NUFORC UFO Sighting 183083
Occurred: 2024-09-17 14:26 Local
Reported: 2024-09-17 14:45 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2 - Pilot - Military - Aviation Expert

Location: Avenal, CA, USA
Location details: 287.750N/376.125W

Shape: Cylinder
Color: Black
Estimated Size: football
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: NW
Closest Distance: 10ft
Estimated Speed: 60 miles per minute
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

ATC report of Pilot Sighting

While working air traffic I received a report from a pilot of a military Kingair progressing the Avenal Navaid of a football sized black cylinder passing approximately 10ft. under their right wing. Within a minute the pilot's crew member was able to locate the object on their onboard radar at a bearing of 094 for their aircraft at a distance of roughly 60 miles.

Posted 2024-09-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 177889
Occurred: 2023-08-29 09:25 Local
Reported: 2023-08-29 09:41 Pacific
Duration: Currently over 10-15
No of observers: 2

Location: Avenal, CA, USA
Location details: Above residential Avenal. 919 Skyline Blvd, Avenal CA, 93204

Shape: Oval
Explanation: Balloon - Possible


Ballon type object floating in the same space, naked eye can see it, looks white or grey.




Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176549
Occurred: 2023-07-01 23:23 Local
Reported: 2023-07-02 00:33 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Avenal, CA, CA, USA
Location details: I-5 South Bound in Avenal, CA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Landed

Flat object moved in interesting pattern, transparent object with no sound, disappearance, reappearance, capture on video

While driving southbound on I-5, I observed three bright, round lights moving in an intriguing manner from east to west. These lights exhibited a unique pattern of ascending, descending, and turning horizontally towards the right side of my Tesla. This event occurred between 11:22 PM and 11:25 PM, during the dark night.

Among the lights, one was positioned ahead of the other two, which appeared closely aligned. Suddenly, all three lights disappeared and then reappeared and started moving northbound. The object was flat, long, and gradually became transparent as it merged with the night sky as it was descending. Throughout the sighting, the flying object exhibited various directional movements and vanished abruptly. However, it reappeared in mid-air, descending smoothly into a field west of my location. Eventually, the lights disappeared into the trees. Notably, no sound was emitted by this rectangular aircraft. The entire event lasted approximately two minutes, during which I managed to capture some video footage on my phone, while my Tesla's dashboard camera also recorded the incident.

Feel free to contact me for my Dashboard camera recording as the file won’t upload onto this report













Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143840
Occurred: 2018-11-19 10:45 Local
Reported: 2018-11-20 08:30 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Other


Large black object seen through windshield by two pilots.

I am an airline pilot for a major airline. At 10:45 local California time, we were at 35,000 feet over Avenalm, Ca. As I was heads down briefing the descent profile into LAX, I saw a large black object go through my windshield view. I was initially startled, and my first officer looked to catch a glimpse.

I asked ATC if there was any traffic in the area and he responded that closest traffic was 20 miles away. The other traffic was behind us at the same altitude heading same direction. They did not see anything.

I’m not 100% sure what I saw because I caught it in my peripheral vision and saw it go by very fast. It was a large black object that had no wings and did not leave a contrail. I am also not sure how close it was, but I do know that it was closer then the normal thousand foot separation of other aircraft.




NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we were impressed with his apparent sincerity and qualifications as a witness. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD


Posted 2018-11-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119414
Occurred: 2015-06-07 21:18 Local
Reported: 2015-06-08 14:13 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Light


3 round lights - I-5 in Avenal, CA (North of Kettleman City)

We were driving North on I-5 (about 5-10 minutes north of the 76 gas station in Avenal, CA) and noticed three bright round lights moving East to West) about 1/2 mile in front of our vehicle. All this happened anywhere between 9:18 - 9:19 pm at night so it was dark (and I had just gotten off the phone with my brother, which is why I know when this happened)...

One light was ahead of the three lights, while the other two were closer aligned to one another...

In unison the lights then changed their flight path and headed south west and looked as though they were landing on the tree Orchard west of the highway. Before we knew it the lights were gone. They disappeared into the Tree Orchard.

As it was dark, I was unable to see if the lights were attached to one aircraft or if each light was attached to an individual aircraft.

We did not hear sound coming from the lights...

This happened over the course of 3 seconds (or so), so there was not enough time to take a picture or video of these lights.

Posted 2015-06-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110608
Occurred: 2014-06-24 23:30 Local
Reported: 2014-06-25 13:13 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby, Landed, Missing Time

Silent low flying aircraft over I-5 north.

11:30 pm-ish.... There were three of us driving on the 5 north when my passenger could barely speak and told me to look up. I must say it was very clear out and there were absolutely no lights ahead of us in the sky prior to this.

When I looked up, there were 4 blue lights, and some object hoovering about 30 feet above my car. The moon-roof shade was open and we could clearly see the whole object.

As soon as we looked up and started to point at the object, it began to fly away from the car, covering what we discussed and concluded was about a mile at most in 5-10 seconds.

The object stopped and started to land. It moved and turned in ways that we all have never seen anything do before. I must clarify this object was bigger than a jet but smaller than a commercial plane. About 10 seconds after it landed there was a helicopter that appeared in the sky ahead moving very fast toward the downed object.

There were many other lights in the sky that started being noticed in the next few seconds much higher up in the sky but above where the object landed.

This vehicle made absolutely no noise and covered a lot of ground in a very short time.

The passenger in the back seat, as the object landed, became obviously frightened and fell into a deep sleep 20 min after seeing the object.

The front passenger and I have had weird visions, tingling, and nervousness, nauseous, and other interesting things since seeing the object...it was like we had to fight something off inside our heads talking to us.

Posted 2014-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70792
Occurred: 2009-06-30 23:35 Local
Reported: 2009-07-01 13:39 Pacific
Duration: 10 - 15 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Avnol (near), CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Landed

LIGHT SPOTTED OVER INTERSTAE 5 CHANGED SHAPE AND COLOR

Tuesday June 30th at approximately 11.35pm, traveling south bound on the California interstate 5 near Avenol. My family and I were in our vehicle, I was driving my wife was in the passenger seat and my two teenage children were in the back.

About five minutes earlier we had seen a shooting star that was large and green in color, it stood out because of the brightness and size. I noticed off to my left on the east side of the interstate a similar green light, I watched it for 30 seconds thinking it was a tower light from a cell tower or power line. I did not take my eyes off of it except to check the road and traffic in front of us then return to looking at it. I then noticed it was moving west bound and starting to cross the interstate. My thought at the time was ‘could this be another shooting star?’ it was approximately 20 feet off the ground it appeared to be moving across the interstate at 25 miles per hour. The only thing I saw was a small green light going across the road, no outline of anything else.

At this point I pointed it out to my family who all watched it as well. I was very clearly studying this light and everything around it and saw no outline of anything. As it went over the interstate it went off to the right hand side my family turned to watch it clearly, it appeared to speed up and then all these lights appeared on it . It looked like an almost V shaped two lengths of straight white/ silver lights with two or three square shaped lights below it. It looked almost triangular in shape. It continued to glow and then looked like it was flying lower slightly tilted which allowed us to see the square outline of lights below the two long strip of lights, then we only saw the glow of it which then disappeared completely.

The amazing thing was there was no sound at all, if it had been a jet or aircraft we would have heard the engines as it was so close to us.

It lasted only ten to fifteen seconds from start to finish. The highway was busy so others must have seen this as well. We have never seen anything like this before. I am in my mid 40s my wife in her late 30s and my children 16 & 17 years old.

Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31136
Occurred: 2003-08-31 02:30 Local
Reported: 2003-09-02 10:10 Pacific
Duration: 3.5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two bright lights moving extremely fast and change directions, zig-zagging through the sky.

My family and I were traveling home from Los Angeles to San Jose on Highway 5 and I noticed 2 bright lights in the westward sky. I thought it was a helicopter at first, since it was pretty stationary and the lights were bright. The lights we're not blinking. The weird thing that happened was that this object swooped down in front of the SUV in front of me and the SUV broke hard. I've never seen an aircraft move that fast and change directions so quickly. I woke up my wife immediately and told her that I thought I just saw a UFO. I looked to the east to see if there was a neighboring airport in the vicnity and there was nothing out there. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw the lights move upwards erratically zig-zagging throught the sky. I knew for sure that was no ordinary aircraft. Nothing to my knowledge, could move that fast and change directions so quickly. I was hoping to catch the SUV at a gas station to ask him what he saw because it looked like he got a better view of it than I did, since he had to brake in order on to collide with it. Before this event, I never believed in these types of things but now I'm a true believer.



Posted 2003-09-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23758
Occurred: 2002-07-14 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-07-14 02:44 Pacific
Duration: sky
No of observers: 7

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

SEEMS LIKE A STAR,BUT MOVING UP &DOWN ,ZIGGAED,CRAZY MOVEMENT WITH FLASHING GREEN,BLUE,RED, &WHITE FLASHING LIGHTS.

IT LOOKED LIKE A STAR BUT AS YOU KEEP WATCHING YOU WILL SEE A GREENISH/BLUE/ AND REDISH COLOR BLINKING LIGHTS.IT WOULD STAY IN PLACES AND THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN IT WOULD MOVE SIDEWAYS ,THEN UP & DOWN, THEN ZIGGAED. BUT WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE IT FOR HOURS,UNTILL IT FADES AWAY OVER THE DARK MOUNTIANS. AND IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY YOU COULD SEE ABOUT 4 OR 5 MORE CLOSE BY. I SEE THEM EVREY NIGHT FROM MY FROUNT WINDOW. I LIVE ON HWY 33 IN AVENAL ,CA IN FROUNT OF BIG MOUNTIANS,AT FIRST NO ONE WOULD BELEAVE ME UNTILL I TOLD THEM , LOOK AT THAT STAR FOR 10 MIN, IF IT DOSEN'T MOVE I'LL GIVE YOU $20.00,AND THEY WERE SURPRISE AND COULDN'T BELEAVE THERE EYES.THANK YOU ..



NUFORC Note:

We suspect that a twinkling star is the first possibility that should be ruled out in this case. PD


Posted 2002-07-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25690
Occurred: 2002-06-21 02:40 Local
Reported: 2002-10-19 03:55 Pacific
Duration: 45min.
No of observers: 1

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


UFO at Lemoore NAS exit off I-5 in CA.

I was driving on I-5 about an hour or two north of Bakersfeild or somewhere near the slauterhouse when I saw the swooping aircraft with three lights that a lot of people have been talking about. All of the other reports I have read perfectly coincide with what I saw. I saw this twice, the second time I stopped at the reststop near the Lemoore NAS (National Air Station) exit and was able to observe the swooping aircraft with three lights just across the freeway to the east. I got out of my car and walked up to the edge of the freeway and took several good digital photographs which I can E-mail. I could hear what sounded like a prop engine coming from the aircraft. After watching this for about an hour I must say that the pilot has superior skills.

Posted 2002-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47269
Occurred: 1994-03-15 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-10-28 20:56 Pacific
Duration: 40 or 50 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Avenal, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Landed

my wife and I were at a ranch late at night talking with friends about 4 or 5 miles from avenal , When we notice several small lights zig zagging around a large light in the clear night sky about 11 years ago close to where the avenal prison now is located,

We watched the lights for about 30 or 40 minutes, I had a weird feeling inside so we decided to get in our car and leave, We drove about 1/2 mile down the dirt road and we were planning on turning left toward avenal when we spotted what looked like a ufo on the ground with flashing lights that seemed to flow around the object,

I assumed it was a ufo so I headed toward the object with my high lights on at full speed to try and scare it to take off so we could see it shoot into space. all of a sudden it looked like shawdows coming from the ship I assume they appeared like shawdows because the bright back lighting,

I got shivers and was scared bad so I spun the car around in retreat and pushed the gas to the floor and released the gas a second later but it stuck to the floor I reached down to release it manually and it just popped up,

I turned around and there was no more ship we arrived home shortly after since it was only a 5 minute drive but when we arrived home the clock showed two hours later than when we left. And the next time we saw our friends that lived out there they didnt remember seeing any lights in the sky that night.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2005-11-03