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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
July 3, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Petaluma, CA
I was stargazing with one of my friends on a field at an. elementary school, around 11:30 at night, when we saw a star-like light appear, I had seen similar ones a month earlier and thought they were UFOs too. It wasn’t blinking or twinkling and wasn’t a star, plane, or satellite. When it moved it kind of wavered and moved in one direction, and then curved and went faster and suddenly disappear. And then. Like five minutes later, another one appears in a different part of the sky, it does the same thing and goes in the opposite direction of the other one and disappears.
July 2, 2020 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Santa Ana, CA
I was driving on the freeway in the dark at 11:30 pm and had been thinking about how my dad saw a UFO and realized I believed him and then I was begging to see one in my mind and had done some siri searches on my long hour drive to my boyfriends as well last night about aliens and UFOs. Then a strange flashing object lit up in the left of the sky very far away. It was flashing red and then blue. It was shaped like a circus tent array of lights or sort of like a spider shape. It finally stayed red and started moving closer to the middle of the sky and closer to my car. I was still driving at this time. Then I was directly under it and I passed it. It was gone and I called my parents to tell them. During my phone call with my dad, it appeared again far to the left behind buildings and trees. It moved towards the middle of the sky in front of me about a few thousand years ((sic. yards)) up and then it started going back to the left again and slowly inclining higher into the sky towards the moon. That was when I saw three horizontal blue lights in the middle and a black disc within the array of red lights. I knew it was not a plane because it was going very random directions and it appeared twice and was following me. It was like they heard me ask them to show up and then they showed up for real! I have never seen one in my life until last night. I was on the I-405 south.
July 2, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Mojave, CA
Between 22:00 an 22:30. My family an I were star watching saw several Flashes of light above in the sky that seem to generate several ufo that flew across the sky than dissapeared. We watch for awhile than it ceased. The balls seem red in color they appeared inbetwwen the small dipper an big dipper. Everytime a flash of light would appear it seemed a UFO would go from right to left than dissapear.
July 2, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
A fuzzy or hazy looking white light came from the west going east. Going very fast. then it disappeared. no sound. Not a shooting star or a plane or helicopter.
July 2, 2020 · 1:56 AM · OVAL
Los Angeles, CA
We were all sitting on the beach at night, barely any waves, very quiet. We are looking out into the ocean and out of no where this thing appears and we’re watching it as it gets closer and closer. There is NO sound and it got so close we thought it was going to land in front of us on the beach but ended up disappearing behind a mountain . The light patterns were going around in circles and it also projected lights onto the ocean and sand. It was definitely not a plane, helicopter or drone. It was SILENT and it was pretty big. I have a video of the whole thing
June 30, 2020 · 10:37 PM · LIGHT
Ladera Ranch, CA
at the time I was on a FaceTime call with my friend laying in bed. it was a foggy night and I had my two windows open. A large disk formed clump of lights colored with gold and white, super bright, flew by my two windows just below the clouds but right over a tall tree. I immediately jumped up yelling what did I just see them quickly went onto Snapchat to get a date and time and description of what I just saw. after it flew by my dog started shaking. it was not an airplane or a drone and it was silent but close. I don’t know what I saw that night but for sure was a ufo.
June 29, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Big Bear Lake, CA
I saw 2 very bright lights, about 10 minutes apart that traveled in the same direction at super speed, like 1,000 mph. I only saw it for a couple of seconds. They appeared to be so close, like maybe a 200 yards up from the ground and definitrly in our atmosphere. I've seen shooting stars before and these didn't look like them. They were very bright, appeared large, flying over the Big Bear Lake. I wish I captured a video.
June 29, 2020 · 12:00 PM · DISK
San Diego, CA
It was a still, partly cloudy day. While looking at the beautiful sky I spotted 1 object in the N-NE sky in a section of sky without any clouds. It was too far to distinguish the shape. Closest would be either a disk or saucer. It was white or silver, no sound. I watched it travel a short distance to the SE, then reverse right back to the NE, then reversed again to the SE, then suddenly, simply disappeared. It did not race off. It was there one second...and poof...gone the next. I waited...but it never returned.
June 28, 2020 · 5:32 PM · TEARDROP
Cerritos, CA
On June 28th 2020, I was looking out of my living room window and noticed there many police cars rushing down the street. They had blocked the street off so traffic could not get through, so I decided to walk down the street to see what was going on. It turned out that it was unfortunately a fatal accident between a car and a motorcycle. I decided to take a picture with my iPhone of the accident and returned back home. I took a look at the picture that I had taken and noticed an object in the center of my photo. It is shaped like a black teardrop with two tail-fins. I did not hear any sounds. At the time that I took the picture, I did not see it nor was I aware of this object at the time, however, when I hold my finger on the photo, it appears and disappears as though traveling at a high speed. The photo is on “live” which means it records a split second before and after the photo is taken.
June 24, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Bloomington, CA
There were 7 red light in a “V” formation. They suddenly appeared and did not move for a few seconds. When I pointed them out they started to shift. It was like if I was looking at a screen and they went to the bottom right corner but it was a very slow shift. The lights weren’t over head they were in the air but it was like facing me. I was in my front yard and across the street from me is a palm tree nursery/farm so when they moved to the corner I had to get closer to look at where they went and they just kinda faded out.
June 24, 2020 · 7:09 PM · SPHERE
Anaheim, CA
Around 7:00pm my husband and I were outside eating dinner on our back patio. I looked up and saw a round shiny bright object in the sky. We’ve been having issues with neighbors setting off illegal fireworks, for a quick moment I thought that’s what I was viewing until I realized it was more of a very bright stationary orb and much higher up than a firework, or even the planes in the area go. I watched it for a couple of minutes and asked my husband to go inside and get his phone for me so that I could try and get video of it. I recorded three small videos, the whole time the orb stayed in the same location until the last video, after recording the last one and then watching it on my husband’s phone I didn’t think I had footage of the object until we watched it on our computer; around the 00:08 second mark you can see the object quickly fly off to the left of the screen, I was still recording afterwards because neither myself or my husband had seen the object fly off. I apologize for the shaky hand, I was having a hard time trying to focus on the object and hold the phone still. If I had to compare the object I’d say it appeared to be as high up as Saturn or Jupiter have been appearing lately when they pass. It was in the East. I’m having a hard time guessing the altitude but it was much higher than any of the planes we have fly over in the area, no sound emitted from the object. There is some background noise in the video from our neighbors as well as some traffic noise, if the object did have any noise it would have been too far up for us to hear it. We did have an airplane flying much lower, we are near flight paths for LAX, Long Beach, and Santa Ana. There was also a police helicopter that flew by, but much lower and towards the West, it didn’t seem to be out to look at the object, we’ve had some crime in the area lately and it’s not uncommon for the helicopter to be out at all hours of the day. I’m curious to know if you think this is a UFO or maybe just something like a drone breaking FAA flight regulations. I know that drones can reach very high altitudes even though they aren't supposed to. However, I’ve never seen a drone that could take off as fast as this object appears to, or emit a light like that during the day.
June 22, 2020 · 8:59 PM · SPHERE
Manteca, CA
I had just gotten off work as a professional commercial bus driver, and was just looking up appreciating the still setting sun in tonight, even though it was near 9 p.m., or 2100 hours. There were no clouds in the sky, and the view of the crystal clear bluish-maroon sky was amazing! As I yet traveled only one eighth of a mile down Southbound Lovelace Avenue, I was still observing the sky on occasion as I was driving down this road, when I noticed appearing from my right, which would be the westbound side of Lovelace Avenue, a brilliantly lit bluish white sphere moving gracefully through the clear early evening sky. I say gracefully, because the first thing I noticed about this bluish sphere, was that it seemed to be "pulled" in the South, Southeast direction of the sky, as opposed to being propelled. I characterized this type of movement through the sky, because over 30 years ago, I had considered being an aviator in the United States Marine Corps. I've read dozens of books about aircraft since its inception when the Wright brothers flew the Kitty Hawk, so I'm quite familiar with the characteristics of aircraft of different kinds that are publicly known. Also, I have taken a few flight lessons before, so I'm pretty familiar which additional lights on aircraft, and how aircraft wood handle and performance in the sky, since I have flown propeller-driven aircraft before like the Piper Archer II. That the movement of this sphere was so graceful, I immediately started looking for typical navigational lights seen on a terrestrial aircraft that are required whenever flying in the evening into night time. I did not observe any standard navigation lights, like the red light on the left/port wing tip of a man-made terrestrial crafts, nor a green light on the right/starboard wing tip, then a white light on the aircraft tail, nor any other required position lights on a plane. As the bluish sphere traveled from my right to my left, I estimated it's altitude at approximately 800 to 1,000 ft. The illumination of the sphere reminded me of a clearly lit LED light, which never pulsated, and remained at the same light level the entire time I witnessed it. I could not discern any discernible shape within the light, and it was only one "craft" I observed. The next thing that occurred to me was to see if I could hear any sound from this sphere. Since I was driving a 2015 Ford Fusion Hybrid, I decided to drop my speed so the car would run silently on its lithium ion battery rather than the gasoline engine. Then I rolled down the driver side window so I can potentially hear any sound that could have been made in the wake of this bluish sphere, but did not hear any sounds at all, save for the ground noise made by the tires of my car. And I did not hear any other sounds around me as I was traveling on this road by myself. As I approached a stop sign at the dead end of Lovelace Avenue and Union Road and pulled to the side just before the stop sign, I continued observing the craft as much as possible until I lost view of it behind some trees and some other Man-made obstructions on the ground in the distance. Again, what really captured my attention was how this craft seem to be "pulled", rather than "pushed" (propelled) in the direction, such as a plane would, as it moved along. A very fascinating observation!
June 22, 2020 · 7:45 AM · FORMATION
Santa Maria, CA
Three blue orbs, in a perpendicular line flying in unison down the Santa maria river bed. It flew steadily until it reached towards the hills, then took off, like in, star trek, really. My neighbor, his son, and my friend were witness to this UFO.
June 18, 2020 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Los Banos, CA
On June 18th my son and I were driving down 152. I saw a star like object drop down from the sky and proceed toward our car. I woke my son and said a bright light was coming toward us. It came over our car and had a circle light around us. I did not feel afraid. There was no noise. After 5 min. It left.it was one bright light. It glowed over us. It put a circular light around us.
June 17, 2020 · 4:10 PM · OTHER
Salinas, CA
I looked out my window & saw a formation of lights in 2 straight lines .No noise heard traveling east towardsFremont's Peak or Hollister Ca. Tried to take video but lights didn't appear on the screen Of my cell .
June 17, 2020 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Victoria Island, CA
On June 17, 2020, at approximately 0430 hours, I was in my personal vehicle driving west on CA-4 while accompanied by my friend. While driving I noticed on my right peripheral that there was a string of lights flying in the sky. I drew my friend's attention to the lights. He looked out the window and began to take photos. I pull over to the shoulder lane on CA-4 so my friend and I could have a better view of the lights. While in the sky, the formation of lights appeared to be traveling in a single line formation. The lights consisted of approximately 40 lights. The lights were seen flying east from our location. No noise could be heard from the lights. After approximately 8 mins the lights flew out of view and disappear.
June 17, 2020 · 4:16 AM · LIGHT
Groveland, CA
I was outside early to let the dogs do their business. I saw some 'stars' that seem to be moving, so I was watching and making sure it wasn't an illusion. We've seen these lights a few times now and didn't get excited. We are just on the California side of the Sierras and I have assumed that these must be some sort of test craft. I was looking in a north-east direction at them (towards Nevada) when the sky lit up. Suddenly there was a "train" of lights. It started in the western sky behind me and then travelled east towards Nevada. There was some distance between each light and although they were travelling in a straight line, I'm pretty sure they weren't all always going the same speed. They were uniformly going in a straight line, but like traffic on a one way road, they weren't all going the same speed. I'm guessing here, but the line at it's longest must have been over 50 miles long - it spanned the entire sky west to east. NO sound whatsoeve! r. The lights travelled like a train and when they were over the peak of the Sierras they headed DOWN and promptly disappeared. This may be unrelated, but shortly before all this occured, when I went outside with the dogs, I noticed that our solar house battery lights flashed really strangely for about a minute. Afterwards, we checked the outside security cameras to see if they caught anything but they were all aimed too low. Then it occured to us that it may have been picked up on a public web cam. The only cams like this I could find that would allow me to "playback" in time were some set up by PG&E (power company) to monitor for fires. I quickly found footage of the event. Unfortunately, the video is timelapsed, so the 5 minutes or so of this event is quite abreviated, but it shows the lights and the time/date info is all there. I checked Mufon and other people elsewhere described the same thing on the same morning. After the lights disappeared I saw the normal flashing lights of some sort of high-up jet plane flying east to west. Anyway I have the timelapse video and would be happy to share it.
June 17, 2020 · 4:15 AM · SPHERE
Live Oak, CA
I went to go pick up my friend when we were there in the car and as I open the sunroof we noticed what looked like a string of stars or lights and they lla erew flying like if I’m a string one behind the other until gone Headed towards the direction of oroville
June 17, 2020 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Mojave, CA
The following observations occurred in rural Kern County California just East of Sierra Highway and North of Backus Road. These sightings were made outside while sitting in my driveway. On June 17th 2020, at 4:15 AM I was looking due North and approximately thirty degrees above the horizon I saw a long series of white lights travelling to the East. There were several dozens of them. They traveled in a straight line, level to the horizon; at a distance they appeared to be a fingers width apart. Their brightness was equal to that of the dimmest star of the big dipper. The moon was in the last quarter, four days before a new moon, so as faint as these objects were they quite visible. I have no way of knowing the actual distance from me or knowing/determining the speed of these lights. As far as speed was concerned I can only say that they appeared as if gliding slowly across the sky. Making the activity of the lights even stranger was the fact they a! ppeared as if there was a point in the sky where they appeared to come from behind a curtain. Stars and other features were quite visible on both the West and the East of this line but the objects were only visible on the Eastern side of the curtain or line. It was like these objects were coming out from behind a corner or a door way. This activity went on for some time.
June 16, 2020 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Patterson, CA
20 + bright round lights at high altitude all in a row. I have pictures!
June 16, 2020 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
San Bernardino, CA
Looked like a row or string of lights in the sky, moving down at an angle you can see some lights flicker higher than others, the line was perfect as it moved of these lights, none of them were out of place. They were moving downward and faded away
June 16, 2020 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Cajon Pass, CA
Video was taken also.
June 15, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Joshua Tree, CA
I was outside at approximately 8 or 9pm and looking out at the stars above the monument when I saw what looked like a falling star. Moments later another falling star went horizontal in the same area as the first which fell vertically. I made wishes of course and continued enjoying the night sky, when I saw what was previously a stationary "star" drop and then short thrust upwards 3 times, drop again and 3 short thrusts upwards, repeating this pattern approximately 6 times until it got closer to earth. I then saw another "star" start moving upwards towards this dropping "light/star" until it got close enough and the first "light/star" stopped for a few seconds before shooting off towards the military base in 29 Palms. Then, the second "light/star" went upwards into the sky and basically planted there as if it was just a star.
June 12, 2020 · 1:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Thousand Oaks, CA
While taking a break from work I came outside and gazed at the sky. At first I thought I was looking at a black bird flying high in a cloud and then realized birds don't fly that high. While taking a closer look I noticed the craft was black and triangle shaped but something odd was happening. As the craft flew it was consistently flipping over from wing to wing. Every time it would spin a metal reflection would shine from the craft. My daughter came outside to see what I was looking at and described the same thing. After about 6 minutes the craft flew out of our view.