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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 29, 2020 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Palmdale, CA
On Sep 29, 2020 around 630 pm, we were driving southbound on Hwy 14 just north of Edwards Air Force Base in Palmdale, CA. My husband and I saw small green lights, he thought there were two sets but I saw three, what could have been fast flying synchronized objects larger than my grandson’s drone. They flew across from the northbound side to the southbound in an angled approach about 20-30 feet off the pavement. They flew directly across our windshield view and then flew over toward the passenger side window where they appeared to hover for an instant before they took off. I told my husband I felt like I was being stalked. We were so surprised, and it happened so quickly that even though my cell phone was in my hand (holding it for directions) I didn’t have a moment to think about trying to get a photo. The next exit said Edwards Air Force base so either UFOs were checking us out, or the Air Force was practicing some kind of maneuvers.
September 25, 2020 · 12:35 AM · CIRCLE
Victorville, CA
A bright object in the sky southwest of my house hovering back and forth side to side. I videotaped it on my iPhone. When I magnified the object it looks circular with a black circle in the middle of the gray flying object. Then a smaller black circle in the middle. It was hovering at the same altitude but going from left to right in the sky. You could not see this sideways movement with the naked eye. Only when the object was magnified could you see the side to side hovering. There was no sound. It looks like it was a mile high. Three of us witnessed the hovering object/craft. I have a video I can share it.
September 24, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Modesto, CA
Lights came from the north (3, one after another) they where about 100-200 feet above me (glowing circular orangish, yellow in the middle and a little white in the middle of that to the top of the inside of the yellow) flew past me and I followed them about ten feet ,when I came to the corner of my house another one joined the at an angle (triangular path) flew south. All were silent going at around 10-20 miles an hour. Size, maybe 20 feet wide?
September 23, 2020 · 8:56 PM · FORMATION
Chico, CA
Caught my attention when I noticed two unusually bright "stars" moving slowly and in unison across the sky. When I looked directly at it, I could see that the "stars" were actually lights on either end of a craft. in between the two bright lights was a row of very dim lights on the body of the craft. these lights were so dim that i could not see the outline of the craft if i looked directly at it: too dim to be picked up with my cones. but i could make out the craft attached to those two bright lights with my peripherals. My roommate also saw it and he said there are no drones that look like that. It was 1/3 to 1/2 the size of cassiopia in the sky. If it were a 747 then it would have just taken off. that is how large it appeared in the sky. of course, it was mostly likely much higher than 10,000 feet because of how hard it was to make out the form of it and the fact that it was completely silent (meaning that it was probably a very very large craft). What i saw was the back end of the craft, because as I watched it the lights moved north slightly but mainly those two bright lights on the ends got dimmer and closer together until they disappeared, meaning the ship was flying higher and higher in the sky until it was no longer seen. the lights were still quite far apart when they faded completely from view. all of this from when i first saw it to when it disappeared took about 8 seconds. The silence of such a large and obnoxious thing comparatively low in the sky and the way in which it moved is what made me stop to write this report. I have no way of explaining that at all. I am sure there are planes out there with weird shapes i have never seen, but silent ones that move straight up in the sky? any aircraft I know would have made a ton of noise that close to the ground, and they move across the sky. not up. I don't know of any craft with light formations like that, or that can move straight up into the sky like that. I have never seen the alien autopsy, don't watch any of those cable channels, never had much of an interest in UFOs really... but either our government has some pretty fancy top secret spy planes or I have no idea what I just saw. For the next half hour, the same or another craft was flying around in the same general vicinity. At first, a single light high in the sky in exactly the spot where the craft had disappeared. Of course, it could have been the front end of the tail I had seen a few minutes earlier, now coming back down. Just that now it was a single light and I couldn't make out any craft. The first time I saw the light it went from faint to extremely bright then turned off entirely. Then, a few minutes later (maybe ten) I saw a light again, much higher in the sky, and it came on and off periodically and moved across the sky as if attached to a very high flying plane going 500mph at 30,000 feet. It moved differently than the first light. More like a very high flying plane - across the sky as one would expect. It was not a satellite - way too close for that. It was now moving just like a plane or something. If I had to guess, the first bright and disappeared light was the same unidentified cra! ft I saw earlier. It did not move like anything I know and was silent. The second moved like any other normal airplane - across the sky - save only that I could not hear anything in the sky when I should have been able to. If it was the same craft, then it went way up in the sky, way back down again, then up a little bit more and then across the sky.
September 23, 2020 · 6:58 PM · FORMATION
Joshua Tree, CA
Changing light formations in the sky. Appearing and disappearing and changing formation In the middle of the desert.
September 22, 2020 · 8:05 PM · CIRCLE
San Clemente, CA
Was a light like a Star flying in all different direction and stopping and starting again, lyrically at time then straight forward and back!!!!
September 20, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
Last night I fell asleep with my bedroom window open. My neighbor has a loud screeching bird that woke me around 10:30-11pm. So I closed my bedroom window. After I closed and locked it, there was a bright light coming into my room. Like a helicopter was shining it’s light right into my window. So I got back up to look. When I peeked through the blind, there was a white light the size of a basket ball in the air heading towards my neighbors house. I could not see it once it passed my neighbors house.
September 19, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Menifee, CA
At a normal eye it appeared to be a airplane but after 30 minutes it was just hovering I took out my binoculars and zoomed in best I could. The object was a triangular shape of high lighted appearance . I took over 2 hours to move from my southern gate to the middle of my yard approx 20 feet. This would cancel out the space station based on visible time line. I’ve check out as much as I could on the web and no reference. I had a friend over and my wife that could not understand what we were seeing Kinda of feel like Richard Dreyfus with mashed potatoes
September 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Walnut Creek, CA
My wife and I go on a half mile walk around our neighborhood every night after dinner. As we finished our walk and were returning to our driveway around 8:15 PM, I am enjoying the view of the stars for the first time in weeks, as there has been terrible smoke cover for over a month due to the wildfires. As I'm looking south at the stars, I noticed one of these stars is moving across the sky. It looked JUST like a star, very bright, white light; however, it was 4-5x larger than a star typically looks. We observed carefully as it tracked overhead for 2-3 minutes; there were definitely no flashing lights or any changes in the brightness; however, it did appear to veer from side to side changing course several times (although this could have been imagined, I don't know for sure). About 75% accross the sky towards the opposite horizon, the light begins to shimmer into more of a reflection, and slowly vanishes in clear view, long before reaching the horizon. While! I am not saying that this was 100% a UFO, I am confident it was NOT an aircraft, missile, or satellite. It had no flashing lights, red or white; it made no noise, and was WAY too high to be a helicopter. It was dead quiet out, and if it was a plane, we can always hear their engines several seconds late. I will say that I do have a personal interest in UFOs, so it may be a confirmation bias; but at the same time, it was a very strange light that I've never seen anything like before, and did look very similar to other videos I've seen that made a strong case for being a true unidentified flying object. When checking off Characteristis below, this triggered a memory; about 2 minutes before seeing this light, i noticed an airplane with solid, yellow lights on the bottom in a triangular shape. I made note of this to my wife as it seemed odd to see a plane in flight with solid illumination lights on the bottom like this, in addition to their flashing red/white traffic lights. I am not sure if this is related or not but figured I should mention. It was travelling in the same direction as the ball of light, about 1-2 minutes before the ball of light was seen. This plane did not make a noise either (I guess we can hear planes if they are low enough/increasing elevataion? Must've been at cruising altitude but strange to see it close enough to make out these details and not hear it).
September 17, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Saw big light over jamul. Thought it was a plane in flight path headed toward San Diego. I was walking to my car in the direction of the light. I kept my eyes on it to see if it was a plane. Then it disappeared.
September 16, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Blythe, CA
While driving on I 10 midday at about 75 mph saw a silver object in my rear view mirror. Specifically, could see a person wearing an oxygen mask and helmet in a clear domed cockpit. I glanced up numerous times into my rear view mirror while driving. Sighting lasted about a minute and then looked in mirror object gone. No noise heard.
September 16, 2020 · 12:00 AM
Merced, CA
Very, very loud boom came out of sky with a huge orange flash, this has been going on every night for the past 12.
September 12, 2020 · 7:30 AM · CHEVRON
Ontario, CA
My son told me as we walking outside look mom at the sky then I see a big egg shape bright light then two smaller chevron objects dispersed from the big objet then right away I started taking pictures and small video clips with my phone the amazing part is that they moved so fast like nothing from this world .
September 9, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Winterhaven, CA
Star like twinkling - multiple lights, moving in a non-linear way at very high speeds and defying typical known flight patterns of aircraft or drones. High in the sky, could not make out any shape other than the light/lights. Saw it in the distance for almost 90 mins, saw it in the sky close enough to record video for about 5 mins
September 6, 2020 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Burbank, CA
From my second story balcony I witnessed a large metallic sphere appear over the horizon. It did appear to look shiny, but it was in a hazy sky. No sound or lights of any kind. It was moving at a constant height and speed . Hard to tell exactly, It appeared to be maybe 10-20 in size and roughly 2-300 feet above me. It flew directly over me going approx. 30 mph at a NW angle. I watched it as it went completely out of sight in the distance in a straight line.
September 6, 2020 · 11:06 PM · CIRCLE
Nipomo, CA
We have changed the time from "11:06," to 23:06 hrs., to reflect a nighttime sighting. Source elects to remain anonymous. Possible sighting of Mars, we suspect. PD
September 6, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Huntington Park, CA
2 undentified flying objects south of california huntington park moving towards land about couple miles away from land .emiting energy patterns throughtland energy shortages. next to buildings then object landed.
September 5, 2020 · 10:19 PM · FLASH
Lafayette, CA
I was casually looking at the sky with the sky map app on my phone when I saw something on the horizon. At first I thought it was a plane with its landing lights on. However, it made an immediate 180 degree turn, and quickly disappeared. I've watched many planes fly and am not really a believer of Alien UFO's but never in my life have I seen this before . I am familiar with aircraft and drones, this behavior was not either. A bright light similar to an aircraft landing light was traveling across the horizon westbound, abruptly made a 180 degree turn towards the south, sped up, and disappeared. I am a police officer with experience as a Tactical Flight Officer, I don't really believe in alien ufo's but have never seen something like this. I Googled how to report and it lead me here.
September 5, 2020 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Bakersfield, CA
It was a hazy night and I was outside in the backyard with my dog. I couldn't hardly even see the north star. I could see cygnes up on the left and while watching the sky I saw what looked like a satallite only it was way to bright. I figured it was a slow meteor or something over on the right. Then it went out, it was stationary. Then it lit up red in the shape of a triangle, like two 30,60s together in shape. It was slightly longer going down. Then it did that famous ufo thing. It juxtapositioned side to side instantaniosly. Then I went to get someone to see a real ufo. They came out and saw it too. It moved smoothly and slowly sideways and started blinking a bright white light. Eight flashes. Then the red triangle again. It moved fast sideways but smooth and silently to the east and went down lower and lower without changing the direction of it's triangle. So it started out a dim light from outer space and turned into a red light triangle which looked lik! e it might have touched down somewhere. Probably near I99 in north Bakersfield.
September 5, 2020 · 1:30 AM · DISK
Covina, CA
A disk shaped object glowing in bright green light flying with high speed from north to south direction. I am waiting infront of my bedroom window to see if there will be another one, one small white orb appear just outside of my bedroom window for a second as I am typing this event description.
September 5, 2020 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Temescal Canyon, CA
driving home from work at 1:30 am on 15 fwy between south corona/ lake elsinore by nichols exit. Green fire ball came flying down. Possibly crashed in the hills. Looked like when someone is shooting a roman candle firework but was ×100. Other cars slowed down on the freeway as we all had seen it.
September 3, 2020 · 10:53 PM · TRIANGLE
Antioch, CA
Observing sky with friend on 1416 West 18th St. We're amazed as we saw two crafts accelerating in a straight line and one weaved to the left in a manner an aircraft could never ever do'. They both continued West in the sky. They looked like TR3B's. Could it be Alcubierres Warp Drive testing? Would sell my soul in a second to contribute to this area of life exceleration.
September 2, 2020 · 2:35 AM · LIGHT
Temecula, CA
I had let my dog outside to go potty in the middle of the night and as I waited I noticed a twinkling light above thinking it was a star at first but was moving slightly so I figured it was an airplane because it was moving slightly and changing from an orangey type color to almost a light blue. But then it remained stationary and would do slight hovering movements. I went back inside to watch it from my back window for a while to be very sure that it was moving and then I woke my husband. We watched it remain still for a minute then it would drop a little and go back up and to the side. These motions were very smooth almost like a flowing dance. I watched it for over an hour and a half then chose to go to sleep. It had moved significantly across the sky from the original spot. It was able to do round motions. At one point I saw an airplane cross the path of the object at a different altitude, thinking it might trigger some type of movement for the light obj! ect to leave but it did not, and it confirmed for us the difference between the movements of a plane and this object.
September 1, 2020 · 12:25 AM · FORMATION
La Quinta, CA
Was outside looking up at the full moon and two white lights passed overhead from NW to SE. Initially thought they were Starlink, one behind the other (if you held your fist overhead apart) as I've seen Starlink before; but their speed and brightness caught my attention (brighter than any satellite I've ever seen and the brightest in the sky at the time especially with the full moon and local light pollution). In my field of view due to trees for only an estimated 3 seconds which would mean they went from horizon to horizon in less than 20 seconds.