NUFORC UFO Sighting 130437
Occurred: 2016-09-03 22:28 Local
Reported: 2016-10-03 23:33 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Angels Camp, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Flying red flashing light with no sound heading from West to East

On 09/03/2016 at about 10:28PM, I saw a very red single flashing light. As it flew overhead and past, there was NO sound. It was flying West to East. This has my attention...

Posted 2016-10-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47862
Occurred: 2005-11-16 22:00 Local
Reported: 2005-11-20 22:28 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Angels Camp, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


Bright spherical object seen hovering above hills of Angels Camp

On Wednesday night, my wife hollered at me to come outside and see what it was she was looking at.

I stepped out and immediately knew where to look. I had been spotting bizarre lights in this area for months, and knew she was looking to the West.

Sure enough, this extremely bright ball of light was sitting in the sky. It looked to be just above the hills between where we live and the town next to us, Copperopolis.

I truly wanted to dismiss this thing as a star, but it was simply too bright. I have never seen stars that bright.

I went back inside, grabbed my Sony video camcorder and taped this object for maybe 5 minutes. It didn't do much at all, just hovering. I grew tired of it and went back inside.

I came back minutes later to retrieve firewood and the object has vanished. Looking at the tape later, I had zoomed in on the object and noted that it appeared to have a perfect round shape to it, except the 1/4 bottom half wasn't lit as much as the rest of the ball. And there appeared to be a smaller object just above it. Whether or not this 2nd object was a star, I am not sure.

There certainly seems to be a lot of UFO activity here in the Angels Camp and Sonora area.

Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 43963
Occurred: 2005-05-02 00:30 Local
Reported: 2005-05-15 02:34 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Angels Camp, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Strange Object in Angels Camp, CA

We have had a few regular sightings of an object that always seems to appear West of our property, though this object only appears a few times a month. I have noticed this weird red, orange and blue light that seems to "bounce" around in the sky, or sometimes it will just move from side to side.

My wife and I saw saw it just above the horizon of the hills, but seems to be around 5 miles away, close to Felix or Copperopolis. It pops up every now and then on certain nights. I would gladly like to dismiss this as a radar helicopter, but it is just too bright and the rapid movements it makes just does not add up.

We haven't video taped this object yet, but we are counting on it. We hope to get some pics or footage of this thing eventually. Generally, the object simply "blinks out" when it disappears. I have now seen this thing a dozen times in the past year.



NUFORC Note:

Probable sighting of the star, "Sirius," we suspect. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23028
Occurred: 2002-05-25 03:30 Local
Reported: 2002-05-27 11:18 Pacific
Duration: 1-3 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Angels Camp, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Landed

Mothlike craft over angels camp CA

It looked like a glowing white ball with some kind of light radiating out from the sides, like moth wings... but I didn't observe movement in the "wings". It was hard to tell how large it was as it was hard to tell how close it was at first. I thought it might be some kind of satelite, but then I noticed it was close, very close. I couldn't have been larger 20 feet in diameter as it landed in the trees and became hidden as it landed.

This was sighted during a big music festival. A woman called me over to witness it as she has sighted it just before I arrived. There was a very large bonfire going on one area of the fairgrounds and there was lots of music and activity. She viewed the object over the bonfire and was watching it move over the main stage area when I arrived. I watched with her as it moved over the fairgrounds. It headed out towards the hills and I assumed it would vanish over the hill, but it actually went into the hill, thats when I determined it had been traveling very close to the earth and was pretty small. It floated over the treetops on the hill for a moment then decended in to the wood. The glow of the craft remained, on the ground for a moment then went off. We stood watching for a minute or two to see if it would rise again but the wood remained dark.

Posted 2002-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 43266
Occurred: 1995-06-01 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-03-31 14:43 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Angels Camp/Lake New Melones, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Lake New Melones California sighting

This happened years ago, but I thought I'd mention it in passing.

My ex-wife and I were camping at Lake New Melones resevoir, it's just outside of Angels Camp, CA. At that time there was a drought condition and the lake water level was very low and as a result, we nearly had the entire campground to ourselves.

Around 11:30pm, we were sitting by the campfire and we both noticed a light on the horizon moving very slow from left to right, just a single dot of white light. It was difficult to determine the distance but my guess was approx. a mile away. I knew that there were not airports or air traffic around that area (it's in the middle of nowhere), and besides that, this object was too low and moving too slowly to be any type of high flying commercial aircraft.

This may sound rather incredible, but I picked up my flashlight that I had sitting next to my chair and on a whim, shined it at it. To our dismay, the object darted vertically downward and fast, stopped on a dime and continued its same slow left to right direction, apparently reacting to the light I had shined in its direction. There was no sound associated with this object and it's speed ruled out anything such as a helicopter.

We both looked at each other, and I had to ask her.. "did you just see THAT?!"

We both got the creeps and by 1am, we had everything packed up and was heading back home!



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-05-24