NUFORC UFO Sighting 185431
Occurred: 2024-09-04 22:00 Local
Reported: 2024-12-16 19:47 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Buellton, CA, USA
Location details: Driving south on CA highway 101 about 12 miles north of Buellton.

Shape: Triangle
Color: White and green
Estimated Size: Tanker truck with two tanks
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: South to southwest
Angle of Elevation: 60
Closest Distance: Quarter mile
Estimated Speed: 1015 mph
Characteristics: Lights on object

Driving south on CA highway 101 about 12 miles north of Buellton. I saw a strange, large, slow moving craft in the canyon. Moving from left to right and back to left again. In the canyon, not above them hilltops. Not a normal look or maneuvering I've either a helicopter or airplane.




Posted 2024-12-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149196
Occurred: 2019-09-25 16:00 Local
Reported: 2019-09-25 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Buellton, CA, USA

Shape: Egg


Saw two egg shaped oblects flying in opposed directions. A plane flew between them and both disappear.

Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123808
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:30 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 21:37 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Buellton, CA, USA

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

Southern CA UFO sighting large blue cloud 11/7/15

A large white contrail with a point traveled across the sky, I only caught the end of the event and when it left there was a large blue fog/haze/cloud streak where it had been and a big white cloud following it. It looked like the object came down then to the right (I think North) and then went back into the atmosphere.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123865
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-08 18:38 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Buellton (near), CA, USA

Shape: Other


Two dots of light connected by a beam and then a spiral and cone-shaped object





On Saturday, Nov. 7th 2015, at approximately 6 pm, my husband and I were driving south on the CA.101 freeway.

When we were between the 246 and the 1 highways, we noticed two illuminated “dots” in the sky that seemed to be joined by a beam of light, while we were looking through the windshield on the drivers side.

This beam looked similar to a helicopter's search light, but was more narrow and did not reach the ground.

A larger “dot” was above a smaller one and it was a glowing white.

The smaller dot below it, was slightly to the left (east) of the larger one, and was blinking. My husband saw it as glowing red and I saw it as white.

There was a beam of light between them that looked like either the upper dot was sending the beam to the lower one, or visa versa.

We began to comment on what we had seen and then noticed that the beam was gone (we did not see it disappear) and that the lower, smaller dot was moving away, slowly, to the east.

After a couple of seconds I leaned forward to look through the windshield on my side, the passenger side, and saw that there was a spiral in the sky. (I didn't see it form).

My husband looked through the windshield on my side of the car and saw it too, and pulled over beside the freeway; got out of the car and stood at the rear of the car, on the passengers side; I stayed inside and looked through the window.

The sky was dark and the spiral looked like clouds or fog that were in a round pattern with a small dark hole in the center, similar to what a satellite photo of a hurricane looks like on the TV weather news. It quickly elongated, moving to the west, towards the ocean.

As it expanded I saw a blue stream of light in the center of the “cloud”. The cloud became cone shaped in the front and continued moving away from us, westward.

After several seconds the formation seemed to end and the cloud dissipated, although the blue streak stayed suspended in the air for several minutes.

We continued to look to the west, in the direction that the cone-cloud had been traveling and I could see a faint plume that appeared to be going straight up, far in the distance.




NUFORC Note:

US Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 179927
Occurred: 2013-10-01 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-12-22 13:52 Pacific
Duration: Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Buellton, CA, USA
Location details: Hotel room

Shape: Unknown
Color: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Characteristics: Possible abduction

Terrifying encounter with entity in my hotel room

I was working out of town, sleeping in a motel. In the middle of the night I woke up to a deafening wob wob wob sound and pulsing sensation. I felt as if I was in a strange colorful vertical tunnel, I was paralyzed, and experiencing profound terror.

When I recovered from paralysis the pulsing sensation and sounds stopped, I opened my eyes I saw two beings in my motel room who seemed to react to me, I closed my eyes and attempted to feign sleep.

The beings were approximately 5 - 5.5 feet tall, had oval shaped heads, though the room was dark and I could only make out silhouettes.

When I opened my eyes again maybe 15m later, there was nothing out of the ordinary. This was the first time I had ever experienced something like this, it was traumatizing, and I have been in denial about its implications, chocking it up to hypogagnia.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80759
Occurred: 2011-04-04 23:27 Local
Reported: 2011-04-04 23:46 Pacific
Duration: Unknown
No of observers: 1

Location: Buellton, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Larger than Venus with Distinct color changes

I went outside to take the trash down to the curb around 11:27 am. It was a very clear night, no cloud cover, a bit crisp. Great visability. I noticed right away, separate from the other star formations, what appeared to be a rapidly color-changing ball of light, distinctly different from the normal "twinkling" colors of most stars. These were visible colors; not just vague pastel flashes like most stars. The light was single, about 70-degrees above the horizon and exactly southwest of my location (I confirmed this with my iphone compass). The light was larger and brighter than Venus (as a reference), and as mentioned, changed into separate and very distinct colors: red, green, blue, white, yellowish. No particular order to the color changes. No sounds overheard.

I watched for several minutes and even tried to take a video with my phone. However, the darkness surrounding me proved too great for the video, and the light did not show up, nor did anything else except a street lamp, on the video.

No aircraft flying in the sky at this moment, although Vandenberg is about 20-minutes away and due west from my location.

I am a college-educated, medical professional.




NUFORC Note:

We have corresponded with the witness, to inquire whether the object might have been a "twinkling" star, possibly Sirius. She is planning to check that possibility. PD


Posted 2011-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76366
Occurred: 2010-07-09 22:00 Local
Reported: 2010-07-09 23:53 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Buellton, CA, USA

Shape: Flash


Double flash of "satellite" moving North to South ???

While in my back yard, letting my dog out, on a particularly clear/starry night, I looked up into the night sky overhead & witnessed a small, white pinpoint "dot" of light that traveled North to South. Believing it was a satellite, but intrigued by it’s North to South speedy movement (I am used to satellites being seen moving West to East), I continued to watch.

As if it "knew" I was watching, it flashed bright white, then dimmed and within a few seconds flashed the same bright, white light and then dimmed almost completely out. It never repeated the flash. Within approx. 1-minute of this event, overhead I spotted a "satellite" that traveled very slowly from East to West.

I have never seen a Satellite flash…let alone so bright and then repeat! I imagine these were both satellites, but I consider their strange paths and flashes to be noteworthy. Were they satellites??




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34997
Occurred: 1976-08-15 19:00 Local
Reported: 2004-02-11 18:00 Pacific
Duration: not sure, at least 5 minu
No of observers: 2

Location: Buellton, CA, USA

Shape: Other


Stealth looking glider hung 20 feet over our house for a minute or so

When I was 10 years old, I and some other members of my family were living just North of Santa Barbara California near Vandenberg A.F.B. Late one afternoon I looked into the western sky and became aware of an aircraft that looked just like a glider - cigar shaped with long narrow wings, a vertical tail fin, ailerons, and a white blinking light at the bottom of it which was flying across the top of a western mountain range. Suddenly it quickly moved South over, and probably beyond Santa Barbara (about 45 mile South) in a matter of seconds. We all became intrigued as we watched it further. It turned East, looped around and began coming closer to the ground and heading straight for us. After a few seconds I remember watching this craft floating about 25 feet off the ground right between our house and the neighbors in a large subdivision. It was painted black - like the stealth craft of today. It was so close we could have thrown a stone at it, but it made no sound at all - it was completely defying gravity. It was also dark out by that time - which now doesn't make much sense. The sun doesn't set that fast from the time we first saw it. It seemed to know we were looking at it and picked us out. I looked up and saw a pilot who was dressed all in black and wearing a black helmet. There was an orangish-pinkish glow that seemed to come from the instrument gauges and was glinting off of his helmet and gloves. He looked over at us, then looked back down at his gauges, then turned to wave to us as the craft started to slowly move away gaining speed as it moved. I never discussed it with anyone in the family until recently. Nobody else in my family remembers this event except my little sister who was 8 at the time. I was 10. I remember more of us in the back yard though, so I'm not sure why they don't remember.



NUFORC Note:

Date may be approximate. PD


Posted 2004-02-12