NUFORC UFO Sighting 180345
Occurred: 2024-02-09 17:30 Local
Reported: 2024-02-09 19:33 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Color: Dark brown/gray
Estimated Size: 10+ feet diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 60 to 120
Angle of Elevation: 89
Closest Distance: 1/2 mile?
Estimated Speed: 50 to 100 mph


Watched the sphere travel east to west against the prevailing wind without sound observed through binoculars.

Sitting in the hot tub with my wife I spotted a conspicuous high flying sphere traveling silently upwind east to west. It required binoculars to observe the sphere shape, better details were not clear. I am an experienced birder so this was not like anything I have ever seen in my life. Not a balloon traveling against the prevailing wind.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178576
Occurred: 2023-07-25 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-10-03 20:35 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA
Location details: Fresno Ave, Atascadero

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saw an egg-shaped object zig-zagging downward in the sky, with lights that came on and off

I saw a white, egg-shaped craft in the sky. The bottom half of the craft had yellow lights that came on and off. The craft was moving downward in the sky, zig-zagging back and forth.

Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163502
Occurred: 2021-05-12 21:30 Local
Reported: 2021-05-30 07:29 Pacific
Duration: 7 hours
No of observers: 20

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted

These light have been seen floating in air, zig zagging , falling from sky, finally flew to camera

My security camera has caught these rows of light for nights after nights. It has finally came up to camera and I can’t explain it.



Posted 2021-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153833
Occurred: 2020-03-04 08:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-03-04 20:44 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Light


I walk out of my shop and saw 1 object fly through 2 other objects and then it stopped after that 20 objects in the the same pattern same direction came into picture low south came Past the original object toward the north and disappeared. It was one after another and made no sense or logic of what was going on. I hope somebody else saw this and recorded it.

Posted 2020-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142491
Occurred: 2018-07-31 05:30 Local
Reported: 2018-07-31 06:46 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds (+-)
No of observers: 1

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Bright reddish-orange ball traveling horizontally across the sky, and then suddenly disappearing.

Posted 2018-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114037
Occurred: 2014-09-28 08:17 Local
Reported: 2014-09-28 20:48 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted beams

lights seen moving like nothing I seen before.looked like they were in unmanned. cars on the freeway all slowed from 75 to 50.

One red light or beem and a green light with yellowish spinning seperatly and spiraling together as well, they went upwards.red one appeared to be beeming in down.



Posted 2014-10-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95335
Occurred: 2012-12-18 13:00 Local
Reported: 2012-12-19 00:21 Pacific
Duration: 0.1 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Atascadero (101 freeway), CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Electrical or magnetic effects

blue almost electrical circle of blue light close to the ground maybe 5 feet above my vehicle

The guy in the slow lane on the 101 to san luis obispo, almost hit me as i swerved and looked back in front of me on the road a blue circular almost like a fire work but not looked more like electricity shot not far above my car and too the left and i lost sight of it, it was close enough i thought I was going to hit it and hit my breaks hard did anyone else see this please report. it made the hair on my arms stand up!!

Posted 2012-12-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88488
Occurred: 2012-04-18 12:41 Local
Reported: 2012-04-18 12:43 Pacific
Duration: 12:51
No of observers: 2

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object

a crew of cylinder ufos, it was great

sry i was picnicing eating all food then was with this guy eat too and we both saw a crew of cylinder styled crafts that flew ovr us. i was kind of scared but it was kind of cool too! they kind of flashed at us and we were shocked! it was great!!

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63720
Occurred: 2008-06-05 21:54 Local
Reported: 2008-06-05 22:50 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Saw an Object moving to the South South East and changed course and gained altitude and disappeared into the night sky.

Was sitting in my Jaquzzi when I saw a bright object heading South South East. The object was probably 5 miles away or less at 10k altitude. The object paused and changed to a lesser brightness and appeared to gain altitude and disappeared.



Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57823
Occurred: 2007-07-24 22:34 Local
Reported: 2007-07-24 23:07 Pacific
Duration: less than one minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

Spotted a green, glowing, cylinder shaped craft, while driving home at 10:30pm.

Driving home from a friend's house at around 10:30pm. Area was a narrow road with dense brush and many residential areas. While watching the road for deer, I noticed a strange greenish blue glow in the top left corner of my windshield. A craft cylindrical in shape, flew over head, it was extremely high up, and flew at an incredible speed. Sensing something was extremely odd about this, I pulled off the road and stuck my head out my driver's window. The craft slowed almost to a standstill, it gave off light trials similar to waving a bright light quickly in a pitch black room. Suddenly the craft became bright white, causing the sky to momentarily glow, and then it disappeared. I drove the rest of the way home with my window rolled down and going about two miles per hour, but I didn't see it again.



Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55586
Occurred: 2007-03-07 19:00 Local
Reported: 2007-03-07 20:44 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

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

Bright Ligtht sighted over Morro Bay and Atascadero California for about an hour on 3/7/7

I observed a bright light hovering over the hills between Morro Bay and Atascadero. I looked at it through binoculars and it seemed to change brightness levels going from very bright and colorful to very dim and white. Every once in a while it would move back and forth up and down very quicly but not very far. I would say it moved about 2-4 inches in the sky each time it moved. I left for about ten minutes at about 7:50 and when I returned the object was gone.




NUFORC Note:

Sirius or Venus?? PD


Posted 2007-03-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55366
Occurred: 2006-02-15 15:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-02-19 20:38 Pacific
Duration: photo
No of observers: 0

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar


Image found by accident in a daylight photo.

I was trying to photograph a sliver moon in the afternoon and later discovered a cigar shaped object in the background. I want to know if there is a place to send this type of information (digital photo).




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-02-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42725
Occurred: 2005-03-02 16:55 Local
Reported: 2005-03-05 14:25 Pacific
Duration: 20 sec.
No of observers: 2

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I also saw this same vehicle flying at a lower speed and lower elevation 5 days before. It is white, wing-less (from what I could tell) and cigar/oval/cylindrical shape with no contrail and no noise. There is always alot of military aircraft flying here since we are close to Vandenberg AFB. The second sighting it flew at the same time as two military aircraft at a higher elevation, flying past each other, one multi-engine jet, the other smaller, single or twin-engine, both high altitude. My first thought was that the white object was a drone, pilotless sort but have not seen anything like it in the archives. I thought it might be a blimp, but the second viewing it was traveling at an accelerated speed. I can't think why a "Black operation", or X-plane or whatever would fly so conspicously in the day light.



Posted 2005-04-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25964
Occurred: 2002-11-06 23:00 Local
Reported: 2002-11-07 00:45 Pacific
Duration: five to six hours
No of observers: 0

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

fast moving orb behind clouds

I went outside my apt. and it was overcast. Looking up I saw a glowing orb, going counter clockwise almost directly overhead. It was north of my position. This was at appx. 2300. I went out thinking it was perhaps someone shinning a flashlite which was reflecting off the cloud cover so I moved toward it, it moved away from me cont in a northward manner. I had a large magnum flashlight which I shot upwards to see if it was something like that, but my beam did not produce any reflection off the clouds.

I turned and moved back to my apt and was going to get in my car to drive out on the street to see if I could locate the source. Thought it could be a saleslite.

However, there was no beam from the ground up, and this orb looked as if it were behind the clouds. As I drove out, another person drove in, I stopped and asked this person if she knew what that lite was. She told me it had been seen at Atascadero State Hospital (which I live next to) from the courtyard all night and no one could figure out what it was. She remarked on how fast it was going, I also asked if it appeared to her that it was moving somewhat jerkily, she agreed.

At 23;30 it suddenly disappeared. I drove out to see if I could tell where it was coming from, there is a new blockbuster but it is not close to this area, and the orb was centered over where I live. Blockbuster shut down at ten pm. I drove there but could not see any of the equipment used for producing a saleslight. I will have to go in and ask them if they had a sale lite up, but if they closed at ten pm and it went off at 23;00 there should have been someone there taking the light down and I went right over and the place was locked up with no sign of anyone.

I have seen several UFO's in this area this week, also have two other people in another part of town. This is a samll town, it was very strange to see this orb and it moved very fast in a counter-clockwise motion with no light coming up from the ground. I only saw it short time, if I had not stopped to ask this person if they could id the light for me I would not have known it had been viewed for several hours from the State Hospital. Cannot firgure out where or what it was. Silent also.



((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS))

Glowing orb moving counter-clockwise very fast veiwed my several witness in different locations

This is in regard to earlier filed report I made of glowing orb seen in clounds above my apt in Atascadero, California. I called the police of Atascadero and reported my sighting and asked if they had recieved any calls of a similiar type. The dispatcher said that at about seven pm they had recieved a call from Templetom reporting the same object. The Dispatcher said no police on patrol during the evening saw this orb. Clound cover was about 500 feet. Templeton is located about 6 miles north of Atascadero.

((END))

NUFORC Note:

If the object was viewed for 5-6 hours, we doubt that it was a UFO. PD


Posted 2002-11-09