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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
September 1, 2023 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Ventucopa, CA
We were camping. I woke up at 4:30am and saw a large, bright craft at high altitude fly across the sky at the speed a bit faster than a passenger jet airliner, then it stopped in place for at least an hour. There were no trails or erratic movements. It was almost a full moon, so only a few stars were visible, but this craft was bright and highly visible, about 10x brighter than the brightest star. I watched it from within my tent for about an hour before I fell asleep. I was looking at it in a South-South East direction at about 60-70 degrees up from horizontal. In the course of the hour it seemed to move westerly at the same rate the few stars I could see, so it was stationary with cosmos and not the surface of the earth. Though it was at high altitude I took a photo and when zoomed in, it was fully lit up and oblong shaped, horizontally.
August 31, 2023 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Van Nuys, CA
We saw a blue UFO about 40 degrees up from horizon, moving fast across the sky going around 5 degrees in the upward direction from the horizontal coming from the east with a lingering jet trail. It could have been shot from the ground at an almost horizontal angle.
August 31, 2023 · 7:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
I think there is a top secret thing going on at lockheed property in the mountains. I was driving up eagle rock on a utv and i see this triangular object with rounded edges. It was in one spot, then jogged to another and hovered there about a minute at a time. It rapidly flew over and descended behind a mountain range owned by lockheed martin. I panicked and ran behind a burned out rock cliff/cave, when i realized where I was it was darker outside although it was beginning of sunset when i observed it. I knew I was there the whole time, but it seemed like sunset happened in five minutes while I was waiting for it to leave. could not turn on utv until it left. It was jogging across the canyon almost like it was surveying spots.
August 31, 2023 · 5:20 AM · CIRCLE
Hesperia, CA
Woke up this morning for work and seen 3 objects not blinking like regular air crafts and no way possible to stay in the same place for that long with a light like that
August 30, 2023 · 11:50 PM · CROSS
Probable conventionalPalo Alto, CA
Craft has been hoeing up for over a month, movement can be seen but in general try to imitate path of a star go from east to west every evening [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
August 30, 2023 · 9:32 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedWofford Heights, CA
The pictures will show a strange object in my driveway? One of the pictures shows a dock at the top of the screen. It disappears, and the screen goes black for a second or two then you see the moon come into focus in the circular orbit, spinning at high speed. Some of the pictures I had taken may have been a reflection from my iPhone, but these definitely were not. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
August 29, 2023 · 10:12 PM · TEARDROP
El Dorado Hills, CA
While driving on US-50 eastbound, right at the end of Folsom City and before the sign of El Dorado County line, saw a very bright/white descend very fast from my right to left. As it got closer to surface, light faded and it appeared to travel towards Folsom Lake or Auburn area
August 29, 2023 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
San Francisco, CA
Craft with two green and one red lights hovered, changing altitude and location several times at a high velocity. Video captured part of the sighting, including one high speed maneuver involving change of altitude and location.
August 29, 2023 · 9:25 AM · OVAL
Avenal, CA
Ballon type object floating in the same space, naked eye can see it, looks white or grey. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
August 29, 2023 · 12:45 AM · TRIANGLE
El Dorado Hills, CA
3 blinking lights. Triangle formation
August 28, 2023 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Ponderosa, CA
Three of my neighbors or more witnessed this white disk this morning and it hovered for hours then flew north and returned hours later at 3PM and is still here. That's what's so strange.
August 28, 2023 · 7:55 AM · CHANGING
Vallejo, CA
Was driving westbound on Highway 37 at the corner of my eye I saw a large what I thought was a helicopter crash. The mountain range about 10 miles to my right after I saw it I realize it was not a helicopter and it seem like a big box flying in the air and at first I thought it was a helicopter that was repairing the power lines that run along parallel to 37 about 5 miles towards the Naval communication station at stags island, after watching it for a few seconds, I started videotaping it and realized it was not a helicopter the way it was moving in the size of the object just as I seen the one that was watching the movement a second one Creston, about a mile or two west of the first one. They seem to be in sync and at the same time at some points it look like the object was a square it was a circle it was a cone and appoints it look like it had something hanging from it, the first object moving closer, and then retreating on the same aspect, Darding across the mountain range back-and-forth and eventually landing, and as it landed, I seen type of a heat sink. Also, the second one did did the same thing and then eventually camouflage his self on the mountain side, and disappeared into the mountain range.
August 28, 2023 · 2:35 AM · SPHERE
Vista, CA
I was passing by my front door when I saw two lights to the East, approx. 25° over mountain ranges to the East of Vista. At arms length, the larger light appeared to be the size of a single pea (Not the whole pod, just a pea). The larger brighter light was greenish white in color, stationary, and appeared to have a slight haze around it. There was a smaller white light approaching it from the North. The smaller white light abruptly turned toward and accelerated above and around the large green light and began heading slowly towards the North East and faded out and disappeared within a few seconds. The large green light appeared to begin slowly moving East, before turning slightly North East, and then also fading out and disappearing. I continued to watch and about 20 seconds later, a bright small light appeared suddenly in the same area, began slowly moving South and flashed 2 times extremely bright, and then faded out and was gone. I then called to my wife and told her what I was seeing. She joined me at an upstairs window, where we continued to watch several dim and bright lights suddenly appear, sometimes two at a time and fly in random directions. (I put down 15+ craft seen, because that is a loose estimate. There were only 1 to 2 objects seen at any given time, but they would appear and disappear with such frequency, I concluded that they couldn't have been the same two craft every time). Occasionally there would be a larger light than the rest, that would flash brightly and disappear. This all went on for about an hour and 20 min and appeared to be contained to one small section of sky. This seemed odd to me. I am located right under commercial and private air lanes, and I clearly saw and heard commercial air traffic pass over much higher than the UAP's appeared to be. The UAP's made no sound. I did hear what sounded to me like 3 quick sonic booms far away. I attempted to capture video using my phone, and will need to run it through some filters to see if I caught anything. I also tried to take pictures. MCAS Miramar is 23 miles South of my Location. MCB Camp Pendleton is located 9.4 miles North West of my location. MCAGCC 29 Palms is 97 miles North East of my location. Vandenberg Space Force Base is located 251 Miles North West of my location, and March Air Reserve Base is located 55 miles North of my location Fighter jets from Miramar almost never fly over vista. Frequently seen military aircraft in Vista include Vipers, Ospreys, Sea Stallions, C-130's, and rarely Air Force C5's will fly over heading East. No military aircraft were observed anytime during or after the sighting. I am 45 years old and have witnessed several UAP's throughout my life. My father was US Army, and I have been heavily into NASA and Military Aviation since childhood. My family has a history of UAP sightings, starting in the late 1950's that continues today.
August 27, 2023 · 11:50 PM · OTHER
Cambria, CA
I saw an object mid-way about 45 degrees in the sky north of my house, guessing 10 plus miles north. It had a distinct red burning glow to it. I grabbed my binoculars because it was so peculiar. The object cleared up and the colors I saw were red and green like Christmas tones in shapes next to or on a round white light. It didn’t move so I walked inside. As I walked past a window, I saw not only had it moved, it was continuing to move swiftly from North to South/SE. I quickly walked back out and it was already flying over my neighbor’s tree, out of sight. I would say that was about 15-20 miles in a few seconds (6-10?), and the object was high up in the sky. I had hight power binoculars but it still didn’t seem close or clearer than vague shapes with color.
August 27, 2023 · 1:40 PM · CHANGING
Morgan Hill, CA
I was driving and saw this sort of cigar shaped black ufo. It was darkest in the center, where it kind of looked pushed in. A triangular "fin" sticking out, but no sharp edges. Then it literally "pulled apart"... almost like thick cheese or oily - kind of slick looking. I was keeping my eye on it, waiting to see it past the tree, but it was gone. Around 2 -3 hours later, I went back to the location and could not see it at all. Part of me was thinking - was it like some kind of large birthday party balloon? (I really want it to be that - I don't know why. I want it to be a garbage bag, kite, or birthday party balloon). But it was gone. So the color was between black (in the middle of the "cigar") and gray. It didn't change from those colors, but the shape changed. Strangely, when I was filling out this report, I discovered I felt / had time / memory loss. I completely... I had a very hard time explaining to myself what I was even doing in that area. I was in a remote part of a canyon prior. I had never gotten that lost before - and strangely felt "ok" with it. Normally I am not ok not knowing where I am. My phone was also completely out of battery / power. Prior ... maybe 20 or 10 minutes before seeing the craft, the gps went nuts. I also remember now hitting a garbage can. I have seen Aiten also have extreme issues with gps in that same area - but the craft was seen later miles away. There's a sort of "hazy" or "dreamy" feeling starting the time I went into the canyon. Uhhhh... like I wasn't quite myself. Like I was ok with things I'd normally not be ok with.
August 27, 2023 · 12:45 PM · CIGAR
El Monte, CA
while driving on west 10 freeway toward El Monte we noticed a very bright object in the clear blue sky. No other clouds or airplanes in sight. After noticing that the object was not a plane, just a very bright flat cigar shaped object the passenger of the car started to record on iphone to get better look of the object. After a few minutes of recording the object it vanished in thin air.
August 26, 2023 · 3:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Chester, CA
Big Extremely faint (like the reflection of the sun off of something stealth black in the night sky) traveling at high rate of speed. V shaped and no sound. Looked like it was very big and really high altitude. Only saw it for a few seconds but it was there for certain. I watch the sky a lot and can explain most everything that most people would call a ufo, but this one was something different.
August 23, 2023 · 10:40 AM · LIGHT
Monrovia, CA
This happens everytime I go to work at around 10 40 am. On the 210 freeway going west. It started when me and my cousin enter irwindale and ends as we get close to Monrovia. We notice it flashing colors starting red, orange, green and then blue. It is so bright is shines through the day. The flashing color light use to last about 30 seconds but gets shorter everytime. I pull out my phone to film but because my phone is so old, the camera takes a minute to load so I end up missing the light. The light seems to be happening in the San Gabriel Mountains close to those spires at the top of the mountain where the old observatory is, I would assume but looking, I could be wrong. We have only seen this flashing colored light 3 times this year.
August 23, 2023 · 9:07 AM · CIGAR
San Diego, CA
I was fishing on Shelter Island pier around 9am when I spotted the craft. Brilliant white. Headed very, very slowly between Point Loma and North Island Naval air base. Not a plane, jet, drone nor blimp. Never have seen anything like it. Silent. Could not judge size, didn’t know the distance from me. I watched it in amazement. I then leaned over to get my cup of coffee (one second max) and looked up and it was gone. I mean gone.
August 23, 2023 · 5:10 AM · SPHERE
Bakersfield, CA
I would like to upload the video i captured at a later date as I need to get it downloaded from my phone to a device. Pretty decent video footage!
August 22, 2023 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
in the past i had a similar encounter near the old satellite box trail off hicks road. i was early 20s and i thought i saw something similar but i was approached by unrecognizable "beings". i could not see them, they were blurry or see through. i ran and jumped into my car and took off. i never really thought about that and i repressed the whole incident thinking i lost time. i did lose time. i didnt think anyone would believe me. i had the same feeling today when i saw this triangle type craft. maybe not so much a triangle but one with rounded edges.i didn’t see any "beings" except when I was 21 or 22 when that happened. The thing was I knew I was being watched. And this was like 10-15 seconds long today. When it left all the natural sounds returned. I could even hear the bats above me flying around. I have experienced this "dead sound" before but never looked around and saw anything. This brief absence of sound always is accompanied by cold sweat and extreme fatigue.i only connect this weird feeling when it happens and then I never talk about it at all and I forget. I thought I had to write this down at least once.
August 22, 2023 · 5:23 AM · FLASH
Escondido, CA
Saw it far above in the sky, was flashing different colors - I took a 14 second clip with my iphone 14 pro max and zoomed in as much as I could. This was at 5:23 am - I was headed to my gym. I saw this right before entering my car to leave for the gym. I saw no other aircrafts visibility around this object.
August 22, 2023 · 2:33 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
At 2:33 am pst, as i was going to my bathroom on the second floor, i looked out my window saw a ( fire ball ) with trailing red and orange flames moving from WNW to SE. I thought it might be an aircraft with flaming engine or maybe some kind of space junk, i estimated my sight was 45 degrees horizontal plane. This object was moving in a horizontal direction for about 11/2 minutes before the flames went out. After the flames went out there was a small bright dot with a faint glow behind it that continue for 3-5 minutes moving SE. But after this, a lower orange ball of light appeared well below about 10 degrees horizontal plane, that appeared to circle for 30 seconds and disappeared.
August 19, 2023 · 12:02 PM · SPHERE
Santa Barbara, CA
I saw one bright orb in the sky approximately facing SW. I saw the object again at 1:10pm while on a bike ride in goleta. The object didn't seem to move but seemed to hover high in the sky. I lost sight after clouds rolled in.