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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
November 12, 2020 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Los Angeles, CA
I had gone into my bathroom to take a shower and looked out the window to the southwest. I saw this unusually long cloud that had a separation about 2/3 of the way up and many broken clouds below. It looked like a missile launch. As I watched it grew longer as it slowly moved across the sky without changing shape or breaking up. I thought it may be a missile launch as I can and have watched them go off from Vandenburg AFB. So, I checked the missile launch schedule and there was nothing scheduled today. An Atlas 5 is due to go off from Cape Canaveral on the 13th and there is a Chinese Long March that has yet to be scheduled and a Falcon 9 to go up on the 14th-15th from Kennedy Space Center. The clouds appear to possibly be a Vega from French Guiana but there is nothing from there scheduled until 16th-17th. An Electron is due to go up on the 15th-16th from New Zealand. I began to wonder if it is from an unscheduled launch.
November 11, 2020 · 4:13 PM · CIRCLE
Laguna Hills, CA
It was 6 red lights hovering the sky.
November 11, 2020 · 4:13 PM · CIRCLE
Laguna Hills, CA
Red lights were in the sky circling for 13 minutes, started moving, then disappeared.
November 11, 2020 · 3:26 PM · DISK
Playa Del Rey, CA
For the last 300 days , the LAPD helicopter in marina del Rey , los angels has been chasing a small 10 inch uncatchable copper disc. I have 1000 videos of this. Please send an investigator to los Angeles and I will explain and teach them how to record these ufo disc.
November 10, 2020 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Reseda, CA
I was on my way to my car yesterday evening to grab the rest of my groceries; I looked up at the stars for a moment, and saw a light moving slowly in the sky. The light looked to be about 2 miles NE, possibly above the Granada Hills area. When I looked at it, it zoomed North, away from me, faster than any plane, drone, or satellite could.
November 10, 2020 · 9:00 AM
Oxnard, CA
Source of report provides no information. PD
November 9, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Stockton, CA
A friend and I were sitting in his car and I was looking up at the sky through the sun roof and noticed a bright light really high up in the sky. The light seemed odd because I’m used to seeing flashing lights from airplanes. At this point I told my friend to look at the light to verify I wasn’t loosing my mind. He quickly confirmed we were looking at something different. And out of no where the light shot up even higher swiftly and disappeared. No more than 30 seconds later here comes 2 more bright lights from the same direction and literally did the same thing. I thought it was done but no, 2 more came and shot up into the dark sky. In total we seen 5 different objects come and go in a matter of seconds but seemed like minutes
November 7, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Visalia, CA
They were white circular objects. There were about 10, hard to count with clouds in the background. They were swirling around in the sky in a pattern. They moved slowly from south to north keeping in a pattern each time they came around. Before I came back in they switched from singles to doubles. Then went back to singles. There was no sound emitted. It was too dark to get a video on my phone.
November 7, 2020 · 7:12 PM
Los Altos, CA
Was clear night, no moon.
November 7, 2020 · 7:12 PM
Los Altos, CA
Source of report provides no information. PD
November 6, 2020 · 6:20 PM · LIGHT
Folsom, CA
Seven consecutive noiseless, extremely high altitude.single file in north easterly direction. First four approximately 20 seconds apart, a little longer for last three. Maybe 30 seconds apart.
November 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Riverside, CA
I am the only witness I know of. I am an astrophysicist and can usually explain these things. I was not in any way inebriated when I saw this. At approximately 6pm I was taking my trash out and looked up to admire the stars. I noticed something moving across the sky. It was crescent shaped, dim, and about 5" across. It moved across about 45 degrees of sky in 10 to 20 seconds in a northwest direction. It did not change shape or brightness. I tried to surmise whether it was something low and hovering (a drone or maybe a group of birds moving pretty quick) or higher and moving very quickly. I thought perhaps I wasn't seeing it clearly at first but after a few seconds I could see a clear cresent shape. The lighting on it did not change in a way I would expect if it was low. I decided it was probably a bow shock catching the sun (now set)'s light like a noctilucent cloud. However I am unfamiliar with what produces such long lived and steadily moving bowshock. I did not see that there were any vandenburg launches when I looked after. One other odd note: as I was watching it a meteor passed through it (diagonally vaguely ENE and at a very different soured of course so I assumed it was unrelated). I'm very interested in optical phenomena and as I said am an astronomer so I usually explain these things easily. This time while I suppose a jet or something might produce such a bow shock I am a little baffled so I thought I should report it.
November 2, 2020 · 6:12 PM · FLASH
Glendale, CA
Walking the dog with my wife. We saw a flashing light in the sky, then moments later it flashed 2 very quick times 2-hands distance away moving south across the sky. Within 5 seconds or less it flashed in the same way (2 very fast flashes) in the middle of the sky and flashed again in the southern sky before it passed the horizon. It had just become dark. We could see no shape just the light. But it crossed the whole unobstructed sky in less than 5 seconds flashing at intervals across the sky disappearing in-between. Altitude seemed low but just assuming this due to it's speed across the sky.
November 1, 2020 · 1:40 PM · OTHER
Pine Valley, CA
Was driving southbound(downhill) 20-40mph from the peak of mount laguna(6k ft elevation). Around 4k ft elevation directly in front and above me an object suddenly appeared. The object was about 50-100ft in front of me and hovering about 50 ft altitude(right below the tree line for reference). I was in utter amazement/disbelief/awe. Wasn’t afraid, was truly mesmerized. It was roughly schoolbus size in length narrower in width hovering horizontally. Was an unusual cigar shape with one portion of one end being more pointy, hard to describe but i witnessed this up close as it rotated 3 times. No welds, rivets, windows, doors, nothing. Was a silver almost chrome like in color. My jaw dropped. It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I reached down to get my phone camera while maintaining visual, as I grabbed my phone and unlocked it I watched the object just dissipate into nothing in 1/4 second. Watched countess ufo documentaries/videos since and have not seen a pic video or report of what I saw. Have not seen the object since then.
October 31, 2020 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Campbell, CA
I observed a green and red steady light come out from behind the line of trees of the southern sky, heading northbound, stopped in northern part of the sky, hovered, then moved to the right, hovered, shot 10-12 degrees across the sky toward the east, and after other hovering and other motions disappeared from view.
October 30, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
MY BOYFRIEND AND I WENT OUT TO SEE THE BLUE MOON AND WE SAW LIGHTS. WE FELT LIKE WE WERE TAKEN AND BRANDED SOMEHOW WITH BURNS TO OUR SKIN. I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY, WE DIDN'T WANT TO REPORT IT BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE AND PEOPLE WILL THINK WE ARE NUTS
October 23, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Santa Clarita, CA
at first I saw one light at very hi altitude moving south west just north east of Santa Clarita ca, didn’t seem to be traveling fast, then I saw a flash and immediately after the flash i saw a second light, they both went around in Short circles at very hi spread then disappeared.
October 22, 2020 · 8:50 PM · OTHER
Bakersfield, CA
In north Bakersfield east of Chester Ave there was a fuzzy blob in the sky moving straight south about 10 minutes to 9 pm. It was totally silent. It looked like it was at a couple thousand feet and moving about 200 mph. It could have been an airplane flying with no lights on or a huge mechanical bird. There was no indication of anything in that area on Flightradar.
October 22, 2020 · 8:30 PM · CHEVRON
Modesto, CA
My girlfriend and I were in our backyard around 8:30pm and 9pm star-gazing when we noticed what we thought was a shooting star. As it started moving overhead it then transitioned into a black boomerang shaped craft. The craft was silent moving from West to East. It seemed to blend with the night sky yet at the same time repel it's surroundings. The only way we can describe it is that it was pushing through the sky. We could see some type of 'aura' or some kind of 'field' emanating off of the craft. The entire sighting lasted about 10 seconds.
October 22, 2020 · 12:30 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
As I was sitting outdoors I noticed a light/white? object very high in the sky, stationary. It remained in that exact spot for nearly twenty minutes without ever moving. There was no sound. It suddenly shot straight up at incredible speed for a distance, and stopped in a second like it had not just been moving at such a high rate of speed. It remained there for 5 minutes without moving. It then shot right back down to the original place it had been...again at incredible, instantaneous speed. When it darted up a short distance, and when it darted back down after the 5 minutes, it left behind a short, vertical trail of something that quickly disappeared. It remained in position without moving at all for another few minutes. Then it shot off horizontally at a speed that seemed impossible, until it was out of sight. Once again, it left behind a short trail of something as it shot off almost too fast to keep track of visually. The trail substance quickly dissipated.
October 21, 2020 · 5:45 PM · OTHER
San Diego, CA
I was jogging and I saw this wierd thing hover in the air and it looked like it might have been over my neighborhood. It was more vertical in shape and almost had a crescent moon shape, but like a fetus or a caterpillar. I kind of thought it was a paraglider, I guess if the shape of that type of chute makes sense, but I couldn't see anything attached to it. It was also kind of shiny looking and floated away at a rate that was similar to how fast a giant bubble moves through the air. It changed position in the air a few times, so I didn't think it was hard, but it also was traveling across the sky and away, so it wasn't falling like a parachute and I was not hear a cliff, like a paraglider would use which is why it looked that, but couldn't have been, unless there was a motor? But again, I was close enough in person that I would have seen someting attached to it. It wasn't THAT high up. There were a ton of other people around, driving cars, coming in and out of their homes. I guarantee a ton of other people noticed it and probably wondered what it was, but I didn't stop to observe it with anyone else or point it out to people. I have videos of it where you can see the buzz of traffic and other people around. It was very obvious there in the sky.
October 20, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
I work on the corner of Lake Avenue and Cordova in Pasadena, CA. I left work last night about 21:30 and headed North on Lake Avenue to the 210 Freeway entrance. As I neared last stoplight on Lake where the freeway entrance is to go East, I saw a man on the edge of the sidewalk to the right of me (300 block of N. Lake Ave.) with his right arm outstretched toward the West sky, his palm was open. I looked up to the left and saw a group of four round orange lights in a quasi-diamond shape. The lights seemed to be moving slowly and I could tell they were moving in my direction from the west to the east. The lights were definitely unlike anything I have ever seen. The stoplight turned green and I normally would get on the 210 freeway to go East. Instead, I turned right on a frontage street called Corson and pulled over to look at the lights. Once I stopped, I could see the lights were still moving in my direction but now two of the lights separated from the other two and went straight up then disappeared. I grabbed my cell phone and took a short video capturing the two remaining lights in the center of the screen. Visually, the two lights looked like they weren’t moving anymore, like they were hovering. I then realized I was parked in a red zone on the side of a street in a not safe place (homeless people, dark area) so I got in my car and headed home, getting on the freeway at the next entrance which is Hill Ave. When I got home, which is about 17 miles east of where I started, I could not see any lights and do not know what happened to them. At home, I watched the short video and noticed the beginning of the video captured the second of the two lights that went straight up and disappeared.
October 19, 2020 · 11:20 AM · TEARDROP
Mojave Airport, CA
While photographing aircraft from KEDW - Edwards Air Force Base , a lone T-38 took off to the west and as it climbed out , the teardrop craft passed from South to North above and out in front of T-38 . Vehicle appears to be quite large in size . Shot at ISO 800 with a shutter speed of 1/6400 of a second .
October 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Pearsonville, CA
On the night of October 15th, 2020, my dad and I witnessed a UAP near Kennedy Meadows Campground in Pearsonville, California. We were car camping and had setup for a brief overnight stay in Kennedy Meadows Campground. The campground was empty except for us and one other camper that went to bed early. At approximately 10:00pm, I was looking north-east towards the nearest mountain (approximately 0.3-0.8 miles away) when I saw a solid ball of white light rise seemingly through (or behind) the trees on top of the ridge. I called my dad over to watch it with me. Initially, I suspected it was a hiker flying some kind of drone, or maybe some sort of governmental drone doing nighttime surveying. However, we proceeded to watch the object maneuver over the ridge for approximately 2.5 hours. I do not know of any drones capable of hovering and maneuvering for at least 2.5 hours. For the duration we observed, the object appeared as a steady white light, never once blinki! ng or changing color. It would hover, then move in what looked like semi-random directions, only to hover once more. At one point while observing, the object continued to rise up in altitude at least 500-1000 feet over the ridge, then it slowly descended to 100+ feet over the ridge. Around 12:30am, we were so tired we decided to stop watching, especially since we'd run out of ideas for things it could be. Thoroughly fascinated and simultaneously unsettled, we went to bed. I am unsure at what point the object left. No matter the case, there was no trace of it over the ridge in the morning. Due to the remoteness of the area we were camping paired with the lateness of the hour, proximity to our campsite (we would have heard a plane or helicopter), flight duration, and flight capabilities, I have been unable to draw any conclusions as to what the UAP might have been. I considered a balloon with a light, but it's ability to hover consistently and move in random directions did not remind me of how I have ever seen a balloon move in the sky. To this day, I have no idea what the object could have been, but I wanted to officially report it. Some background on myself: I'm a Database Administrator with a degree in Computer Science.