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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
October 17, 2020 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Compton, CA
I saw about 7 or 8 bright orange lights hovering over lynwood California. 2 decanted from the flight formation to ground level and rejoin with the main group. Then they start to blink out.
October 17, 2020 · 3:20 AM · CHANGING
Temecula, CA
Around 3:20 a.m. my husband & I both witnessed what looked like a star, only we both agreed it was too close to the earth to be a star. I awoke to the sound of a helicopter, in which flew in the direction of the object; yet underneath it. I ran downstairs to grab our binoculars from the garage to take a closer look. As I adjusted the binoculars I could clearly see a multiple of circles within this object that looked to be some sort of spaceship looking object or flying saucer. My body immediately developed goose bumps I almost dropped the binoculars! I could not believe what I was looking at, so I looked again and woke my husband up and convinced him to look too. My husband described the same thing without my having given him a description of what I’d seen. After contemplating whether we should phone the police (in fear of being laughed at or thought to be crazy) I decided it was my duty to report it. I thought also that maybe the helicopter was also surveying it. The police advised me to contact the UFO Center. I phoned and left a message of what we’d seen with the National UFO Reporting Center in Washington. I hope this report helps.
October 16, 2020 · 3:53 PM · OVAL
Gardena, CA
Flyby North to South oval shape bright object non pulsating, very fast without a sound.
October 15, 2020 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Graton, CA
15 Oct 2020 UFO sighting outside Santa Rosa California at 19:50 hours At 19:50 hours I saw three lights in the western sky, far away, probably near the California coast or over the Pacific Ocean. The white, pink, and red lights always stayed very close together moving independently of each other and moving as a group “buzzing around” much like a bee buzzes around a group of flowers. Movement was very tight up and down right to left and every so often they would instantly travel a small distance in some direction and then start buzzing again. I called Peter Davenport and now I am filing this report. I came out at 20:00 hours to witness the same group of lights about the same distance away however they were now much lower right on the horizon. I came out at 20:30 hours and did not see the lights in the western sky anymore, and turning around I now saw this same cluster of lights in the northern sky above Cobb Mountain and the Geysers, where there is geothermal activity and electrical power plants using the steam from the Geysers to power the turbines to produce electricity.
October 15, 2020 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
Benicia, CA
I began videotaping and captured what appears to be a circular multicolor pulsating disc spinning in a counter clockwise direction. I have a total of about 4 minutes of video with this object slowly moving in an upward slightly to my right angle. I was late to work so I left not knowing what I had captured, the object was still there as I drove away. It seemed to be out in space and must have actually been quite large.
October 14, 2020 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
San Diego, CA
Observer1) On the night of 10/14/2020 around 8:30 pm. I was taking my puppy outside to take care of his business. I looked up in the sky and I saw something really big and moving slowly. As it got closer I called my husband who was sitting in the living room watching tv. What I saw was a rectangular craft about 300 to 400 feet up. Observer2) Rectangular in shape dark grey dull in color . Bright light on left side a red light on left corner was not a blimp.Longer than a football field it was dark really could not tell the height but I knew it was massive. It moved slowly like it was cruising.
October 14, 2020 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Palmdale, CA
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October 13, 2020 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Encinitas, CA
While walking to my car at approximately 11:00 PM this last Tuesday (10/13), my girlfriend and I witnessed a very high-speed, reddish light going North to South along the Pacific coast. The light was rather dim, almost like seeing a fainter satellite traveling across the sky, but with a red tinge to it and traveling much faster than any satellite I have ever witnessed. I could not tell if it was something in the atmosphere like an aircraft or something in orbit like a satellite, but it had no discernible beacons or navigation lights like an aircraft and moved in a straight line for the 10 seconds or so that we witnessed it.
October 13, 2020 · 6:00 AM · FORMATION
Junction City, CA
At 6:00 am I looked to the sky and saw a long formation of what looked like stars. It was a line of glowing craft in a tight formation. It moved slowly to the southeast towards Redding, Calif. without breaking formation.
October 11, 2020 · 11:11 PM · CIRCLE
Lancaster, CA
I grabbed my Galaxy 10 plus phone and zoomed my camera up to it, and held my camera still. This ball- like shape was now seen to spin and leave an aura of light around it, and it would spin out of my camera view, though holding it steady, to make sure I wasn't moving it. Then I'd find it again, and it would move again, sometimes moving very fast in a zipping motion and fast speed. I filmed it, then was freaked out a bit, and sat down at my table to watch it, and a light bulb burned out in the small chandelier above my table, freaking g me out more..lol.I sent it to several friends, but most were sleeping, one was up and said they hoped it wasn't a meteor.I said a meteor or satellite even wouldn't move like this, zipping, and moving that way. First time I am reporting this, but have seen these fast lights before, and there were many of them in a small group..never caught them on camera tho.
October 11, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Eldorado, CA
Sitting on my porch with my daughter and looked like size of a hula hoop large orange white red. Looked like a ball of fire streeked past right above the trees in my yard and disappeared over trees toward placerville ca It came from south going north east It seemed too large to be a shooting star . What is a fireball anyway I looked it up and it is similar to what I saw
October 11, 2020 · 12:40 PM · OVAL
Antioch, CA
The shape was oval with green lights on the square strip shape 4 light all around the side I saw
October 11, 2020 · 4:55 AM · LIGHT
Lemoore, CA
Close to 5 AM several fast moving lights flew above me in a somewhat straight line. Each one looked mostly round with a slight triangle shape at the end. They flew by in an interesting pattern. One would appear then quickly shine bright for just a moment and then go back to it’s normal lighting that was equivalent to a stars lighting. Then the next one would do the same. None of them shined bright at the same time and they all only shined extremely bright once. They somehow shined brightest in the exact same spot in the sky. They kept appearing out of nowhere and then quickly passed me by. It was beautiful and I first thought I was seeing meteors, but they didn’t have the same appearance. They were somewhat close together, I’d say each new appearance was about 4 seconds behind the last one. I couldn’t believe how fast they moved and just how close they seemed. I immediately googled it to see what I saw and I came across the Elon Musk satellites and thought maybe that was it, but I watched the video of those satellites to compare and it was not the same. This was not a perfectly straight line nor was it lit looking circles. They were close to circles, but more like a shape I haven’t seen before. Almost like how a child draws a fish with a circle and a triangle, but still slightly different than that and soundless. It was like my whole town was muted and I heard nothing, but myself saying, “Wow!”. Lemoore is home to a naval base so I was hoping that someone else caught this, but so far have not seen any news of it. I watch the sky most evenings and have found that the later I am out there, the more I see moving. Mostly I see satellites, but I have seen quite a few lights that were headed one way then quickly went up, down, or completely opposite of where it was going. Some have flown so close to one another and then stop and from my perspective it looks like they are having a standoff of some sort. Maybe curiosity toward each other or territorial issues. I’m not sure, but I am definitely never going to forget those moments.
October 10, 2020 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Huntingtln Beach, CA
While taking trash out approx 11 AM pdt to apt complex looked up saw what I first thought was a plane or small helicopter it was about the size of a small plane.it hovered.maybe 25 seconds.gray and black in color not a balloon(s)! Strange "wings"sticking out if it.riunfrfvatbtipd maybe four in number.Iyvwss traveling sliekybfrom westboff the Pacific ocean toEast.Yhen it dissolved!Like Smoke! Slight high covered clouds!but it didn't go into clouds !It was 800 1,00 high,.And I didn't have my cell phone camera with me!
October 8, 2020 · 5:06 PM · DISK
Redding, CA
I was watching tv as they were showing live video from a camera on top of a building in Redding, CA, and I witnessed a saucer shaped object emerge from the area of the bottom of the screen and shot off to the right of the screen. Movement of the object was extremely fast, so I paused the live stream and rewatched it in slow-mo to get a better view. I took a picture of the screen that illustrates what I saw. I also replayed the video for my wife to see it as well.
October 7, 2020 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Grass Valley, CA
On the evening of October 7th 2020, a clear night, I began my observing run as an amateur astronomer. After my automated scope was set up and running, I decided to do some DSLR imaging of the Milky Way. I was using my Nikon 3200 camera with a William Optics Precision Refractor scope on a tracking mount. I was using Mars as a bright focusing point. During the focus procedure, while examining the image for focus and sharpness, I noticed an object that appeared to be out of focus in comparison to the rest of the image, which was odd. I removed the SD card to examine the image on my laptop. When I zoomed in on this oddity in the image, I can only say I was jaw dropped. There was a disk shaped object that just could not be in the image according to all logic. As an avid amateur astronomer for the past 30 years, I have taken tens of thousands of images and have never seen anything like this, and could not explain what I was looking at. My initial thought was that ! this was a lensing aberration, yet with the sophistication of the equipment and the amount of time that I have used this setup, that conclusion just doesn't seem to add up. Furthermore, it was a 9 second exposure image, meaning that the object had to be stationary in those 9 seconds, or it would be a blurry streak. If I had simply bumped the camera to create the warped shape, then everything else in the image would also be warped. But every other object in the frame is perfectly round. Any object of rational origin in or out of the atmosphere would not be still enough to create such a sharp image. The appearance of the object in the image implies that if it is not within close proximity, then it must be an extremely large object. Keep in mind, all of this was rattling through my brain within seconds of seeing the image. I immediately ran back to the scope, which again is on a precision tracking mount, so the position would not have changed. I shot additional images, only to! find that the object was no longer there. I grabbed my 100mm ! astro-bi noculars, visually scanned the area, and was unable to locate anything unusual or moving in the area. The object was simply gone. I went back to my laptop to re-examine for any other explanations, and I showed the image to my daughter. She is 16 years old, in an advanced high school program, and dedicates most of her time to her education. In short, she has a scientific mind, and was utterly blown away by this image as well. She has also been searching for an explanation, and is beyond stumped. I cannot dispute the logic pointing to the conclusion that this image defies all rationality. I am open to anything that would explain what I captured that night, but as of right now, I have no reason to believe that this is anything other than a physical object as captured in the image. As to what that object actually is, I will leave that up to others to decide for themselves.
October 7, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Riverside, CA
While in my backyard on the night of 10/07/2020 at approx. 21:30, while looking to the sky for meteors from The Orionids event, I witnessed an abnormal craft pass overhead. The sky was dark overhead with normal city light pollution toward the horizon. I had identified Saturn and Jupiter at approximately 192 degrees S of my position, then Mars at approximately 81 degrees E. I took out my phone and opened my “Star Walk 2” application to help identify any constellations I might be able to see. As I looked away from my phone and into the night sky while facing approximately 40 degrees NE, a fast moving, dull gray in color, orb appeared from approximately 109 degrees E and traveled toward 316 degrees NW. Estimating by relation to the commercial aircraft in the area at that time, the object appeared to be at approximately 20-25,000 feet in altitude. The orb shaped object appeared to be approximately one quarter the size of a commercial airliner (50 feet +/-) in diameter. The object had no flashing lights (of any color) and seemed to “glow” rather than “shine”. It traveled nearly the length of my visible sky in a straight line in approximately 4 seconds. At that 4th second, it made a 90 degree right angle maneuver traveled a split second, then made another 90 degree angle maneuver to the left (which put it back traveling in it’s original direction), before disappearing out of my sight another second later. There is high altitude commercial air traffic in my area, traveling to and from two large airports. These commercial aircraft were traveling approximately, at least, 5 times slower than the object I witnessed. The majority of the flight paths for these airports are perpendicular to the path of the unidentified object I witnessed. The commercial aircraft are easily identifiable by their colored lights, airspeed and direction. I regularly see the Starlink satellites and they too travel in a path perpendicular to this unidentified object, and approximately 100 times slower from my perspective. I immediately checked the viewable time for the International Space Station from my global position and found that it had possibly been visible (dependent on viewing conditions) albeit on a different flight path and approximately an hour and forty minutes earlier. The unidentified object I witnessed by my estimation was traveling at at least 2,000 mph, with no marker light, no sound, and no sonic boom.
October 5, 2020 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
Lakeside, CA
2 white dots in the sky (Space) 1 4times larger than other close together only one showed in picture. The pics with streaks is just the camera moving
October 3, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Playa del Rey, CA
Object was hoovering over ocean.near los angeles international airport.the object was a glowing red. It started to move north up the california coast. I also called the airport to let them know, what i had seen.
October 2, 2020 · 11:29 PM · UNKNOWN
West Covina, CA
I was driving through West Covina toward Los Angeles and to the left of the 10 East, I saw a bright orange, flickering light. It looked like fire, so I thought maybe it was the flame at the top of a refinery stack, but as I got closer, I realized the orb was hovering. There weren’t any visible stars (due to smog and light pollution) so it had to be hanging low to be that visible. The light faded out momentarily, only to reappear 30 seconds later. It slowly moved towards the right side of the freeway, spending a good minute over the center of the freeway. As I got closer, I could see it better; it appeared to have multiple lights (I could identify at least 2 or 3) that seemed to be stacked vertically (but not symmetrically). In the video I took on my iPhone, you can see the lights flicker, but can’t make out the shape beyond an orb. Once it reached the right side of the freeway, about 5 minutes later, it was no longer flickering. Then, after about a minute, it U-turned, moving quickly from right to left and slightly upward, like a backwards Nike swoosh. As it did, the light began to turn off as iff on a dimmer, although once it was out, the dark object was still visible over the bright clouds as it flew away. As it did, a faint red light flashed in its trail, but it was hard to tell if it was from the object itself or something that the object emitted (I am leaning towards the latter).
October 1, 2020 · 6:00 AM · CHANGING
Temple City, CA
Object approached from south at 400 feet in altitude. Appeared to be floating with no lights. Estimated size about that of a small compact car. Appeared to be boxy up close but photo more like tic tac. After I took photo object shifted direction to the west and disappeared. Estimated rate of speed 20 mph. Did not appear to be drone and certainly not a conventional aircraft like helicopter or plane.
October 1, 2020 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Redding, CA
I spent four years in the Marine Corps as a Stinger gunner. A stinger is a shoulder fired anti aircraft missile. At least 50 percent of my training was spent studying the size, shape and characteristics of over 400 worldwide aircraft. Both foreign and domestic. Military, and civilian. I was Discharged “Honorably” as a Non commissioned officer. Because of my background, I’ve lived life with my eyes trained on the sky. Approximately two months ago while walking from my house to my vehicle. I looked up briefly and scanned the sky. Taking pause for a moment on a section between a cloud formation, and at A range of about 10,000 ft slightly southwest of my position. I immediately spotted a single black dot with absolutely no identifiable characteristics. Clearly this wasn’t any conventional aircraft I’m am familiar with. This dot caught my attention as it moved out from the cloud for 2 seconds, and then reversing course immediately going back into the cloud. The object continued with this behavior 3 times before a second object of the same size and shape followed it into the adjacent cloud formation. These radical movements simply could not have been accomplished by any aircraft I’m familiar with. The speed with which they moved at that altitude was astonishing. I honestly never thought I would see anything in the sky that I was unable to explain to some degree . I did however. I believe my military background, and experience Lends a great deal of credibility to my opinion. ((name deleted)) Redding, California
September 29, 2020 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Nuevo, CA
A bright orange light in light was witnessed in the sky moving at high speeds side to side and bouncing up and down. The object would stop occasionally.
September 29, 2020 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Temecula, CA
The bright white light had no sound, and no discernible shape. It appeared to be at 10k feet or slightly more. It traveled overhead until it stopped completely at a much higher altitude, and appeared to be just a bright star. It stayed there for 5 mins, then headed back to the southeast at a very high altitude. I was able to look through binoculars at it and still couldn't determine any specific shape, but could see the fog like shroud around the light. It reminded me of a airplane with its approach lights on lighting clouds in front of it, but it was completely clear outside. My dad was a g Flight instructor and i grew up in small aircraft. This wasnt anything conventional. No sound, no nsvigstion lights, and ascended from 10k feet to what seemed like much higher than commercial aircraft fly (35k). Definitely the strangest thing ive seen in 44 years on this planet