NUFORC UFO Sighting 177812
Occurred: 2023-08-27 23:50 Local
Reported: 2023-08-28 00:14 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Cambria, CA, USA
Location details: Northern night sky, maybe above San Simeon, then moving South 1/8 mile inland towards Cayucas.

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

White light with solid red cap and green triangle sat in the night sky for a couple of minutes and them swiftly moved across the sky.

I saw an object mid-way about 45 degrees in the sky north of my house, guessing 10 plus miles north. It had a distinct red burning glow to it. I grabbed my binoculars because it was so peculiar. The object cleared up and the colors I saw were red and green like Christmas tones in shapes next to or on a round white light. It didn’t move so I walked inside. As I walked past a window, I saw not only had it moved, it was continuing to move swiftly from North to South/SE. I quickly walked back out and it was already flying over my neighbor’s tree, out of sight. I would say that was about 15-20 miles in a few seconds (6-10?), and the object was high up in the sky. I had hight power binoculars but it still didn’t seem close or clearer than vague shapes with color.

Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164095
Occurred: 2021-07-15 01:30 Local
Reported: 2021-07-20 04:55 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

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

Strange multiple colors lights

House is on the beach, it was 1:30 am was getting up early to return back home from o Vacation. I saw two lights rotating on the beach maybe 40-50 yards away.. I thought it might be someone making a fire.. I went into the kitchen area window I saw the the lights have moved and started multiple, Change colors blue, orange, white ….pitch dark on the beach, no one on it..I videotaped it 5 minutes, at end all spheres moved into one and turned white and disappeared..it’s nothing from this planet

Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154556
Occurred: 2020-03-26 20:15 Local
Reported: 2020-03-26 21:18 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Lot of Solid white round objects flying on the same course ssw-nne with same spacing

Facing West. Line of objects, approx. 30 sec spacing emerging from the left of Venus (SSW) mving at rapid speed to the NNE. Appeared to be a bright satélite. As time progresses brightness diminished (gaveling the impression that objects were successively higher in the atmosphere. All objects were individuals (along a line) except (among the last 3rd of the lot) 2 flew side by side (with decent separation). And, four objects later two flew at a slight diagonal to each other. In the case of the two pairs the eastern most object stayed on the same track/path as the rest of the procession. There was no flashing lights typical, of aircraft or any follow up jet exhaust noise

Posted 2020-05-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152162
Occurred: 2020-01-01 12:36 Local
Reported: 2020-01-01 13:20 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Possible abduction

I was driving on highway 1 and just when i looked up i saw a dome shaped cylinder soaring super fast through the sky but slow enough for me to get a good look, it was much faster than anything we’ve ever build fast than a jet and much faster than any plane

Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 121851
Occurred: 2015-09-08 22:30 Local
Reported: 2015-09-09 20:59 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Unknown flying object over Cambria, California

Clear night sky on the beach at Cambria, California. The unknown craft flew north to south, low over the ocean, close to the beach.

It had NO sound and had dull orange glowing tips on its "wings," which appeared to be 12+ feet apart. Moved very quickly, faster than a drone.

Lights on the wings did not flash. Two observers. Unable to identify.

Posted 2015-09-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116195
Occurred: 2014-12-26 18:00 Local
Reported: 2014-12-29 21:42 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

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

Bright, star like light that hovered over ocean for 3 min, dropping into ocean with glow on horizon.

My husband and I were driving north on Windsor Blvd. in Cambria. We noticed a substantial, bright, white light hanging above the horizon/ocean. We commented that the light had a shimmer or 'twinkle' that reminded us of starlight. However, it was too low to be a star.

We continued to drive and our view was interrupted for approximately 2 minutes by buildings. We drove on to Moonstone Drive, which is a beachfront drive with clear view of ocean. We, again, saw this light hanging in same position as before. Our view was much better and clearer. We could see that the light was unique with hints of color and almost as if it had movement within it-much like a plasma effect.

As we watched, it began to drop down, towards ocean and as it went below horizon line, there was a faint glow that lit the sky. I would compare the glow to that which lights up the sky at night from a town that is, say, behind a hill.

The glow lasted for about three minutes and then the sky went dark, as normal.

Posted 2015-01-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115370
Occurred: 2014-11-15 00:45 Local
Reported: 2014-11-15 04:57 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Cambria, NY, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Stationary bright white light sometimes flashing also red green at times, sometimes large white middle Light flanked by two dimmer white lights on each side half way up from horizon below Orion, wife and I watched with 10 x 50 binds for hour stayed to the southeast stationary close to over bflo inter airpt

Posted 2014-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107193
Occurred: 2014-02-16 20:00 Local
Reported: 2014-02-17 06:42 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


8 very bright orange/red round roused in straight line over west sky over Cambria, CA., coast then faded away. Seen by 4.

Sighted 4 red/orange very bright objects, appearing one at a time. Starting low in west sky, rising straight in a line starting very bright then faded away.

Shortly after first four, four more appeared and repeated same insend.

Posted 2014-02-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81175
Occurred: 2011-05-07 21:30 Local
Reported: 2011-05-08 06:39 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Cambria, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown


In Cambria, NY (Niagara County) on May 7, 2011 at about 9:30 pm a huge rectanglar light, approximately 40 feet by 60 feet, appeared in our open field. The light lasted about 6 seconds with no beam of light or source evident.

Posted 2011-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77881
Occurred: 2010-09-17 03:00 Local
Reported: 2010-09-17 18:32 Pacific
Duration: 45-60 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 BRIGHT and FAST Round Orange Lights over the skies of Cambria, CA on September 17, 2010

Allow me to preface this by saying that I have always been a skeptic of things existing outside of our own world, understanding or knowledge base. You see, I am a practicing Physician, a licensed Medical Doctor, and with all my decades of schooling, I have always been taught to prove things with the Scientific Method, for otherwise, if they cannot be proven or repeated, they do not exist and hence, cannot be called a Law, let alone a hypothesis. My life changed dramatically, however, this evening; September 17th, 2010 at 3 am…the day I am writing this narrative.

My dog was yearning to go outside. I had been awake working on the computer at the time, as I usually do my best thinking in the evening, and I did not have to report for duty the next day. Finally I said OK to my dog and we proceeded to walk outside and into the South-Easterly direction where we always begin our walks. The house faces East and we walk to the right and down our street. It felt about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. There was no wind or breeze at the time and there were no clouds or fog at all in the sky at that time. Less than 2 miles East is the Pacific Ocean. There are pine trees in our neighborhood and some reach 70-100 feet high. However, we had most of the trees removed from around our house due to a recent incident where a tree fell and caused massive damage to some structures.

This evening, upon reaching the bottom of my driveway, I could not help be see a bright orange “ball” in the sky in the South-Easterly direction. It was peering through a distant tree at the time, but it was so bright and beautiful that it could not be ignored. I stopped in my tracks and said aloud,” is that the moon…how could it be so bright or so orange when it is that far above the horizon?!” I moved to my right to get a better view from the street and without any tree in my way, but I did not need to move far as this light was moving…and fast! Within about 3 seconds I saw an identical light behind it, perhaps slightly smaller than the first. Mathematically, one cannot calculate their exact distance away from the Earth, their rate of travel, or their absolute size in space without having a known reference point, something relative to the object in question for reference, or some other known variables to calculate the equations in physics for time, space and travel. Both o! f these were traveling in the exact same path, the second appearing perhaps just slightly lower in the sky than the first. There were no sounds at all…no breaking of a sound barrier, no evidence of combustion or fuel consumption, and there was no sun or moon to be seen anywhere in the sky. These two VERY bright things were being lit-up from within, and not from any reflection or refraction of light. In fact, these were so much brighter than anything I have ever seen in the sky before, including the evening Space Shuttle and rocket launches that I have gone to see in the evenings of the past. I could not make out any specific structure, shape or entity, however, these two “lights” appeared round in shape. I have taken years of Science classes, including Physics and Chemistry courses in college, and I have always taken what I would consider to be an amateur interest in Astronomy by taking elective courses in college, reading literature on the subject and watching scientific p! rograms that relate to our knowledge of the skies above. Note ! that I h ave no problem with my hearing and that I do wear glasses to see afar. My spectacles are always on when I walk my dog so that I can see if there are any wild animals in our path so that my dog does not chase them or get sprayed by a skunk! I had a flashlight in hand but I never turned it on.

Naturally, I began to question myself…”Is that a planet, a star, a jet plane, a rocket or missile or, because of its speed, is it a meteor?!” There was clearly no trail on either “light.” There were no sounds at all…no cars, no planes, no thunder, no sirens or city lights, as I am in the woods here! All I could make out in the distance was a very slight crashing of the waves along the rocky shoreline.

I have never seen this color orange, except maybe when I burned some certain gases and elements in the Chemistry labs. They were so bright (and beautiful)! Both were about the same intensity and hue. Again, there were no trails and no sounds emanating from these, or from my surroundings otherwise. I concluded during my observation that these were not meteors when the second “light” went out for a period of 3-5 seconds and then came on again, just exactly as bright and intense as it went out! It did this two times before I ran to get my wife inside the house. How could a meteor burn out and then come back again just as bright as it went out, and with the same exact trajectory?! The skies were clear and nothing obstructed my view at this time. The second “one” was actually following the course of the first exactly! The one in front stayed illuminated during my entire observation.

I have NO questions in my mind in terms of “what” I was seeing. Please note that I do not take mind altering drugs and that I was not half asleep at the time. I was able to see the clear sky perfectly with my glasses on, as they correct my vision well enough to see planets and constellations without a problem. On occasion I get a reflection out of the corner of my glasses, but this was no reflection! These 2 “lights” were in the sky heading North-Westerly, at such a great speed and without a sound! I even peeked my eyes over my lenses to be certain that I was not mistaken in any way! It was total darkness and in fact, I had not turned on the front porch light and no lights or motion detectors from the neighboring houses were on or activated at that time. Further, there was no question that these were in the sky and traveling at speeds faster than I have ever seen anything fly across the sky before! This includes NASA’s Space Shuttle and the Blue Angel’s Boeing F/A-18 Hornets! at an air show when they make their final pass over the crowd! I had to have someone else see this! I hesitated for about 25 seconds or so because I did not want to leave them or for them to go away or vanish without me witnessing it. Faster than I have ever moved before, I ran into the house waking my wife with a great sense of urgency. Within about 15 seconds, she was in front of the house with me but by then I did not see them anymore. So I told her to run and follow me alongside the back of the house, in the direction they seemed to have been going, and she did. She confirmed part of what I saw, however, below I will have her document her own experience of what she witnessed tonight with her own eyes! What I saw at that time, from the side of the house, was one bright orange light right through the dense tree that is growing in back of our house. Normally I can’t see a star, let alone a planet, through that pine tree on any other night due to the density of the needles on the tree! These “things” were appearing to travel in a direct! ion over the Pacific Ocean and in the exact same course, or trajectory, where I would expect them to be if I were to extrapolate their path within the sky.

In conclusion, this changed my life forever because now I know that just because we cannot prove something with science, doesn’t mean that it can’t exist. As a scientist, I want proof that whatever these were, they were either something created by humans i.e. the government or some private industry, or that they simply were not. Please! Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) is about 90 miles to the South of me, so I am most curious if they had any activity, documentation, recordings, launches or sightings at that time…3 am on September 17th, 2010. It is fresh on my mind and I shake when I type because I have never been so moved, perplexed , amazed and astounded in my life before…all at the same time! This defies everything I have ever learned and witnessed in my 44 years of life and wonder. I have seen the electromagnetic effects of the earth in the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) and this was nothing like that! As I search for an explanation, I know VAFB is not scheduled to la! unch the Atlas V until the 20th of September.

Please recall that I witnessed two of these “things” and that the one “in back” flashed 2 times at about 5 second intervals during my direct and uninterrupted period of observation. There were no trails, no sounds and no vibrations of any sort. There was no fog, no cars, no clouds, no search lights, no ambient or direct lights and my vision was not impaired by anything for a at least a full 50 degree visual angle.

Without knowing the height of these, the speed is difficult to calculate or imagine. If it was within our atmosphere, I would expect that the sound barrier would have been broken at that rate of travel. Above our atmosphere, even a rocket traveling at a thousand miles an hour could not cover this amount of distance across the sky in that period of time. And they were not going up. They were going across. There were no blinking lights nor any other colors that I could see. I most sincerely hope that somewhere the skies are being recorded at a telescope in California, Arizona or Hawaii that might have documented this event! Or perhaps someone else who witnessed something in the skies this evening will come forward with their independent observations just as I did. My patients may call me crazy and the scientific community might label me an outcast. But I am certain about what I saw and I can’t even conjure up an explanation for this based upon a scientific paradigm. Also, the ! probability of something like this happening to me again in my lifetime is negligible. Therefore, I was compelled to write this down and document it with the greatest degree of accuracy as soon as possible so that unlike a dream, this will never fade from my memory and nor will it become distorted over time or subject to any pressures of embellishment. I am thrilled that my wife got to see a fraction of what I did, but I wish that someone else could have seen this entire event the way that I did. Certainly there was more to it than just what I saw. But I am grateful that I saw as much as I did! Thank you for taking the time to read about my experience. Having a lot of credibility to lose within the medical community, I would never put my career on the line to make up such a story, nor do I (obviously) have anything to gain from reporting this information. I simply want to share my life-changing experience with those who are curious or who have experienced unusual phenomenon in their own lives. But most of all, I hope this might bring some awareness to the scientific community that we are very likely not alone and perhaps this can act as a catalyst to raise more questions and trigger more research and investigations into finding out if there is a simple explanation for this…or not! My wife reports her brief encounter below. Thank you.

On September 17th 2010 at approximately 3:00am my husband ran into the house screaming that I must come outside immediately. He did not say why. I followed him to the front of the house where he told me to look into the sky where I saw nothing. He then ran alongside the house, tripping on his way up the steps, where he pointed into the sky. I was on the 2nd step and I saw through the tree in our back yard, a VERY bright, large orange light. I took another step up the stairs and moved my head to the side to follow the light and I saw it without the tree in the way. The total time was about 3-5 seconds for me. It looked like it was going up in the sky and in the direction over the ocean. Then it was gone. I told him what I saw and he told me his story. They matched. We took a walk right after that with our dog for about an hour. We looked in the skies, talked about what we saw and we watched about 5 shooting stars within that hour of our walk. This color orange was unlike anyt! hing I have ever seen in the skies, both in terms of hue and intensity. It was as intense as that of the orange part of a blowtorch. It was moving fast. I can’t say if the light went out or it disappeared from my viewpoint.



Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57735
Occurred: 2007-07-10 23:30 Local
Reported: 2007-07-19 23:16 Pacific
Duration: 2 Minutes/All Day
No of observers: 1

Location: Cambria/San Luis Obispo County, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Landed

Cambria UFO 07/10/2007 and strange earthquake felt on 07/18/2007

At Approximately 23:30 on July 10th, I went out in my driveway to smoke a cigarette. My house is on a hill facing West with a view of the Pacific Ocean. It was a cloudless night with a waning moon. I witnessed a craft that was a large orange glowing orb object traveling just above the horizon come out of the North, headed south, with a smaller white glowing orb following it. At first I believed it to be an airplane or helicopter traveling very quickly and very low over the water, only a few hundred feet at most. Then I witnessed the white object move closer to the larger orange object and then disappear as it came right to it. I then noticed that there was no sound at all coming from them. The orange orb stopped in mid flight and disappeared into what I assume was the ocean, leaving behind a faint white glow out in the water that lasted for a couple minutes.

On July 18, 2007, a series of loud rumblings were heard on the Central Coast. At 14:12 I heard a faint boom, then, approximately 10 seconds later heard a rumble and felt my house vibrate just like an earthquake had hit it. The rumble lasted about 3 to 4 seconds. I have lived in an area where military jets do maneuvers all my life, and have heard and felt sonic booms many times. This however most definitely did not feel like a sonic boom at all, and felt just like a magnitude 3 to 3.5 earthquake. The air force reported to the local media that they were conducting training with their new F-22 Raptors 50 miles off the coast, however the planes were reported to have returned to their airbase by 13:00. NASA also reported conducting super sonic test flights near Edwards AFB, but both locations are quite far from here. USGS reported no earthquakes in California that day that would have matched that magnitude.

Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154092
Occurred: 1983-04-14 19:30 Local
Reported: 2020-03-06 12:14 Pacific
Duration: a moment
No of observers: 1

Location: Cambria, CA, USA

Shape: Flash


A single, silent flash of light, like a lightening strike, seen through trees towards the West over Pacific Ocean.



Posted 2020-05-01