NUFORC UFO Sighting 166146
Occurred: 2021-12-30 16:52 Local
Reported: 2022-01-02 20:50 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Elk, CA, USA
Location details: Shooting Sunset over Pacific. 450ft elevation 1000ft from the ocean

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was shooting multiple shots of the sunset, last night I was scanning through them and saw an anomaly go up,down, and up again.

After spotting the anomaly in 8 pix I blew up the photos, revealing groups of lights. Thought maybe a 2 stage missile, but the arrangement of the light spots did not look like any missile motor nozzle arrangement. And there were no contrails. The anomaly just showed up and disappeared over 2 minutes. So examining the close up of the anomaly, there are a few frames that the light arrangement looks different. The anomaly showed up in the photo, went up vertically , maybe 15-20 miles offshore, then back down, then up again and a couple of zig zags and disappeared. I have seen Vandenburg's launches, and this was different. Backlit, I would have seen a ship or sub launch, and this would have been a Large Rocket, so sub, ship or platform was not possible. No aircraft in the sky, and I dont know of any aircraft dropping 2 stage missiles. It was a UFO. I did not notice it live, but 2 days later scanning through photos. (Our sunsets are very pretty, so when it is clear I am shooting.). After blowing up the anomaly it does not look man made. The pictures were taken with a Samsung S7+ tablet, on an open hillside on our property. Not through a window. This was not a flare or reflection. The video is me shuttling through the 8 pictures, back and forth. I have never witnessed a UFO previously, I have seen rockets and high altitude balloons, this was neither. Pix taken 39.185203552246094, -123.75308227539062

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Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 122317
Occurred: 2015-09-27 03:00 Local
Reported: 2015-09-27 13:43 Pacific
Duration: ~2 hours
No of observers: 4

Location: Elk, WA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted

me and a few buddies stepped out on our portch at about 3 am. for a cigarette on September 27, 2015. right away not too far in the distance. I bright light appeared to be hovering 500 feet above the ground. we noticed it a bright white light at first and we could tell it was spinning. we notices random flashes of tiny light appear and disappear all around the craft. after a couple minute we would see it make slight movements to the right and left. we had the idea to shine a flash light at it. immediately after flashing the light the aircraft began changing color and stopped spinning. we all thought it was focusing on us. we notice it slightly coming closer to us foot at a time. we watched this hovering craft for an hour and a half before we couldn't bare the coldness anymore. I have never seen anything like this is my life. I've always heard stories about UFO sighting but I've never put much care into it... whatever we saw last night, saw us to. when the craft floated closer we felt a different presence in the air. a heavier feeling. A shop light on front of my friends garage flickered off for a few seconds and flickered back on when the craft started slowly getting farther away. I was terrified but something about this thing in the sky had all of us drawn in. the horses in our field were acting up and getting scared. i think somebody needs to check this out

Posted 2015-09-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117460
Occurred: 2015-02-23 21:57 Local
Reported: 2015-02-23 22:10 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elk, WA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Fireball Heading North In Elk, Washington.

Seen fireball heading North, huge broken in lots of pieces, lasted for about a minute and half and half to 2 minutes. Never seen anything like it.




NUFORC Note:

Re-entering Chinese 3rd-stage rocket casing. PD


Posted 2015-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 91947
Occurred: 2012-08-18 21:00 Local
Reported: 2012-08-18 22:48 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elk, WA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Eight very bright red orbs in Northeastern sky in verticle formation.

At about 21:00 I witnessed 8 red shining orbs in the Northeastern sky. They were verticle and appeared to be about 2 to 3 miles from my location. They were from maybe 500 feet off the ground to about 1/2 mile in a line formation from top to bottom.

They moved just slightly to the left or right. Then they started to dissappear, first 3 were gone instantly. 5 were left for a few more minutes then 3 more dissappeared which left the 2 lowest ones. The sky had a few thin clouds nearer the ground and bright stars in the night sky covered the area.

This was in Eastern Washington near the town of Elk. The red light was very bright and large. Had a camera but couldn't get the flash off so the pictures did not turn out.




NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with this individual, and she sounded to us to be quite eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that she is a skilled and reliable witness. PD


Posted 2012-08-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75940
Occurred: 2010-06-25 10:22 Local
Reported: 2010-06-25 23:11 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Elk, AK, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object

Odd brightly lit object object observed silently flying in a wavering flight path.west to east in eastern Washington state.

I ran to the truck to grab a manual for my Jeep. When I was returning to the house I saw what I thought to be a very bright shooting star. I immediately noticed that it was moving to slow for a shooting star and it did not change in light intensity, nor did it have the normal streak behind it. I watched the object move from west to east, I know this as I am familiar with the layout of my parents property. I watched this light for several seconds and determined it was not a plane due to fact that the light was not unidirectional, as would be the case if it were a plane or helicopter. I called to my nephew who was inside and asked him if he wanted to see something weird.

We both observed the light/object as it continued towards the east.

After a few moments he ran inside to tell his mom, my sister, to come out and look at what was in the sky. I explained that it was weird because there were no flashing port or starboard lights. The flight speed and altitude was also odd as it seemed to be drifting and did not appear to follow a straight path.

I thought that it could possibly be a satellite but due to its brightness and low elevation have considered otherwise. I doubt that it was a small plane as there was no prop noise. The object continued to the east until it disappeared behind the horizon.

Posted 2010-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106934
Occurred: 2004-05-01 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-02-04 20:12 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elk, WA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted

Triangles and helicopters give chase

In the early summer or late spring in 2004, east of Elk, Washington, myself and another witnessed two triangle craft, closely followed by dark hellicopters in pursuit. The sighting occurred as it was getting dark in a wooded, acreage-residential area on Bridges rd. The property was a couple of acres of clearing surrounded by stand of trees approx 30 ft tall. The sighting and later occurrences still to this day bother me.

Stepping out of the residence, facing what I believe to have been due North, a really distinct silence fell over the area. No insects, dogs or any sound (very unusual many dogs and insects), the silence actually felt strange and was largely indescribable.

I stopped and began looking around, right above the treeline to our right (East), probably within 100ft, was a black triangle with lights (not beams just small lights). It was moving very slow, just barely clearing the tree tops. So slow actually, that it should have fallen right out of the sky, it made absolutely no sound, there was absolutely no sound, period! It was dark in color and had various lights, almost airplane like, except none flashing. I cannot recall the exact color of lights that were present but they were multicolored, perhaps red, white and orange.

I excitedly exclaimed to my friend to LOOK! He exclaimed various swear words and amazement. As I glanced at him I noticed that he was not looking in the same direction, as I followed his gaze I realised that there was another craft dead ahead, slightly further away. Both were headed North excessively slowly with no variation in course and appeared to maintain continuous distance apart. We watched them until they were out of sight.

I can't remember if all of the local dogs were barking before the silence, but after the craft were out of sight and the silence was gone, it was as if someone turned the mute button off and all the local dogs went nuts. The insects of course were making noise everywhere also.

Right as we began debating whether this could have been military aircraft, the roaring roters of multiple helicopters (not sure how many, at least 2 or 3) came in low, just screaming, headed dead on in the direction of the craft. It was incredibly loud and certainly everyone around heard it. If all speeds and directions of the parties were maintained they would have caught up quickly.

I have spent time in Guam, Hawaii and Pensacola where there is a very large navy aircraft presence. I have even seen a Stealth Bomber in broad daylight before they were generally allowed to be viewed (when Korea was lobbing missles in Japan's vacinity). I have been around constant helicopter and hornet fighter traffic, I currently live in predator drone testing grounds and have been seeing those for years, saw one land recently (they make noise). I have never seen anything like what we saw, especially the silence, every fiber of your being tells you something is wrong when the world shuts off like that.

I have never seen helicopters pushed as hard as that day either, I was afraid for the pilots. Furthermore, I have common sense and understand general physics... at least as we know them.

A couple of side notes. I developed a nodule on my thyroid soon after the experience and I believe it to be related. I would not approach or watch these things too long. Furthermore, there were creepy occurences at the residence there for sometime after and maybe even still. (Sorry for any butchery I have no spellcheck)



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2014-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12472
Occurred: 2000-03-27 23:20 Local
Reported: 2000-03-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 hrs.
No of observers: 2

Location: Elk (approximately 15 miles south of Mendocino), CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Sighting of a pattern of lights which changed from greenish blue to red over the Coast of Mendocino.

While gazing westwardly out the window of our ocean front room at a Bed and Breakfast Inn, I saw a light which at first I thought was a bright star, but it changed color from a blueish green to red to white in no particular sequence. This light would move irratically and quickly, sometimes in a small circular pattern and sometimes in giggly movements and at other times either upward or to the right or left in graceful sweeping motions. After about 20 minutes I woke up my wife to see if she could see what I saw. By this time the light moved toward the north west. As she looked at it she spotted three more of these light to the left of the one I first saw. These other three formed a triangle. Within the triangle we could see specks of intense red light moving about. As we continued to watch the first light, we saw off shoots of light that came from it, some shooting upward and others dropping to the surface of the ocean. These off shoots would eventually disappear. One such off shoot appeared to hover above the surface of the ocean for a couple of seconds, then moved northerly. We watched this for about an hour and a half until our eyes got strained and tired. We are both college educated professionals. We discussed at length what these lights could have been, but we have come to the conclusion that they were unidentified flying objects.

Posted 2000-04-01