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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 15, 2020 · 12:30 PM · FORMATION
North Hollywood, CA
There were about 15 glinting objects that were floating through the sky, I couldn’t see their shape exactly, but they moved almost like balloons, except they seemed to have more control over where they were going. They were very high up in the sky and went south east.
February 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Alamo, CA
Noticed a light hovering too bright too low to be a star , filmed object for app.5 mins zoomed in appeared to be a spinning bluish light with an outer ring of light.
February 14, 2020 · 2:46 AM · UNKNOWN
San Francisco, CA
Something extremely bright flew by my bedroom window with a high pitched sound woooooo. Half of my room was lit with a flash of white light. In a few minutes I could smell a raccoon. That means something scared the raccoon.
February 13, 2020 · 8:53 PM · CHEVRON
Carlsbad, CA
At 8:53 PM, on Thursday night, I was working gate security at a location in Carlsbad, CA. I was observing some clouds moving in from the coast, to the west of my location. I then noticed a V shaped object, or objects, which at first I thought might be a flock of birds, due to being un-lit, silent and right at the edge of visual perception. The object was to my west at about 30 degrees elevation. I grabbed a flashlight I carry and shined it at the object. This flashlight is special new type that uses a laser to excite the phosphor, and produces an extremely narrow, laser like white beam, that goes for over a mile. When the beam hit the craft on the right side “wing”, I could then tell it was one solid, grey colored, un-lit object. The vehicle did not respond to the light and was gone a second or two later. The object was pointed toward the I-5 freeway, and the ocean, when I lost site of it. I had seen another triangular shaped object fly over us, much lower and closer, on 10-31. I'm starting to think this area is some type of "Hot spot" for unknown reasons. This area is a busy aircraft corridor and within about a mile of an airport. The object would be right in the departure path. We are taking additional measures such as the use of recorded low light and thermal cameras which cover this area of the sky above our buildings.
February 12, 2020 · 1:00 PM
San Diego, CA
witnessed what appeared to be a rocket launch from the Tj, Mex/ san diego, CA...
February 11, 2020 · 7:30 PM · EGG
San Francisco, CA
I was out running[in S.F.] some errands and was walking towards a local supermarket to get some food and then head home. As I was walking down this street, I saw in the corner of my eye and up in the sky, what seemed to be quite a large or circle. It was way larger than a star and at 1st, I thought of the possibility of it being the planet Venus, since it does come close to our planet around this time and is visible, however out of curiosity I decided to sit there and observe it and the 1st odd thing I noticed was how it had some sort of glowing iridescence from its upper right side. As I kept watching, I noticed these weird "spikes" came out of it and they would pop in out of it. The color of these spikes was like light colored except for some spikes that were yellowish. I saw a passenger plane fly underneath it, although in reference, it was obvious that this UFO was at a much higher altitude. I pulled out my phone-camera and held it in my hands so that it be completely still and as I was doing this, from my eyesight(which is 20/20), this thing seemed stationary, yet when applied the infinite zoom on my phone, this thing came on my screen that was whizzing around in circles...it was very odd. I was right the grocery store and went and finished my shopping and when I came out the grocery it was still there but had moved a little to the northwest. I dropped off my groceries and tried to relax from a weird excitement I felt and decided to go back out see if I could spot it again. I went up a couple blocks and looked up and at 1st I saw a constellation of stars and then to the left of those stars I saw this thing again with those weird spikes and you could see how much bigger it looked in reference to the stars nearby, except this time, it was mobile and was circling in weave type patterns.
February 10, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Clearlake, CA
Last night my husband and I stepped onto the porch for a cigarette, I believe it was sometime between 9-10pm. I saw a bright flash and then a light blazing across the sky, it looked like what I would assume a meteor breaking into Earth's atmosphere looks like. I saw another small shooting star very close in proximity to the light stream. At this point I assumed it was a meteor or something and continued our conversation. As we were discussing the moon's position and the gravitational pull, we gazed up and saw a very bright light, much brighter than any star, moving up and down and it did a small circle. It appeared to move closer to earth, then it would go further away. It was moving considerable distance, extremely visible when comparing to location of surrounding stars. My husband ran off the porch, I followed. He noticed a formation of 5 lights, in a triangle shape over to the east side of the sky. Each light seemed to be moving independently, moving very little, but maintaining formation. We turned our attention back to the singular bright light, as it appeared to change from it's original blue color to a flash of red, shooting small bits of light from it. On the western horizon, two crafts appeared, flashing very quickly and brightly. They flew together at the same speed(which was extremely fast), then slowed, and again flew very quickly. These two flew directly in the path of the singular craft, then crossed the sky to the second formation of crafts. At this point I became uneasy, realizing that there was an army of crafts flying above us, and unsure of their intentions. I went inside and begged my husband to follow. We were both in shock and trying to process what we just witnessed. When I came in I looked at the clock and found that nearly 3 hours had passed by, feeling like minutes. A few minutes later he stepped back out, and called for me to come. The singular light had now traversed almost completely across the horizon, and was sinking low, right around Mt. Konocti. It was unbelievable. I have been searching for other reports of this activity, as it was extremely visible and bright on a clear calm night.
February 10, 2020 · 9:24 PM · LIGHT
Calaveras County, CA
My husband was driving and I was the only passenger in the front seat, coming from Columbia, CA on Parrotts Ferry Road toward Hwy 4. We were midway there, when suddenly, just above the treetops we both gasped as we saw a bright light in an imperfect circle shape rapidly ascending north into the sky, and then gone, as if it was “swallowed up” by the sky. This is a cloudless night, with a nearly full moon shining brightly to the east of us. No object outline was discerned, just the very bright white light. It was extremely difficult to get a sense of the actual size given treetops obscuring any prior view of it, but it was large enough to absolutely grab our attention from the road and our conversation to look upward! It was maybe a third of the size of the moon in the sky... It had no tail, there was only one, and we both agree that it in no way resembled a shooting star (especially since it was moving in an upward direction and so large...the vision was al! most like a flashlight beam, only of course much larger and did not have a center point of light surrounded by a gradient of diffuse light; it was a solid bright white light. There were no smaller lights, no other colors, nothing that resembled airplane lights or helicopter lights in anyway and the direction of its movement was nothing either of us had ever seen before. From our vantage point (vs the horizon, which we could not visualize) it ascended at an angle, 30 degrees perhaps, upwards then disappearing at the same circumference as first visualized, as opposed to becoming smaller as would be expected with an object travelling away from us.
February 10, 2020 · 5:51 PM · CHANGING
El Dorado Hills, CA
I took several shots, and noticed a faint line on the sky, like a vapor path of a high speed plane, so I decided to zoom in. I took a picture and made a GIF file (rapid succession of 20 images). Upon reviewing the photographs, I noticed something strange--several objects appearing and dissapearing alomg the vapor path that is also strange as it is single and not double as those left by military jets. My friend was with me at the time of making these photos, using my Galaxy Note 8 phone.
February 10, 2020 · 6:07 AM · LIGHT
Ventura, CA
Saw lights quickly go into cloud, about 3 single file, then behind them several started coming in one by one quickly...we waited for the lights to continue through the cloud and sky,...but not one came out! Clear skies all around,.. cloud hasn't moved.
February 10, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Temecula, CA
8 lights in a straight line, evenly spaced traveling SW to NE. Brightlness and speed about same a satelites
February 9, 2020 · 5:45 AM · CIRCLE
Montara, CA
Hovering balls of light. Some of them were in close to each other in tandem and others were by themselves. Moving from a Northernly direction down the coast then easterly over the land. I have video footage. The quality is not good but the balls of glowing lights are visible.
February 9, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
McKinleyville, CA
Between 05:20 and 05:35 I was preparing to enter my truck on the way to work. As I was putting on my work vest I looked up and saw the stars which is rare in Humboldt co. I then noticed 4 or 5 bright lights traveling east southeast at a high rate of speed. They were evenly spaced and appeared to very high. There was no sound that I could hear. I then noticed there were more following them. Near a star that in bright in the sky I observed these lights appearing what seemed like out of nowhere. on furthure observation I could see these lights appearing as coming out of a fog with a dim light growing rapidly brighter and coming in evenly spaced times and following one after another. This went on from 30 seconds to a minute then they quit. I have no idea how long this went on before I saw them. I was hoping my crew would show up so he could see them too but he arrived too late.
February 9, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Roseville, CA
At approximately 5:30 a.m. my phone alarm went off because I forgot to turn it off from the previous day. I did not want to wake up at 5:30 on this morning the morning of Feb 09,2020. After turning my alarm off I went to go back to sleep I'm homeless by the way so I sleep under the stars every night now for about 10 years. So at the present time I am sleeping on the front porch of an insurance building. So I am afforded a fairly good view of the night sky. Well as I am trying to get back to sleep I notice what I thought was a fixed star, start to move in a southerly direction it was pretty high up at least as high as commercial airline traffic would be. Well as I'm watching this object that only I can make out is a single white light, it is joined by up to 10 other similar lights/objects? they were all moving off to the south from the north I lost count of them as the first ones I viewed were going out of my view but more were coming in from the north all in! a single file they all appeared to be equally spaced apart they made no noise or at least I couldn't hear any noises coming from them, there were no other colored lights, only a single white light. These objects were moving at a pretty good clip they were moving in a purposeful and intelligent fashion. I would say that there were at least 12 -15 of these things lights/objects. Because of the time of day 5:30 on a Sunday morning I thought it might be some sort of military maneuvers or something along those lines but if they were military aircraft(helicopters or planes) that many would give off some kind of running or operating noise. It is of important note that the weather conditions for that night were pretty clear not many clouds in the sky that night. My gut feeling told me that what I was observing was "different". I grew up in the military and was use to seeing all kinds of Air Force jets, planes. I never saw anything like that before.
February 8, 2020 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Sacramento, CA
On Saturday night 2/08/2020 at 11:30 pm in the city of Sacramento, CA. while letting my dog out before going to bed, I spotted A flying object displaying three lights. The white lights were in a triangle, blinking at about one second intervals with two lights leading and one trailing. There were no red or green position lights on the craft and no sound. It came in from the northeast of my position made A left turn of about 270 degrees and continued its flight north. From my position in the southern part of Sacramento I could not make out any structural outline but I felt it was around 1500 to 2000 feet above the ground. It made its turn about over the executive airport in Southern Sacramento. I am a aircraft mechanic and am very interested in all makes and models of flying machines and have never seen anything like the display I witnessed on that night and thought it should be reported.
February 8, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Yucca Valley, CA
This past weekend of the 8th while camping in the Yucca Valley area, my three girlfriends and I were admiring the full moon. One on us wondered if certain three (3) lights in the sky were planets or shooting stars because it seemed like they were “active”. Just then, we saw them shifting, moving, arranging themselves into a triangle up on the sky; then one by one they flashed a light. Flash, flash, flash. Then and almost impressible light kept them connected to one another. Like one of those laser sables from Star Wars. It was there, but you almost couldn’t see it. They were still there, when we walked back to our camp a few minutes later.
February 8, 2020 · 5:51 AM · UNKNOWN
Ukiah, CA
I went out to get some firewood for the wood stove. I just so happened to look up and I saw a line of lights going across the night sky. There were about three at first, but then more appeared and then went out of sight. All traveling in a straight and perfect line. I tried to record them with my smartphone, but that didn't work at all. I thought they were satellites at first, but I have NEVER seen that many all at once before. If anyone else has seen this please say something!
February 8, 2020 · 5:45 AM · OVAL
Nevada city, CA
My wife and I were out back early to see the moon and stars before morning light , and after a few chilly minutes we saw a satalite, then 2, one chasing the other, we thought. Then 4, then 5, 6, 8... They were just appearing out of the darkness of the southwest sky, moving fast to the northeast in a single file line, almost all equally spaced and equally bright. As bright as any star in the sky. At one point they spanned from horizon to horizon, all moving in a line at the same speed and totally quiet. A video and still photo show the craft to be two lights spaced apart and oriented at around a 15 degree angle, all the same orientation... It had all the hallmarks of a small invasion unit, visiting us this morning. I am still shaking an hour later, it's just now getting light outside. I called 911 and reported it as it was happening, We were terrified... This was not normal, I watch the night sky and stars all the time, especially early predawn mornings. Freaky...
February 7, 2020 · 6:59 PM · TRIANGLE
Berkeley, CA
Date: 8 Feb 202 Time: 7:01 pm (PST) Location: South Berkeley, CA I went outside to look for the ISS that was passing overhead. I spotted the beginning of the pass in the north-west sky, looking like a moving star, and went inside to get a pair of binoculars. I came back outside and tried to find the ISS in the north sky. As I did I saw three dim lights in a triangle shape, and two similar lights a small distance off from the others, overhead and slightly to the north. The five lights were all moving easterly at a speed approximating the speed with which the ISS crosses (the speed of a low flying airplane.) I thought at first these might be from the ISS, but it was much too much distance between the lights for this to make sense (the ISS would have to have been at the height of a low airplane to be separated by such a distance.) The lights were not flashing, were not colored, and were all moving “together” across the sky. They were dim, not bright like stars. I lost them behind a building, and then tried to re-sight the ISS, which I found in the south-east sky, at the end of its transit.
February 7, 2020 · 8:40 AM · CHANGING
Patterson, CA
In my backyard I looked up very quick and seen 2 jets getting ready to cross I wanted to film it so I grab my phone that was in my pocket and went to camera it took about 2-3 seconds, when I looked back up there was only 1 jet so I started to film it and kept looking for the second one but couldn’t find it, I thought no way could it be gone. When I reviewed what I had I filmed I caught what looked to be a round ball that look to change at different spots at one point it actually looked like a plane, but it was not above the other jet as I had seen in the beginning it was now lower and in front of the other jet and exited at the bottom of the screen.
February 7, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Ventura, CA
On 02/07/2020 at 5:30 AM in Ventura CA I saw one spot light like a satellite moving on the Sky. No surprise, I thought that could be the Space Station moving over CA, but then I saw a second light following the first, a third one, a fourth and so on. I stopped counting at 20. It was more than 30 spot lights following each other in a straight line from west to east. I thought, maybe they are Air Force air planes in training, but no noise, complete silent. Not only silent, but they start to pop up at the same point at the sky over my home, they were not coming from the far west horizon as expected from airplanes, they popped out from the same spot up on the sky. They were pretty high. I do not believe they were meteors because they were pretty stable in light intensity, no tail behind, and all following a very straight line. They were not spaced regularly, distance between each consecutive light was not uniform, but not too much different. All the action took ! no more than 1 min, than I had to go take my bus to commute.
February 7, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Lakeside, CA
Ten craft where seen flying over Lakeside in formation at a high rate of speed.Headed East by North East.9 in a row with 1 straggler. The event lasted no more than 10 seconds. It was still quite outside (no background noises) and I couldn't hear any noise coming from the crafts.
February 7, 2020 · 5:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Palmdale, CA
I was going out side for my morning smoke when i saw a triangle ufo flying extremely low then i noticed it wasnt alone there were many more flying in a strait line. Where i live its not uncommon to hear of ufo sightings but ive never seen so many before and never that close, at first there was some doubt if they were but now i can confirm with a 100% certainty they are. After seeing so i became petrified.
February 6, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Rio Linda, CA
Black bell shaped UFO and a black circle UFO stood 5 hours or more couple miles into sky the closest I have ever seen it that's so far. I'm not looking for publicity nor do I want anyone I know that I have ever said this. There has been a lot of activity for quite some time I just never knew where to report it confidentially.