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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 28, 2023 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Barbara, CA
An extremely large triangular ship flew directly overhead. Size was comparable to a large military cargo carrier aircraft. There were three bright lights at each corner, but no structure was discernable between the lights due to the darkness. After watching it fly away, grabbed phone and managed to catch some video before it disappeared toward the mountains. Made no sound at all, even though if it was any kind of conventional aircraft, being so close it would have been heard.
July 28, 2023 · 9:28 AM · OVAL
Carlsbad, CA
On the morning of July 28th 2023, I was at my work(construction) and knoticed a bright starlike object in the clear blue sky. I knew it couldn't have been a plane it was much to big and was self illuminating est 10 thousand ft. I pulled out my phone immediately zoomed in about 40x and snapped 1 photo. I was stunned upon further review if the photo there was an entire fleet following the object. The fleet was invisible to my eye my phone somehow picked them up. I have an android s21 ultra with 100x zoom. I'll let the picture speak for itself it's unbelievable. If that's not enough on aug 16 2023 in knowticed (clear blue skies) a set of contrails that looked to close to be normal. I snapped a picture and again was shocked what seen what eyes couldn't. Look at the objects on the far left of the photos those are ones I couldn't see.
July 27, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT
san francisco, CA
A solid blue light moving through the high fog from West to East at a rapid pace. It illuminated the surrounding fog in a diffused blue color. The light was only blue, not blinking and there was no sound. I would estimate the altitude to be a thousand feet up. It travelled in a straight line until it vanished after about 45 seconds.
July 27, 2023 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
While floating in the pool we saw silver oval-shaped object flying west to east, with no sound, and faster than an airplane but not so fast we couldn't track it for a few seconds. I saw it more clearly through my sunglasses.
July 25, 2023 · 11:08 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalMarysville, CA
POSS UFO observed near Marysville, CA. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 25, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Losangeles, CA
At around eleven pm at night I noticed a light and the only way I can explain how it looked like was it came down and up like a Nike logo. It was super bright and lasted a couple seconds. I waited to see if it appeared again or where it went. It just disappeared very quickly.
July 25, 2023 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
CHULA VISTA, CA
While talking to my neighbor, I witnessed a green streak of light heading North / North East. I was facing East, my neighbor was facing West and did not see it!
July 25, 2023 · 7:00 PM · EGG
Atascadero, CA
I saw a white, egg-shaped craft in the sky. The bottom half of the craft had yellow lights that came on and off. The craft was moving downward in the sky, zig-zagging back and forth.
July 25, 2023 · 2:05 AM · TRIANGLE
sacramento, CA
I was at back side of Walgreens at the corner of Franklin blvd and Mack Rd on Sacramento, Ca. on the 25th of July around 2:05am. I looked up to see Jupiter in the sky but then noticed an object not far from where Jupiter would be but a little further down and above the tree and lights. At first looked like maybe a very high street light since that is what it looked like at first till it started moving very slowly, actually surprised it was coming towards me. It was moving so slow that I was waiting to hear a jet engine of some kind but only heard what sounded like a gush of wind/fans or maybe a very slight engine sound-hard to describe since had never heard in the sky a flying object like this. It was triangular shaped I think maybe the size of a Southwest airline jet with a solid white light near each tip/blacker than the sky so it showed up very well and more lights to the center of the object of different colors and looked like it bulged out a little in the center where the other maybe white/red/yellow-can't remember exactly the colors but went over me heading to the slight southwest towards Davis-(a town sorta southwest of Sacramento). By the time I got through with what I was doing-(maybe 2min) I tried to see if I could catch up or sight it since at the time seemed slow enough to do that. I went down Franklin Blvd maybe a mile-right to Consumes River Blvd toward the direction the object was going but it seem to have disappear out of sight. It was one of many times I wish I had my video camera to video what I was looking at-(this tho being my 1st encounter of an overhead object in the night sky). I do have video of a small object appearing in my back yard garage door at night flying from the ground through the sky past my outdoor house camera. I have shown friends but surprisingly they are my uninterested intellectuals who seemed to be only interested if I had video of me talking to the aliens. The object looked like a pure white round disk shape but maybe only 5-8" in diameter-(as I said small). It looked like my camera which will record on movement caught something that turned on to record-then suddenly the an object lights up on the ground-flew up past my camera-(which is sitting maybe 12-16' from the ground). I have experienced this type recording before but deleted it thinking it was a bug????? But a round bug?? Anyway this time I kept the recording. I didn't have a way to record off my house camera's dvd type recorder so I had to play it using my Sony digital Handycam-I had to do a stop tape/then forward/stop tape/the forward cause the object moved very fast and can only capture the object in flight doing this. Through the whole flight of the object if it was a flying insect the shape would have appeared to show such but the object kept its same exact shape through the whole flight past my outside camera. I will give you my email addr but not my address-(but not to far from the sight), or my t#. We'll see what happens with this info. In your Contact info that I filled out does state that all the info is confidential unless I check the "permission to release your name" box which I did not check!! So please do not release any of this info in Contact Info. Thanks for your time.
July 24, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
My wife and I went for a later than usual walk with our dog. Right before we were got home, my wife points out a light in the sky and asks me, “Is that a plane?” I look up and see the bright light, and I start my process of elimination. I’ve many times looked up hoping to see something that wasn’t a satellite or airplane, but often to my own disappointment, I can quickly figure out when that’s the case. Then, the light begins to dim, so I think space debris, and then it lights up again, changing direction by around 45°. At this point I’m still thinking shooting star or something. Until it started to light and dim over and over and we see it flying in an S shaped path. My wife and I both noticed between its bright cycle would almost be a dim red/orange light. Eventually it went past the horizon of the mountain and we lost sight of it.
July 23, 2023 · 12:06 AM · SPHERE
Yuba City, CA
Was sitting outside with friends. An bright orange orb appeared high above us. It was still for a couple seconds before moving east. We watched as it moved across the sky a vanished in the same way it appeared.
July 22, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Los angeles, CA
The orbs seemed almost triangular. Lights broke apart and reformed. Shifting proportion/volume.
July 21, 2023 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
I am a Captain at a 121 airline. On our way south to Santa Ana around 10:15 I noticed 10 to 15 glowing red lights ahead around 20 to 30 miles SW of LAX in the vicinity of Catalina. It was hard to pinpoint an altitude but we were at 25,000 ft. and they looked almost level with us, possibly lower. The lights seemed to change from red to white. They stayed illuminated for a few minutes then disappeared. They re-illuminated a few minutes later what seemed like a couple miles west of the original position then disappeared again as we got closer. Other airlines reported seeing them as well as multiple people talking about them on the emergency frequency 121.5. After doing some research online, it's possible they were military flares but not 100% sure. [NUFORC annotation: Flares - Possible]
July 21, 2023 · 9:40 PM · CIRCLE
Tiburon, CA
Object was circular/sphere like in nature, color was bright orange. Object was very large and bright (larger than an aircraft). Object was sighted over San Francisco from Tiburon (the skies were clear). Object hovered between Trans America/Salesforce Tower for nearly 4 mins in same spot, and then quickly flew off.
July 21, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Twentynine Palms, CA
Hello at 8:30 pm. my brother and i saw an object/light above the mountains as if you were going to las vegas leaving 29 palms. I noticed the anomaly right after passing the palms restaurant on amboy road. I noticed it because it looked like a star but super bright and the only one. I looked around outside and confirmed it was still light out so no stars were visible yet. I mentioned it to my brother and he said something along the line of it's a planet or star. I told him to keep looking and that it looked as if there were two lights. A smaller one above a much larger light but so close as if they looked like one light. He said if anytime it was twinkling. After that he looked away. No sooner than looking away it just vanished. Just gone as if it was turned off with a light switch, instantly gone. As soon as it disappeared all i could say is " it's gone" (i never looked away after noticing it was the only "star" or whatever it was in the sky) i looked at my brother and his jaw dropped. When it disappeared we had just past the telephone tower next to our home. We pulled over in our driveway and my brother got out his phone and used two apps. One was for looking at stars and planets. Absolutely nothing was in that direction. The next app we used tells us the location of planes and helicopters. There was a jetliner two moutain ranges back but this is not what we saw. We agreed we would continue looking that way until we could see the jet. I ran to my home and charged my phone and called my friend at 8:42 and then 8:46. At first he didnt answer so i texted and called agin. He picked up and my brother and i told him what happened and what we saw. After getting off the phone with him we saw the jet and knew that it was way to high in the sky and it took roughly ten minutes to see the jet. My brother and i both agree that this is something we have never seen before and that it was definitely not a plane. It never moved from the position above the mountains my brother and i both agree on that.
July 20, 2023 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
San diego, CA
Just one craft visible, hovering red lights constantly on, then it looks like other red lights were coming towards it, and as soon as they all came together, they disappeared so we stopped. I snapped a photo of light in the distance, and then a zoomed in the same shot same angle, and I didn’t know what I was picturing until I looked at the photo and that’s what came out.
July 20, 2023 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Trabuco canyon, CA
Saw a formation of orbs sitting in the sky off the coast toward San Clemente. They did not appear to move but would disappear then appear again in a new formation. As few as 3 and as many as 8. All disappeared for a minute then reappeared in a vertical formation. They were an orange mush color but seemed to get brighter/whiter at times
July 20, 2023 · 4:41 PM · SPHERE
Bonita, CA
Viewed, videod, 2 photos of metallic spherical object traveling from the north heading south west at high altitude steady linear speed. No exhaust trail no other observational traits.
July 19, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedValley Village, CA
Started off as a red dot with a tail and quickly gained altitude. Then was a bluish dot around Star height with a parabolic tail. There was only one. I was out walking my dog when I thought I saw a shooting star. My mom and I were walking our dog and she stopped to look. Then another man down the street stopped to look. We watched the red dot shoot into the sky, then it briefly disappeared. Then, it returned but was a light blue and had a bluish, parabolic wake behind it rather than a tail. My mom is a middle age professional and I am a student. I have experience in both rocketry and planetary science, but have no clue as to what the object may be. My mom thought it looked like a rocket, but I checked and there were no recent launches to my knowledge. After some time it truly disappeared and we continued our walk. We then noticed a helicopter circling our area, which is unusual as it is a safe suburban neighborhood. My dog was acting weird the whole walk but I’m not sure that he saw it. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:14 PM · CONE
Malibu, CA
We we're packing things up in the car after hanging out on the beach. One of the kids from the car in front of us asked if the object in the sky was a space ship. I looked up and saw a huge aura or haze in a cone like shape coming from the orb. The aura or haze was moving in different ways. But the orb was moving further away. It looked like something straight out of a movie. I took a video on my phone but the aura and haze don't look anywhere as significant as they did in person. The aura or haze stretched across the sky. I watched the orb slowly fade away along with the haze
July 19, 2023 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedDuarte, CA
Last night I was sitting outside waiting for Starlink. It was supposed to pass over Duarte California at 9:22 pm coming from Northwest to East. At 9:12 pm, I saw an individual object coming from the West and heading slightly Southeast. As the object got closer to me, I could see a white light behind it. That light was very bright white emitting in a large fan like pattern. I know Perseid is here, but unlike a meteor, this object was moving fairly slow, and it was visible to me for a couple of minutes. This was very visible over the Los Angeles area. Surely, I can't be the only person to have seen this. I took a short video of it with my camera phone. I don't know why, but the video shows the object as blue, but it was bright white. And it doesn't really show the large fan like light that it was emitting behind it. FYI, the horizontal white line in the video is just the telephone pole wires. It looked like a comet to me. Please let me know if you determine what this was. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:11 PM · SPHERE
Fontan, CA
I saw a bright red, orange orb rise up and it was pretty bright it looked like was turning into a laser, then it shut off then it continued slowly hardly visible , and then suddenly started turning the sky bright [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
July 19, 2023 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedMenifee, CA
From our backyard, we looked up and saw what looked like a red comet entering the atmosphere. It had a long red tail of what looked like debris or smoke. We ran inside to grab a camera. When we returned, the comet turned bright white, emitting light horizontally from it. Then, it changed direction and went south. The tail disappeared when it did that and you could only see a very small light that changed from red to white. SpaceX launch form Vandenburg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Earlimart, Allensworth area., CA
Standing outside, across from Big Bs truck stop on Front st in earlimart, ca, looking west, south-west, toward nothing but farmland, I saw what I believed was a firework going up. It had a orange-yellow glow to it, similar to the yellow light emitting from a farm home just below the area the light came up from, at least from my perspective. The light seemed to get brighter, realizing it seemed to be pointing in my direction, I figured it to be a drone from some jerk messing around. I turn my body to it as the light seems to be coming towards me. At this point, it's obviously too high to be a drone, so knowing this, I figure it came up from the horizon from further out than that house. But being in the San Joaquin Valley, I know the mountains are all around, so distance wise, I know it came up from the valley somewhere and am pretty sure it didn't come from over the mountains that are to the west. As the light sort of got brighter, still shining towards my direction, a red dot started to appear. Then, as quickly as it was seemingly coming towards my direction from the west, south-west direction, it started going south, and rising upwards as it went almost straight to the left after coming towards me. That red light got more intense, the orange yellow was gone and there had started to be a red streak behind it as it went south. This red "tail", as it seemed, followed directly behind the dot, no gaps in tail, no smoke, no exhaust, shot south, going upwards gradually, from my perspective. The red streak stops, then from the dot I see the atmosphere around the object begin to part from directly in front of the object. Still no smoke, no plumes, no exhaust. Upon realizing that it has entered the atmosphere, I go back and forth from inside were my wife is to try to get her to see. Also, I have never seen anything space related except on TV and the internet, so I'm super excited. It arches a bit higher at this point, but increases speed going southwards. If I had to say, the object may have been going south, south-east. Upon entering the atmosphere. I believe the red streak was it entering the lower atmosphere, then the hazy separation of the atmosphere was it pushing through and getting into space. At the point of atmosphere separation, the red dot had become tiny, an indication of how far away this is. As the dot makes its way, pushing through the atmosphere, I am going in and out of the rv, getting my 11 yo daughter to atleast witness. Once i had her outside, to my amazement, the object had already made it through the atmosphere, leaving two giant illuminated auras from around it, peculiarly, still no smoke, exhaust, not even the haze was directly behind it, as if the moment it reached the outside of our atmosphere, it left with such force, any haze left from the spreading of the atmosphere seemed to disipate exceptionally quickly. My daughter and I saw the giant spreading of the atmosphere, went inside instantly, made my wife come out in less than a minute, and the light and evidence of the atmosphere being distorted in any way was primarily gone. Just the haze of sorts leaving an almost unrecognizable area that you only can notice if someone saw and pointed it out to you, as I did with my wife. I took note of stars and constellations, I've never studied astrology in any way, but orions belt is where it seemingly vanished into the sky. Atleast, I think it's orions belt. But regardless of the actual constellation name, I know which stars it left towards. The speed, unfathomable. But I know it was about 5 minutes long of an incident, but not 7 minutes or longer. Maybe 6 minutes. Either way, I know it's not a normal rocket because of exhaust, that it's not a comet or shooting star, no tail whatsoever except when first speeding southwards, starting the more progressive climb that it took. It went through the atmosphere, seemingly from the ground, in a matter of roughly 5 minutes. Honestly, it could've been less, because I wasn't looking at time at all. But know it was over in minutes. My daughter and I both saw it pretty much finish getting through the atmosphere. There were no flashing lights. No logical way it could be something human made, given the amount of energy needed to make it through the atmosphere at such speed without leaving any evidence. I believe the red streak of a tail was atmosphere buring up around the object because it was leaving at such a high velocity, it was already red just before the tail started. Also, the tail was short, not long, nothing left behind at all afterwards. My wife thinks I'm crazy, daughter wants to watch Paul, and I thank you for your time. I hope others saw and report somewhere as well. Thank you for your time.