NUFORC UFO Sighting 178092
Occurred: 2023-09-04 03:04 Local
Reported: 2023-09-06 07:49 Pacific
Duration: 45-60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: Over the Carquinez Strait

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

A large slow moving flaming red/yellow orb with no trails

Object flew west to east slowly flaming for 5-10 seconds. The flames were condensed,were compact with no trail. It was red yellow and white and after the flames went out it was red white round and pulsating. Slow moving and seemed to slow down and change direction. I saw the Starlink reentering earlier this year, dozens of satellites, asteroids and meteors and this had none of those characteristics.

I did get my phone out in time to catch a video of it for the last few seconds of visibility as it seemed to be listening and then turning sharply right before going out of view

Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174310
Occurred: 2023-02-04 21:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-02-04 22:22 Pacific
Duration: Few seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: 780 Freeway headed towards Vallejo

Shape: Teardrop


Driving on the freeway while both witnesses faced forwards. A large teardrop shaped object flew overhead. The object was either all black or didn’t reflect light. It had some kind of texture or rough surface. The object has no lights. It didn’t emit any sound or resonance as it flew over the vehicle, about 20-30 feet over head. The object flew over the vehicle from the front to the rear as it traveled overhead going in the opposite direction of traffic. The front was rounded and Estimated to be 4 ft across and tapered like a teardrop

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174090
Occurred: 2023-01-23 14:15 Local
Reported: 2023-01-24 02:20 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: I was sitting at the waters edge near 1st street looking south

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I saw a bright light that looked metallic in mid-day float straight then disappear.

I was sitting on a bench at the waters edge of downtown Benicia enjoying my coffee and muffin before work. I was looking south-bound towards port costa and what caught my eye was this shimmer of something metallic moving very still and straight east-bound. The objects reflection got brighter and my eyes lost focus because I was also facing the sun and could no longer see it or where it went. My immediate reaction was to dismiss it as a small airplane that caught reflection off the sun and then I lost focus of it. That's when I noticed 3 airplanes that I could positively identify as such at much further distances emitting chem trails. One plane was traveling the exact same course as said unidentified object except my eyes didn't lose focus of it despite the sun and was not reflecting sunlight either. The movement of the object was way to still, straight and ominous to be a plane.

Why would I even witness a reflection if the object was between myself and the sun? the light would reflect south and not north in my direction and why did it disappear after it got to its brightest point and in mid-day? What the hell did I witness?

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174076
Occurred: 2023-01-23 05:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-01-23 06:17 Pacific
Duration: Watched for a minute or s
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: Seen from my back yard

Shape: Light


Star sized flickering object at satellite height, moving erratically at speed of a plane, then stopping dead and remaining still.

I went out into my back yard at approximately 5:30 am while waiting for my coffee to brew and saw an aircraft above flying in from the SSW. Nothing unusual there. I then took a gander at the stars and noticed one was moving, coming from the southeast. Not quickly but slowly, at the speed of a plane, and it was flickering, if not blinking, but with only white lights. I thought it was too high for a plane so I figured it might be a satellite. So I continued to watch it and after about five seconds it momentarily stopped, made a small looping movement off course to the southwest and then back on course, continued for a moment, then made a straight movement to the southwest again, returned to its original course and then stopped dead and remained still. I watched for another minute or so, but it didn't move, so I went back inside.

It covered two inches of sky I'd say and the side movements an eighth of an inch.


Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165811
Occurred: 2021-07-31 22:00 Local
Reported: 2021-12-10 13:44 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: My home, outside my garage, northwest at the Big Dipper

Shape: Orb


Experienced a UFO drive-by until it came down to me!

Saturday 7-31-21 11:42p.m. My friends came to see me again tonight. Knew it, (I think they've been talking to me, memories, words...long story), 2 sets of doves came by, some land, some sit in the tree across the road and some pairs that just circled. This is 3 nights in a row. Last night, I ask them to mend my heart...our agreement, "They" flash a star just like last night, a pure white colored, bowed like a kite, star shaped light! Tonight was amazing, I said OK...you confirmed your desire and agreed to mine, I asked for a tiny orb in my hand.... got tinker bell,(what I call a series of flashes I witness in the sky many times, some as many as 13 flashes)...and a little later a star, and I said if you can’t put an orb in my hand how bout planted thoughts and such. Oh, I get that in spades now. All day yesterday I recieved images, thoughts, smells, memories, letters and words. Before my wife got home and after and in front of. I had a visitor over today for 5 hours, and it felt good cause they stopped all images, words etc... during those hours. Had a hunch this was going to be a big night. I start ce5 at 6, ask for something bigger, like beckoning them to come out of the clouds and closer...nothing, watch Olympics, go out at 10...ce5, I do everything in 3's when I perform CE5 meaning dots and dashes of threes.! <-- A bright light, diamond white appears over my right shoulder up in the sky, my 1st thought...satellite. Looks, acts, travels in a straight line. Traveling South to North, maintaining elevation. But then I notice the location/elevation. Not high enough at all, airplane height at best if that. Tell my wife about the sighting after I can’t see it anymore. No sooner than when I get back outside into position the very same light appears from the same direction I had lost sight of it from in the North, it flew/glided and went off over my right shoulder till I couldn't see it anymore. North to South, the exact same line it was on when it traveled South to North. I tell my wife again, so that she can help me remember details. So suspicious. I go out back sliding door after telling my wife, she’s watching the Olympics, when I round the corner of the back of our home where the Big Dipper is on my horizon. I see a bright light just like the two that flew by. I can’t believe my eyes! NO WAY! When “nameless” said they were shouting at me, they are. WTH is happening here?? I thought at first, it’s the big dipper arm star, should be right, then my eyes adjust and see the arm star I'm referring to in the background and this light looks like it's directly approaching me! Watch long enough to determine it is indeed flying straight at me. And it’s NOT a satellite. It’s blinking and shifting shape. I grab my binoculars and can see two elongated, rectangular bright light like windows, and between the lights is a blank black area. I grab my somewhat better camera I’ve had for years and mounted on a tripod earlier. I hit record and held in my hand trying to capture what before you I have captured. In the beginning, you can see the big dipper arm star faintly twinkling. Freeze frame it and Walla. Especially at the end. There’s a lot of dead space because I ran to get my wife, it was directly over us headed southeast. (I’ve since edited and shortened that video and will share both original and edited copy. I yelled for my wife and she came running out the back sliding door. My wife looked up and saw it as it passed over the rear of our home. I had this sudden feeling, HURRY honey, that it would stay just long enough for her to confirm the sighting. Soon as she was saying, oh yea right there it started to fade. I saw it go out, my wife said she saw it flash a reddish hue a few times before she could not see it anymore. (I was not able to upload the original video as it is quite long but it is available to you if you need it).




Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165812
Occurred: 2021-07-27 22:00 Local
Reported: 2021-12-10 13:18 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: My home, outside my garage, over my neighbors house off in the distance.

Shape: Orb


Witnessed another Orb off in the distance

Tuesday 7-27-21 I woke at 8. Went downstairs, opened backdoor, immediately felt OMINOUS, like we’ve had unusually high, constant blowing winds for a few months now. No wind whatsoever, ominously calm. I noticed also, not one single squirrel came to eat, I leave almonds out every night, because I sleep in and not available to feed them when they come early. So, my 1st job is to fill the picnic table cup. Then I look across the street and notice two doves just sitting in a white birch and immediately I knew, something was going to happen today. I seem to be getting a sense of connection with nature, animals, insects, birds mainly etc.… CE5 at 6, 10:00 I see out towards Napa in the North an orb zig zagging in distance for about 3 minutes till it simply closed, vanished. I asked it to appear again, speaking to it for 10 minutes or so when it did in a triangular constellation of stars to my right. I got a big bright flash of diamond white light in the shape of a Kite/Star, looked bowed in front like a kite, but rays extended from it like a star and the center had a flamingo pinkish hue to it, almost glassy reflective pink to bright diamond white out towards the edges. Saying like, here I am and goodnight as it simply dissolved or someone switched it off.




Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165758
Occurred: 2021-07-25 00:00 Local
Reported: 2021-12-07 14:06 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: Standing in side doorway of my garage.

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Left a trail

Witness another Orb over another neighbors home.

Sunday 7-25-21 Nothing happened Saturday but last night, I was standing in my garage doorway and about to step inside and call it a night when a dark grey shadowy streak flew by my face like a swift flying bird right to left, not 10 feet from my face. My eyes and head turned to track this object. A flash caught my eye and I turned to look left in its vicinity over my neighbor’s house across the street. A glowing Orb hovering over my neighbor’s home. Suddenly it shot off leaving a streak from low too high for about 30 yards did I see this "light" streak/trail. Similar to a shooting star, but shooting stars don’t travel from low to high. Nor hover over a roofline or even at this level. Am I going crazy? It appeared at 4 feet above the roofline, but burned out at 30 feet, a certain degree of angle, no burning debris trail, just a streak, like you wave a glowing light stick through the air super-fast. So, I watched where the streak of light had burned out at its apex because instinct told me to, (at this moment I was thinking of dashing inside and yelling for my wife), and...out of nowhere, I can see depth, neighbor's houses, stars and everything behind it when a bright white light like Orb last Wednesday flashed, then the hole closed. Happened just before midnight. This Orb was exactly like the July 21st Orb. I immediately went in and told my wife.




Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165756
Occurred: 2021-07-23 19:00 Local
Reported: 2021-12-07 13:21 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 5

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: My home, standing on side yard witnessing this event with neighbors

Shape: Disk


Over 100 ships/crafts came and scattered all over the sky and myself, wife and 3 neighbors watched them for an hour and 10 mins.

Friday the 23rd. It is a typical day, my wife comes home, we joke together about no aliens landing today, (I read that Reddit post, posted a decade ago predicting Alien arrivals in 2021 of July so I’ve been hoping a fraction of it was true). I go outside as I always do after supper, between 6 or 7. Walk over to my garden and instinct said look up. I saw the greyed out or shaded out bottom of three egg shaped craft, (almost Mandalorian, I swear). Surrounded or escorted by a flock of little ships. My mind immediately processed a flock of Geese until I saw the 3-egg shaped bigger ships. Then my mind was blown and the second my mind processed UFO they went POOF! And every one of the little ships were scattered in a 15-mile radius, above us, in front, each side as far as we can see. They sparkled like diamonds in the sky. The 3 main ships had a sheen about them as the sun reflected blindingly so off their crafts skins. Almost a glassy metal sheen about them. The best way to describe the glow or sunny sheen, blinding reflection would be if you stare at a house window and the sun hits just the right angle its blinding, or driving in a city and the sun blinds you with the reflection off a glassy skyscraper, that’s what it was like. As soon as they scattered, I ran into tell my wife. She came out and began to observe them also. Attempted to take videos but we didn’t have the camera set right. I was observing the 3 main ships via binoculars. I could see the, sun on glass window blinding reflection, but could also make out the shaded shape of the craft. There were 3 mid-sized ships as well. I went to view another craft, this one a triangle with it’s rear at me. I could see 3 colored tubes out the rear, skin of craft was darker. No sun blinding reflection I assume because I was looking at the rear. The tubes on the 1st one where a purple color and the 2nd triangle had white diamond-colored tubes. The 3rd looked more an amber but didn’t see it as much as I was lowering glasses as my wife passed me the camera. I took 1 photo, (hindsight kicking myself I didn’t just snap away in rapid fire), but I wanted to get some video. So, I hit video and captured what I could until suddenly I just realized I should go get neighbors to witness. I ran next door to my neighbors and he came out and watched them with me a bit, through my binoculars to, and he dropped the glassers quickly and said one had zipped through his line of sight and I have a witness statement from him. I then run across the street to another but they were not home and as I gave up the neighbors on the opposite side of me had just returned from dinner. I called them over and they witnessed it as well but have yet to submit a witness statement. My wife and I watched it until the last one left, disappeared or shot off so fast we couldn’t tell. They simply began to just thin out across our view of them. After it was all over, we stood shook, stunned, but for me, a lot of things made sense.




Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165745
Occurred: 2021-07-21 22:30 Local
Reported: 2021-12-06 17:14 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA
Location details: My home, outside my garage, over my neighbors house.

Shape: Orb


Sphere of light appears, changes direction and position, changes size, repeats.

CE5 Log
Started CE5 on Sunday the 18th after viewing documentary the previous week on Netflix.
I do a series of 3 long dots, pause, 3 dots, pause, 3 dots. Repeat 3 times and wait.
Sunday the 18th=Nothing
Monday=Nothing
Tuesday=Nothing
Wednesday the 21st, my first contact/sighting after 3 days of using my laser.
1030ish. I was about to give up and go inside when an instinct said no, look again, so I did and noticed a beachball size glowing "white" ball of light with a smaller blinking "white" ball of light just a foot or two in front of larger beachball sized orb. I stepped out the sidedoor of my garage expecting to hear rotors from a chopper because my mind instantly processed chopper. I hear No sound, and I can instantly see it was just above the neighbor’s home about 40 to 50 feet in the air. Not way off in the distance as I first had thought. The beachball sized orb then seemed to swallow or absorb the smaller one. They became one. It hovered. It shrunk to a blip and darted to MY right about 5 feet, expanded big again, darted to the left and then poof, to a blip again, then enlarge again, dart right, flash bright and big and repeat that pattern 4 times. I was just about to throw open the door and yell at my wife to come outside and again, an instinct came that was against that thinking, and I subconsciously knew it would not return so I had better keep watching it. So, I turned back to watch it again, it did one more flash big n bright, then gone. Like the white ball/orb of light closed like a door, shrunk to nothing. I instinctively knew that was it, show over, I could go and share with my wife and I did.

Thursday=I had the instinct to take a photograph of an unusual triangle star formation just to the right of my outside door. Been there awhile but can’t recall seeing before. I log it now because it will play a role in another sighting that followed.

Characteristics of object:
No lights on it, so not a craft per se, but it was a White glowing orb.
Did not emit object but absorbed another orb object.

1st of 30 plus sightings I'll be reporting.
July 23rd being the biggest when over 100 came in broad daylight and put on a show for an hour and 10 minutes!
(I'll submit that one next with pic and video).
My background?
61 Retired Crane Operator
Married 33 years father of 2, grandfather of 3
1st sighting at 17 in 1977, I'll submit that one.
Became interested again after all the UFO disclosure lately plus watching Dr. Greer's CE5 Doc.
Since I've known of "them" for 43 years I said Hey why not, I have a laser let’s try it.
The rest is almost 30 consecutive days and evenings of sightings I have logged, with some pictures, videos, my crude drawings depicting events and my unwavering truth and eagerness to share what I witnessed and experienced with those who want to hear it. Thank you







Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160590
Occurred: 2020-10-15 05:30 Local
Reported: 2020-11-13 18:51 Pacific
Duration: 5mins
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

On 10/15/20 at approximately 5:30am I noticed an irregular object in the far distant sky while looking east of the Benicia, Ca bridge on HWY 680.

I began videotaping and captured what appears to be a circular multicolor pulsating disc spinning in a counter clockwise direction.

I have a total of about 4 minutes of video with this object slowly moving in an upward slightly to my right angle.

I was late to work so I left not knowing what I had captured, the object was still there as I drove away.

It seemed to be out in space and must have actually been quite large.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147643
Occurred: 2019-07-17 21:50 Local
Reported: 2019-07-18 08:40 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Satellite like object moving across sky in an erratic, squiggly motion

The evening of July 17, 2019, I was sitting on my patio lounge chairs, facing north. It was warm and the stars were out.

At 9:50 pm, the moon had not yet risen, I was watching the stars through my Vortex 10X42 binoculars. I spotted a satellite moving south, just below the constellation of Cygnus. It was faint, approximately 6 magnitude, since I could not see it with my naked eyes. I thought I was holding my binocular unsteady since the satellite was moving erratically. I realized it was the satellite that was erratic since all the stars in the background were steady. Its course was constant, never stopping, but the pinpoint of light was moving about in squiggles, like holding a laser pointer in an unsteady fashion. Sometimes it appeared to do a complete circle. The amplitude of the erratic behavior was about 5% of my binoculars view. I watched it for about three minutes.

Posted 2019-07-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144242
Occurred: 2018-12-31 06:45 Local
Reported: 2018-12-31 13:55 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

A shining bright circle came from the top of the sky it went down towards earth then turned into an oval then turned around and disappeared

Posted 2019-01-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135718
Occurred: 2017-07-31 21:00 Local
Reported: 2017-08-15 03:26 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Orange glowing sphere.

Cresting 780 outside Benicia in moving car, All 3 of us in the car saw a house sized sphere with an orange glowing core floating above the area. It was rising slowly in my (driver's) view. The other passengers kept site of the object as I took our exit and said it rose straight up, picking up speed, and went so high so fast that it disappeared.

Posted 2017-08-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131244
Occurred: 2016-11-13 18:30 Local
Reported: 2016-11-14 15:18 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Light


My brother and I were driving from Martinez to where we were staying in Benicia. As we were heading northwest on 780 about to exit I looked to the north and noticed an orange light traveling at a high rate of speed and then seemed to stop. It then did a very tight circle and a second one appeared and they were flying around as if chasing each other. We lost sight of them behind some trees and when they appeared again one had vanished and we lost the last one behind a hill. Both were orange balls of light.

Posted 2016-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 126396
Occurred: 2016-03-15 16:30 Local
Reported: 2016-03-15 21:28 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

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

Military - Airplane Cloaking Tech being Tested.

It's a perfectly clear day, my father and I were ending our sailing trip and as I look into the sky and I see this image of an airplane and I said to my dad, "Look, theres a plane" and he acknowledged seeing the image too.

This plane however seemed like a transparent image of a plane. I could clearly see the outline of the wing span and the cabin. There seemed to be a bright light in the middle as if the sun was reflecting off of it. Then from the outward of the image to the middle it started disappearing until the white light was the only thing left then vanished.

Fairfield, Ca, has Travis Airforce Base and this would probably be a good flight plan for it. I immediately thought I saw a military UFO/Optical allusion/ Cloud... about an hour later around the same spot I saw the same thing. It seemed as if a plane was calibrating/testing a cloaking tech, or seeing how well they could scale up the tech as this unexplainded image of a transparent plane was kind of big. Not like a fighter jet but more like a 747 or a supply plane of sort.

After I saw the image for the second time I saw other planes in the sky without the same effect. I truly saw some thing I cannot explain today.

Posted 2016-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123740
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:05 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:25 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Arrow shaped reflexion pointing toward bright light in the sky.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 118704
Occurred: 2015-04-27 12:50 Local
Reported: 2015-04-30 05:57 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

Two ufos over Benicia, CA.

I reported a formation on the 26th of April.

I was returning to the port, when I scanned the sky and saw two disk looking objects in the sky. I called a coworker over and pointed at the sky, which was in the northern direction, about 80 degrees from the horizon, so nearly right over us.

He kept thinking they were osprey, but then when I mentioned how shiny and reflective it was when the sun hit it, he agreed that it couldn't be a bird.

I took several pictures of it and had to leave to work. When I had a minute to view the photos, none of them came out.

They were all different shades of hot pink and granular, which is bizarre because I wasn't taking pictures into the sun nor was it my finger because every photo taken was a different shade of hot pink.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2015-04-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117650
Occurred: 2015-03-05 21:00 Local
Reported: 2015-03-07 15:49 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

3 strange lights in a triangle formation

Sitting on my back porch, me and 2 others saw three strange reddish lights in a triangle formation, moving in an odd way on the other side of the Carquienez straight, looking south from Benicia, CA. This is right in an area with heavy comercial air traffic.

The lights disappeared 1 by 1. Right after the last one disappeared 2 jet fighters started circling the area. Time was around 21:00 on March 5, 2015.

Posted 2015-03-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117408
Occurred: 2015-02-20 19:30 Local
Reported: 2015-02-20 20:03 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour and continuing
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape:


What we seen was a huge bright object in the sky which was located under the moon and slightly to the left. There was another object between the moon and the object in question, but it looked like a distant star.

The object in question was very bright and as I was looking at it with binoculars, I could see it change by at the bottom of it formed a brighter spot and then the brighter spot separated from the main object and increased distance between them. Then the two objects came back together. Soon after that the moon and the object (s), rotated out of view. Don't know what it was, but it was something for sure!




NUFORC Note:

Venus? PD


Posted 2015-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108189
Occurred: 2014-03-28 20:00 Local
Reported: 2014-03-29 09:16 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Circular lights looping in a circle.

Circular lights above or in cloud overcast. The circular light would appear then loop around in a circle and repeat every 3-5 seconds.

Witnessed on I780 going south near the I680N interchange going towards Fairfield.

I took the I680N ramp and was not able to view anything.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2014-04-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96734
Occurred: 2013-03-09 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-03-10 19:50 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 sets of 5 red glowing cylinders flew over the bay near Benicia Ca

We were pulling onto our street when I spotted a red cylinder shaped object moving slowly from the west to the east, we stopped the vehicle and jumped out and began videoing the object with our cell phone.

The object was followed by four more objects that were exactly the same.

The objects at the time we noticed them were approximately 300 feet above the water and they slowly rose at an approximate 45 degree angle into the sky until they were out of site.

Within a few minutes 5 more objects followed the same path and then another 5 appeared and followed the same path. We videoed the entire episode until the last of the objects were out of site.

Posted 2013-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64241
Occurred: 2008-02-25 11:50 Local
Reported: 2008-07-01 12:08 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Midday sighting of UFO with apparent intercept attempt

Craft was a double triangle connected by rectangular structure. Color was silver-white. I was looking through binoculars at soaring hawks when the object came into my field of view. Visible as a white dot without binoculars. Appeared in the SSW at an elevation of 30-40 degrees with no contrail or sound. Seemed to roll on its side and dive vertically at a high rate of speed. As it did so, smaller objects approached the area vacated by the object. These smaller objects crossed paths in a head-on path at an extremely high rate of speed. The objects had a thin spiraling contrails that disappeared rapidly. There were approximately eight of these objects(four facing four).

My binoculars are E. Leitz 7x50.

I am a retired Air Force Bombardier/Navigator with over 5000 hours flying time in B-52 and FB-111 aircraft. I have never seen anything like this in all of my flying career. I now work from my home. I had stepped out on my deck to watch Re-tailed hawks when the incedent occured.



Posted 2008-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49823
Occurred: 2006-03-20 22:00 Local
Reported: 2006-03-25 23:49 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 min
No of observers: 4

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Emitted beams

A large silent Orange firey orb that seemed to have streams of light falling from it and shooting out from it .

Object was seen below cloud level traveling northeast. Pretty clear night with very light cloud cover. At first it looked like a fireball and we thought a plane was on fire. We watched it as it continued without any sound rather slowly with streamers or lights emitting from the fireball. The orb glowed bright orange and it looked as if the streamers were falling to the earth. Our whole family watched it until it left our vision. Sometimes it seemed to jerk around quickly. We live on a hill so we saw it for a long time then it seemed to go into the clouds.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47933
Occurred: 2005-11-22 19:15 Local
Reported: 2005-11-29 11:29 Pacific
Duration: 15 mins
No of observers: 9

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Looked like a plane on fire, sparks falling for about 10mins than just fell in the ocean.

My husband was on the patio looking east at the bay and yelled for me to get the phone.It looked like a plane was on fire and headed straight toward the bay, it was dropping sparks and looked like it was ungulfed in flames. I called 911 to report it and the told me that there was no reports of a plane on fire and not to call again. It went west for about 10 mins. dropping sparks and getting lower the whole time and then went dark and looked like it fell in the ocean. After it went down we went to the bay and several fishermen saw the same thing but said that it made no noise and just fell straight in the ocean. They thought it was odd that there was no resuce atempt happening, we all thought it was a passanger plane on fire and where scared for the people both on the plane and on the ground. Nothing was on the news and no cops every came to check it out. After watching at the shore for almost three hours nothing else happened and nobody ever responded to our call or to the fishermans calls. About 9 of us just sat there wandering what had just happened.



Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 37273
Occurred: 2004-06-01 14:50 Local
Reported: 2004-06-01 15:40 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

UFO's seen over Benicia, California as five objects converge and separate. 3 witnesses.

3 objects and 2 objects seem to meet in the sky - then two left in formation towards the east and three made new formation and left towards the west. I flagged down the US letter carrier and pointed them out - he saw the 3 objects plainly as we watched them together. Then we saw two Mormon missionaries and I pointed the objects out to them. One of the boys saw the three objects, the other one did not. The objects appeared to be round and reflected the sunlight occasionally. They were mostly white and there were no colors or sound. When I first saw them, I also saw a biplane heading east to west in their vecinity, but the objects were higher in the sky. The objects were moving slower than the plane.



NUFORC Note:

We spoke with this witness, and with the U. S. postal employee, and we found them both to seem quite serious-minded and credible. We do not know what it was they observed. PD


Posted 2004-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 27702
Occurred: 2003-02-15 00:45 Local
Reported: 2003-02-15 01:03 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Slow moving, low flying fireball. Moved erratically and faded away.

Looked out the window and noticed a bright orange fireball quite low in the sky, moving slowly. I went outside to see it more clearly. It did not move like a plane and there was no noise. The sky was overcast with no stars visible. I watched it flying around in an erratic path towards me and then away. It started to dim as it flew away from me. It seemed to be disappearing, shrinking and dimming. This was not because it was too far away to see, since it seemed to be standing still above a neighboring house 4 houses up the hill. I watched it for about 5 minutes and then it just faded away. I was looking NE when I saw it and it ended up east of my house.

Posted 2003-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 24468
Occurred: 2002-04-27 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-08-15 10:13 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar


I saw something in the sky...like I have never seen before. My family and I were coming out of a local pizza parlor and had just entered our car. I was sitting in the backseat of the car when something in the sky caught my eye. It was cigar shaped and not as high as a plane would fly. It was not quite dark outside...and I could see a slow moving light moving across the sky. What seemed to draw my attention to it...was the fact that it was moving so slowly. Just as I was about to open my mouth and tell my family to look!! It took off and vanished at a very high rate of speed in a North/West direction.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 15399
Occurred: 2000-11-19 17:58 Local
Reported: 2000-12-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Observed: elliptical object with unusual light

(Report was written 1 hour after sighting) This evening I saw something interesting as I was traveling home after a weekend at Tahoe. This occured at 5:58 pm, this Sunday. I didn't drive, so I was passing the time looking at landmarks, lights, and stars in the sky. As we were passing Benicia on hwy 680, I noticed, at my 1 o'clock, what at first appeared to be a low-level aircraft passing to our right. What caught my eye is that it didn't have standard lighting: I saw no red/green indicator lights, tail lights, forward lights. My attention was drawn to a light or lights on what appeared to be the leading edge of the object, gold in color, and blinking in a random fashion. I would almost describe this point-source as "sparkling". Within a few seconds of my initial sighting, this point-source grew in size. At that point, the light would "blink" randomly, and as it did so, it would grow into a triangle whose longest sides pointed down. The triangular light'(s) downward-facing vertex was approx. 4 times as tall as the shortest side. All edges of the light were of the same sharpness and intensity. As the light grew, it appeared to be composed on many smaller lights, and it continued to blink in an irregular fashion. Naturally, this caught my attention, since it didn't exhibit conventional aircraft lighting or other recognizable features. I continued to watch as it appeared to angle away from the bearing of the highway. It appeared to grow distant, and the shape of leading-edge light returned to a point source, which appeared to sparkle. As I continued to watch, there was one point where this object was briefly illuminated, perhaps by city lights (it appeared to be reflected light) It was at this point I could see a lighter outline in the night sky. My first impression was the shape was similar to a blimp, except it was more elongated, and the "ends" of the shape weren't at all like a blimp (no stabilizers or canopies were visible). The shape ended in squared-off points, and the edges leading to the more curved shape in the middle appeared jagged. Otherwise, the shape was roughly elliptical, with the long axis approx. 3 times longer than the short axis. The point-source was clearly on the front "point", and the light appeared to change shape randomly. I saw this object for about 30 seconds, from 30 to 15 degrees from the horizon (its apparent position lowered over time), and when the illuminated shape subtended about the width of a nickel at arm's length.

Posted 2000-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32954
Occurred: 1996-02-20 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-11-08 22:55 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

it was real close,didn't make a sound, didn't stir the air,it actually was beautiful,a soft red glow all around,was changing shape.

Myself and my sisters fiance were looking for falling stars from a meteor showers..it was aprox. 2 thirty in the morning...we were watching towards the east when something made me look to the north west..this craft came right over the Benicia Police station and right above my sisters house..aprox 75' above her home...it was sort of triangular..yet it was changing shape..without a sound...as it flew silently over our heads...and slowly..we watched as the underneath of this craft was moving ....sort of like folding a fan into itself.....like making a disk into a triangle. we could see what resembled "I" beams that had varing circles in them...it had a soft red glow around the outer rim of the craft...we tried to report it then..but got laughed at and told we were nuts...but we both still remember as if we just saw it..that was 7 years ago....it was quite awesome.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-11-11