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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
February 25, 2020 · 11:21 PM · FIREBALL
Daly City, CA
I happened to be looking up at the sky, exactly where the streak of bright light started. At first I thought it was a meteor, but it was much bigger, brighter, & it went on longer than a typical meteor (about 3-4 seconds). & then it broke up into pieces, creating a long tail, before it disappeared.
February 25, 2020 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Strathmore/Porterville, CA
I was out at night and noticed what I thought was a star to the east (MAG 72 DEG). But, it was twinkling different colors. It was very high, appearing to be over the sequoia Nat'l Forest. It was hard to make out with binoculars, but did have some sort of spherical or cylindrical shape, and numerous colored lights. I saw nothing listed on the local Aeronautical Chart. Saw the lights again tonight. The first observation was actually 3/10/20. I saw the lights again on 3/27/20 and 3/28/20. I took some long distance photos. They almost looked like balloons with lights, and were constantly changing the objects shape. The lights did not change location or altitude.
February 24, 2020 · 9:14 PM · LIGHT
Hanford, CA
There was three lights lined up , that appeared like stars but little by little light objects were coming out of it. They would travel pretty far from the three lights how ever would go out.
February 24, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Jenner, CA
I looked up towards the west ant there was the brightest tlight ..it was moving up and down.
February 23, 2020 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Stockton, CA
Formation of light that slowly disappears into the the night.
February 23, 2020 · 7:47 PM · LIGHT
Santa Ana, CA
Last night I saw this blinking light shoot up from behind this apartment building. It then hovered for a while, then slowly moved upward. I was so focused on the blinking light that I didnt even notice the double white light off to the right. When the blinking light moved toward the double white light, it appeared to split into 2, then moved to the left, past the blinking light. The sighting was at this location- XXXX 17th st Santa Ana, Ca 92705 At 7:47pm 2/23/20
February 23, 2020 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
San Francisco, CA
I got up just before the sunrise it was still dark outside. stepped outside on the Pacific ocean facing balcony (5th floor) to witness a ufo procession. One by one they dropped down from one spot up high out over the pacific ocean and in a perfect line evenly spaced apart they glided inland towards SF airport, I counted 20+ solid white orbs, they were very high up not to interfere with air traffic. It really felt like a they wanted to be seen. After standing there for 2- 3 minutes, i ran back inside and woke up my partner to come see, she did so and we witnessed the last 7 or so orbs glide over our building out of view. This has been my 4th sighting since I moved here in 2018.
February 23, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Hollister, CA
This photo was captured on a house camera at ((address deleted)) the photo captured my aunts house at 160 miller rd and in the photo it clearly shows lights above her house even to to the next house.on a closer look it appears to be a UFO ill try to send that photo and a nother normal one
February 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Antelope, CA
Blue/White lights observed from the south. Proceeded north directly above us and disappeared in the distance. Multiple craft with constant blue light and an intermittent white light flew around one another and moved in every direction while on the northward course. Craft were silent and moving at a high rate of speed (though the distance is not known). The only rational explanition would be small, low flying and silent drones being flown as a squadron. The shuttered McClellan AFB is located nearby.
February 22, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
La Mesa, CA
Traveling home from dinner with my family. Noticed a bright blueish light off to the west. Looked to be a helicopter but did not have any flashing lights. Stayed same elevation and location. Looked at my wife to make sure she saw the same thing. She looked and watched it blink then disappeared.
February 21, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
San Diego (Palomar Mountains), CA
i was up on Palomar mountain with my wife and we where doing some late night photography of light trails of the planes coming in and out of San Diego county when we saw a real bright flash we thot it was a shooting star but then the light dimed and where it was was a bright light just siting there and occasionally it flashed then it would go dark and it moved almost over head and flashed agen but it had travail from one spot to the next so fast there was no sound and it was to high and to fast to be a plane it stayed in that one spot for the next 2 min not moving and it would flash some times with 3 lights there was no color just the white light then just as fast as it was there it was gone about 30 sec later we both saw what looked like a shooting star cross the sky and it had started where we had last seen the light
February 20, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Nipomo, CA
It was round and expanded had a haze around it that move in circles green beams like at some point like tentacles.
February 20, 2020 · 12:30 PM · DISK
Temecula, CA
Objects were flying very high and circling. They started to straighten out when two of them shot off in the opposite direction. Lost sight of them after that.
February 19, 2020 · 11:07 AM · UNKNOWN
Santee, CA
Taking the trash out and heard jets and saw two F35’s bugging out heading NW at about 1000 foot altitude. Looked around the sky and I didn’t see anything so I went inside and checked my seven cameras I have set up to record the sky. I had to zoom in on my DVR video display to see the three objects they were about seven miles from me and about 20,000 up. So I caught three objects in the clouds about 7 miles from me, they entered my camera 1 view in the clouds and came into view somewhat horizontally but at about a 15 degree angle traveling through and then just below the clouds traveling about 20-25,000mph and taking separate paths and began descending at a greater angle and joining together afterwards at 3500-7000 feet and about a 50 mile distance. The two F35’s were heading North West at high speed they had their afterburners on I saw the smoke, towards their location. The Three objects entered with separate paths miles apart and they were leaving a trail! . Their individual paths changed like they turned then moved towards each other and they all seem to come together or form up together purposely. I estimated the miles, speeds and elevations. raw video available and I caught video on three cameras
February 19, 2020 · 11:07 AM · DISK
Apple Valley, CA
I was looking up North for a very loud fighter jet, bus instead i seen 11 disk flying east moving slow and exchanging places one would move to the front of the line and so on, the loud noise was not coming from the flying disk, they were too high.
February 18, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Stockton, CA
A friend and I were walking home at about 11:30 at night she said oh my God and pointed at the sky and I looked up we saw bright colored like Blobs of Lights flying across the sky from east to west they appeared to be behind clouds but there were no clouds in the sky and then they vanished. At the same time my boyfriend was in a completely different place with some friends and they saw it too he said it look like something blew up and split in two maybe coming through the atmosphere.
February 18, 2020 · 5:15 AM · OTHER
Ojai, CA
Something on dark side of the moon , I have photo there was a bright light on the dark side.
February 18, 2020 · 5:15 AM · CIRCLE
Los Angeles, CA
I was in Griffith Park in Los Angeles doing my morning work out. There was a hazy cloud cover. Between sets I happened to look up in the direction of the Big Dipper and saw a small dim light moving from the west to the east. I watched it for about 30 seconds or so as it went from being occluded from trees to other trees. I continued doing my work out. About 5 minutes later my eye caught the image of another dim light moving in the same path as the previous object. Again, I watched it for about 30 seconds or so. A couple of minutes later I saw a 3rd dim light on a similar path moving from west to east. I watched that one for about 30 seconds or so as it glided between occlusions of trees. A minute or so later a mist moved in and hid all the sky that I could see. These three objects had to have been at a great height. The first two seemed to be moving at about the same speed and the 3rd seemed to be moving a bit faster. Where I was there were a number of trees hiding much of the sky and of course L.A.'s light pollution is legendary among sky watchers.
February 17, 2020 · 7:55 PM · CIRCLE
Port Hueneme, CA
Walking home from a store I looked up in the sky seen a bright circle light that started moving left and right at great speeds, then it shot up straight about 500 feet and then fell back down at incredible speed then it just went black. 3 seconds or more went by then a real bright light appeared again and started repeating the movements described. I went back into the store ask the clerk to come take at look and when we came out it was gone then it reappeared in brilliant bright light again, clerk went back in the store and I headed home keeping my eyes on the object in the sky.
February 17, 2020 · 5:20 AM · SPHERE
Modesto, CA
I went outside at 5:20 AM. It was a dark sky. I immediately noticed 2 bright stationary star-like white lights (brighter than any other star or planet then visible) at about 10 degrees west of straight up or at an altitude angle of 80 degrees from the Western horizon. The lights were aligned in North and South direction and were spaced about 4 to 6 diameters of the moon (2 to 3 degrees) apart. The moon was quarter crescent. They then faded out beyond visibility within about 15 seconds at the same time as if there were coordinated. I thought I should report this because it is the second time I have noticed this same type of event. About a year ago in the Spring I saw the same thing happen with a pair of star-like white lights in the evening about 8:30 PM at an altitude angle of about 45 degrees above the North horizon. Those lights were spaced about the same and were aligned East West. Maybe these were both satellites but they must have been in high orbit because they did not move perceptively. I have found references to Iridium Satellite flares being seen in pairs but they were moving fast enough to leave a streak in the photo taken of them. http://www.astropix.com/images2/beginner/iridium_flares.jpg I have seen many satellites in low Earth and they move quite quickly. These object seemed to not move at all.
February 17, 2020 · 1:18 AM · TRIANGLE
Moreno Valley, CA
hello, So on Feb 17, 2020 between 01:00 and 01:21 i was outside at my jobs yard between the streets indian and heacock on san michelle rd during that time i was dropping off a trailer, i looked up up closing my trailer doors and i saw a triangle shaped UFO it had lights that resembles stars it was formed as a triangle, it was moving as if it was hovering. As it was moving it halted and and turn to a different direction i was amazed i was stuck on it so i watched it disappear in the horizon.
February 16, 2020 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Cardiff By The Sea, CA
Outside hotel, facing freeway toward sea, a bright disk in night sky swiftly zipped then settled hovering in one spot. As the greater blue light body spun, a smaller disk object, centered at parallel, oscillating opposite spin. Large and small discs randomly changed spin speeds and directions with either spikes in armature or secondary disc was spoke-like. Small disc broke off and the greater combined light instantly half dimmed for the two, then larger disc brightened. Objects hovered a half an hour above San Diego area near Scripps College over the sea. A lower plane passed by somewhat 3,000 feet below so perhaps discs were near 6,000 altitude on clear night.
February 15, 2020 · 8:00 PM · TEARDROP
Redlands, CA
A green object caught my attention from the corner of my eye while driving on the 10 freeway. I glanced out my window and saw a greenish comet shaped object flying away from me traveling North. It was bright and my first thought was a meteor except the low intensity “burn” was green and steady instead of fiery colored and flickering. The comet shape, like a circle or oval with a tail did not leave a trail and the whole thing winked out of existence a few inches about the horizon. It was too big to be a satellite or aircraft and moved too quickly to be anything I have seen before. It streaked across from my vantage point at the top of my window to almost the horizon, distant mountains, in less than 3 seconds.
February 15, 2020 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Grand Terrace, CA
Round, bright blue light about the size of a basketball 200ft in the air, hovered for a second, shot to the ground, and shot back up into the sky and out of sight.