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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
December 14, 2023 · 7:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Oxnard, CA
While sitting in my car and speaking with my neighbor, I was looking up toward him in a taller vehicle and saw a triangle shape appear above, over his car. Just south. My first thought was geese were flying over as they usually do. However, there wasn’t any sound and wings were not flapping and the formation too accurate. No sounds as some drones make. It only seemed visible as though light from the ground was reflecting from underneath it. It went past at a speed a little faster than birds fly. Unable to determine it’s altitude.
December 11, 2023 · 5:45 PM · CHANGING
Sacramento, CA
(This is a direct transcription from my hand written notes I wrote right after seeing it). I swear I just saw a ufo around 5:45 looking due South from my apartment in downtown Sacramento near the Church Of The Blessed Sacrament. The light in the sky caught my eye because the yellow / white incandescent looking light looked rather strange. There was a brighter light at top but other similar less bright lights below. It almost had a Santa and reindeer effect if you use your imagination or another way it looked was a sort of cross because there was a time when the light extended out to the sides and made the light in the sky resemble a cross. During this time the light looked like it was coming toward me and lowering in elevation, (Flying due North towards my direction) but then the lights changed to blinking strobe type white lights that where dimmer and seemed much further away. I know this probably sounds like an aircraft but as a long time aircraft enthusiast and former Air Force Airman this phenomenon looked different to me. Now the object seemed much higher in the sky which seemed to happen quite quickly. Also, the blinking strobe type white / blueish lights looked like they where around the perimeter of a more spherical looking object but again it was much more faint and distant looking at this point and high in the sky. It finally moved out of my view in the apartment as it moved to my left, (Going East). I gathered my keys and wallet and put on my shoes and sweatshirt to go outside on the terrace but by the time I got out there I couldn't find it in the sky any longer.
December 11, 2023 · 4:45 PM · CHEVRON
Morro Bay, CA
The object in the sky moved laterally, with no exhaust, and was smaller than an airplane. It was maybe one to two miles away from us. As we observed it in the sky it turned at an angle and seemed to reflect the Setting Sun and there was a flash of light on the side of the object. Immediately after that flash of light the object disappeared. There were no clouds that it would have disappeared behind, nor any other objects. It was a clear sky and we had a clear view of the object.
December 11, 2023 · 6:53 AM · CIRCLE
San Leandro, CA
The object zig zagged through the sky and then started to get really bright and completed a circle and disappeared.
December 7, 2023 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Mill Valley, CA
15-20 objects moving east across the sky
December 6, 2023 · 2:00 PM · DIAMOND
San Diego, CA
Out walking dog, saw bright flashes in the sky. Took a couple of videos and still photos but can’t find the object in the still photos. Hard to discern the shape. It almost looked like flat mirror spinning. San Diego. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
December 5, 2023 · 5:36 AM · OVAL
Santa Monica, CA
There were five lights high above the Pacific not moving. One had rotating lights. Seemed too high in the air to be drones.
November 28, 2023 · 6:18 AM · DISK
IdentifiedSan Francisco, CA
I decided to film the morning sky before entering Golden Gate Bridge from SF side and saw with my eye and both the camera the very fast flying dot through all the sky It seemed too fast to be something human made. It had weird trajectory and it is not the camera defect, because I saw it with my own eye while filming. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 25, 2023 · 10:48 PM · SPHERE
South Gate, CA
I finished yard work and laid on a hammock. Looked north eastward and noticed a few flashing lights kind of looked like balloons. I took video but they are very small flashing points so you have to look closely. One video also shows a plane for comparison. I did try to edit the settings on another video to make the lights more noticeable. Bugs, planes, birds and balloons that were also in the sky looked different and less bright.
November 25, 2023 · 9:18 PM · CIRCLE
San Jose, CA
So I was working out and I know what a shooting star looks like and what I saw was not it it was bright white and no fire works were sent out at this time and it literally was really fast not not to fast and it was going down and faded in mid air out of no where
November 25, 2023 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Woodland, CA
Light seen flying then hovering the past 2 nights. Too high for a drone & no sound for a helicopter. As it hovered, a huge flash was seen in the horizon. Object then flew off after a few minutes.
November 21, 2023 · 4:03 AM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalLos Angeles, CA
I went out front to have a smoke, at 4:03am it was the only thing in the sky, like a star. But it moved when I returned with my phone.. it was round trying to look like a star. But it was too close and large. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
November 20, 2023 · 9:20 PM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
I have lived by this airport for years. There is frequent air traffic, but this was different. I wasn't like anything I ever saw before.
November 12, 2023 · 3:19 PM · TEARDROP
Culver City, CA
I initially thought this was a guy using a jet pack wearing an all white wing suit. The shape was like the Christ the Redeemer Statue. I observed it from the 405 freeway between the 90 and the 10. It appeared to be over Culver City, Cheviot Hills or maybe South Beverly Hills from my perspective. It was hovering and then moved slowly straight upwards. Someone else posted a sighting of this same object but a couple of hours earlier than me.
November 12, 2023 · 12:30 PM · TEARDROP
Los Angeles, CA
What looked like a stationary point of white in the sky seemed to disappear and re-appear from site. How ever it was so small in view it’s hard for our eyes to focus on it even just seeing it seconds before. Originally I thought a single object was moving to slightly different points in the sky. But the last time I saw an object it very much slowly drifted across the sky. By the last time seeing it/them I believe it was a sort of balloon at high altitude. And I feel now thinking about it that there were 3 separate ones that went by during my observation. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
November 11, 2023 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Redding, CA
Descending blue orb appear out of nowhere, shined bright blue/white light, briefly intensifying. As it moved in falling arcing motion from left to right (west to East) across horizon (viewing north from south of object’s position), its light intensified and it had a short tail that appeared to be the same light as the orb itself, then it extinguished in the air.
November 10, 2023 · 11:02 PM · SPHERE
Mill Valley, CA
At first sight I thought it was a helicopter low in the sky, traveling south east. Then the UFO quickly descended to the height of a 40 story building. At lower elevation the sphere looked like the size of a bicycle. The object swiftly fly east towards an apartment building. Then the object descended down towards the building, as I watched it disappeared in front of my eyes.
November 10, 2023 · 6:44 PM · OTHER
Dixon, CA
Firstly, this is fresh. This literally just happened 1 hour ago. 4 adults and one 7 year old child saw the following. My wife, daughter and I were dropping off her friend at her house in the country by Dixon, CA. We arrived at approximately 6:45PM on 11/10/2023. It was dark and the sky was mostly clear with some scattered clouds. They live in the country and there is very little light pollution. My daughters friend ran in the house as soon as we arrived. However, we stay on the porch talking we her parents for 10 minutes or so like we always do. Suddenly, we heard the oscillating rumble of an aircraft coming from the northeast (more east than north). I immediately noticed the rumble was deep but I assumed it was just a low flying life flight helicopter coming to land at its home at the Nut Tree Airport which was just a few miles away. However, as it got closer the house literally began to shake (Windows, glasses on their laundry room table tops, etc.) Still thinking that it was a helicopter I instinctively looked up as it began to fly over. At first I couldn't make out what I was seeing. It happened all at once and it was a wave of visual mathematics that my mind was working to solve. The is the exact sequence of events as I observed it. It may seem haphazard and arrhythmic but this is the exact sequence in which I saw the aircraft. So imagine you are looking through your own eyes when you read this. 1) Whatever it was was flying slow. 75 MPH or less. 2) I saw a really dim pair of lights. At first, I thought they were they were part of a helicopter, then my brain quickly realized they were on the rear of some sort of aircraft. 3) I saw a laser dot about 200 yards immediately to the left of the pair of lights referenced in part "2". The laser dot was red or orange, extremely dim and literally looked like someone from the ground was shinning a laser pointer at something in the sky. At this point I literally thought that is exactly what someone was doing. 4) Suddenly, as my eyes were focused on the faint laser dot, a cloud immerged in the background of the dot way off in the distance. It picked up just enough light pollution from the nearby city of Vacaville that it momentarily revealed that the laser point I was staring at was on the front end of the nose of an air craft. The cloud was illuminated just enough to backlight the nose of the air craft. The air craft moved forward and as quickly as the outline appeared on the cloud it was gone. 5) Immediately my thought was that "Oh, there IS as a second aircraft leading the one following to the right. 6) When the nose cone moved past the cloud and back into darkness my peripheral vision suddenly became heightened and out of the corner of my eye I saw a laser beam that was as feint as the dot on the nose. However, the laser beam stretched from the point where I saw it all the way back to the pair of dim lights 200 yards to the right. It looked like someone was shining a cheap laser pointer from a helicopter, straight forward in its path. 7) A patch of scattered clouds back light approximately 60-70% of the body of the aircraft and I suddenly realized the entire thing was connected. The outline was only visible for a few seconds. It looked like a commination of surf board and He-Man's sword and at least 150-200 yards long. That's literally the best way I can describe it. We all started freaking out when the outline revealed itself. My wife and I immediately said "Don't discuss it! We need to draw what we see independently and then show each other. It's the only way we will know we aren't lying to ourselves. If we are wrong and all see different things then we know it was nothing". Attached are the pics we each made of the object.
November 6, 2023 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Yuba City, CA
UFO appeared as a slow shooting star just outside of orbit, then realized it was UFO by its zigzag pattern. I flashed SOS to ship multiple times. It disappeared after 45 sec going south. Then reappeared east beginning to flash its external light in response to my flashlight it was now bigger as It was closer slightly. Like a passenger plane it remained zigzagging and then shot off at the speed of light south. Leaving a trail of light for half a second.
November 5, 2023 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
On Sunday, November 5, 2023, at 6:20 pm (pst), I was about to make a left turn from a busy strip mall parking lot onto a residential street in a neighborhood that is located in the middle of San Diego, California. When I turned my head to see if the road was clear, I noticed what appeared to be 5 bright white shining lights over to my left approximately 720 feet above my head. At first, I thought they were street lights. When I quickly realized they were not, I reached for my phone that had been setting in the console next to me and I snapped photos. These orb like objects didn't move. Nor did they didn't emit sound, or beams of light. I sat staring at them for a minute or three as they continued hovering motionless above my head. I looked around and I yelled out my window to a couple who were standing at their car, 'do you see that?' and 'hello, anybody see what's going on over here?' The people were oblivious to everything going on around them. The two drunk individuals that could be heard screaming at each other from across the parking lot didn't see the orbs either. Neither did the person I just cut off to snap photos. I thought I was the only one who could see them. After reading some of the posts here on this site, I discovered I am not the only one to have witnessed this fascinating phenomena. Just 9 days before, on October 27, 2023, a woman who lives not more than 3 miles from where I was saw the orbs, witnessed the same thing. Although, the details of what she saw weren't exactly the same as what I had seen, it was close enough. She saw the orbs at around the same time as I had seen them (around 6:20 pm pst). She counted 5 orbs hovering above in the night sky, too. When I drove a block closer to where the orbs were hovering, They disappeared without a trace. In a blink of an eye, they were gone. I am left with wonder. Was it 5 orbs that I saw in the night sky or was it 1 extremely large craft in the shape of a triangle?
November 4, 2023 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Hayward, CA
It was blinking 3 different lights. It put on a show for us. Shape changing lights going on and off 1 light blink then 2 lights and then 3 lights. It terrified us we both have photos day time different show night time light show we are Christians do not tell public please
November 4, 2023 · 4:14 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalSantee, CA
I've noticed this bright weird orb in the sky off and on for the last month. When I look st it through my binoculars, it seems to be alive. It's definitely not a star or a drone or an airplane or helicopter. It's something I've never seen before. It looks like a puffer fish and it moves in the sky at night. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
November 2, 2023 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
La Quinta, CA
Solid white bright light traveling south and up faster than a plane. Faded out and disappeared as we watched it
October 31, 2023 · 4:00 AM · FORMATION
Perris, CA
Several lights about 6 or 7 blinking red and appeared to be evenly spaced and and blinking in synchronized manner from right to left. Appeared to be all one solid piece by the blinking and spacing all moving evenly across the sky. Obtained some video of it. If lights were one solid object then this object was massive. Estimate about 300 yards across. Disappeared as it floated out of sight moving west toward Orange County Ca.