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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
August 31, 2020 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Garden Grove, CA
This appeared to be a box with lit up squares. A radio program featured two pilots who saw a similar object.
August 29, 2020 · 11:50 PM · OVAL
San Rafael, CA
At approximately 23:50, while exiting Highway 101, I noticed an object in the sky approximately 250-300 feet in the air over a shopping center across the street from my location. The object was slightly oval and was flickering orange. At first glance, I thought it was a light on a crane, until the object started to move. I then thought it might be a helicopter. I rolled down my window to hear it, however, the object made no noise. I kept the object in view as I continued my drive three blocks down the road to my house. When I exited my car, the object began to move towards my location and descended slightly in altitude. I immediately went into my home and got my 14 year old son to come outside and see what I was looking at. As we both got outside, the object continued to hover over the intersection next to my home for about 30 seconds or so, then shot straight up in the air at an amazing velocity. The object continued to climb until it disappeared. About 10-15 minutes later, I went outside and saw two more objects hovering at about the same location as the original object. These two objects appeared to be identical to the first one and maintained the same distance from each other at all times. Both my son and I took pictures of the objects and then as we began to discuss what we were seeing, both objects began the same maneuver that the first had done. We estimate the size of the objects to be about the size of a small automobile. The objects flickered in the dark and had no other visible structure to them. It should be noted that the sky condition was slightly smoky from nearby wildfires and the moon was creating sufficient light to create ample light to see non-illuminated objects in the area clearly.
August 27, 2020 · 12:23 AM · CIRCLE
Riverside, CA
The craft was in the air at first I thought it was a star and it started moving back-and-forth getting far and then staying still for a long time
August 25, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FORMATION
Glendora, CA
On August 25, 2020, between 20:14 and 20:45 hours, several people on the “neighborhood watch-Glendora, San Dimas La Verne” facebook group from Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, the Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale and even Alta Loma saw a formation of white circular lights, 20 in all in a vertical-smile formation. Another witness in Alta Loma reported seeing a fireball type object in the sky around the same time, as well as a transformer explosion in La Verne.
August 25, 2020 · 7:40 AM · CIRCLE
California, CA
We spoke via telephone with the witness, and found her to be quite sincere and sober-minded. She has forwarded two photos to NUFORC, but neither one, we believe, is of an authentic UFO. One is a contrail behing sa high-altitude jet, and the other is of a reflection from the ground. PD
August 24, 2020 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Temecula, CA
Initially looked like a bright orange streetlight, but was too large and high in the sky. At first the shape was semi-oval, then slowly appeared to be eclipsed by something and disappeared entirely after a minute. It seemed to stay in one spot the entire time.
August 24, 2020 · 2:30 AM · CIRCLE
Corona, CA
A solo green light, no sound , no blinking , moved very slow at low altitude, heading from north east , to south east , increased altitude , proceeded to maintain location for 30 minutes , and hovered from side to side , until increasing altitude until no longer visible
August 23, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Poway, CA
I am a gas tanker driver and was delivering to Costco when this sighting occurred. I was already looking in the sky when I noticed a bright flash to my right, similar to a camera flash. I looked in that direction, which was south west and sighted a dull orange light traveling to the north east. The light seemed very high up, and seemed similar to a satellite, except for the fact that it was slowly pulsating . The light would dim to almost nothing and then grow bright again about every two seconds. It also seemed to be traveling in a slight arc rather than a straight line. I know it could not have been a satellite because they only brighten a dim depending on their reflection of the sun beneath our horizon. This object was self illuminated. It had no flashing lights. It only appeared as an orange pulsating light . I followed the light with my eyes until it was no longer visible. A few minutes later I saw an object that probably was a satellite. It was white in color, traveling in the same direction and did not pulsate. It seemed to disappear from sight as it flew into the earths shadow. I was born and raised in San Diego very close to the San Diego airport. I am familiar with commercial air traffic. I also lived close to Miramar air base for a long time and am familiar with military air traffic. This object was neither of these. I come from a family of law enforcement officers who are trained observers, and it was ingrained in me.
August 21, 2020 · 8:05 PM · FLASH
Acton, CA
Sitting outside in our backyard, my husband and I were star gazing, when an unusually fast white object with a blue/green, maybe turquoise flashing light, traveling south to north, pulsating the bluish light. At first glance, I thought it was a fighter jet, but it went faster than anything I have seen in the sky, including a fighter jet, and there was no sound. We jumped up to follow it and it continued out of view northward. We lost sight of it within 10-20 seconds. About five minutes later, it came back from north to south; however, lower than it had been and we only saw it for about three seconds.
August 18, 2020 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Walnut Creek, CA
Early in the morning around 3:30 am August 16th, 2020 after seeing from our living room the lightning storm light up the sky outside behind us we go out onto our balcony to watch the storm. As we exit onto the balcony we notice the clouds are making very strange geometric patterns and as the lighting storm continues and becomes upon us there is one short burst of light reminiscent of the Northern Lights immediately followed by another burst of the same color light that exposed this massive dome structure in which we could very clearly discern the edges of the craft and the height in which it reached into the sky. My roommate and I were both immediately hit with this immense feeling of fear which made us not only brace but bring each other in closer. The structure was not visible for longer than a strike of lightning would last and after it hit our neighbor came out onto their balcony but did not seem to notice us. My girlfriend who also witnessed it didn’t feel the same sort of fear that my roommate and I experienced. She seemed to be completely unaffected by what she saw which makes us believe that my roommate and I were possibly abducted then placed back in what seems to be absolutely no time at all. Which would also in our perspective explain as to why our neighbor did not acknowledge or notice us even know we had been talking rather loudly. After the structure made it self apparent and then left we did not seem any further signs and in the next few minutes the geometric shapes in the clouds no longer seemed to be there. None of us who saw the structure or spacecraft are alien deniers but we did our best to convince ourselves that what we saw was just an unusual lightning phenomenon but after a few hours and some reflecting we all came together and decided that what we saw could not have been an unusual lightning event.
August 17, 2020 · 8:31 PM · OVAL
Spring Valley, CA
Yellowish oval shaped object moving from the southeast to the northwest. Floated over la mesa, intersection 8 and 54 and el cajon area. Stopped flashed 5 times changed back to solid yellowish and continued moving northwest.
August 17, 2020 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Van Nuys, CA
I pictured a object a weird shape with a glowing blue light flying over Van Nuys.
August 16, 2020 · 9:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Sacramento, CA
I noticed a bright light in the sky and as i focused in on it i could see what looked like something hanging from it that was also brightly lit. I got my binoculars and looked and i could see that it was definitely in the shape of a triangle, but i couldnt figure out what the thing that appeared to be hanging from it was. If i had to describe it, it looked like fire. Without the binoculars it looked almost white, but with them it looked more of an orangeish color . It stayed in the same position and i observed it for over 30 minutes. There was only one. As we watched it, it would slowly disappear then it would reappear. It was in the southern sky from my location, very high in the air. Three of us all saw this together. Sending video.
August 16, 2020 · 8:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Dixon, CA
This is 2nd sighting of same craft traveling the same path in 1 week. It moved over us like an airplane but the lights were flashing out of sequence compared the normal plane we see from Travis etc. Very brite red and green flashes with intermittent spot light flash pointed downward. It traveled off into the horizon much like the speed of a low aircraft ( no moise) for about 2 or 3 minutes then from quite a distance it shot back to basicly rite over us in about 2 seconds warp speed it appeared.it turned brite red at hi speed. This was real upclose and obvious. All lights went out and I saw it was a grey triangle. No doubt.
August 15, 2020 · 10:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Los Angeles, CA
rectangle shaped object with white lights around every side - It was high up in the sky, stationery & then moving slowly.
August 15, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
San Francisco, CA
22:00 Looked up at clear sky and saw what at first I thought was a satellite, my partner came and looked and said it was moving too fast to be a satellite. As I watched, there was a bright flash and then it reappeared and then it disappeared into the north west. It happened twice more, all starting in different directions but ending up in the same spot and disappearing.
August 15, 2020 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
San Francisco, CA
A few minutes later, a point of white light further to the east, southeast was seen dropping down slowly and turning partially red as it sank down out of visibility behind a residential building. Some description of directional movement is best estimate, as it is difficult to determine distance and north-south movement from my vantage point.
August 15, 2020 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Santa Monica, CA
I was sitting on a Hotel Balcony just after sunset. The hotel is about a 10 minute walk from the ocean. Noticed the object traveling very quickly from east to west. The few clouds in the sky were still slightly orange which is why I was able to see it. The light slightly bends around the tic tac shaped object, like a diffused glow from the orange in the sky. The object was moving faster than anything I have ever seen and was clearly tic-tac shaped. I've never seen anything like it and was extremely skeptical prior to this experience.
August 15, 2020 · 5:15 AM · CIRCLE
Yuba city, CA
When not to walk the dog I looked up in the sky I saw will look to be a star moving in the direction from north to south I thought it was a plane as it moved little bit behind it follows another one and right behind that one the same distance and other another one and another one on a straight line without moving they followed one after the other perfect motion there must have been about 15 of them has it moved across the sky imperfect sequence I don't think plants do that with the same distance apart same speed they never change color just look like a little white. Wait about 15 right behind it fall in straight line no sounds of aircraft have a really high in the sky
August 15, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Davis, CA
I was lying down on my bed and gazing the night sky through the window. The sky was clear and there were many stars visible which appears stationary. It was early morning time around 5am when I noticed one star moving slowly and then increasing its speed. I notice that there was at least 7 such stars following it and all these stars were at the same distance from each other and moving at the same speed. To make sure I was not dreaming, I woke my wife up and she also witnessed these stars moving. They were moving in the direction of the moon. Next to the moon we also noticed a bright star. The view from the bedroom was limited so we decided to go to our backyard and view it more clearly. By the time we were out and looked up the sky, we could not see them anymore. We were able to witness these UFO for at least 2-3 mins and they looked spectacular. We could still see stars in the sky but all appeared stationary. This was truly remarkable and wonder if anybody else noticed this.
August 15, 2020 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
San Rafael, CA
Saw a pinpoint of light travel horizontal across sky in my viewing direction of the Moon and Venus in the night sky. It appeared, traveled in a straight line horizontal direction,very fast,then disappeared. My estimate is 3 seconds viewtime. It could not have been an airplane, because it was a pinpoint of light very far away, and airplanes dont travel that fast. The light was constant and not flashing. It could not have been a shooting star because it did not change its density of light. It traveled horizontal, straight, even line, and shooting stars travel in a "falling, shooting" motion.
August 14, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Half Moon Bay, CA
My husband and I were sitting in our balcony overlooking our neighbor’s roof and in the distance, a bright light, like a spotlight, just appeared out of nowhere. It hovered for a few minutes while we watched wondering what it was. We got our iPhone to start recording to see if we could get a closer look then it moved and shot up so far up in the sky by the stars and hovered. Then shot across the sky over our home.
August 14, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Mojave, CA
`On August 4th 2020, at 3:30 AM I was again looking North when I saw a red and white light travelling from the East to the West around thirty degrees above the horizon. This incident is comparable to my incident on June 17th, 2020, the opposite effect happened as it disappeared from view behind a curtain at a point due North. As above, all stars and other features were visible on both sides of the line but the object was only visible on the Eastern side of this line or curtain. This was one day after a full moon but the object was quite easily observed. The speed of this object appeared to be gliding across the sky. I have no way to determine the distance away from my point of view to the object.
August 14, 2020 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Myers Flat, CA
Went outside to answer a call from my mother, looked up and saw a white orb shaped craft, about the size of the moon moving in a zip zag formation. I've seen planes and satellites my whole life but this was bizarre, I told my mother what I was seeing because she directed me to go outside and watch the meteor shower . Quite a shock to say the least and then I went to bed, next morning told my son and he suggested we report it here.