The catalog
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
January 22, 2021 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
Redondo Beach, CA
Me and my husband were driving back taking the beach route home. We took Pacific coast all the way down to Redondo Beach. It was raining earlier so it was really kind of gloomy and cloudy but for one moment we saw the sunshine through and the water looked beautiful and I decided to take a picture. When I look back at my photos it's when I noticed the object. I could not see it with the naked eye looking out over the ocean. But in my photo I see it because I zoomed in on a certain part of the ocean where the sun was shiny down on and noticed too lights shining down onto the water. The one light was the ray of sunlight coming through the clouds. The other light was coming from the object that I saw.
January 22, 2021 · 12:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Ana, CA
I was outside smoking a cigarette on my back patio. Suddenly I looked up into the sky on a windy clear day. Thats when I noticed a weird hovering or floating black triangle shaped object in the blue sky. At this time I decided to take out my phone and film it, as I was filming it, it slowly floated down under the tree line after a couple of minutes. After that I stopped filming and went inside. About 15 minutes later I came outside to the front of my house getting ready to leave. Thats when I looked up at where I saw the object and there it was again just hovering there again, so I took my phone out again and filmed it. Minutes later it started floating down behind the tree line again. The next day I looked up in the sky again at about 12:30 pm, sure enough there it was again. I don't no what it could be, it's not a bird, it's not a plane or a drone.
January 21, 2021 · 6:47 PM · SPHERE
Hobart Mills, CA
I went to car camp in the snow about 5 miles outside truckee, ca. I build large snow castles and planned on building one at this location. The road had been plowed fairly recently and there was about 5’ of snow, about 7” on the road. I arrived around 2pm and over the next 2 hours stomped out the floor plan in the snow. Around 3pm two xxc skiers passed by, headed out back toward the main road (hobart mills to russel valley.) At dusk I was sitting in my car, facing out with the door open, looking at my phone. I noticed a small, contained light about 100 yards away, in the trees, at the top of the small hill. I thought it was the skiers and that they had a flashlight. The small light receded away from me and i figured they were looping around or something. About 10 minutes later i noticed it again, but it was still and was up about 10’ in a tree. I thought it was very odd and got out of the car for a better look, i walked toward it about 10’ . It was very still and was slowly changing from fairly bright to dim every minute or so. Soon I walked about 10’ closer. I noticed there were actually 4 identical lights. Each were about 20’ apart, were about the size of baseballs, made no noise, and were higher in the trees than i had thought. At this point i walked back in the snow, which was variable in hardness, to the car (about 40’), to get my phone. I continued watching them and called my brother to tell him i was weirded out by this. They werent drones and put out a very strange light that did not light the tree branches around them and they seemed to simply be hovering in the woods and it was very odd and intruiging to me. After a moment on the phone with him i got my old phone out and began recording. (I got 3 videos over the course of the attack. It seems there are problems loading some of the footage, contact me for all video please. Also i have pictures of the exact location from that day, previous to the event.) Next, while recording and on the phone with my brother, I began working my way in the snow toward the lights. As I got closer (maybe 150’) and was yelling “hello!? Is someone there?!”, they slowly descended from trees and formed a tight group so it looked like one orb, swirling, whitish and some orange, a very strange light, and they moved slightly closer, but became obscured a bit behind more, smaller, denser trees. I decided (still recording and with my brother on the phone) to investigate more and walked even closer (about 100’ away) and yelled more. At this point the ball of light grew and began exhibiting what I saw as human like movement and shapes while it swirled and it also became red and started slowly coming toward me thru the trees, moving from behind tree to another tree, and another, toward me. This frightened me and I yelled “ ok! Ok! Im leaving!!” And began stepping back toward my car in the snow. I then noticed there were 2 more lights on the other side of my car, past it, about 100’’. The snow was harder where I had been standing and so I was only sinking about 7”, but as I was retreating the snow was very soft and I sunk past my knees while stepping backward and fell on my butt and so deeper into the snow. Then it came even closer thru the trees (about 50’) and I began to panic (this part all on the recording. Here in the video you can see the lights coming at me in parts, but I sort of forgot I was filming so its not as great as I had later hoped). I scrambled up saying “ok! Ok! Im going im going!!” as it advanced to another tree and was making movements of what seemed aggression..it would swirl into bright red, advance and grow larger and go back a little ways and repeat. I made it quickly from there to the car and slammed the door. Then I looked around and did not see it. I found the keys, started the car, lookad again and there it was, about 20-30’ from the car. I started driving fast and really panicked as I saw it chasing me thru the woods, in line with the driver side window, about 30’ away. I was driving 35 mph and trying to keep the car in control in the snow and was panicking and then all of the electric door locks started clicking up and down, like clik,clik,clik, very rapidly. I was really scared at this point and this continued for about 2 minutes as I drove to the main road. At the main road I no longer saw them and have never seen any fucking thing like that, before or after.
January 21, 2021 · 5:36 AM · OVAL
Bell Gardens, CA
The unidentified flying object glowed in the early morning lit up sky almost seethrough but very distinguishable, as if it glowed very similar to a jellyfish, There was an aura or haze around the object and hovered over the sky slowly then suddenly disappeared. As it moved towards the direction it was headed oval shape got smaller. It did not look like anything man made.
January 20, 2021 · 6:15 PM · FLASH
Simi valley, CA
Several flickering white lights "hopscotching", on an angle above Simi Valley before they shot up into the sky very rapidly.
January 20, 2021 · 1:58 PM · OTHER
Temple CIty, CA
Filmed I-Phone observation indications the object changed shape and was able to move erratically and quickly covering miles in less than a second.
January 17, 2021 · 7:27 PM · OTHER
Lathrop, CA
UFO slow moving long snake shape in purple gray color seen in Lathrop sky hard to catch on iPhone camara
January 17, 2021 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
My wife and I were playing outside with our 5 year old when I noticed 3 spheres passing in front of the moon. There was one sphere leading the 3 others. We lost sight of them but then noticed they had just stopped. Then the spheres looked like they were going straight up till they disappeared. I tried to record it but could not see the objects through the camera lens.
January 17, 2021 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
Orange, CA
completely black (like Maglite flashlight), reflected ground light (glistened slightly like wet but not wet), totally silent, 400-500 feet off ground, moved extremely slow(40mph)NB, minimum width 1200 feet max 2000, length perhaps same (my view looking up as it had already passed overhead was from the (rear of craft?), like seeing aircraft carrier hull passing overhead sideview, perhaps triangular(only saw the bottom rear, height 200-300 feet(bottom to top), it didn't seem concerned that it could be seen (personally I felt as insignificantly as an insect)
January 16, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Clearlake, CA
The object was a very bright light like a close planet then went very dim and then bright again it was just hovering then flew across the sky and stop the object kept going from the brightest light in the sky to very dim still hovering then went strait down till you couldn't see it then back up that's when I got video and moments later took off in the sky I have a short video. I'm a very big non believer but now I am.
January 16, 2021 · 12:38 PM · CONE
San Diego, CA
I was working in my backyard and looked up in the sky to the east just in time to see a military/cargo plane(prop) fly by this object in the sky. Of course by the shape of it, and the fact a large plane had just flown by I assumed it to be a sky diver with parachute deployed. There was not a cloud in the sky. This object was a very vibrant baby-blue color: like the canopy was glowing silver in the sun and the skydiver was dangling and swaying back and forth from glowing blue attachments to the canopy above. The only peculiarity of this visual was that the plane and the object were not in a position that would be congruent with a sky-diver. But who am I to judge these things, from a distance? The plane disappeared from sight, but this object didn't move. at all. But to me, from a distance it still looked like a skydiver as it appeared as thought the bottom was swaying back-and-forth. "Maybe he's just stuck in cross-wind and drifting sideways", I thought. Being curious and wanting to get a better look using modern-day consumer technology, I used my cell phone to zoom-in and take a clear picture, hoping to catch the guy dangling from a parachute. When I was able to get the camera to focus I could clearly see it was not a sky-diver dangling from a parachute. It was a glowing blue object that looked like an ice cream cone(domed). The top dome was glowing baby-blue color. And there was light-blue glow circling a time or two per second around the cone-shaped part of the object. From a distance that was what made me thing it was a sky-diver swaying the wind. But in focus I could totally tell this thing was a solid object, and I thought I could even see the rivets in the metal holding the top dome and bottom cone-shape together. I was able to quickly take a picture that came out totally fuzzy (of course!). I steadied the camera again and tapped the screen to focus on the object at distance, and it looked absolutely perfect as described above. As soon as I tried to take the picture of this AMAZING object.... it was gone, no where to be found. I searched in every direction as quickly as I could and there was no trace of it, or any other aircraft, or clouds in the sky. It was almost as if it knew. It KNEW I had it in my sights, and just completely disappeared in an instant, before I could prove what I had seen. But that's ok. I know what I saw. It was unbelievable!... and I feel privileged to have seen something so completely bizarre, beautiful, and mysterious.
January 15, 2021 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Chino, CA
Lights on the ridge near KSOX Doppler Radar Tower and Black Star Canyon. Unusual lights high in the sky that seemed to be a small line of blinking lights. Viewed through 2nd story apartment window. Noticed it was not moving closer or further away as I was in the kitchen and where the lights were coming from were high at the very top of the ridge. Often just a single light but sporadic moments of multiple lights, sometimes fading in and out. One time 3 lights in equal distance from each other were twinkling on. Then later it was two lights but closer together. At the brightest intensity, it was quite bright. Not unlike when you'd see an airliner's lights directly on. Activity ceased around 11:35pm. The ridge is dark now.
January 14, 2021 · 10:00 AM · CHANGING
Altadena, CA
For several days in a row over the last week I witnessed multiple objects hovering and moving very quickly in broad daylight. On Thursday at 10 am I was out in my garden in Altadena and looked up to see two extremely bright objects hovering in the sky. One was small while the second object that was much larger, elongated, glowing brightly and looked like an electric blue cigar with orange light at one end. I estimate the small object was around 2-3’ in diameter and did not appear to hold a consistent form. Sometimes it looked like a cube, sometimes a triangle, sometimes a cylinder, sometimes it would appear to light up and split into two orbs, one going up and one going down. Sometimes it’s profile was reduced to a straight black line. Very hard to describe but always between two and six feet wide. The elongated object was much larger and appeared to be higher up but was so brilliant that is was impossible to determine its position or size. I’m disappointed that it disappeared before I could grab my phone. The small object remained and began to move slowly to the west and disappeared after 20 minut! es. My girlfriend who is a teacher and happened to be between classes managed to see it when it as it left our view over the horizon in the area of JPL. I was not expecting to see another noiseless shape changing object on Friday but it was back at 8 am in the exact same place, though I did not see the cigar from Thursday. The wind had increased overnight as the Santa Ana winds began to move in and it was a gusty morning. The object was lower to the ground, this time moving in a more northward direction towards Mt. Lowe. From a side profile the shape of the object became less spherical, more geometric and appeared to be rotating. On Saturday while my girlfriend and I were in the garden during the afternoon, the object reappeared in airspace above Wilson observatory for the better part of twenty minutes. This time there was a stationary object pulsing and glowing as brightly as a star and not moving. There also a mix of propeller and jet powered aircraft in the vicinity. As the object remained fixed in the air one of the jets made several passes by the object, approaching it from the west. This jet appeared to be military, judging by its movement, short fuselage and triangular-shaped wings. The stationary object appeared to become brighter as the aircraft would begin its approach towards it. After several more passes by the aircraft (around 20-25 minutes) the object began to move northward and possibly gain altitude as its brightness began to fade. I took video of the events and upon further examination and slowing things down frame-by frame it is possible to see that there was not just one stationary! object but multiple objects. These others were the same size and luminous qualities as the stationary object, moving in and out of view at very high speed, present for only 3-4 frames at a time- many times faster than any of the aircraft in view and making no sound.
January 11, 2021 · 8:55 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
At approximately 20:55 on January 11th, 2021 I observed a bright, deep red light out of my living room bay windows facing south. We can see the airliners as they begin their approach to Lindbergh Field (SAN) out of these windows, and at night the bright white landing lights are had to miss. I saw this deep red light moving much faster than the airliners normally do, and moving east to west, instead of south-north like the airliners. I pointed it out to my wife, and we watched it for about 15 seconds before it was blocked by my house. We went outside to the front yard and watched it for an additional 10-ish seconds. It seemed like is was high and moving very fast. We lost sight of it as it grew dimmer. The light was very bright, a deep red color overall, steady, no blinking or flashing. No additional lights were seen, (like anti-collision lights) It moved very quickly along a straight path.
January 9, 2021 · 9:32 PM · FIREBALL
La Mesa, CA
As I was going out to my car I grabbed what I needed shut the door and looked up at the sky and saw a huge Orange fireball but it didn't have fire 360 degrees around the circle it was on the back end. I watched it for about 3 to 5 seconds then ran to get my husband and told him to come outside. It was still slowly moving across the sky. When he came back out I ran in and grabbed my phone it came out and took a couple pictures and then took a video. Right at the four-second mark it vanished. I saw it traveling across the sky oh, it was under 35000 feet because then I saw a plane at 2 o'clock from it but the airplane was much higher than this object so I know the object was under 35000 feet. As I'm watching this orange ball of light slowly move across the sky from west to east, I then saw it to ascend up towards deep space and away from Earth. It was moving from west to east as I was facing north. I then saw it slowly ascend back towards space and then it vani! shed. I saw it so well with the naked eye.
January 9, 2021 · 12:15 AM · DISK
Tustin, CA
Driving on the 261, off to the right above the treeline was a large saucer. No lights coming from saucer - about 100-150 long, 10 feet thick, 30 feet above ground. Appeared greyish in color, but there was no lighting. No movement detected.
January 8, 2021 · 3:29 PM · CROSS
Modesto, CA
Sitting out back in broad daylight heard the sound barrier broke and seen a cross shaped aircraft flying by it came out of the clouds and flew west and was gone in 5-8 seconds flat. Fastest aircraft I've ever seen and you couldn't hear an engine. You could here wind whipping like it was just cutting across the sky like. That was pretty cool to see!!!
January 7, 2021 · 6:30 PM
Gardena, CA
Huge bright flash that filled the sky, and then the entire city lost power. Did anyone else witness this?
January 5, 2021 · 5:43 PM · CIRCLE
Greenville, CA
I witnessed a circular object that was flashing in the sky, it looked as if it was bouncing around, and changed colors. It went from a bright white to a light blue, then a yellow color. My children and I took 2 video's and a picture. It stayed in the same area of the sky for quite some time aside from the bouncing movement it made. I live in the mountains so there is no city lights to interfere. I only witnessed the one object but my son said he was able too see three objects.
January 1, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Bakersfield, CA
I was having a late night snack as I watched the movie Pan's labyrinth in my bedroom when I noticed one of the brightest white stars I have ever seen from my window that was facing west. Naturally I walked towards my window and took a moment to admire the beauty of the bright star when it suddenly began moving erratically in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction (don't recall exactly which). I was in complete shock and awe so I slowly moved backwards to reach my phone and record the sighting but as I touched my phone it instantaneously took off North as if it was a shooting star. Even though I know I shouldn't make assumptions about something as unexplainable as this sighting it felt as though it was trying to crudely communicate with its erratic movements. I'm an engineering major so of course immediately after the sighting I went straight to google and typed in possible objects mistaken for UFOs to try and come up with a plausible explanation for what I saw like ball lighting, atmospheric turbulence, or rocket testing. Whatever I saw that night I can't explain, it seemed to not operate under classical mechanics like we do and I'm still trying to process it. Thank you for taking the time to read my experience and feel free to email me if any more info is needed.
January 1, 2021 · 12:12 AM · FIREBALL
Rocklin/ Roseville, CA
My husband and I were driving East on Highway 80 from Roseville, off of Eureka. I was watching the fireworks from the new year celebrations in the Northern Sky and noticed a bright red ball of fire that I thought was a unexploded firework. For several miles, I watched it and it wasn't falling as a firework would. I then got out my camera and recorded 23 seconds of video. You see that the ball was hovering and not falling. It was too bright to be a helicopter or drone. You can see in the video that it is red in color and brighter than anything else I see. in the video, I am surprised by a firework that exploded just above us, so you can see where the fireworks where being done from, not even close to where the light was. Looking at the video and my memory, the ball of fire looked to be possibly over Loomis, Newcastle, even Auburn CA. It is hard to tell but there might have been more than one, as the one I recorded seemed to disappear for a while and come bac! k. It hovered low enough, I wouldn't be surprised if it was seen by several people that lived in the area.
January 1, 2021 · 12:02 AM · FORMATION
San Diego, CA
My girlfriend and I left the Bay in Pacific Beach, SD, where we were watching fireworks. As we walked back to our Apt. (7-8 blocks away) I noticed multiple lights next to each other. I was sure it was not a planet/star, because it was too bright. It looked like a cluster of balls that formed and would inform. I pointed it out as it drew my attention, but started walking away as I was originally unsure if it was just fireworks or some type of natural phenomenon. As we walked, the object(s) would move ahead of our line of sight, as well as backward. Eventually the lights seemed to follow our direction - seemingly blocks away, but so bright Orange I wasn’t sure. As we approached our home, I saw the lights dip below the buildings. We went down our back alleyway and saw them (it looked like they were 3 blocks away). As I pulled out my iPhone to take a picture, the lights flashed like fireballs and flew out of our sight line. I was able to snap 1 photo before they could no longer be seen.
December 31, 2020 · 11:10 PM · FORMATION
Palm Springs, CA
five orange lights , round, about the size of the letter O in a persons normal handwriting but up in the sky , of course,. The first four were in line ,or formation, one behind the other. They were coming in from about 30 degrees to the west, or to the left, from where North is on the compass. And then we saw the 5th one. It had been lagging behind and was flying faster than the 4 so I“m assuming it was trying to catch up. They were silent, flying about as high as helicopters do. Then one by one they went dark. Lasted about 3 minutes. It was 11:10 or 23:10 military time no clouds in the full, moonlit evening sky. And even with binoculars we could not see the shape of the aircraft.
December 31, 2020 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Roseville, CA
Count: 2 Shape: round orbs Colors: both reddish/orangeish/ yellowish Sounds from Orbs: silent Light: the light glowed and emitted light rays from the center, and the center of the orb was the brightest part. The light did not twinkle, change color, or blink. The light faded and disappeared in plain sight after 5 minutes of viewing. The light did not reappear in any other direction even after watching for another 5 minutes. The fading was simple, as it was see through after it faded away into as the night sky. Movement: The orbs did not make any quick movement from right, left, up or down. They simply traveled towards us in one direction. Travel direction: they were traveling from the northwest direction coming towards us. They were separated by thumbs distance. When i extend my arm and raise my hand, use my thumb,and close 1 eye, the distance in between the two objects were a thumbs distance aka the distance between my wrist to my thumb nail. Altitude:The 2 orbs were at different altitudes, one orb was about 45 degrees lower in altitude when compared to the higher altitude orb, and the lower altitude orb appeared to be furthest linear distance from us. Linear distance from viewer: estimated to be between quarter mile to a mile. Any obstructions: No. But there are 20' tall building and they did not obstruct the orbs. No trees were taller then the buildings. Viewed: standing on the ground at around 100' elevation Weather: clear night no sky cover no clouds. I could see other stars in the sky. Fireworks: In CA people celebrate the east coast new year at 9:00pm so i could hear fireworks but i could not see them. There was no smog in the air from any of the fireworks i was hearing. i couldn't smell any smoke from fireworks either.