NUFORC UFO Sighting 174133
Occurred: 2023-01-25 17:55 Local
Reported: 2023-01-26 08:29 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: El cerrito, CA, USA
Location details: Just north of Mosier avenue On the Arlington

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Craft moved from the golden gate towards the south bay, pen shaped semi translucent grey in color, single blinking white light at tip

large pen shaped craft floating below airplane much lower in altitude, the UAP was proportionately larger than the airplane at a further distance. Crawled at a slow pace moving south, from my vantage point it moved from the golden gate bridge towards the south bay, I lost vision behind a tree. Looked as if I was to hold a pen at arms length in terms of size, physically seemed to be floating across the middle of the bay, between SF and the East Bay

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 161988
Occurred: 2021-02-06 17:15 Local
Reported: 2021-02-09 19:58 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

One white circular and three white rectangular objects without wings flying at height of planes seen for 5 minutes Feb 6, 2021 at dusk

Saw Four white objects floating above the tree line of our back yard at 5:15 pm PST in El Cerrito, CA on February 6th. The three small rectangular shapes were floating ahead of the larger circular shaped object for about 5 minutes. After all four objects floated past the tree line, the large object veered to the southwest in a turn to the NE and we couldn’t see the smaller objects. this appeared to be about as far up in the sky as planes fly, but none of the objects appeared to have wings or tails. They traveled slower than a jet. I took a photo with my iphone, but the detail of the three smaller objects did not show up in the photo. You could only see a circle with the camera of the larger object. My brother and I, both college graduates, both observed this.

I called ABC news and reported it. But they did not have any reports from others about it. We have never seen anything shaped like this that moved this way before.



Posted 2021-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 138901
Occurred: 2018-02-22 06:00 Local
Reported: 2018-02-22 07:32 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Electrical or magnetic effects

NASA snuggles alien into California

I looked up in the sky and saw an air plane in the distance making Kim trails and then the plane cuts left and right in a big bang of smoke it looked like it lost control or something then I see a bright star figure appear but it wasn't a star it was some kind of airraft. Right after it appeared I saw what looked like two NASA space rockets flying away from it, all flying in separate directions. The Kim trails it left turned in to black rain clouds or a fire cloud. They trying to kill us. I swere it looked like an alien star with some kind of invisible coat around it almost like it was under water swimming like a star fish. I felt a presence. Something brushed up against my body I think it saw me, but I got the he'll out of there because I had a bad feeling. I think the government just smuggled an alien entity in California. I know what I saw, I know what an airplane looks like and those we're definitely space rocket ships wtf is going on




NUFORC Note:

We are not certain as to whether this is a sincere report. PD


Posted 2018-02-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115472
Occurred: 2014-11-18 23:00 Local
Reported: 2014-11-19 11:26 Pacific
Duration: ~1 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangular craft hovering, then drove off

Hovering triangular shaped ufo spotted about a mile or two away, as we drove closer it stayed in position, at first we thought it was a plane, then we realized it was too low for it to be a plane.

We assumed it to be a helicopter, then when we were underneath and to the right of it, we pulled over and it was absolutely silent. It had red and white flashing lights and since it was dark all I can say is that it had a triangular shape over all.

Finally, as if it spotted us, it flew away, also silently and eventually turned off the brighter lights. It looked as though it was going to turn around but then stopped and hovered in a different location.

My husband and I were the only ones who spotted it so far since there are no other reports;

I am a civil engineer student and he is an artist, we both work as servers/bartenders/part-time managers.

We were too shocked to take any photos unfortunately.

Posted 2014-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92321
Occurred: 2012-08-30 18:39 Local
Reported: 2012-08-30 19:50 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Disk


This aircraft was making maneuvers that are not physically possible by any known aircraft in all the militaries of the world.

It was foggy out, in the bay in the late summer early fall, the fog literally rolls right over the bay. It was late after-noon early evening. The craft was blackish/greyish, with a glossy or shine to it. It was circular disk shaped, it was doing aerobatics, it seemed to be playing around. The craft was very agile, turning very quickly,swiftly and gracefully. It than proceeded to flip around or barrel rolled diagonally very sharply, it flipped around in different positions 3 times, i drew out a diagram and the directions of which it was conducting its aerobatics. it continued flying at a complete vertical up and down angle before disappearing back into the fog.

Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86187
Occurred: 2011-12-31 18:30 Local
Reported: 2011-12-31 20:44 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Triangular and two-light formations seen over the California Bay Area.

I was at the top of a hill that you could see the whole bay from and I looked to my side a little and I saw these two really bright, big lights staying still and equidistant in the sky. They were larger than stars, light yellow, and they were not blinking and just as my boyfriend made a joke about it being a UFO, a third, even brighter one appeared--and by "appeared," I mean it was just all of a sudden there--over those two and made a perfect triangle.

And they stayed like that, perfectly still, for about two or three minutes before they began to spin and rotate kinda slowly. I think they were maintaining their perfect triangle shape but the shape seemed to morph as it spun in the sky.

And then one of them shot off to the right and disappeared and it was just two that were sort of orbiting each other. They stayed like that for a while and then another floated over and took its place and it continued like this for like 15 minutes until they all floated away from one another and eventually faded away.

We decided to keep walking while keeping our eyes on it but we eventually lost sight. Then a couple minutes later we saw the same thing a few miles over. As we were walking further down the road we saw the same thing again even further over, again.

We never saw two of these formations at once so we can't say how many there actually were, but we did see a formation in various, distinctly different spots within a very short amount of time. We then decided to go get some food. We were in there for about half an hour to forty-five minutes and when we came out, we saw another two-light formation over the parking lot.

We watched it for about a minute before going to the other side of the plaza, which obscured our view. The store we were meaning to go to was closed, though, so we headed back around.

By the time we got back, the lights had completely vanished. It only took about a minute and a half. The last formation we saw was another two! -lighter over the bay before we went in the house.

The lights did not blink like most aircraft; sometimes they did not even move--just hovered, stationary, above the city in a perfect triangle. There seemed to always be a main "tip" of the triangle that the whole formation rotated around. This one was always the brightest.

Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86188
Occurred: 2011-12-31 17:30 Local
Reported: 2011-12-31 20:50 Pacific
Duration: Several hours
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby, Electrical or magnetic effects

Dancing triangular light formations over California Bay Area

Me and my girlfriend were walking around in the El Cerrito hills, admiring the bay from the high vantage point. While admiring some of the houses around us, we noticed a pair of lights hanging next to each other in the air over Berkeley (north of our position).

Right as I was joking that the lights must've been spacecraft, a third light appeared above the other two, forming a perfect triangle.

We sat and watched as the lights very gradually moved around in formation, occasionally hanging in the same spot for minutes at a time, and then rearranging position. After a while, the lights appeared to fly off over the bay, only to return again from seemingly nowhere.

We attempted to photograph the lights with our phones several times to no avail. The cameras in our phones were just too weak to make out the relatively minute dots of light in the sky.

After the lights had finally faded completely, we began to walk down toward the El Cerrito plaza, only to see the lights again several degrees east of where we'd seen them before. The lights continued their dance in the sky throughout our walk from the hills to the plaza (20~ minutes). The lights presumably were still there when we went into the shops at the plaza at around 18:15.

At around 19:00, we noticed the triangular lights again, this time over Richmond (south of our position). We watched them sit completely still from several minutes, and then continued to the store to buy New Year's supplies. When we came out from the shop moments later (it as closed early for New Year's) the lights had completely disappeared from the skyline.

After witnessing the event, there were occasional (possibly coincidental) issues with our television and phone signals.

Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75491
Occurred: 2010-05-19 03:00 Local
Reported: 2010-05-21 15:32 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: EL Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

An odd black triangle shaped craft with other unknown crafts slowly difted pass our house

At 3:02am on May 19, 2010, me and my friend woke up from hearing a low, odd sound outside our window. When we both looked out, we saw a strange black triangle shape craft flying slow in the sky above our house. It had three white lights on each of the corners and a big red light in the middle that flashed in a slow pattern. I looked through binoculars and saw another small tiny shape that looked exactly like the black traingle except it glowed with all red lights. It looked like it was following the big triangle on the right side of it. We also thought we saw another white orb/craft that was also following it on the left side. It made a low, sound that sounded nothing like an airplane - almost quieter. These three crafts were moving and curving very slowly. Then, suddenly, they all simultaneously zoomed quickly out of our sight.



Posted 2010-06-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 60419
Occurred: 2007-12-15 18:15 Local
Reported: 2007-12-16 21:31 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Rotating dics-like object with raised dome center over El Cerrito, CA on 12/15/2007

I saw a flying saucer which flew and hovered over Richmond, CA on Saturday December 15th, 2007, around 6 or 6:30pm.

I was driving on Interestate 80 from Emeryvilee, CA to el Cerrito, CA, and while I was on the freeway, I saw a strange object in the sky moving from west to east.

It suddenly stopped and remained stationary, just hovering in the same spot for about one or two minutes and that's when I saw that it was a flying saucer. It looked like a stereotypical flying saucer from a 1950s movie. A rotating disc with a raised dome in the center.

Part of the dics was lit and I could see the lit portion everytime it rotated. It also appeared to have a central light on top of the raised dome.

I was trying to take a picture of it with my cell phone, but it was too difficult to do while driving on the freeway at 70mph.

I exited the freeway in El Cerrito, but by the time I parked the car, the object was gone.

As soon as I got home, I searched the news and googled 'UFO sightings in Bay Area', but didn't see anything related to what I'd just seen. So, I posted a rant on craigslist and about 8 people re-posted saying that they saw it too.

One guy SAID he was a scientists and said that we shouldn't be freaked out about it, stating that we're just one tiny planet in a universe full of solar systems and galaxies, and that we're probably not alone.

Another person re-posted and provided the NUFO Reporting Center website.

Anyway, I'm 100% serious, this is not joke, I saw a UFO.

Actually, it wasn't a UFO, because I was able to identify it - it was a flying saucer!!!!!

I'd estimate that it was flying about 1500 feet above the ground.

Posted 2008-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22337
Occurred: 2002-03-25 22:20 Local
Reported: 2002-03-25 22:47 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

green light of varying intensity, speed and direction

One blue-green light of varying intensity--most of the time a faint greenish color, but occassionally becoming bright like one of those glow sticks, was moving about in the sky. It was approximately 30 degrees above the horizon. I had no ability to judge its distance from me, so it was impossible to say whether it was a small object within 1000 yards or miles away. It finally dipped below the treeline out of sight. My elevation was approximately 420 ft above sea level, and the hills occluding the object were higher elevation than myself.

Its movement was odd--varying in direction and speed. There was little wind where I was standing, at the park on the corner of Barrett Avenue, a block down the hill from Monta Vista.

Posted 2002-04-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 155
Occurred: 1995-02-12 21:00 Local
Reported: 1995-02-12 00:00 Pacific
Duration:


Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51868
Occurred: 1967-06-01 14:00 Local
Reported: 2006-08-03 00:36 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


My wife and I saw a flying saucer, which was at about 2000 ft. sitting still. It was oval shape, silver, and looked like something you would see if you put two coffee saucers together. It was a clear day and good visibility. We were driving when I noticed it and by the time that I pulled over to observe it, it was gone.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50277
Occurred: 1964-01-10 20:00 Local
Reported: 2006-04-24 20:44 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cerrito (over Old Berkeley dump), CA, USA

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

bal of fire in the sky no reported air crashes that night(unexplained)

My cousin said she saw points of light then the ball of fire..I saw the ball of fire when we walked upstairs, the huge ball of fire caught my eye and we couldnt believe our eyes we called the police. it was a huge mass of fire in a ball formation and then suddenly disappeared in to thin air.

We told my Aunt ((name deleted)) my cousins mom ...she was watching "Peyton Place " an old night time soap so what ever time that used to come on she was watching it in the dark. so the light was very visible...we both saw it.

Later on that month a man from the military or somewhere went to harding school in El cerrito and told us they have seen UFO activity over Albany Hill...Which is next to the old Berkeley dump right where Id seen the ball of fire in the sky.

Thank you for your time and listening.

Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17550
Occurred: 1954-06-01 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-05-08 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA

Shape: Light


It was a Sunday evening and must have been in November of Decemberme to Berkeley because it was dark and I needed to be in Berkeley for a youth church meeting. My route took me south on Pomona three blocks to Eureka and I turned left on Eureka to go up the slight incline to Colusa which would take me to As I came up to the intersection of Eureka and Colusa, I looked up and noticed two large stret he horizon. Having lived int he area all my like, I noticed the two lights were close together, and in strange place close to the hill horizon. I stopped to wat5ch and noticed that the lights began moving upward, together. The moved off into the night sky at a 45° angle and when they had reatched a place high in the sky, I suddenly noticed that there were about 6 - 8 little star like lights dartging about in the sky behind the double ligthts. I was absolutely fascinated. asuddenly, all the little lights sped toward the two big lights and went in the lights. I concluded the two lights were a mother ship and the little UFOs went into the mother ship. when I told about my experience at JC, another young womans siad she saw the same thing. She lived in El Sobrante which is about 10 miles north of El Cerrito.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date. Source is anonymous. PD


Posted 2001-08-05