NUFORC UFO Sighting 184365
Occurred: 2024-11-18 02:20 Local
Reported: 2024-11-19 19:03 Pacific
Duration: 35 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, IA, USA
Location details: 2 or 3 orbs where seen SE of highway 2 heading into Iowa from Nebraska

Shape: Light
Color: White
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: SE
Angle of Elevation: 50
Closest Distance: 25 miles
Estimated Speed: 1000-300-150
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 white lights high speeds falling from space a like a meteorite. Then the lights stopped same altitude. Then they crossed and became one then bursted apart disappeared and popped back up miles from each other lights kept going in and out. The lights looked as they were looking for something and coming back to 1 again and a again. Changing in altitude every once in a while.

Posted 2024-11-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164251
Occurred: 2021-08-06 15:00 Local
Reported: 2021-08-07 11:42 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, WA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Saw round white object in sky

8-6-2021 3pm Carson Washington [  ] Watched an object in the sky almost straight above me and slightly north of the sun. Perfectly clear sky  at first, clouds started moving in and lost sight in 30 minutes. Object never moved. Looked like a round white disc, like a very tiny moon. Managed to get it on cellphone video also.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163286
Occurred: 2021-05-15 22:35 Local
Reported: 2021-05-19 12:55 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Carson, WA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

A large horizontal bar of light moved slowly across the night sky, eventually lifting its back end to 45 degrees and maintaining course

At approximately 10:35 PM, my female companion noticed a bar of light moving across the sky behind the treetops of a nearby mountain. The first words uttered about the object were, "Is that a train?". Moments later the bar of light moved out of the wooded treetops and into the sky (it had been in the sky all along, but was merely obscured by the trees). It was a horizontal flat line of light punctuated by several brighter circular points along the line. How distant the object was was difficult to discern, but seemed to be flying lower than the planes in the night sky, and was 5-8x the size in our field of view. It moved slowly from West to East across the sky. It wasn't long before it began to go from completely horizontal to being at a 45-60 degree angle, without changing its trajectory or movement pattern. It was at some point during this transition that I took the photo, wherein you can see the object at around 30 degrees from its horizontal pos! ition. The camera I used was on a new Samsung phone, which has a low light mode that leaves the shutter open for 3 seconds. The photo appears to show a dark outline, possibly illuminated by similar lights on the other side of the craft.



Posted 2021-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153743
Occurred: 2020-02-27 05:00 Local
Reported: 2020-02-29 19:32 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, CA, USA

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

It was a blue light with unfamiliar movement going straight then disappearing in thin air it wasn't a falling star because it was traveling upwards like horizontally.



Posted 2020-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152668
Occurred: 2020-01-16 18:40 Local
Reported: 2020-01-16 22:56 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, WA, USA

Shape: Light


40-100 star sized white lights moving in strait line, evenly spaced, moving south to north.

We observed a continuous moving, perfectly strait, line of star/satellite sized lights moving south to north a little slower than a commercial airliner flies. They appeared out of sight behind a few trees, then traveled roughly 24 inches across the night sky, then disappeared suddenly into nothing. My girlfriend and I lost count after 40 of these lights, we estimate there were closer to 100. We were completely sober and lucid. We were driving through Gifford Pinchot National Forest looking for new snow camping sights. The lights disappeared completely when a commercial airliner got close.

Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147770
Occurred: 2019-07-24 01:02 Local
Reported: 2019-07-25 01:13 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Circular craft with bluish/white light shining out horizontally over Los Angeles County, CA, at 1:00AM

A small bright, bluish dot came up over my house as I sat in my backyard hot tub. I stargaze out there almost every night so I am well accustomed to airplanes, helicopters, shooting stars, and satellites sightings. At first I thought his object was simply a bright satellite as it was tracking in a smooth slow trajectory up over my house in an area of sky where I usually spot satellites as they traverse at night.

It was after about 10 seconds of observation that I witnessed the small bright object pause, then continue slowly, then pause and hover again. This told me it was definitely not a satellite and had to be a craft of some sort. It then continued forward but made a slow "S" shaped squiggle of its flight path unlike any airplane, drone, or helicopter would generally execute. It paused once more and then began to get brighter. I realized it was descending from a much higher altitude to a lower one. It was not quite directly over me at this point but very near vertical as far as the angle at which I had to look up. Once it got low enough I could distinctly see it was circular and convex on the bottom, perhaps a sphere, but possibly more flattened. Color was black or dark gray from what I could make out. The bright light was not on the bottom but rather pointing out horizontally from one side. I was a brilliant white/bluish hue and did not flicker or blink at all as an aircraft lights might. No sound was audible from it.

I observed the object hovering at this lower altitude of roughly 750-1000 feet up for about 5 minutes. I ran inside after that point to grab my camera. It was still present when I returned but had ascended much higher. I attempted to get a picture but it was too hard to get a clear focus as it continued to ascend and then the light faded out suddenly and it was gone.

I have been stargazing for years now and have never seen something I couldn't ID as I am familiar with all kinds of aircraft, satellites, and shooting stars that frequent the night sky. This was something very different and I cannot figure out what it was other than a definite flying object with a circular profile when viewed looking up from the ground.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2019-07-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 139564
Occurred: 2018-04-20 03:18 Local
Reported: 2018-04-23 04:02 Pacific
Duration: 5-6 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, WA, USA

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

Bright blue ball with big blue flames trailing it

Early Friday, April 20th, 2018, at around 3:15 am, I woke up and few minutes later realized I had left my phone/alarm clock in my car. I stepped out my door and a couple seconds later noticed something traveling to the East of my home, at first I thought it was a shooting star traveling from N to S, but it turned blue and grew into large blue mass with huge bright blue flames trailing it.

I stood there watching as it descended and slowed waiting to hear the “boom” from it landing in the Cascade Mountains..but nothing. Not sure what it was, and have not seen any other reports of it. It was amazing to see.

Posted 2018-04-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123762
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:19 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


A bright light moving away from a blue stream going the opposite direction forming a circle. Then the bright light disappeared and the blue light stayed a while.




NUFORC Note:

US Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107768
Occurred: 2014-03-08 00:00 Local
Reported: 2014-03-09 23:03 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright green glowing ball 2-3 hundred feet high travelling at a very high rate of speed.

Moved absolutely straight heading east then suddenly disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106358
Occurred: 2014-01-13 13:45 Local
Reported: 2014-01-16 11:10 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Silver hovering sphrere over Carson, CA.

I noticed a silver sphere in the sky, it didn't look like any type of jet or plane i've ever seen. It was a small circle hovering in one spot, with in seconds a couple helicopters started flying towards it and then it slowly started to disappear. It didn't appear to fly away either, it just got smaller and smaller until it disappeared. It was so interesting to watch!

Posted 2014-01-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 105913
Occurred: 2012-12-31 22:30 Local
Reported: 2014-01-02 07:58 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Carson, NV, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Hovering Craft looked like it had two levels. 3/4 lights

I have video from a cell phone. I am not sure what to make of this. Looks like the craft has two levels. It is dark out so hard to see this craft well. Looks like it its round. The person that filmed this said they saw 2 crafts only one was caught on tape. When he first started filming he walks away to go get his wife, then films the craft a second time. Craft seemed to be hovering. Not sure if experts can tell if it is really a UFO or not. He said this craft went straight up then was gone. I will give my name as contact info. Not sure if he wants to be known. I would like to know if this is real or if anyone can even tell if it is real or fake. I have the video posted on my facebook. I am not sure how to send it to you. I have the video on my phone also.

Posted 2014-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 91599
Occurred: 2012-08-06 23:30 Local
Reported: 2012-08-08 12:17 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, WA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Bright white ball of light

8/6/2012 23:30 camping between Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Adams. We saw a large bright white ball moving to the north very slow, no sound, no blinking lights. The object made a 90 degree turn east and increased speed.

After being obscured by trees, two jets came, one from the north, one from south west. At day light we heard a large helicopter, too low to see because of the trees. The object was the size of a grape held at arm's length.

Posted 2012-08-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76066
Occurred: 2010-07-01 22:22 Local
Reported: 2010-07-02 15:54 Pacific
Duration: 1 1/2 hr.
No of observers: 11

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

red/Orange light in Carson, CA; Flashed, Shot out beams

There was this orange/red light in the sky. At first it was staying still then it started moving one way then it went off course and went in a different direction. It looked like a circle from ground distance but through the telescope it was a triangular shape. after apx. 30 min. - 1 hr. the object in the sky started flashing fast. Through the telescope there were 8 lights surrounding it and it was also shooting things it looked like.

Posted 2010-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70302
Occurred: 2009-05-01 05:10 Local
Reported: 2009-06-01 03:33 Pacific
Duration: 10min
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, MS, USA

Shape: Sphere


same as 4/3/09 Sumrall, Ms

Almost the same as http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/069/S69520.html but the object was a red sphere with around 5 or 6 smaller red objects around it.

It moved slowly east for around 3-5min and then back west picking up speed for 1-2min then back east,disappearing over the treeline.



Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69568
Occurred: 2009-04-06 22:30 Local
Reported: 2009-04-07 10:45 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Invisible Craft flying above it was VERY LOUD!

We were driving home from my sons job and right as were driving on out street we heard a LOAD Rubbling sound and we looked up and seen this Aircraft that was flying above us very low, it had 2 lights, one each end and some times you would see a 3rd making a triagle. But we didn't see the Aircraft it was Tranparent you couldn't see it infact you could see right through it seeing the stars on the other side.



Posted 2009-04-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67278
Occurred: 2008-11-27 19:30 Local
Reported: 2008-12-02 12:21 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 15

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

Strange orange/red light flying slowly across the sky with a smaller object falling off it then both disappearing.

It happened last week during our 2008 family Thanksgiving Dinner. My father and other family members were standing outside when my father saw the strange orange/red light traveling slowly across the sky coming towards Carson. He had seen it twice before during the summer so he quickly called the rest of us out to witness it. We all quickly determined it wasn't an airplane because there were other planes in the sky at that time and this had no flashing warning lights and no sound like the rest of them as it came above us. It was just an orange/red super bright object almost like a fireball but with no noticeable flames.

It was flying higher than the other airplanes but it was larger and brighter than them in the sky. It traveled across the sky above us and when it reached the refineries about 2 miles away it stopped and it shot down a fireball that left a streaking orange trail like a flame but there was no smoke, just the same orange/red glow like a piece of the larger object just came off. The smaller fireball shot directly down a couple of seconds and disappeared. The big object then flashed a few times before it also disappeared. Some clapped while others freaked out and asked, what was that?

My brother who was not at this family gathering had told us about this strange light he has seen often in the sky. He has seen it numerous times since 2005 and it's always traveling across Carson and always disappearing above the refineries. He has also seen it shoot white lights and spin then disappear. My parents and sister have also seen it a few times before. Now I and about 14 other family members believe!

Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66568
Occurred: 2008-10-29 19:45 Local
Reported: 2008-10-30 12:52 Pacific
Duration: less than one second
No of observers: 0

Location: Carson/Los Angeles City, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail

Observed a high-speed white light, very low altitude, parallel to ground, less than one second.

At, or about, 7:45p.m. PDT on October 29th, 2008 while driving south on Interstate 110 (aka: Harbor Freeway), past the Torrance Blvd. exit, and before the Carson Street exit: I saw to my left (just to the east of the freeway, and parallel to it), also traveling southbound, a single light that traveled from that location, in a direct, straight line until it was gone from view in the direction of the L.A. Harbor/San Pedro area.

I was on my return trip home from a night-school class, and was most certainly sober and of sound mind.

My first thought was, “it’s a shooting star”…I’ve seen many of those.

But this was only about 200-300 hundred feet above the ground…certainly less than 1,000 feet…and it went parallel to the ground; not downward.

My second thought was, “it’s a meteor”, due to its incredible speed.

It appeared to have traveled a distance of several miles in less than a second.

here was a very light, low, pre-frog haze at that time, which made the light look fuzzy; and again, due to its speed, left a tremendously long light tail. No discernable shape other than a lightbulb.

It all took less than one second, to my best estimation; too fast to have been the light of any normal aircraft.

I do not suspect that it was any sort of “craft”; but it was something very out of the ordinary, and I would like to know what it was; or what caused it; or if anyone else may have seen & reported it.

Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49818
Occurred: 2006-03-25 03:56 Local
Reported: 2006-03-25 22:01 Pacific
Duration: 2 sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams

My cousin and I saw what looked like a firework at first glance. It was a blue fireball shaped object.



Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42436
Occurred: 2005-01-29 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-02-25 20:16 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, CA, USA

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

Reddish object produced flashes of light, discharged a gaseous material, dissappeared, reappeared and dissapeared again.

I have witnessed at least 15 unidentifiable objects since 2000. All have had similar characteristics but no other definition than they look like stars. What has made these objects unique to other things in the sky is either their sudden appearance and dissappearance, pulsing or flashing light sources and even their movement. I will however will post my last sighting as I can still remember the details of what happened that night better than other times and wish to not use any more space discussing them on this post. (I promise, I will see more). ;) It was between 1:00 am and 1:10 am when I was outside of my house staring up at the sky. It was then when I noticed something awkward in the sky south of my visual point.

The sky was as clear as it could be in this suburban neighborhood when I noticed an object glowing brighter. This object looked very much like a star, but I caught the fact that it wasn't there a few seconds or minutes before actually noticing that it was not part of the sky map that I had in my current working memory.

What kept my interest in observing it as I mentioned in the paragraph above was that this "thing" was glowing in slightly faster pulses than a regular star. It slightly moved vertically, came to a pause and then for some even odder reason, it looked like it dropped (or spilled) sometype of gaseus or liquid material the same color as this "star". I wish I could say it was a trail of its movement, but this stuff came out of it after it was stationed for a few fractions of a second.

This thing was reddish in color, in fact it was similar to Mars but much brighter. When this fluid or gaseus like substance spilled, I became slightly nervous thinking that it could have been a supernova. Immediately as I heard my father coming towards the door, I called him to run out as quickly as possible to witness this thing with me. He made it on time to see the remaining activity.

The gaseous dropping was gone, but the object remained, however the pulses began to accelerate. As we were watching these flashing pulses, the object either began to drift away or shrink. Nevertheless, I can agree with anyone that it was fading away, and it did until there was no visual of it. We did not remove our eyes for not even five approximate seconds when this object began reappearing in the same position that it dissappeared in. The light from the object began to increase in brightness or size (or both) again. The flashes returned until it reached it's approximate original size, and seconds later it gradually began to dissappear again.

This was not the first sighting I have had. This is also not the first sighting I have had with the company of a witness either. I cannot draw any conclusions or judgements that this object was any type of spacecraft, however, this and others similar that I have witnessed hold no other place than to be anomolies of some sort, or they can be purely a perceptual construct of something entirely natural.

It is very easy to say that compared to any airplanes, helicopters, fireworks, meteors, comets, flare guns, or any other objects I have seen these sightings I've had separate themselves from anything else I have seen that's logically explainable. This last object like the others was much higher and brighter than other areal objects for its distance. The stationary positions and their slow movement separate them from things I am accustomed to see in the air as well.

My background is fairly simple. I am a 32 year old hispanic male. I live in the city of Carson. My hobbies are amateur radio, programming, networking, and Unix operating system hobbyst. I work as System Administrator, and a computer engineering major at Devry University.



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 187909
Occurred: 2004-05-01 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-02-23 13:56 Pacific
Duration: 2 to 4 Hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, WA, USA

Shape: Egg
Color: Chrome (not fully)
Estimated Size: Bigger than a truck maybe bigger than a small boat
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: im not sure i was starring directly at it.
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 70 to 100 feet.
Estimated Speed: not sure but fast enough to be gone in 2 secs


I saw it for at least 2 to 4 hours enough time for the sun to rise.

When I was like 7 or 8 I was up late and watching TV way past my bedtime, and between me entering and leaving my bedroom i saw an object outside of my bedroom window because my TV was facing away from the window and when you entered my bedroom there was this very high up window, i saw a metal thing SITTING in the air not floating, not bobbing just sitting in the air less than 100 feet away.

At first i didnt understand what it was but it wasnt supposed to be there so i just kinda paused. like you see this in person you just kinda pause.

And say what the hell is that? Then you keep staring and staring at it then slowly piece together that its a spaceship when i saw it i thought it was a spaceship with no windows or doors and completely made out of metal which was a little shiny you could see the lights reflecting off of it but the lights from other peoples homes.

It had a nose and butt its not a perfect pill like people think it is, the front of it kind of reminds me of a space shuttle but with no pilots window. the picture I provided it basically what it looked like but it wasn't bright white and it had no feet. but see the nose and butt? that's what I'm talking about that's HOW I figured out it was a spaceship of some kind? a CRAFT? if you will.

but yeah imagine seeing this outside of your window and its not moving or doing anything. again. NO BOBBING, it was SITTING perfectly in the middle of the air... like what?

so it was hard to comprehend like really. its like seeing a magic trick in person you cant comprehend it but its happening.

So I just quietly starred at this thing for probably a few hours the sun started to come up and I could see the suns light reflecting off of the metal outside? I want to call it a metal shell but I don't know if that's even fair to describe it that way, it was big and definitely metal I'm not dumb, so I guess we could call it a metal shell.

That was the most interesting thing that happened so the sun had fully come up i think? because we lived in Washington at the time so the sun just came up like fast from what I remember.

So the sun was coming up and i eventually had to pee so i quickly ran into the bathroom and flushed the toilet like a good little boy i heard a fwoosh... (yeah it was a sound hard to describe) i run back into my bedroom.
it was gone. never saw it again

i tried to tell my Right-wing father who made of me to my face and make it a huge mocking point because i didnt believe in god but i believed in aliens.

so guys... i never saw an alien.

i saw that above but silvery and no feet.

the pilots could have very well been human im not saying i dont believe in aliens but i didnt see an alien.
i saw the tic tac which screw that name hard. (sorry)
the thing is what screws with me is why was it even there to begin with?
what made me special?
im not trying to be oh im a messiah, no no no no im really asking.
what drew that thing to my location at that particular point in time?
easy answer is: a coincidence
(this is what i saw but more silvery and no feet.) stationary in the air as if it was sitting in the air perfectly)
But one thing that bothers me is that I KNOW this technology exists, if a little kid can make the discovery of the century so can the government so with that in mind I want you guys to question yourself:

If this technology exists why are emergency responders not using them? According to Commander David he was chasing one of these in a Hornet Helicopter which can fly up to 500 MPH so why are we still using outdated technology to transport people in need of medical emergencies?

That's what I want you guys to be asking, Whose keeping this amazing technology away from us and why?

Imagine a world where if someone is having a heart attack there at the hospital in 3 seconds... Or what if Firefighters who are currently forced to watch California burn down, what if they could get to the fires faster and carry more water to put out said fires?

What if (this is the scary one) Police could show up in 2 seconds to an emergency?

Its real but we cant have it.

Or someone is stranded in the woods in a hard to reach place this thing could just lower itself into whatever corner there's no wings or landing problems (as far as i know)

Or stranded on an island somewhere,

Anyway I'm open to questions about my experience and stuff, I don't bite usually.

My sighting happened during the warmer months so it wasnt the winter or fall it was a maybe closer to the summer so there wasnt any clouds in the sky, so when the sun was rising up i could start to really see it.

my window was fully open since there was not very much pollution and it was nice to have your window open all the way.

it was technically above my neighbors house the white one on the right if your viewing the street. i saw it on google maps i can TELL its the same people living there from when i was a kid, (as far as i know)

ive also began to understand ive been having out of body experiences and have had (this ones hard to say) ive had information in my head and i dont know how it got there.

i would know the names of people before i met them sometimes i would just know like i guessed it but i just knew. its hard to explain.

ive also been doing my own reserch and would like to share it with the right people.

im planning on publishing my research its just been hard to find stable funding.







Posted 2025-02-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25466
Occurred: 2002-10-04 14:00 Local
Reported: 2002-10-08 12:58 Pacific
Duration: 7to12 sec
No of observers: 0

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

Ball flying under jet.

I was going to a 2pm meeting at my job. I notice in the west sky a passenger jet, flying about 2o,000 feet. under the jet I notice what look like a steal ball flying about 1000 feet under the jet. The ball was going about the same speed as the jet. I watch them both until they were out of my sight in the west sky. The back ground was a clear blue sky.

Posted 2002-10-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17833
Occurred: 2001-05-19 00:01 Local
Reported: 2001-05-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: approx 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Carson, WA, USA

Shape: Light


A large bright light moved at a constant,very high rate of speed and crossed the entire sky in less than one minute.

Two of my friends and I were camping at Falls Creek just outside of Carson, Wa and were watching the stars around midnight. I noticed a light in the sky that was moving. I assumed at first that it was a sattelite and pointed it out to my friends. After watching it for a few seconds, we realized that it was brighter than any other light in the sky and moving at an incredible rate of speed. It took less that a minute for the light to cross the entire sky and out of our sight. We were all pretty confused as to what it could have been and tried explaining it, but everything we could come up with didn't seem to fit. It moved at a constant speed, it didn't fade in and out or flicker, which a meteor would do, and moved far too fast to be a sattelite.



NUFORC Note:

Date may be approximate. We are not certain whether the witness means the night of May 19, or the morning. PD


Posted 2002-07-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 15629
Occurred: 2000-12-28 18:20 Local
Reported: 2000-12-30 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20-30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Disk


Red disc shaped object over Los Angeles

At approximately 1620 hrs I was on my way to the store and had made a right hand turn onto 213th St. (In a west direction) when I noticed a bright red light, visible through the windshield of my car. It appeared to be disc or perfectly round in shape and was sharply defined. Not like the shimmering of a star. It was located between the rear view mirror and the top of the windshield. (See my graphic UFO_1st_sight.jpg) It was at an angle of about 45-50 degrees above the horizon and about 10 degrees to the right of my westerly heading. It caught my attention because it was not the usuall red color I have seen on aircraft or helicopters (I live not far from the sheriff station and helicopters are based there and usually fly over my house. I am also familar with aircraft navigational lights). The color appeared as a bright crimson red and about the size of the largest star. However it DID NOT have a glow to it. There were no other lights visible such as associated navigational light nor was an object visible which might have been seen from reflected light off the object. As I continued west I had to move up closer to the winshield and peer up as the object seemed to be moving in an easterly direction.(See graphic UFO_5-6secPlus.jpg). When it was about overhead it dissappeared. However the way it dissappeared was unusal. It DID NOT JUST BLINK OUT but appeared to move up and away so fast the it was like a dissappearing cone. (See graphic UFO_15-20secPlus.jpg). I stopped in a dark parking lot to see if there were any further traces of it but observed none. I have tried to create an animated graphic of the final observation but have been unable to do so yet. I have not been able to get the right color that the object appeared.



NUFORC Note:

We will post illustration at a future date. PD


Posted 2001-01-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 6277
Occurred: 1999-03-31 00:39 Local
Reported: 1999-03-31 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson (the city of, near L.A. Airport), CA, USA

Shape: Disk


police helicoter crew see unknown object as it flew at their helicopter and then north at a high rate of speed, out of view.

0039 hours: A Police Helicopter crew, cosisting of one pilot and one observer, working a call in the city of Carson, Los Angeles. The pilot tells the observer, "Hey! You want to see a UFO? Look at that!" The observer and pilot see a orange ball of light in front of the helicopter, heading from west to east at the same altitude. The object is at 2 miles and closing. The helicopter is in right hand orbits over the call at approximately 400 to 500 AGL. The object was moving at a normal speed for the area ( under 200 knotts) at what the crew estimated at around 150 knotts or so. the object was at the helicopters 12 O' clock postion as the nose of the aircraft passed through the west (270- 280 degrees) while in the orbit. the object was moving slower relative to the nose of the aircraft while it continued to orbit. As the nose of the aircraft came to about 360 degrees (north) the pilot began a straight and level flight path. The object was moving across the wind screen from left to right (from 10 O' clock to our 2 O' clock). As it got to the 2 O' clock position, the object changed direction and did a wide right hand orbit to the south.the pilot adjusts the aircrafts flight path puting the object at the 2 o' clock position again. the object then changed direction again, accelerated, and headed directly at the observers door (right side) of the helicopter. Startled, the observer, thinking he was pressing the intercom button, said to the pilot, "Oh SHIT!" as the object came at them. The observer had acually pressed both of the foot switches, activating both the intercom system and the radio transmitter. The object got within about 200 feet of the aircraft and then changed direction again, flying to the north at a very high rate of speed and out of view. The ground units call the office after the crew had landed and wanted to know what happened and why the crew left with out saying any thing but, "Oh SHIT!". They did not see the object. It should be noted that hte object was able to change direction with out any ! type of turning manuver. it just changed direction. If you were to draw its' flight path, you would draw all right angles. the only time that it turned semi-normal was when it started the right hand orbit to the south but even that did not look normal. The movement almost looked like a Hollywood special effect. I hope you don't think I'm a nut but I've been around/involved in aviation for a long time. I've never seen anything like this. The texture, the shape, the movement, the speed changes and the drastic angles all add up to it NOT being anything that I have ever seen. PS I would like to keep my name and agency out of the report but would be more than happy to speak to anyone from your organization that would be interested in this event. It was a bit un-nerving. I was the observer.

Posted 1999-04-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2820
Occurred: 1997-11-01 21:35 Local
Reported: 1997-11-03 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 Seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Formation


Summary : 7 white lights in the form of an "L" traveled NW to SE seen from my backyard. Lights perfectly spaced apart, never changed formation. * * * * * * * (diagram)

L- shaped lights moved swiftly and silently; the only sound I heard was from a small aircraft traveling much slower from North to South. I'm a 39 y.o. female.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176332
Occurred: 1994-08-07 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-06-17 19:45 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes or longer
No of observers: 1

Location: Carson, CA, USA
Location details: Carson CA.

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Possible abduction

Amber lights over there were only about two floors above my building there wasn't a sound and then all of a sudden I knew they knew or somebody knew I was seeing them and I closed my curtains and fell to the floor.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156689
Occurred: 1982-07-15 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-05-26 03:09 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: West Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Changing


Cone shaped object of glass like spheres, changed shape to a V.

We were driving north around sunset between 8pm and 9pm. Im guessing the time we were not sure, the sun sets between those hours in the summer.

Summer of 82. Mostly warehouses and commercial property. Clear sky, no other traffic at the time. To our immediate left, (west) was a flower nursery. My friend from the drivers side of his van, looking to the west said "what the hell is that? He said something was rising from the field.

He pulled the van over and said it is passing over the rear of the van.

I stuck my head out the passenger window, looking to my right and to the rear approximately 15ft to 20 ft back and around 25 ft in the air was an object. Approximately 8 to 10 ft in height. It was in the shape of a cone or a upside down xmas tree. At the widest part the top of the cone was around 6 to 7 ft diameter, the small end or bottom was 1 to 2 ft in diameter.

The cone was made up of round glass like spheres, a little more than the size of a basketball. There was no structure or frame holding the spheres together that we saw. 1 sphere at the bottom and multiplies as you go up the cone. Inside the spheres was it seemed to us, was a white hot fire or energy, but it was constant white, not like a flickering fire and white. The object stayed in one position and did not move or make any noise, it was motionless. There was no smoke or hum. There are electrical and phones lines, object was about 15 ft away from the lines. There was no breeze. It was also not far from a street light so we saw it very clearly.

There was no reaction from the electrical lines or street light.

After a short time it changed shape to a V. We did not see a transformation, or noise, it was just a V. Not clear at what point this happened, either before it changed shape or after, we saw what appeared to be fire dropping from the object, not much of it but like if burning plastic fell from it, and it was more like normal fire burning. I would say less than a half of a cup of the burning liquid.

It was still motionless and It remained for less that a minute I guess, and then it was gone. It simply disappeared. There was no sound, or whoosh, or trace of light or noise. It vainshed without a trace of it ever being there.

It was there, than it was not. Same as the shape change. it was a cone, then it was a V shape.

I don’t know what the object was and we never reported it to anyone. I am guessing that for that object to vanish like it did would likely to me anyway, have something to do with time. If there was some kind of propulsion, we never saw or heard it, and there was no remnants, no smell. The total time from it coming up from he field to vanishing is a little hard to determine. It seems to happen within a 2 or 3 minute span, but were just a little lost on that. I thought we watched it a little longer. The time of it all is a little fuzzy.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51166
Occurred: 1978-07-01 17:30 Local
Reported: 2006-06-29 12:36 Pacific
Duration: 5 Min
No of observers: 2

Location: Carson, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

For about 5 minutes I watched an odd shaped object in the sky over the city of Carson, Ca, that was then chased by 4 Military jets.

I just got off work and stopped at my folks house in Carson California to pick up my son. Carson is about 18 miles south of down town Los Angeles. It was about 5:30 PM on a weekday in July in 1978 or 79. My folks house is in the suburbs with curbs, gutters and alot of homes. As I pulled up in front of the house an old friend pulled up accross the street to see his family. We stood on the sidewalk talking. It was a perfectly clear afternoon with a strong breeze, no clouds and a real blue sky. A blue sky is very important to me. There were several kites flying real high in the sky. As we were talking I noticed that one of the kites was very high. I point out how high it was to my friend but he looked and didn't see it. He always had bad eyesite so I just let it go. While talking I kept looking up at this one kite. It didn't act like a kite. It didn't bounch around in the sky like a kite, it just stayed still in one spot. Then it quickly came down lower. I told my friend the string must have broke. He looked but still didn't see it. Then the kite starts moving from spot to spot in the sky. It moved real fast. I said to my friend this isn't a kite. Then I noticed it kept changing colors. It changed from light gray to dark gray, almost black. My friend still doesn't see it. Then it hit me, this is a balloon. It's a silver gray balloon that is not fully filled and the wind causes it to change shape and the dark color is really shadows on it. Then it dropped down lower and I could see it. It was not a kite or a ballon. This flying thing was about 1500 feet above Carson High School and I'm about 1/4 mile south of the school. The sun is in the west and I'm looking north. I can see it clearly. It was not as long as a fighter jet but was wider. It made no noise or so little I couldn't hear it. This thing is 3 sided. Best way to discribe it is if you took a football and cut it in half from end to end. Now throw the bottom away and just use the top half. Now flaten out the sides so they meet at a ridge on top.The sides and bottom are not flat but slightly convexed. So this thing has a bottom and 2 sides with a slightly pointy front and rear where the sides and bottom come together. It was odd shaped. It is mostly a shinny gray. There are no windows or joint lines that I could see. There are no visible lights but there are light and dark gray lines that move from end to end along the sides and along the bottom. These lines look like gray bar codes that randomly move quickly and slowly from end to end. That's why it looks like it changes from light to dark and also seems to have shadows at a further distance. So here is this shinny gray thing rippling with gray bar code lines in plain site and my friend can't see it. He's squinting and I'm pointing to no avail. Then it takes off straight up and out of site. About 10 seconds latter it comes back. This time it is a little lower then before and a little clearer to see. My friend can't see it. I can't believe he can't see it. Half of Los Angeles has got to be looking at this thing. It is in sight for about 30 seconds slowly turning from side to side. Then again it goes straight up and again out of site, never to be seen by me again. 5 to 10 seconds later I saw 4 military type fighter jets fly over Carson and go straight up in the air after it with after burners roaring. There was no way they were ever going to catch this thing, it was far faster then the jets. I ask my friend did he see the jets? He said he did. I watched this thing for about 5 minutes. I checked the paper and watched the news for days but nothing was ever reported. Haven't seen my friend in many years, bet he probably still thinks I'm crazy and until about a year ago, I had my doughts. Why did the military and apparently only myself see this thing? I think my daughter unknowingly figured it out. She is an artist, a painter, she mixes and creates colors for her art. I have blue gray blindness. I only see certain shades of blues and grays. Most of the time, I only see grays. To me, the sky is mostly gray with a hint of blue on occasion and only on a few days out of the year do I see a bright blue sky like the day in question. While talking to my daughter, she said that I am missing alot by not seeing the different shades of blues in the sky. Then it hit me. It's not only what I don't see, it's also what I do see. This thing in the sky, it wasn't gray it was probably blue and the bar code lines, they were probably shades of blue not shades of gray. This thing could camouflag itself to the sky. That's why my friend and everybody else couldn't see it when it was in front of them. The military saw it with radar. I saw it because its camouflag colors fell outside of my color spectrum because of my blue gray blindness. Maybe on a grayer day for me I wouldn't have seen it. Its grays to me would have blended together to a camouflag but on this day with a bright blue sky, it stuck out like a soar thumb. Over the years I've learned not to talk about the stuff I see in the sky like this thing and the other stuff because people do look at you like your crazy. On this day I know what I saw and it was real.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date in July 1978 is approximate. PD


Posted 2006-07-16