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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.
27,433 entries
November 7, 2015 · 6:20 PM · LIGHT
La Quinta, CA
A small light was traveling west then became really bright, formed a halo around it which looked like fog or smoke in a completely clear sky. The tail end became a blue light while the white lady ght kept moving west leaving the blue halo shining in the sky. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Folsom, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Visalia, CA
I saw what appeared to be a helicopters beam light but it was starting to appear deffernt to meso i called my girlfriend to look at it too By the time she came out there was only the vapor in the air. It had appeared light a beam for two or three minutes and it had a strange blue nion vapor whenthe others came it turned into a ball of light and kept going up and out of the area Hope i wasnt the only on to report this strange ligh and vapor and the blue vapor stay longer then the other white vapirs U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:10 PM · LIGHT
Oxnard, CA
Green blue bright light across the sky lighting up so much you could not see the stars around it. Most beautiful thing ever! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:10 PM · LIGHT
South Gate, CA
There was this strange light in the sky. It was surrounded by this cloudy mist, and had a blue trailing light behind it. It seemed to travel very fast. It was plainly visible to everyone. The light was white, and very bright. The Trailing cloud looked to be what I would see on pictures of comets, but I can't be too sure about that. It looked like it passed through our atmosphere, and then it vanished. When I first saw it, it had this strange triangle look to it, then it turned to a bright white light. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:10 PM · LIGHT
Santa Monica, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CO
Random orange light in the sky with what seemed to be a smoke trail behind it then it turned white then it stopped and started like emitting smoke like a shit ton around it looked like a big ball of smoke then dissapeard and left green stuff in the sky. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Temecula, CA
Started as a pin of light which expanded into a bright white circle. A sphere of vapor seemed to be emitted, followed by a green streak which remained stationary. The sphere of vapor expanded and maintained it's shape while it dissipated. The green streak remained. Origin: West to East. After emission travel changed to North. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Indio, CA
Small circle of smoke/cloud with a bright white light in center in western sky, light slowly rotated out of view while traveling towards the North. Smoke cloud expanded into a larger circle then small light green stripe of light appeared in center of smoke cloud, the stripe stayed in smoke cloud until it dissipated a few minutes later. U. S. Navy ICBM missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
Witnesses provide no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Gilroy, CA
The light continued to travel up and west, but blue green light stayed stationary in the sky and turned into a streak of light. The white light started leaving a vapor trail as a comet would. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Sylmar, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Huntington Beach, CA
My husband and I were finished shopping at Trader Joe's in Huntington Beach, CA, at 6:05 p.m. I was climbing into the passenger seat of our car and happened to look up in the dark night sky above the store. It had been a clear sky during the day, no clouds. What my husband, another lady shopper, and I saw looked like a beam of white light in the shape of a wide cone emanating from a point of origin. When I first looked the point was bright and round, but later it seemed to disappear, but the cone of light remained, there was no sound. My husband and I were saying to each other, "What is that? What is that?" Slowly the cone of light, which was originally quite wide began to diminish in light and faded away until all that was left was a very weak dusting of light. After it faded out we turned and saw a lady shopper who said, "We just shared something, but I don't know what it was." We drove home, which took about 5 minutes and I l! ooked into the sky at that spot and there was still a dusting of light, very faint. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:04 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
We stepped outside to look at the Christmas Lights we just strung up. In the sky to the south west we saw this amazingly white light shining down towards the earth from a ball of white light in the sky. It was traveling at jet aircraft speeds towards the north. The white light shining down went out from the point of light at an angle towards the ground and it expanded out in a very distinct come shape that had very clear edges to it. In the center of the cone of white light was a green stripe of light that glowed like radium and nearly the same color. The point of light emitted no sound and was traveling upwards from the earth. The cone of light itself began to come apart like a fog. The point of light was going higher and higher and made a turn to the west northwest. You could see the point of light for a very long time after..probably 5 minutes or more. The cone dissipated but the green light in the center faded much slower. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:02 PM · LIGHT
Lomira, CA
My son saw it first. Large ball of light that pulsed as it moved across the sky. Greenish blue in color. When I got outside it looked as if there was a very bright light coming towards us. It went out all at once, but there was a bluish glow in the sky for several minutes after. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
I am a licensed private pilot and amateur astronomer. At 18:01 I and 2 other witnesses viewed an object from outside our garage in San Jose. We were all looking toward the southeast watching the object together for several minutes. My son originally spotted the object. My wife got a couple of good photos. The object appeared to e emit a cone-shaped plume of white illuminated material. There also appeared to be a lingering green beam of light behind the object. The green beam appeared to be about as wide as the full moon and very straight and consistent in its pale green color. The green beam persisted for several minutes and appeared to stretch toward the horizon behind the object. The white plume appeared to be illuminated and appeared to grow as the object proceeded toward the west/northwest in a straight line. After watching the objects and plume for more about a minute the plume suddenly cut off and the object continued to move ahead in a straight line. The plume expanded behind the object and appeared to be approximately 5+ degrees in width. One other witness and I continued to watch the object move toward the western horizon. After approximately 4 minutes the object appeared to brighten and become stationary. As we continued to watch, the object appeared to change directions, turning about 90 degrees to the left heading toward the southwest. iPhone photos will be submitted via email. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
Redlands, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
San Ysidro, CA
one bright white light that turned green and formed an aura around it that lasted about 2 min. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · LIGHT
Newberry Springs, CA
White light appeared in the West. The light got bigger in the sky as it appeared was coming right at me. After a few seconds of getting bigger the light started to move to the right. A larger secondary halo shaped light seemed to emanate from the primary source and lit up the whole west hemisphere. After the primary light moved to the right it made a up and down squiggle leaving a large green cloud of light from where the light originated. Took about 10 minutes for the light to dissipate in the sky. No sounds were heard from the event. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Pollock Pines, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
At approximately 6:00 pm I was feeding my dogs in my northeast Los Angeles backyard. The sky was already dark as sunset in Los Angeles was at 4:55pm. I happened to look to the west when I saw a bright white light. The object was approximately 50 degrees above the southwest horizon. Emanating from the point of white light was an area of illumination resembling a cone, with the tip of the cone at the light and the bottom part of the cone shining to the east toward me. The cone of diffuse light was approximately 10 degrees in length. This cone shaped area of illumination seemed to consist of light reflecting off air particles, similar to the way a flashlight shows a shaft of light when shined into a dusty sky. There was no noise associated with the light. The object and its cone-shaped shaft of light remained stationary for a minute or two. Then the object moved to the north very slowly until it was due west of me. Behind the white light (extending south of the light) appeared an area of blue glow approximately 10 degrees in diameter. The area of blue glow was diffuse and somewhat oval shaped, like a diffuse cloud. The blue glow was pronounced at first, but slowly began to grow dim. At this point the white cone-shaped shaft of light that had been emanating from the white point of light had disappeared. The white point of light grew dim but still traveled northward very slowly. The diffuse, dim blue “cloud” remained for approximately 10 minutes and then gradually faded. The white point of light also faded away as it traveled slowly in a northward direction. This may have been a rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force base north of Los Angeles. However, I am not sure and so decided to issue this report. I have witnessed a few Vandenberg rocket launches from Los Angeles in the past. This object, whatever it was, looked nothing like those previous launches. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Canyon Lake, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
I am a delivery driver 50 years old, and on Saturday night I was traveling west on robinson ave. and at about tenth st. I noticed an orange-ish golden light moving from my left to right. I at first thought it was a helicopter but noticed it was way out there - higher than a plane would fly. Then quite quickly the light flashed brighter like an explosion, and then I could see a trail of debris or sparks spread out behind the light. If the light was half an inch wide in the sky the debris field was 4 inches about. I was pointing to other drivers saying "are you seeing this?", and then the light changed colors to white/blue-ish and started to travel towards me. The light then expanded in a concentric circle from the center like when you see a plane hit mach speed, - so the center light is there with this ring around expanding slowly, and this starts to fade. Now it looks like the light went to the right and back again, but in hind sight the lig! ht may have been spinning and appeared to be moving left to right. The whole light seemed to fade then into a cloud that was square/rectangular in shape. This "cloud" then turned green, and stayed that way for at least 5 minutes, then the whole cloud faded out. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
At approximately 1800, looking south about 25-30º above the horizon, I observed what looked like a plane coming through the clouds or fog, heading in a north-westerly direction. As planes do use that corridor fairly regularly, I paused to watch as it was very bright. There were no flashing lights or sounds of an aircraft. It appeared that there were two white lights in close proximity to each other, such as would be found on an airliner. The object moved somewhat slowly and I guessed it was about 4-6 miles away. After about 20 seconds, what looked like a spotlight from the object aimed at an approx. 200º down and to my left. I then thought that it must be SJPD’s helicopter. The “spotlight” continued for about 30 seconds and I wonder why it remained in the clouds/fog instead of dropping to get a clearer view of the subject. It was not a helicopter as far as I could tell. I then looked around the sky and realized there were no other clouds or any fog.! The “spotlight” was in fact a trail of smoke/vapor, etc., and it was about 20º long and continued into a much larger marshmallow-shaped cloud. I could still see the light as it continued on and seemed to curve slightly upward to the west and away from me before disappearing. The event lasted about 2 minutes. The “spotlight” part of the cloud remained for about 15 minutes, glowing bluish-white. The moving light itself faded after about 7 minutes. The cloud formation stretched about 60º across the sky. US Navy missile launch. PD