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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
June 11, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Dana point, CA
20 balls of light staying stationary on one unidentified object moving super slow below helicopters and planes . Couldn’t see the object just the lights hovering over Dana Point Coast everyone freaked out didn’t know what it was and as soon as it was gone everyone just mind their own business and I still till this day think it was a unidentified object because it was something not like anyone has seen before based on the lights they all stayed the same distance and the height it almost look like The size of a boat that holds shipping containers hovering right above the trees going super slow then disappeared over the hilltop
June 11, 2020 · 1:46 PM · SPHERE
Huntington Beach, CA
This in a summery of an event, of a unexplained flying object encounter on a flight between Anchorage and Hong Kong. I was flying as a relief pilot sitting in the captains seat on a commercial cargo flight when I first spotted the object. I immediately pointed the object out to the first officer who also saw it. The Captain was in the back on his rest period. The location of the event was on an airway, R220, between NOGAL & NIPPI intersection, 21.4NM NE of NOGAL at FL400. The coordinates were N4632.8/W15332.6. The closest land was 67.7NM off our right. This land would be the Kuril Islands SW of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. The only other know air traffic were two other aircraft that were on our TCAS. They were on our route same direction of travel within 60NM ahead of us. It was daylight as the time was 1346 local (0346 Zulu). There was a low undercast layer of clouds, some towering clouds 100+ miles in the distance, but clear at our altitude. Our ground speed was 408 knots, true airspeed 476 knots, MACH # .830, wind 252/73 and total air temperature -20 something. Our magnetic heading was 238° While I was sitting looking at the first officer in conversation, I noticed a bubble like object off the right side of the aircraft. I immediately pointed it out to the first officer. He quickly grabbed his phone and tried to take several pictures of it. Unfortunately due to bugs or dirt on the side windows, the camera focused in on the window instead of the unexplained object. The object looked like a clear sphere or bubble. It appears to be rigged like glass or plastic, however I can’t rule out a balloon. The size is relative to the distance it was from our aircraft. This is where the first officer and I have a difference in opinion. In the window, it was the size of pencil eraser. I felt that the object was within a couple of hundred yards and was maybe the size of a car. The first officer felt that it might have been more like a couple of miles away and therefore much larger. The strangest thing about this object was that we didn’t speed past it. We did overtake this object but slowly. We were moving over the ground at 408 knots into a nearly 70 knot headwind. If the object was a balloon, I feel we would’ve blown past it very fast. So what ever this object was, it seems it was propelled by something. There was no visible engines, exhaust or any thing else that resemble a know aircraft capable of traveling at such speed. Needless to say, this consumer or conversation for the next several hours. When the captain returned to the flight deck, we explained our siting and continued to discuss what it could have possibly been. The Captain was a previous F-18 pilot and both the first officer and I were civilian pilots.
June 11, 2020 · 12:20 PM · FLASH
Upland, CA
It maintained a height of about 4,000 ft. based on the scale of the mountains. From that point it continued going up pretty high. Lost sight after about 4 min. This was not a plane or a helicopter.
June 10, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Madera, CA
Very bright light above our home. Light then disappeared followed by a small boom sound. Object reappeared far off in the distance seconds later where it was observed with what looked like a reddish object leaving from the main object and remained stationary for sometime. Very bright white looked to be circular in shape. Witnessed by 3 people with varied backgrounds including a city employee.
June 10, 2020 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
Arleta, CA
On 06/10/20 around 6:30pm - 7pm while exercizing at a neighbor's house, I noticed a white circle in the sky at what appeared to be a similar height that you would see satellites travel at night. Pointed it out to my workout partner and I told him maybe it's a sta r(which would be rare to see in L.A. while it's day light). Told him to grab his binos to see if it's a star or maybe even a planet.. Was difficult to find in the glasses, but while moving from glass to eyes on the blue/white flashing circle/orb, we spotted more (orange and white stationary,higher altitude, fade out/in and one back to back triangle looking formation) They appeared to fade in and out or maybe the angle of the sun plus how high they were. There were white circles and orange, and I only captured the orange on the binos. At this point I told my buddy I'm getting one of my telescopes, either the Orion xt6 or the Orion xt10i so we can get a better look. 15 min later back with the Smaller telescope and we couldn't spot them with the naked eye. After 5-10 min searching, another object appeared from the South heading north, but appeared to be a bit lower in altitude than a satelite, but way higher than any planes would fly. I was able to train my scope on this, and it looked like a white cloud/balloons spinning compared to tbe sigle circle faint objects. Also, following the object in the telescope was similar to following a planet as far as speed. Any feedback with answers/ideas on this experience or the last report would be appreciated. Thank you
June 9, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Petaluma, CA
Me and five of my friends drove out to Elephant Rocks near Dillon Beach to stargaze. We saw some shooting stars and then at around 10:30 pm we saw two lights appear. They looked just like stars. However, they weren’t blinking or twinkling, they were moving very fast, they were curving and not moving in the way a satellite or plane would. One seemed to be following the other, and then the brighter one curved around and they crossed paths very close and then went in separate directions and suddenly disappeared without a trace. And then like 10 minutes later we saw another one in a completely different part of the sky, it was almost wavering slightly and seemed to be rotated almost. And then it changed directions and started going very fast and was able to cross the whole horizon in around 2 minutes and then disappeared like the other ones.
June 9, 2020 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Claremont, CA
me and my partner witnessed two triangular shaped aircraft, one flying up front, the other a few seconds behind, yellow and red lights flashing, but something about the flashing/lights seemed odd, flying very fast, looked weird, not like a regular plane, flying low about 500 feet in the air, flying over residential area, headed West, we live in a very quiet neighborhood and we had just commented on how quiet it was, when we saw the aircraft, we waited for the sound to hit but neither of them made any sound. Both were completely silent. We also witness one triangular shaped aircraft about two months ago. Pretty much the same description, greyish, only we saw it much later in the night. No lights except it had a V-formation of lights beneath (most probably reflectors). Also completely silent. SO DAMN FREAKY! Not sure if this is related, but about 25 minutes before we saw these two aircraft, we witnessed, two planes possibly "escorting" another plane. One plane up front, the other plane at the back and in the middle another plane. Could not make out is shape except that it was black or grey, with no lights. That's what made it so strange as well as three planes flying in a line. The regular planes had lights but no light at all from plane in the middle. We left a report on this website but due to the backup of sightings, have yet to be contacted. Thank you for your time.
June 9, 2020 · 8:33 PM
San Diego, CA
a bright yellow light with blue light surrounding it was observed. The background was turning dark on a clear sky with fading beautiful orange hue from the sun set.
June 9, 2020 · 6:05 PM · OVAL
San Diego, CA
This is a repeat listing of MUFON case number 109367 filed same day as sighting. I was able to make estimates of altitude and speed shortly after I filed the MUFON report but am unable to update that report, so I will include those estimations here. Observer is a retired aerospace engineer with a structural test, design and analysis background. Wife and I sitting on outside patio 6:05 pm on cloudless warm summer evening. Heard popping sounds we never heard before coming from trees. I got up to look at the pine tree in our back yard because the patio umbrella obscured my view. I also looked directly overhead at palm tree canopy. My wife heard the popping but remained seated under the umbrella. Later found out noise was the sound of the pine cones opening. One UFO emerged from behind palm tree canopy straight overhead going fast and about the size of ½ a pencil eraser held at arms length. Within .5 to 1.0 second I ruled out it being a bird or a plane due to straight flight path, speed, no sound, it’s oval shape and fuzzy (no hard edge) appearance. I was able to see it for a total of about 3.5 seconds when I lost track of it in the whiteness of the horizon. It was also white with luminosity similar to that of a white fluffy cloud. SPEED / ALTITUDE / SIZE ESTIMATES: We live under Lindbergh field approach path and aircraft are approximately at 1000 ft. elevation near this sighting. The UFO was headed into the approach path of the aircraft. It was 2 to 4 times the height of typical approaching aircraft. Observed at 90 degree elevation and lost sight at 15 degree elevation (measured) making for a 75 degree angle of observation. Using this geometry the speed calculation comes out to be 2,898 m/h if at 4000 foot elevation or 1,447 m/h if at 2000 ft. elevation, again, no sonic boom or sound was heard. Diameter estimates range from 15 to 30 foot in diameter depending on actual altitude.
June 9, 2020 · 1:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sacramento, CA
Orb shape, translucent. Moved at a high rate of speed., crossing from NorthEast to Southwest direction.
June 9, 2020 · 7:30 AM · CIRCLE
Porto Marina Beach, CA
Around 7:30 a.m. on June 9, 2020, I was driving from Camarillo to Santa Monica for a pre-surgery doctor appointment and the Waze app diverted me to the Pacific Coast Highway due to traffic. I am relatively new to the area and was struck by the beautiful blue color of the ocean in the morning and so I saw a place to pull over at Porto Marina Beach along the way and took a few pictures with my iPhone to send to my father and sister and brother in Virginia. I was only stopped a couple of minutes. I took two pictures and there was a circular object or cloud in one part of the sky for one picture, looking toward a peninsula and then directly in front of me for the other picture, looking straight at the ocean. I don’t want to waste time if this is something like an artifact of my camera somehow. I’ve had two actual encounters with closer up unidentified objects in my life, and so I am at least reporting this for your review. I will try to send the pictures to you now.
June 8, 2020 · 9:24 PM · LIGHT
Seaside, CA
June 8, 2020, 9:24 pm, Monterey, CA. Two star-like objects - one crossing the path of the other. One object traveled in a stright line north to south until no longer seen. Simultaniously, another object crossed it's path. This object flew in a different manner and was focused on while other oject quickly flew beyond sight. Color changed white to orange and faded periodically to almost unseen. Slowing and speeding up slightly almost instantly. No nav lights - no sound. Estimated speed, (several thousand mph based on other observed commercial aircraft flying the commercial route between LA and SFO several thousand feet below. Estimated height between 60/80 thousand feet. First observed straight overhead traveling west to east above Monterey bay then object slowly altered heading to a noticeable northeast direction over land in the approximate middle of observed flight. Duration of observation, appox 60 secs.
June 7, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Highland, CA
I was outside of my cousin's home waiting for him to come back out when I saw two orange/red lights coming up over a mountain in the distance. I watched them until they disappeared, thinking they were possibly lanterns someone let go I thought nothing of it. I started to turn away when I saw two more come over the mountain again. I grabbed my phone and began to record. These objects went in the same pattern as the previous two and disappeared in the exact same location. My cousin came out and began watching them with me. Two more appeared and did the exact same thing, then two more. His wife called him and we began explaining to her what we were seeing. She looked up from her location, which was closer to the area in which they were coming from and saw the same thing. She said there wasn't any noise but she was quick to pass them off as helicopters or drones until she saw more coming over the mountain and began to really watch them. Not one of us heard any noise coming from these objects, they were not blinking, they all followed the same path and disappeared in the same location in the sky. I have one previous experience when I was around 8 years of age and I was with my father and brother. These looked different from the one we had seen then but it too was in Highland. That one was the most interesting thing I had ever seen. It bounced all over the sky, continually changed color and when it finally disappeared after 10-15 minutes of watching it, it "exploded" into every color of the rainbow. I thought twice before posting this but as I am watching "Unidentified," the videos they are showing right now are of the same objects that my cousin and I saw that night and it gave me more confidence to come forward. I have a 6 minute long video of what we experienced and viewed that evening. I am definitely looking up at the sky more frequently now!
June 7, 2020 · 11:24 AM · SPHERE
West Los Angeles (Brentwood), CA
Hello, I want to share an experience on an object that I observed hovering on June 7, 2020, in Brentwood CA. (West Los Angeles). I also reported the incident to MUFON (Case # 109330) hoping they reach out to me but they still haven’t. On June 7, 2020 (Sunday) from 11:20 AM - 11:25 A.M., I was working a security detail in Brentwood which is considered West Los Angeles near Santa Monica beach. This particular day was beautiful, there were no clouds, it was warm/bright (74°), and it was windy with a wind gust of 8.1 mph (per the weather map). My attention was drawn to what I thought at the time was a chrome helium balloon. I didn't think much of it because it's normal to see neighborhood children or people at the beach releasing balloons, but this one captured my attention. While staring at the object for several seconds, I kept asking myself why wasn't the balloon flying away in the direction of the wind and why was the object hovering over residential homes for several seconds. Then for a quick second, I thought maybe someone decided to tie this balloon to a very long string and let it loose, well I was wrong. As I kept looking at the object, my analytical mind went on overload and that's when I realized, I wasn't looking at a balloon, a plane, a helicopter, a blimp, or even a drone. The object I was looking at was white or chrome and it was in the shape of a round sphere. The object kept hovering up & down in a very fast manner. At times the object will move from side-to-side and on a few occasions, the object will hover downward and disappear showing a circular flashing light then it will reappear in a different location. During the movements, the object appeared to be slowly rotating while it produced a glowing brilliant light. While the object continued moving, I saw it morphed into two round spheres. Both objects were connected and glowing. It almost looked like a dome but I wasn't sure. The objects were producing what I call a strobing light as it appeared in and out of the camera frame. As the object hovered, it turned into what I call a "donut" shape. It had a black circle in the middle of the strobing object while it hovered towards Santa Monica beach. I lost the object for several seconds allowing me the opportunity to retrieve a pair of binoculars from my car. It took me seconds to find the object, but when I did, it was a spectacular sight the object was rotating counter-clockwise as it produces a brilliant chrome light, that's when I saw the second sphere (or dome) that was connected. I eventually lost the object as it traveled west towards the beach. To remove any doubts, this object was not a plane, helicopter, blimp, or a drone. These mentioned items make some type of noise, the sphere never made any noise and hovered in the direction towards the wind. I’m a retired Law Enforcement officer with over 20 yrs. of patrol and investigation experience. As a lawman, you are trained to see, hear, and find rational explanations of what’s occurring. You also develop a “7 sense” that many people will never have. In my career, I have seen my share of strange, unusual, and unexplained things but this time it's beyond my explanation. For reference, I recorded the object on my Samsung Note 8 cellular phone. I recorded the object three times and I took several still images. On some of the images, I added a dark background showing unusual things within the flashing pictures. Thank you,
June 3, 2020 · 9:15 PM · TEARDROP
Los Angeles, CA
Ok. I am parked in our driveway..front of my car facing west. And our street. I hear sporadicfire works; I see the flash..over the houses...against a dark blue black post sunset sky.. Then hear the "kaboom ".. 3 seconds after. Ok. One or two was set off. There was a guy walking his dog on mybsidexof the street.. heading south.. as soon as he passed the neighbour's drive to my right.. I saw ..what looked like an orange flame color almond-shaped something streak upwards... No bright flash or. A KABOOM Followed. Then I heard the guy who walked his dog past me .. yell to someone else." Look over there.. over there!! In an excited voice tone. I dont know if he saw that I saw. But there has been unusual stuff occurring in these parts. Lately. That was it. As I mentioned... maybe it was a dud fire work ..or.. ??? I am not toooo.. sure on this one.. But????
June 2, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
South Lake Tahoe, CA
For over an hour in the tahoe sky way high up a light jumped around in the sky, so I videoed it and took pictures.
June 2, 2020 · 11:45 AM · SPHERE
rancho mission viejo, CA
They were bright white orbs, very high in the sky, moving back and forth. I'd estimate 7 or 8, and the date I saw this was approximate. I'm just perplexed why I knew to look straight up to see this. It kinda freaked me out.
June 1, 2020 · 10:04 AM · FIREBALL
Strawberry valley, CA
As we looked in the sky we saw a huge fire ball that appeared be half a size of the moon, the object was moving so fast that we couldn't tell if was going towards us or away, the object than zypped off and disappeared. As a person who lives in the mountains I have never seen anything like that in my life. #BlackDogFamily
May 29, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Santa Cruz, CA
This night, I was scanning the sky and ocean over aptos and Santa Cruz with my infrared binoculars. Suddenly a crazy bright light on the horizon startled me. Through my binoculars, it was as big and bright as the setting sun! But this was night time , the sun had set over an hour ago. I watched this bright orange round light that sat on the horizon over the santa cruz side of Monterey Bay for 20 ish minutes. It was still most of that time. Finally it began slowly pulsing in brightness, getting so bright that at one point, it turned my binoculars from regular mode to infrared mode by itself. Then it began to move slowly north. Horizontally, along the horizon. It moved slowly away until it was behind the peninsula that is Capitola, yet I could still watch its progress because bright orange rays of light shining up from behind the land gave away its position as it went. Eventually I couldn't see it anymore. I've been trying to find anyone else who witnessed this. Nothing y! et ... but it was SO bright other people had to have seen it too. I found an article online from Australia a couple years ago that shows the exact same event. That article said that authorities suggested it was just extra fuel burning off at their oil refinery. Obvious bullshit story... we have nothing like that here, either. I took pictures, video, on both cell phone and the binoculars.
May 29, 2020 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Stockton, CA
It was a round, Orange, glowing object and it changed speeds from going very fast to quite slow and changed direction. It did not make any noise. It flew East. My boyfriend is quite skilled in identifying aircrafts and satellites and he was baffled at what this could have been. We were able to get the last sighting on video. It was either one object that looped back in the same direction three times or three separate objects.
May 27, 2020 · 4:37 PM · CIRCLE
Pollock Pines, CA
Traveling NE in the clear sky like silver round object traveling at a smooth rate oc speed. Seem to know it was getting my attention, because I had this feeling something was watching me from the sky, nkt on anything or alcohol and two others confirmed seeing an object. Then it held its position in the sky, about a pin dot but still silver in color and now strobing in a way, maybe reflection from sun. It traveled in a clockwise movement, when I went to get my binoculars to get a better view it was no longer in my view. It shook me to my core and I watch satellites and space station fly by every day, this was not that. Maybe a drone but how far it went to the sky and the distance just seems unimaginable.
May 26, 2020 · 10:07 PM · FIREBALL
San Jacinto, CA
It was around 10 PM on May 26th, I was laying in bed using my computer when a bright yellow-orangish light in my peripheral vision got my attention. I walked to the window and opened my blinds to get a better view assuming it was a helicopter because the light was stationary in the sky. I found it odd that there were no blinking aircraft lights, just a ball of bright light so I opened my window and there was no sound at all. Then it started to go higher and higher and it got dimmer from my perspective until it faded out into nothing in about 45 seconds to a minute after I first saw it. Then another one moved into view about 30 seconds later moving horizontally in the sky and it also climbed out of view like the first. I told my family and three of us watched as a third one appeared. I got my phone and attempted to record a video but I just took a picture of one of them because I hit the wrong button. After the last one climbed out of view I waited a few minu! tes and there were no more lights. I saw at least three separate objects and there was possibly a fourth because I left to go call my family and I lost track. All of this lasted about 5 to 7 minutes from the time I saw the first one until the last one disappeared. I know it wasn’t flares because flares don’t move horizontally in the sky and it wasn’t a drone because drones don’t fly that high in the sky. I tried to research to see if there were any rocket tests or anything like that in my area but I couldn’t find anything online. I’m just an average person, I’m not into conspiracy theories or anything like that so I’m not trying to imply anything like it was aliens but it was definitely unexplainable.
May 26, 2020 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Daly City, CA
Looking west, approximately 60 degrees above horizon, one bright light that varied in brightness. Size wise, imagine holding a BB at arm’s length. Moved slowly left to right, stopped, three other dimmer lights appeared, vanished, reappeared over several minutes. Stepped indoors for 30 minutes, when I stepped outside lights not visible.
May 21, 2020 · 9:16 PM
San Jose, CA
I was out smoking a cigar tonight at 9:16 PM and I observed a flashing bright green light rising in the horizon at about 280° west and noticed it was climbing and thought it was an airliner. The light abruptly descended and headed south too fast to be an airliner and did a sharp loop and then disappeared heading away from about 253 degrees West. The light was only visible for 45 seconds. I came back into the house and grabbed my compass to check the headings. I did not hear any noise and it appeared to be at a high altitude. I was the only witness and hope someone else may have seen it.