my view point. At the time I saw it the sun would have been pretty close to being in front of the direction it was moving.