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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
February 14, 2021 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Malibu, CA
Last night between 830 and 930 pm, a blindingly bright clear white pulsing light was blasting through my bedroom window from a sharp (at least 45 degree) angle above the trees, in the exact direction (as the crow flies) from LA County Fire Department Camp 8. The direction was looking approximately 200 degrees south west. In all the 24 years I've lived here I've NEVER seen a light in that window from that direction. It hovered ABOVE the trees. My boyfriend and I stared at it for 30 mins, wondering: "is that the Fire Camp's helicopter?" "why isn't it moving?" "if it's emergency vehicle lights, why are they bright white with no red or amber?" The area is covered in at least 30 foot high oak trees and this light was above them. It appeared as large as if it were a helicopter less than a mile away, but blinding lights, not a single beam of a helicopter you'd see searching for something underneath. I fell asleep and by 10 pm it was gone. The light was pulsing and so clear bright, it blasted across the canyon to the other side (approximately 1.5 miles across). I called the Fire Camp 8 this morning and said: "I'm making a crazy lady call, were you doing helicopter training last night?" I told the captain what I saw and he said "no, the helicopter was not being used last night." He also told me that the fire captain in San Diego had a similar experience recently and everyone thought he was nuts, but there was no other source of light from a vehicle, plane, helicopter. I don't believe in conspiracy theory. I don't necessarily believe in Martians (but I suppose there must be life out there somewhere). What we saw made no sense. It was beyond odd.
February 14, 2021 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
Yucca Valley, CA
February 14, 2021 5:30 am Yucca Valley, California I looked up in the sky and saw equally spaced lights that were continuously moving in a straight line. At first I thought it was a group of stars but these lights were evenly spaced, in a straight line and were slowly moving from right to left. The right side of the line was slightly higher than the left side-not parallel to the earth. From my perspective this appeared to me at a 45 degrees angle form where I was looking up – not as high in altitude as a transcontinental flight- there was no sound except for an alarm going off somewhere behind us. I woke up my partner to come see if she could see what I was seeing and she saw it too. We both observed these lights, both videoed the sky where the lights were, and both observed these lights (as a grouping) slowly leave, moving towards the Joshua Tree area until they were no longer visible. All of this lasted maybe 3-4 minutes. The video recording I took on my phone shows very little- only a single blinking light- if you would like it please email me and I can email it back- i just don't know how to adjust a filter that would show what i saw and I dont want to compromise the raw footage.
February 14, 2021 · 5:15 AM · UNKNOWN
San Diego, CA
February 14, 2021 A little after 5 a.m. I was outside and looked up into the sky to see a row of slow moving lights, they seemed to be independent of one another and were not exactly lined up, some got closer to the one in front and then fell back into line (only slightly) and were traveling single file. I did not count them but I would say there were 15 or so, moving in an easterly direction, they were south of me and I can not say what elevation they were, though not nearly as far away as satellites are, more like the elevation of an airplane. Definitely not balloons as they were independently moving on their own power, and not part of a bigger craft. There was a single light the same color as the stars are. I watched them until they disappeared from view, the conditions were hazy over the coast, and they continued into the haze, but the sky above me was clear and that is why I saw them so clearly. I am in San Diego, on a point of land called point loma. There is a lot of military in this town and that could be what I saw, perhaps a fleet of drones being moved to north island naval air base.
February 13, 2021 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Santa Barbara, CA
I was pacing around my front porch, on the phone with my cousin. It was about 7:30pm. She was talking to me about our aunt, as she's talking to me I stare up at the night sky and I see this really bright star to the left of our big sticky gum tree, which caught my attention. As she is talking I move over to my left to get a clear view and notice that the bright star that formed a small triangle with two other fainter looking stars. As my cousin is still talking to me, I'm staring at (what I thought was a constellation) the triangle of stars, the top star looked like it was moving. I then realize that all three stars that formed the small triangle were slowly moving downward. I then interrupted my cousin to explain what I was seeing, as I was talking to her the three star looking objects slowly faded out, with the brightest light that was on the left being the last to fade into nothing. After I hung up, I went on a skymap app I have on my phone, to try and map out where I saw the triangle of lights. The small triangle of lights looked like it was in a larger triangle of stars. Which I believe was, Y Uma (the point), Dubhe (bottom left), Merak (bottom right). I have never seen anything CLOSE to a UFO before. I'm still trying to rationalize this!
February 13, 2021 · 5:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Paso Robles, CA
I was taking a smoke break in our backyard in rural eastern Paso Robles, early in the AM very near to 5:15 - about 40 minutes ago. Let me say at this point that this is my first DEFINITE UFO sighting. I have been vaguely interested in UFOs for their entertainment value, but I've always been darn skeptical of their existence. I always like to look at the stars in the morning. This was impossible to miss. In the East-Southeast sky almost directly overhead, there was a long line of "stars" moving in a slow manner. The Line was almost perfectly linear. Their brightness was appx. that of nearly the brightest star at this time of morning. They moved appx the same speed a satellite would, but they were clearly brighter than any satellite would appear this late in the morning. And somehow we could tell that they were nearer to earth than a moving satellite, although their altitude seemed very high. There was absolutely NO sound associated with them, and it was very quiet with zero traffic noise, etc. They moved from northwest to southeast, at constant speed. Once they got fairly near the horizon they disappeared one by one. I believe there is no moon or very little moon today, and there was no glow from the sun in the east (too early). I gotta say, this is my first Definite UFO sighting that can't be written off as something else. Unless the military has craft that can fly at such extreme altitude without noticeable sound, or there are "squadrons" of low earth satellites being produced. JUST INSANE ! I tried to film the line of moving objects with my wife's phone but I don't think it turned out.
February 13, 2021 · 2:05 AM · CYLINDER
Santa Paula, CA
Looking through my bedroom window, towards the North East, I saw a VERY bright light (brighter than any star I have ever seen) traveling South East, going very fast. It had a green light at the back. It flew lower than the jets on an often used flight path traveling between Santa Paula and Fillmore, California. It was shaped like a horizontal space shuttle. It kept disappearing and reappearing, rapidly. The sky was clear. It looked like it was one third the length of a jet.
February 12, 2021 · 10:20 AM · LIGHT
Las Brisas, CA
We were having dinner facing the beach at night. It was so dark, all one could see was stars and helicopters/planes flying by. A ufo with a bright light flew by at a much faster speed than an airplane or helicopter. As if flew by, it suddenly “disappeared” or the lights turned off mid air. We have seen shooting stars or falling stars before and it definitely was NOT that. Coincidently, an airplane was flying above us at the same time so we knew it could not have been a plane. Very shocking and exciting at the same time.
February 12, 2021 · 5:08 AM · LIGHT
Stockton, CA
There were 12 white lights when I noticed and they were all flickering. The lights travelled in a straight line. This continued for approximately 2 minutes. While trying to get pictures and video, the lights stopped appearing from the original point in the sky and all travelled to the second point and disappeared.
February 12, 2021 · 5:05 AM · LIGHT
Kingsburg, CA
A string of evenly spaced small white solid lights began to appear one at a time due east of Kingsburg above or beyond the Sierra Nevadas. The sky was clear and dark, no moon. It started around 5:05am and continued for 5 plus minutes. I am estimating I saw 100 plus in all. They started low on the horizon, descending on approximately a 30 degree slope. They appeared to be traveling south east, remaining visible for about 45 seconds until they disappeared in or behind the Sierras. At first they were more evenly spaced but as the progression continued they became spaced two close together with wide spaces in between. The decent line was very straight and their speed was consistent start to finish.
February 12, 2021 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Lincoln, CA
I looked up in the sky and seen approximately 20 lights evenly spaced apart moving in towards the east. My friend seen them as well.
February 11, 2021 · 8:09 PM · SPHERE
Rock Round, CA
We were visiting Texas for a soccer tournament and decided to go to Denny’s because it was across the street from our hotel. I thought that the ice dripping from the Denny’s sign was super cool so I decided to take a picture. When I reviewed the picture back at the hotel, I had seen that there was and unidentifiable object above the sign in the sky. When I zoomed in to look at it, it looked like there was some sort of energy buzzing around the object that caused the planes/fields of the picture to become slightly distorted and pixelated. The shape of the object was a half sphere (the top round and the bottom flat). It looked like it was flying forward, causing the object to lean forward which just doesn’t make technical sense to the technology provided today. It also doesn’t make any sense according to physics because of gravity affecting how the object flys (hence there are no wings on the object). I showed the picture to the people I was with and we all agreed on it being and unidentifiable object flying in the sky.
February 11, 2021 · 3:20 AM · CROSS
Tulare, CA
Something has gone wrong and there me special beings around.
February 6, 2021 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles, CA
I watched it fly right over me while I was looking in the direction of Orion’s Belt. No blinking lights like a plane and was moving probably 50 times the speed at least. It crossed the entire sky in a straight line and went out of view in less than 20 seconds. I only saw it because there was a small cloud above it and it contrasted just enough to catch my eye. There was a single white light that was very faint and I’ve never seen anything move that fast.
February 6, 2021 · 5:15 PM · RECTANGLE
El Cerrito, CA
Saw Four white objects floating above the tree line of our back yard at 5:15 pm PST in El Cerrito, CA on February 6th. The three small rectangular shapes were floating ahead of the larger circular shaped object for about 5 minutes. After all four objects floated past the tree line, the large object veered to the southwest in a turn to the NE and we couldn’t see the smaller objects. this appeared to be about as far up in the sky as planes fly, but none of the objects appeared to have wings or tails. They traveled slower than a jet. I took a photo with my iphone, but the detail of the three smaller objects did not show up in the photo. You could only see a circle with the camera of the larger object. My brother and I, both college graduates, both observed this. I called ABC news and reported it. But they did not have any reports from others about it. We have never seen anything shaped like this that moved this way before.
February 5, 2021 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Napa, CA
My Husbndand and I saw a large shapeless red light, with strands of red light streaming down like jellyfish tenticles. The large part of this red object split into two parts for about 4 minutes then slowly the two parts merged back into one shape again. AFter they became one, the object with lightening speed, disappeared into the eastern sky and vanished.
February 4, 2021 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Newark, CA
Was on patio smoking and glances at one of the unusual bright looking stars. Noticed one blinking a blueish/ red. The others were twinkling white and tan. After staring at one I noticed it did some small zig zags , circles. Up/ down/ left and right. I then looked at the tan one and it too moved in strange similar patterns. Had to wake mom up and have her see if she seen what I was seeing and then she noticed them move also. After 1 hr or so they kinda just got dimmer as if leaving. I tried getting a video on my Apple 6 phone but it wouldn’t pick them up. I did get some snap shot pics tho. Not sure if I’m imagining it or not but in one pic when I zoomed in I swear I can see a side profile of Jesus as he is seen in paintings with the thorn crowns and all. In another I see what appears to be a shape of a grew as if peeking through some sort of ? Time space dimensional window looking at me. Very odd. Perhaps I just imagined the images but it was enough fo! r me to start praying to god and Jesus. But both my mom and I seen them moving. And I’ve seen satellites before and they were Not satellites moving in circles and zig zags. I feel blessed to of witnessed them tonight. They had a twinkle to them also. One with the red and blueish and the other was kinda flashing light as like a mirror reflecting sunlight.
January 30, 2021 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Antioch, CA
Three lights in perfect triangle traveled over the sky from east to northwest. Paused then the lights dropped one at a time down as to the earth.
January 30, 2021 · 2:25 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
Bright light, similar to a star was observed up in the sky, this object was at about 5K high and remained static, in the same place for about 4 to 7 minutes. This happened on 01/30/2021 at around 2:25 pm over the city of Long Beach, California. Me and my friends had just finished playing soccer when i looked up in the sky and noticed the bright light, similar to a star completely static, i then told my friends about it and 3 of them were able to spot it as well. However, I was able to take a photograph of the object that minutes later disappeared, but could be used for evidence that it is an UFO.
January 30, 2021 · 11:58 AM · FORMATION
Salida, CA
My wife and two sons were in our backyard. From the side yard, my wife yelled for me and one of my sons to come look at what she was seeing. She was staring up into the sky. I walked up beside her and saw approximately 30 silver balls in the sky. When I first saw them, most of them were in a triangle shape with the remaining balls (around 7), hovering around the formation at varying distances. They moved out of formation and would come close to each other and then move away again. Around 10 came into a triangle formation again, but exited the formation only about 2 or 3 minutes later. After they exited the formation, they appeared to group together with some of them vanishing while others either stayed close to the same place and others flying around in no discernible pattern. They primarily maintained the same altitude. We watched them for around 15 minutes before we went inside with our sons. My wife was afraid of what they might be or what they might do. ! I came back out around 30 minutes later but they were all gone.
January 28, 2021 · 12:15 AM · CIRCLE
Rosamond, CA
At approximately 12:15a on 1/28/21, my friend and I were on the phone and she commented on how big the moon was and she wanted to take a picture. In the picture you can see two "orbs". Close-up, they look pointed on one side. She took two back-to-back photos and these two "dots" are in each picture, in slightly different spots, meaning they were moving.
January 26, 2021 · 6:35 PM · UNKNOWN
San Luis Obispo, CA
Event took place in under 1 second. I was the only witness. Can't confirm this was a UFO, but not sure what else it could be. The best explanation I can describe is this: Walking down a street on Cal Poly State University, took a right into a courtyard/grassy area between the Math/Science buildings, and almost immediately I saw what looked like a large drone (although couldn't tell what size or how far away it was), completely covered in bright, LED-like lights traveling at an insane speed (maybe 100-300 mph?), and within split seconds it vanished/faded away. I had no drugs in my system, had sufficient sleep the night before, and I cannot imagine this was simply a hallucination. I can't imagine this is simply a drone because what would explain the insane speed, vanishing, and no one else in sight? It was 6:35 PM and completely dark outside. The only other thing I could think of was maybe I looked at a streetlight for too long and it took a second for ! my eyes to adjust to the dark again, but I tried experimenting with this after the fact without any success.
January 26, 2021 · 11:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Sacramento, CA
I was driving on the 50/99 interchange in downtown Sacramento when I saw a bright blue with dark blue trim, triangular craft flying in a downward path towards Sacramento Executive Airport approximately 5 miles away. At first I assumed it was a plane landing but it was way too big to land at the small airport, and it did not look like any type of plane I'd ever seen. Bright blue color, wrong shape, way too big; I thought about driving over to the airport to see if something like that had landed but I was late for an appointment, so I did not.
January 26, 2021 · 3:19 AM · UNKNOWN
Sherman Oaks, CA
At approximately 0315 of 27JAN2021 I was returning to my dwelling and was stopped from the source: perhaps A/C Units or other machinery in some odd sync. s I thought to say “no biggie,” just off to my right began, a somewhat louder and more. This sound played in a higher octave and forced me focus on this chord playing now as whole, in tandem. And No long longer had 5 minutes passed observing this, whan within 30 seconds a bright, thunderless crash lit up the night sky. The high pitch of an intake type of engine, bringing along with them an extra octave to the dual leveled hum that remained until the time I departed. And, i departed at 3:47AM, immediately following some dashlights and AC going crazy.
January 25, 2021 · 3:30 PM · EGG
Trabuco Canyon, CA
At 3:30 p.m. pacific time I set out to walk the dog. There was a winter storm system coming through the area causing very strong winds. The sky to the east had dark clouds. The sky to the west was clear and sunny. I was looking to the east to the top of the Saddleback Mountain ridge. In front of the dark clouds were these white orbs. At first I thought I was looking at a flock of sea gulls but then I realized they were too big to be birds because I was far away from the top of the mountain. Also I realized they weren’t really flying in a flock type of formation. They were kind of circling or swirling. They were definitely separated from one another and moving in synch with one another but they weren’t going horizontal. There were anywhere from 50 to 100 I think. I stood for a few more seconds trying to register what I was witnessing. I started to walk down the street toward the mountain hoping to get a better look and maybe film it. After another second or t! wo some started to disappear and re-appear. They kind of flickered in an out but not quickly. It was a slow flicker. Then almost all of them disappeared at once. Three to five were left and they formed a V shape for a second or two and then disappeared together.