NUFORC UFO Sighting 158880
Occurred: 2020-08-11 22:00 Local
Reported: 2020-08-24 21:37 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Anza Borrego, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

2 White Orbs Chasing Aircraft Over Anza Borrego Desert

We were out in the Anza Borrego Desert near Slot Canyon watching the Perseid Meteor shower.

At approximately 22:00, we noticed what appeared to be an aircraft with a red navigation light traveling in a SW direction at approximately 5,000ft altitude. No noise was heard. Shortly after, 2 white/gold (white Christmas light color), orb-like objects appeared to be flying alongside the "aircraft"/red light. The orb lights then appeared to chase each other in a circular motion around the red light/"aircraft" and also "danced" back and forth between the front and rear of the red light. At times, the white lights would turn off and appear in a different location.

We continued to observe the group of lights traveling in a SW direction as they traveled farther away and higher in altitude. The white orbs were still "dancing" around the red object and chasing each other in completely random zig zag and swirl patterns as far as we could see. Another odd observance was that the lights continued to travel on the same trajectory and never came back down towards the horizon. The lights continued to be visible at a great distance until they finally disappeared approximately 1 hour after first sighting.

There were 3 witnesses to this event and none of us had ever seen anything like this before. Photos and videos were taken, however the lights aren't really visible. I also recorded our GPS coordinates, heading indicator, date and timestamps.

After searching online, it appears we witnessed a "Foo-Fighter" sighting - almost exactly like the ones seen here: https://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2017/03/two-foo-fighters-following-plane-over.html

Posted 2020-08-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128833
Occurred: 2016-07-27 21:38 Local
Reported: 2016-07-27 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Anza, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Left a trail

Two fiery objects heading from west to east, with a slow descent rate, vanished behind mountains.

Two large, brightly burning objects heading from west to east in the northern sky, with a slow descent rate eventually went behind the mountains on the horizon. The event lasted for about ten seconds from my vantage point




NUFORC Note:

Space debris. PD


Posted 2016-08-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68007
Occurred: 2009-01-13 18:09 Local
Reported: 2009-01-13 20:01 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Anza and Garner Valley (near), CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Sighting of unknown object between Anza CA and Garner Valley CA

Driving along highway 74, I saw in front of me moving west to southwest an object that appeared out of no where with a very long flowing like yellow tail of light. At the tail end of the object the yellow tail broke and there were three distinct flowing yellow lights coming out of the back end of the object, like engines. No noise. When it appeared it tilted slightly to the left then disappeared again. While watching this flying object it appeared very small and there was a very bright white led like light in the center of the object. It is almost like when the object put on the brakes so to speak it appeared and then when it released the brakes it disappeared again. There were no blinking lights on this object and it was moving very quickly.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51266
Occurred: 2006-07-06 13:00 Local
Reported: 2006-07-08 12:53 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Anza Borrego, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

It wasn't like anything else in the sky.

The UFO shot across the sky in an arch and stopped and hovered. Then it shot up in a check mark manner then stopped again. It started jutting around and hovering in a small circle. It went off in another direction and stopped.



Posted 2006-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50226
Occurred: 2006-04-21 21:05 Local
Reported: 2006-04-21 21:06 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec,
No of observers: 2

Location: Anza Borrego State Park, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

While camping in the Anza Borrego desert at the Fish Creek camping area, we had an excellent viewing of a large trianular aircraft. It flew from west to east and emitted a relativly quiet jet engine noise. It is huge, which is what initially caught my son's attention. It had running lights, blue on the three points of the triangle and two red and a blue along the edge facing us. It is obviously a military and or experimental aircraft.

Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12370
Occurred: 2000-03-16 17:15 Local
Reported: 2000-03-17 00:00 Pacific
Duration: less that 30sec.
No of observers: 0

Location: Anza, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

High speed light, transvering horizon to horizon, NO trail or tail.

AS we were driving towards Anza from, Hemet, Calif. I observed a soild white light about as intense as a regular 'landing' light. It moved at a very high speed from west to east, following a route that is commonly used by military aircraft when flying from the coastline to the Nevada Test site area. The craft moved at an incredible high rate of speed, making it from horizon to horizon in mere seconds. It did NOT exhibit the hallmarks of a "Shooting Star" or meteorite. There was no 'flaming' or trail behind it.I saw it start to finish.

Posted 2000-04-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 5692
Occurred: 1999-02-14 21:00 Local
Reported: 1999-02-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Anza Borrego Desert, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Traveling Westbound Interstate 8, near the desert tower of Anza Borrego, a glowing disc-shaped object appeared to land in on of the canyons.

Me and my girlfriend were traveling back from Tucson on our way back to San Diego. We had crossed the San Diego County line on westbound Interstate 8 headed toward the Desert Tower that overlooks the mountainous area of the Anza Borrego Desert, or at least I think that this is part of the famous desert. My girlfriend had fallen asleep, but as I was going around the many rock strewn mountains that cover this area, I witnessed what appeared to be a saucer-shaped object hovering about five to six feet above the ground in one of the canyons there. It didn't exactly glow like in many sci fi movies but any light that hit it seemed to brighten its surface, like that material that glows in the dark when you expose it to light. For about two minutes it just floated there silently. It was shaped like a cross section of a cylinder, perfectly smooth, no lights, no portals or doors. In other words a smooth sided saucer with no curves. It then rose perfectly verticle into the air then zigzagged around the mountain peaks and finally disappeared into the night sky. I tried waking my girlfriend but the events were so fascinating that by the time I could wake her the object was gone. I spent the rest of the trip trying to explain away what I saw.

Posted 1999-04-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 175000
Occurred: 1990-07-20 22:05 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-03-14 15:26 Pacific
Duration: 1 1/2 hrs or more
No of observers: 2

Location: Anza Borrego state park highway 78, CA, USA
Location details: Highway 78 Pole line Rd.

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Electrical or magnetic effects

3 small orange red balls - one large cloud purple , bluish , yellow color with large object like ship

Coming back from Westmoland , from our friends with our 2 children, we pick up hay for his father who owns Sandoval hay company, this time we were in our car . My eye caught a small orange ball in the sky , we just passed the flamingo hotel they built in the desert for the movie Bugsy . We get to the stop sign I got out of the car and noticed instead of the one I saw there was 2 more which was three I told mike look there is three , he would not get out of the car then from no wind just hot desert anyway air , a wind came then these like strobe spears above use the 3 balls were move above use but like in the same sport but going from side to side up and down but like they were still in the same spot , then this cloud no other cloud around just this one it looked like a thunder storm was in this one cloud came above use very scary because it was big you coul see there was definitely something in it but I could not make out any shape , with the wind the strobes and the cloud I got scared I got back in the car , we took off but what was really scary the 3 orange balls were following us level with the car , now we are at oak grove there there are tree and they were still like beside use they were just flying right though all these trees missing them all , once we got to sunshine summit they had a true value store which was closed he pulled over this time he was going to get out to check it out himself told me to stay with the boys which were crying now so he got out one of the orange balls was right a cross the road even with us like same height just like still in one spot but doing this weird zig zag motion so weird so he start to go towards it , it never left it just kept zig zigzagging in one spot he got scared came back to the car he said we need to leave that he felt weird walking towards it so we had to leave so we tried to start the car and for about 2 minutes it wouldn’t turn over the the car started the ball still was in the same spot the other two in the sky we started driving we got the the easy to Temecula they followed us all the way there he thought they left but the didn’t once we got home which was Murrieta he got the boys to bed he didn’t want to talk about and went to bed , but we live in a canyon on 5 acres with a creek down below I went outside again and those ball were still there I tried to get mike to come outside but he didn’t want to come all of a sudden they went towards the creek water I went to the pool room with my binoculars I could see movement for about 15 more minutes after that nothing , that was our experience back then , till this day once in awhile I see those orange balls not all three but if you do catch one it always will do that zigzag movement crazy the most scariest part for me was that big cloud that look like a fender storm that thing that was in the middle of it and then the wind and strobes over my head that was crazy thank you for listening to my experience . It took years for mike to even tell people he would never talk about it , he told me I would look like a idiot if I said anything back then that’s the way he felt so we never really said anything but now we are not afraid .

Posted 2023-04-09