The catalog
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 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Pollock Pines, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
La Quinta, CA
Light traveling upward giving off light beams and an expanding spiral cloud. Started radiating a bluish-green glow as the light disappeared Blue-green glow and spiral continued to grow and remained in sky for several minutes after the original light/beams disappeared. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Tracy, CA
I was driving down N. Chrisman Road toward the Tracy Defense Depot a little after 6 p.m. on Nov. 7. I saw three white lights in the night sky configured in a triangle. They looked like an airplane. There were other lights from airplanes in the sky, except there was a powerful cone of light shooting down toward the ground from these three lights. I thought maybe I was watching a police or military helicopter searching for something on the ground. Inside the cone of light were blue and green beams that looked like maybe they were from a powerful spotlight. The beams were tracking the three lights and I couldn't tell if the beams were from spotlights on the ground or being beamed down from the lights. I could see lights from what looked like an airliner in front of the three lights and I thought maybe the airliner was towing some kind of device with a powerful spotlight on it. Except the three lights kept going higher and higher in the sky as the airliner flew! west toward the Bay Area. I pulled over in the dirt on W. Schulte Road before the depot. The sky was glowing green where I had first seen the three lights over the depot, except the three lights were high in the distance now headed up and to the west. They now looked like a single star like the other stars in the sky, except a faint cone of light was shooting down from it almost looking like a comet. My phone couldn't get a picture and the lights were fading higher and higher. The green glow in the clouds was still there to the south over Tracy. I tried to keep my eyes on the lights as I entered town but they disappeared in the sky behind the city lights. First time in my life I have ever seen anything like it. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Mesquite, NV
Massive light in sky. First looked like when a helicopter shines it's lights, but way larger and had a misty, forgiveness to it. Then instantly one edge went dim and gradually, but quickly the rest disappeared. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Encinitas, CA
A star-like light began to glow with intensity as it slowly moved directly over the coast at Leucadia, at the northern end of Encinitas at around 6:00pm, at what appeared to be about 1000 feet. It moved slowly north and the light lost intensity over a period of a minute or two. As it moved the light left a green glowing trail where it had gained intensity. As it moved it faded into the fog. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Riverbank, CA
US 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
Oxnard, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Chino, CA
An object that looked somewhat like a plane with a trail of smoke/light approached. Suddenly, it illuminated the sky with a bright white light and appeared to scan the surrounding area in the sky. The object stood still for about 30 seconds as the light surrounding it began to change color, going from white to greenish-blue. Object remained visible for 20 more seconds before disappearing from view. The entire siting lasted about 3 1/2 minutes, in total. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Fairfield, CA
Bright light was traveling from the southeast to northwest with a bluish mist or tail behind it that was really long. Then the object started a fan shaped contrail with the same bluish mist that spread out over a huge area that tapered off to a point behind the object. The bluish mist stopped suddenly but you could still see the straight tail and the fanning out of the mist. The object kept going in a straight line and it seemed to be really high in the sky, at the very least in the 10's of miles up. After watching it for a few min it seemed to shroud itself in a mist again but not as much as before. It traveled that way for about 2 more min then it looked like it shot another tail of mist in front of it, kind of looked like a comet at that point, but it was in front of the object. Meaning it was traveling towards the tail it was shooting out. After another min it shot a tail out behind it while at the same time still had the tail in front of it. You! could clearly see the object in the middle of the 2 tails. After a few more min both tails vanished and the object was shrouded in a hazy mist at this time and continued on until it faded from sight. I'm sure there will be reports on this but I haven't seen any yet. The initial bluish mist took up a very large portion of the sky. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Indio, CA
We have amended the date above. Missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Rancho Cordova, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Carpinteria, CA
We were walking home from dinner when we looking into the sky and saw a bright white light almost resembling a comet and moving pretty slow at an upward diagonal angle. We stopped to watch because it looked so strange, it had a tail of white light coming out which massed into a large white cloud that appeared lit. There are absolutely no clouds in the sky tonight and everywhere around this light mass was empty sky. While the light was on the right of the cloud a thick somewhat translucent green beam was stationary coming out of the left side. The light continued to move upward and to the right and eventually got far enough away that it was no longer connected to the light cloud. When this happened the green beam also dissipated. The light cloud however remained in the sky for the next 10 minutes. The original light moved far away but remained visible, it appeared to move further up in the sky and then there seamed to be another shower like light beam extendi! ng downward. It remained in that position for roughly 5 minutes and then disappeared. We both watched this unfold as well as two other people on the street across from us. There are no missile launches or rocket launches recorded near this area tonight and we are left wondering what we saw. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
Other have reported seeing it as far north as the Bat Area, south as far as San Diego and east as far as Nevada. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
Me and my two boys watched something enter the atmosphere from SW sky. You could see a bright dot and then a cone form behind until it was within the atmosphere. The cone turned into t rail that was blue-green in color. We then watched whatever it was move slowly towards the West until we lost visual sight of it. Its entry was so bright it could not be missed. It could have been anything but most stuff I am aware of burns up on entry, not come in and then slowly float away. I did not have my phone with me, I was in the center of our condo complex to take out the garbage. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego/Mira Mesa, CA
At approximately 6:03pm I received a call from my friend who was delivering a pizza in the Mira Mesa area, where I live. He told me that there was a bright greenish/blue spot in the sky and it was unlike any atmospheric anomaly he had ever witnessed in San Diego. I walked out front of my house and looked around, and spotted it immediately as it was VERY vivid. The sky was pretty clear that night so it looked like an oval indigo cloud just hanging in the middle of the atmosphere west of my position, presumably over Sorrento valley or maybe La Jolla. I confirmed on the phone that I saw it too and walked into the street a bit to get a better view. I spotted a formation below and to the right of the cloud, not moving in the sky. It was far away and hard to see unless I looked at in my peripherals, but I could define at least one white/red pinpoint light and what appeared to be another but was too dim and too far to visibly distinguish. There could have been a cluster of them but I couldn't get my telescope out in time to see. In between the formation was a faint stream of light running vertically, looking like a stream of glowing fog. The formation would become brighter and dimmer periodically, staying in the same spot. Over time the blue light cloud got harder and harder to see, and the formation below began to tilt clockwise, about 30-45 degrees before I lost track of it. I observed the two from the roof of my house until they slowly faded away and eventually disappeared. I can't be certain of it but I believe the source of the blue glow was the formation I saw below, or it was possibly projected from the ground at Miramar MCAS nearby. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Turlock, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Palo Alto, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Anaheim, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
An small, star-like object (possibly a rocket?) was seen traveling slowly accross the southwest portion of the sky. It had a very large, bright, glowing cone of light trailing behind it that faded after a few minutes. There was also a long, thick, greenish-teal streak that trailed behind it. After the light cone faded away, the object continued to travel northwest while the green streak grew shorter until it looked like a large glowing oval-shaped ball left behind, until it, too, faded. The star-like object continued to travel northwest until it became blurry and dim. It got lower in the sky and disappeared. This all took place in the span of about 10 minutes and was observed from Pasadena, California, on 11/7/15 at about 6:00PM. US 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
Cotati, CA
Was outside feeding my horses at dusk when i saw this green ball of light sending down this green light to the ground, which i thought at first was a helicopter with a search light. The ball of light went higher and higher into the sky until it disappeared, and no helicopter noises either. The green light stayed even though the ball of light disappeared and it turned into what looked like a neon green smoke or mist, it expanded like one of those into the sky and i sat and watched it for about 10 minutes with confusion. It then got dark so i couldn't see it anymore US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD