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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
November 12, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
La Quinta, CA
Same as last night. Lights, equidistant, moving in a SE direction - this time twice as many as we witnessed last night. Seemingly in an instant, 3/4 of the lights went 'off' - and the cluster of lights continued moving, though was a smaller cluster. Interesting! UFO? Flight testing of something e.g. Amazon, drones?
November 12, 2019 · 5:35 PM · LIGHT
Placentia, CA
Light was visible above my home. Looked like a star at first, but it was moving slowly across the sky. Not fast enough for a comet or asteroid, and too high for a plane or helicopter. Went approx. 50 feet across the sky (relative to me) then faded away.
November 12, 2019 · 3:30 PM · FORMATION
Gustine, CA
There was a line of lights that appear out of no where all in the same spot following each other stayed in the same formation for about 25 to 30 seconds and They all disappeared in the same spot.
November 12, 2019 · 6:20 AM · FORMATION
Palmdale, CA
It was a bunch of lights moving in singular file except the last 3 and the last one appeared to have the brightest light. There was no sounds they just followed each other and one by one disappeared single file into the sky.
November 11, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fort Seward, CA
Before the full moon popped up looking west I saw a string of lights moving in a straight line southward. Right in between a clearing of trees. And they were moving so fast it appeared as if they were connected by a string but these were not in our atmosphere. They almost seemed like satellites but I, and my four other friends, can assure you these were not satellites.
November 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM
San jose, CA
6-7 star like lights in a single file row traveling north to south in straight line disappearing when reaching the horizon
November 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM
Newberry Springs, CA
Line of 9 round white lights at different distances apart traveling over southern California. They did not blink, and were all traveling same speed together in a straight line. Seemed to be moving faster than a airplane would be. Only lights seen could not tell if they were attached to any object
November 11, 2019 · 6:57 PM · LIGHT
Blythe, CA
15 lights in string formation at a 15 degree angle. Lights were visible only when looking west on I-10. After driving for a minute the lights traveled south and East and disappeared off out of the drivers side window. The speed was slow. No flashing lights were identified as indicating helicopters or passenger flights. The string lights didn’t change formation but were not visible once whatever it was was - was parallel to drivers side window.
November 11, 2019 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Chatsworth, CA
6 to 8 individual lights flying in a close “i” formation. Solid light emission, no FAA warning lights noticed.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Pioneertown, CA
I am not sure of time. It was early evening and the moon was approx between 9 - 10 on a clock. There were 6 of us outside enjoying the full moon and saw a long string of lights slowly crossing the sky then quickly vanish. Approx 12 distinct lights in the string of lights. I believe the lights were traveling from south to north. We tried to take pictures from our phones and nothing was visible.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Hemet, CA
Wife and I were outside while she was having a smoke. We saw a faint formation of lights approaching from the NW. Looked like a long stripe of light, as it passed overhead we could see individual lights, they disappeared to the SE. This turned out to be SpaceX Spacelink satellites which were launched earlier in the day, just in case you get any other similar reports. According to Heavens Above site they are supposed to be visible again tonight 11/12/2019 about the same time.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Palm Desert, CA
Very narrow and long cigar shaped object passed through the southern sky over Palm Desert. Object had lights and appeared to be active.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Madera, CA
I was in my backyard when I saw a line of blue and white lights in a line. They were heading from north to south. The object did not seem to make noise. The lights did not look like a plane they had a slight haziness blue color.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Canyon Lake, CA
Saw a long faint line traveling from northwest to southeast. Due to darkness was unable to estimate altitude. At first thought it was a banner tow rig but there was no noise. As it proceeded to the southeast, I saw a plane pass under it. It took about 45 seconds to cover approximately 40 degrees of sky.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
San Jose, CA
Saw very large and long array of lights in a string formation heading south from San Jose California that appeared to be in orbit or higher or higher.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Chula Vista, CA
Looking up in the night sky @ 18:00 hours I observed what appeared to be a string of lights, 20-30 of them traveling northwest to southeast, for approximately 2-3 minutes.There was no color in the light other than white. The location which best describes my location is California south west near the pacific ocean
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Westminster, CA
I saw about 20 bright yellow spheres traveling North to South in an exact straight line very close together in the sky over my house. They did not vary in speed or interval and maintained a constant speed the entire 45 sec until they were out of my sight. There were no mountains or buildings to block their travel. They just disappeared as they went farther away from me. They were not going at a particularly high rate of speed.I am a retired man living in So Calif.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · DIAMOND
Chula Vista, CA
Just after arriving home I looked up in the sky and noticed what looked like a string of lights moving in a southerly direction, some of the lights were brighter than others. This line was not a perfectly straight line, it kind of reminded me of a sting of birds and how their line would be a little random, and not looked like it had a purpose. I have a watch that has a compass in it and that is how I knew which way they were traveling. The logical person in me kept looking for an explanation. Eventually the lights went dimmer due to the clouds in the area. It is the closest thing I've experienced with out explanation. Very interesting, This night has a Very Full moon, that had just risen in the east. The moon was not in the area where the lights were seen
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
La Quinta, CA
Straight line of lights, equidistant, moving in a SE direction. Flew past and disappeared into the darkness.
November 11, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Playa Vista, CA
I saw a long string of lights which were in a perfectly straight line looked like they were connected in some way. They were above the cloud level and I heard no engine noise so they must have been relatively high. This would have meant that the string was very long. They were moving south across playa vista at a speed typical of an airplane.
November 11, 2019 · 5:57 PM · OTHER
Redlands, CA
9 or 10 white lights spaced out along an object. appeared in the early night sky as we were walking kids. looked about the size of 1-2 football fields. seemed to be as high as an airliner would travel. no sound. at firtst sight we thought it was a banner being pulled by a plane but there was nothing in front of or behind. then as the object passed directly over head, from north to south, we noticed there was mass between the lights, which also seemed to be changing in proximity to each other. it was in view, overhead & out of sight in about 1 minute. Also took video on a cell phone which was not able to see anything but notes the experience & time
November 11, 2019 · 5:57 PM · FORMATION
Fairfield, CA
While sitting the hot tub with my kids, I glanced up and saw a string formation of lights heading southeast. I estimate that they were between 5 and 10 thousand feet in altitude because there was a plane above and to the west of it that was a commercial airliner. The lights were steady and not overly bright. The lights did not waver but were consistently in line with each other almost as if they were connected.
November 11, 2019 · 5:57 PM · OTHER
Coto De Caza, CA
I was walking our dog with my daughter on the corner of via Buho and Via Coyote in Coto de Caza CA 92679 at 5:56 PM when we noticed a string of lights going across the sky in the Western sky. The lights were a significant distance away and I estimate where the length of about 15 airplanes given the far distance from the earth. There were approximately 15 lights were white with no color. I snapped a photo with my iPhone at exactly 5:58 PM Pacific time. Because of the dark sky and the distance the picture does not show anything but a black area. We noticed a string of lights with the lights towards the front center being slightly brighter than the very front and the tail behind. The string of lights were moving from west to southeast at approximately the height regular airplanes would fly. There was no sound emanating from the lights that we could discern. The lights were white in color. They moved in a string very steady without any obvious acceleration. Aft! er approximately 1 to 2 minutes the lights faded into the night. The lights appeared to maintain a relatively steady elevation, but may have been going up slightly diagonal across the sky.
November 11, 2019 · 5:56 PM · LIGHT
FairPlay, CA
This evening while leaving a friends home with my wife in FairPlay ca I looked into the sky and pointed out to my wife and my friend and his girlfriend a line of small lights that were what I would assume to be outside of the atmosphere because they were so far away. As we looked at these 15+ dots moving through the sky at incredible pace I pulled my phone out to try and record the event. Unfortunately I couldn’t even come close to seeing them on my phone because of how far away the objects were, but I did get a 3 second recording at 5:56 pm. We spotted the objects approximately 1 minute prior to turning my camera on and being on the top of a hill we watched them move in perfect formation south east for about 2-3 minutes. It was not dark enough to see stars in the sky yet but these objects were shining in the light of the full moon. After we no longer saw the lights in the sky we all talked and then said our goodbyes.