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August 11, 2019 · 1:50 AM · FIREBALL
Palm Springs, CA
I saw a bright orange light appear in the sky, quickly descend towards the earth in a straight line and vanish before reaching the earth’s surface. The object was circular and the size of a dime. While it was in the distance, I could tell the flying object was in Earth’s stratosphere. It appeared the UFO was 20-30km from the ground and exploring the mountains in Palm Springs. I was staying at Sparrow’s Lodge (E Palm Canyon Drive) and was facing South/South-West at the time of the sighting. To me, the most bizarre thing about the sighting was that the UFO was moving quickly towards the earth. I suppose I always imagined UFO’s beaming back to space, not towards us.
August 9, 2019 · 2:00 AM · CYLINDER
Tujunga, CA
It was 2am at night and all of a sudden I see a red color pulsating from my peripheral. I open my window and I see a giant spheric circle looking thing pulsating a red color but then it started pulsating blue colors. I recorded it and send it to my dad. He confirmed it but like an idiot he deleted it. On that same day my phone broke
August 9, 2019 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Modesto, CA
The only reason why I'm even saying anything now is because I read a report in the paper somebody seen the same exact thing that I seen it was oval and it the color of it was almost like the color of a potato it was huge and it was quiet and it was there one minute and the next it was gone I didn't see any light but it was just massive
August 9, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Grand Terrace, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 8, 2019 · 1:45 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
White light, changed to yellow, then red. It was at the top of the San Gabreil mountains, very bright and visible from the 210 east bound freeway.
August 7, 2019 · 9:45 PM · CYLINDER
Grand Terrace, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 7, 2019 · 8:55 PM · FLASH
Santa Barbara, CA
Apologies if the previous report was sent twice. Regarding the latter, I witnessed a nearly identical uap to the one witnessed last night. The trajectory and apparent velocity were the same however the flash frequency was about 60 s rather than 22 s. i.e. the object flashed 5 times tonight and 11-12 last night. Direction was nw. Flash brightness was constant from zenith to mountainous horizon. This is not possible with a rotating satellite unless its axis of rotation is changing with my location as tangent wrt the sun. . This is exceedingly unlikely. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FLASH
Santa Barbara, CA
As an avid skywatcher since birth (51 hrs), I take pride in my recognition skills concerning flying objects. While relaxing on my back porch after a long day of work I noticed what appeared to be a flashing satellite. The trajectory was circumpolar and velocity was consistant with average satellites. The object was first noticed at the zenith. The first flash was of approximately -6 magnitude brightness and lasted 3 seconds. So far this seemed normal for a rotating solar paneled satellite. Every 22 seconds the object flashed at a consistent magnitude until it disappeared over the northern horizon. The odd thing is the flashing was consistent brightness as though the light was radiating all directions. Normal rotating satellites will flash at most twice before the change in orbital position relative to the observer makes the solar panels flash to a single spot on the earth's surface. The next flash would be hundreds of miles away from the observer one would think. This is the first time I’ve seen this phenomenon and have seen thousands of satellites in my skywatching. This is my 23rd unexplainable sighting of aerial phenomena. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 4, 2019 · 8:36 PM · TRIANGLE
Azusa, CA
At 2015 on 8/4/19 @ Azusa, Ca, in my residence in the backyard by Interstate 210. Me and my friend were eating and listening to talk radio KFI.At 2036hrs. We both notice a orange light in the air at 2 o'clock coming from the Northeast over the foothills. The object passed over us it was clear to see a bright orange covered triangle shaped object.It looked small from are viewing location and maybe over a 100 feet in the air. The object was flying in a Southwest direction and disappeared. The whole incident took approximately 6 minutes. My background is in law enforcement and security. My friend was Firefighter.
August 3, 2019 · 3:00 AM · DISK
Anderson, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2019 · 2:30 AM · EGG
Julian, CA
I would like to preface this report by saying that elements of the event extend beyond the sighting itself, but are nonetheless relevant. I filed a report to MUFON over a year ago, coincidentally on the anniversary date of the sighting. I was reached out to via email with questions, and never heard back from the investigator after I responded. I heard a pilot on a podcast today saying he was told to report to NUFORC, because they could FOIA radar data. The sighting took place near a USAF radar station, and I would assume military data may be inaccessible, but if it is accessible I would think the station picked up the object. FAA may also have track data as well, and I would love to hear of / see corroboration for this event you can track down for personal resolution. This is roughly the same report I filed to MUFON, but slightly better written to be more concise, include greater detail, as well as include potential personal insight gained since my initial report. Pre-Sighting: On the night of August 2nd into August 3rd I was at home / enjoying a night in, and was dozing in and out on my couch watching TV. Typical evening. In my half-sleep (near-sleep? hypnagogic?) state, I had a short dream/vision (unsure of how close to being asleep I actually was so I am unsure of how to characterize it) in which I was in my car at one of my usual places (a turnout overlooking the Sawtooth / Jacumba Mountain Wilderness) for stargazing/skywatching on Mount Laguna near the observatory, at night. I have seen unusual light displays that I could not explain there, as well as many meteor showers, so this is one of few places I go for this with relative frequency. Instantly recognizable. Of note, I was observing myself and the scene/turnout from a third-person perspective facing the driver’s side of my vehicle at a vantage point I can only equate to as standing across the road from the turnout. As I was observing this scene a large white light appeared above my car, which proceeded to turn on an incredibly bright spotlight shining down (or perhaps the white light appearing was the spotlight itself moving over my car) upon the car (with me sitting inside), and as I saw myself looking up at the light, I snapped out of it and was on my couch. When I rose, I had the unreasonable urge (I felt legitimately compelled to a degree I am not really familiar with) to go to the place I had just been in the dream/vision. It was late (after 1am), so I tried to brush it off and go to sleep in my bed. I remained there restless, filled with the urgent need to get in my car and drive to that turnout. This lasted for about 20 minutes, I decided to put my clothes and shoes on, and got in my car. The Sighting: I drove out to the spot, and the drive itself was uneventful aside from the constant anxious feeling that something was going transpire once I arrived at the location. Once there I pulled over, turned my lights off, and left my car running. I got out of my car to briefly stretch and everything seemed normal. Crystal clear sky, typical ambient noise for the area (owls, crickets). I got back in my car, sat for a few minutes, rolled down my windows, and began to cover my stereo and dash lights with a jacket (to mask any ambient light in my car so my eyes could adjust to the darkness), when I noticed a new frequency had entered my field of hearing. It was a very quiet, seemingly very low frequency, metallic hum or buzzing that remained static but had a faint, nearly indistinguishable rate of oscillation. At the same moment, I began to sense a strange feeling in the air and on my skin. Thinking it was the stereo potentially making the noise, I turned it down and turned off my car. Upon doing so, I became immediately aware of the lack of any animal noise (which had been there in full effect prior, when I got out of my car to stretch). With the stereo and car off now, there was only the faint oscillating hum, akin to a beehive (but truly an unfamiliar sound even for someone into sound design) but without the high end frequencies and closer now than before. Completely baffled and weirded out by this, I stuck my head out of my window. As I looked up, I saw a very, very large triangular egg shaped craft moving at an unusually slow speed directly overhead from my rear passenger side to come over the front driver’s side. The best shape I can equate it to is somewhere between a guitar pick and an egg placed on its side. It was much closer to ovoid in shape, but was somewhat wider like a guitar pick. It was not a triangle though, it was definitely ovoid. It was no higher than 500 feet above me, it felt like around 300 (or potentially less) but I’ll say 500 to be safe. There was almost no moon that night, so there was nothing to illuminate this craft from above, which aside from its “lights” only allowed me to make out the outline of it against the night sky to decipher its size and shape. I had initially said it was about the size of a football field, maybe a little smaller, but not much in both length and width (at its widest end). This was due to the fact that it covered almost the entirety of my field of vision as it was overhead, but I drove by a local high school’s football field yesterday and I would like to clarify that after having a better frame of reference, the object was about 1/3 the size of the field if you split it up into thirds by width. Still very large. On the underside, there were 3 large circular, almost oval or ovoid shaped lights that were glowing a reddish-orange color and gave the appearance of (what I could only imagine later to be) plasma swirling very slowly inside of a translucent shell. It would vary in brightness and color in perfect timing with the sound that I was hearing. It resembled lava in color and variance of color. Each “light” was so large, you could have easily placed my car (VW wagon) inside of the light, or my car is a comparable size reference. The “lights” also (strangely) did not really illuminate the underbelly in any way I would have expected. They instead gave off a diffusive hue that moved outward from them upwards toward/onto the main body, where I could JUST faintly see it illuminated enough that it was gunmetal grey or black in color, and the hull was seemingly covered in what appeared to be small geometric plates or scales. This haze moved upwards and I perceived it to be the mechanism by which the craft was “flying”. Judging by this sight and the metallic nature of sound it was giving off, I assume it was made of metal. As far as speed, it moved at a snail’s pace. 15 mph MAXIMUM. It moved from coming up the mountainside from my back right to out of my line of sight in about one minute. It never changed altitude as it moved overhead, but from where I was this craft seemed to have come from the valley below and was making its way up the mountain into/over the forest. As it passed overhead, it moved north/northeast into the forest towards the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park or Sawtooth Mountain Wilderness / Anza Borrego State Park. I watched it until it moved out of sight behind the trees. It appeared to be no more than 100 feet above the trees. It was very close. I sat there for a minute to process what had just happened, then proceeded to turn my car on and drive further up Sunrise Hwy all the way to Kwaaymii Point in hopes of seeing it again, but saw nothing else. I drove back to another spot I go to which is even closer to the radar station, and sat there dozing in and out for indeterminate periods until around 5am, at which I found that I was having trouble remembering exactly what the craft looked like, which I found to be extremely odd given this event had just happened. I now classify this as purposefully missing time rather than sleepiness. My mind began to remember 3 lights as 2 lights, so in an effort of preservation I roughly scribbled the shape I had actually seen on an iPhone note. It came out horribly and I could certainly do better now
August 2, 2019 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Venice, CA
Watching the stars one evening and observing to the E - N.E. - altitude? Very very high and I did observe a 'blue-ish' light in the nighttime sky. Very peculiar this blue dot behaves. Ascends and ascends to disappearing/vanishing from viewable sight up into the further layers above. I was fairly gobsmacked by this display. There has been discussion of travel back and forth from the moon prior. - fin
August 1, 2019 · 10:31 PM
Hemet, CA
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello, I just sent sighting info of Aug 1, 2019, 10:21pm to your report site. Did not see where to include photo, so I’m trying this . I took this from my home, Sage area (Hemet Ca), Object was aprox 8 miles away from me. It seemed to be very bright, deep red in color, cigar shaped and very large. It traveled slowly over the Palomar Mt Range (location of Palomar Observatory ), heading SW. Then turned left at end of Mt range and disappeared from sight. The cluster of white lights on lower right side of photo is Temecula Ca , Area of Hwy 79 (called Temecula Pkwy Rd now ). My location is 8 miles SE from Hemet Ca or 8 miles NE from Temecula Ca. This “things “ lights seemed to rotate and was very bright, deep red in color and cigar shape ? This photo from my phone was on live shot where you can see the lights rotate from rear to front of “craft”. When zoomed in on photo you can see 4-5 square white windows (?) on left (rear) and then 1 larger single window (?)on the right (front) of “craft”. Hope you get this info Thank you
August 1, 2019 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Marin County, CA
7 brightly lit yellowish gold and aqua bluish green lights were seen hovering between 2 hillside homes near the foothills of Mt. Tamalpais. The lights made no sound and were all within a 100 yard space in between these two homes. I was standing about 3 blocks away from this activity. The lights went out one by one. 3 of the lights were slanted in a 7 to 2 o:clock position with one of the 3 lights in the middle. Other lights appearing in pairs slanted in a 11 o:clock to 5 o'clock position were also seen after this sighting but in a different location out near the Ring Mountain Open Preserve hiking trails near the Bay.
August 1, 2019 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Several bright lights above the horizon, right above the cloud layer, bright orange and shimmering. First, there was one, which we thought might be a light. Looking from the Poway area, it was Southwest and at the same star location as the Menkent star cluster. It faded away without moving after 5 minutes, but then reappeared in the same spot with a second light around a minute later. These stuck around for another 5 minutes, or so, faded, and then reappeared with 3 lights, in the same spot. The three lights stayed for about 10 minutes. During this time, they shimmered in different patterns, then faded away. After less than a minute, one appeared above and to the right of the original location, stayed a minute, then faded, and soon after two appeared, below the previous but above the original location. They faded as well, and that was it. There was a heavy Marine layer at the time, so no other stars were shining through, but these were abnormally bright, much brighter than the city lights in the distance though appearing to be just as far.
August 1, 2019 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Venice, CA
Looking up high from the loading dock of the Design Center in Venice (homeless at the time) towards the E - N.E. did I view a blue-ish light, dot, spot in the nighttime sky. And this blue-ish light ascended up to an even higher level beyond where the sky changes colours to atmosphere and before my eyes as I tracked its ascension it dissolved, achieved such an altitude it left earthly confines IMO. *Possible Earth/Moon transportation vehicle? **If this is a duplicate report please disregard...
August 1, 2019 · 12:03 AM · DIAMOND
Los Angeles, CA
Me and mother in law were sitting in front of her talking about lights in sky as we were looking a greenish lime color diamond shape object appeared in sky flew fast and the disappear gone never seen nothing like this befor
July 31, 2019 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Los Angeles, CA
At 18:30PM I SAW 3 PLANES FLYING IN TRIANGLE FORMATION. A MINUTE LATER, I SAW A BLINKING LIGHT IN THE SAME AREA. BEFORE THE BLINKING LIGHT VANISHED, THERE WAS ANOTHER BRIGHT EXPLOSION OF SOME KIND RIGHT NEXT TO IT.
July 30, 2019 · 7:56 PM · SPHERE
Victorville, CA
At the time of 19:56 near the city hall of Victorville, CA, a friend of mine and I were inside my truck facing the South-East direction as we waited at a stop sign to proceed on to the main road. As I first came to the stop sign, I noticed an extremely bright metallic looking sphere in the sky that flew across at speeds much faster than the speed of any aircraft or missile that I have ever seen or heard of. Its height was around 2,000 to 4,000 feet above ground and from checking 2k quality surveillance footage of our property camera that faced to the West. I determined that the object did not come from behind me and perhaps from above me. It flew to the East which was the direction I was facing at that high speed and then after nearing the 15 freeway a few miles out it began to dive at a forty-five degree angle at half of its previous speed until it was a thousand feet or less above ground and it nearly came to a full stop just outside of our view in which a large building was in the way of our line of sight. As we drove past the building to get a better view, it flew away travelling at its top speed in the South-East direction. The object was by far the brightest object in the sky shining a white/grey absolute metallic looking shine as if it was reflecting the sun. At that time of day, the sun has just set behind the nearby mountains and was hardly visible at all. The sky was mostly clear and there was still near full daylight outside. As the IT tech for the large facility in which I work at here, I went back and searched all of the surveillance footage from dozens of high definition cameras, but sadly all except for one camera was aimed high enough to view at the sky which was the North-West facing camera which is the one I used to see if the object came from behind my location. My roommate who was a Marine and I have never seen anything like that object online or from any other media source. I can only wish that one of our cameras had caught that occurrence, the object was so vivid an! d pronounced that it would have spoken for itself on video as it was the brightest object I have ever seen in the sky other than the sun itself. What is also interesting is that this occurred one day after the night a double meteor storm (Southern delta Aquariids/alpha Capricornids) was to be the most active. This object did not act in any manner of a meteor, it was very low flying, greatly reduced speed, was visible for a large number of seconds and was undeniably metallic.
July 30, 2019 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Folsom, CA
Driving eastbound highway 50 my wife and I noticed strobing lights in the sky. As we approached we noticed the lights were strobing red and white. The Largest one was hovering about 500 ft. in altitude and moving at a very slow speed. We noticed it was a triangle as it hovered over us. There was a bright white light on the front and small red and white flashing lights on the two outside corners. Previously have seen same shape in area in a previous occasion.
July 29, 2019 · 12:00 PM · FORMATION
Palm Desert, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 29, 2019 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
San Pedro (off coast of), CA
Strange colors and lights.
July 29, 2019 · 10:30 AM · EGG
Watsonville, CA
There was a large object hovering and rotating. The object hovered and rotated without falling or moving around too much. If you zoom in the video, you can see a heat/energy around the object.
July 28, 2019 · 11:45 PM · CYLINDER
Corona, CA
A bright, red light could be seen by me in the night sky. I thought it was strange, so I made several videos of it with my smartphone camera. It travelled slower than an airplane, and did not make any noise. I watched it for about 10 minutes. After about 7 minutes from the time I spotted the red light travelling from left to right, I saw the second witness and pointed out the UFO to him. I asked him what it might be. We watched it for about 2 minutes. About 9 minutes from the time I spotted it, drops of white and red alternating light fell off of the bright, red light. Each time a drop of light fell, the red UFO became dimmer. Finally, after many drops of light fell and disintegrated, the red UFO disintegrated completely and no more drops of light fell, as they had nothing to fall from.