NUFORC UFO Sighting 189620
Occurred: 2025-05-13 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-05-14 20:37 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Color: Bright light, grey
Estimated Size: Large plane
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 20,000 feet up overhead
Estimated Speed: Plane speed
Explanation: Aircraft - Possible
Characteristics: Changed Color, Made a sound

Craft shifted from orb of light to unmarked airplane that flew overhead

Looked in the distance and saw a bright orb of light reflecting in the clouds. The light came out of the cloud by moving directly towards the left and then kind of slowly moved towards us, shifting from an orb of glowing light into a completely unmarked plain grey plane that flew overhead. One of the witnesses is very savvy with planes and aircraft, and was unsure what the plane was, having seen nothing like it and was confused by the way it moved.

Posted 2025-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 187763
Occurred: 2025-02-16 18:20 Local
Reported: 2025-02-17 01:12 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Folsom, CA, USA
Location details: Moving west to east above historic Folsom

Shape: Other
Color: Pure black
Estimated Size: 4ft wide x 4ft depth x 10ft high
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Object was north of viewers. Moving west to east above river
Angle of Elevation: 81
Closest Distance: 400ft
Estimated Speed: 50mph


Imperfect rectangle, possibly vertically long pentagram moving spotted above old folsom

Multiple bystanders viewed a dark black object steadily moving across the clear sky above historic Folsom. Object was altitude of birds but moving at a steady pace and misshapen rectangular/ possibly pentagram. Confirmed it was clearly something very different and moving at a steady pace.

Posted 2025-02-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182319
Occurred: 2024-07-17 20:25 Local
Reported: 2024-07-17 20:48 Pacific
Duration: Around a minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Color: grey w/ white light
Estimated Size: No idea
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 300° Northwest
Angle of Elevation: 35
Closest Distance: 20 miles
Estimated Speed: 20-35 mph
Explanation: Drone - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was sitting on my porch with my mom and I looked up to see a grey circle with a bright white spot in the middle flying by

We were sitting on our phones and I looked up to see this thing flying by pretty far away at a decent speed. When I first saw it, it looked like a circle with a glowing white part in the middle, but it then rotated and looked like what you would expect from viewing a greyish black disk from the side. I then said to my mom, who is a full believer, “is that a ufo?” She immediately jumped up and when I pointed it out she agreed it didn’t look like anything she’s seen before. It was pretty far off in the distance, and I watched it pass behind a pine tree across the street, come out the other side and then keep flying further into the distance. It was definitely not a plane or helicopter, as a skeptic myself I would say it was a drone, but I have never seen a drone fly that fast, high, far, or resemble this object.

Posted 2024-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178484
Occurred: 2023-09-28 20:50 Local
Reported: 2023-09-29 09:43 Pacific
Duration: 30-1 min
No of observers: 3

Location: Folsom/El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
Location details: New home development off of freeway us 50

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Orange orb chased away by airplanes

In the evening three of us were outside smoking and looked up to see an orange orb flying across the sky. It was flying northeast in one direction seemingly above the house line in the distance but closer than the red flashing aviation ground poles on the hills in the distance. It was flying straight until an airplane started going toward it's direction. At that point the orb turned at about a 45 degree angle and dimmed away into the distance directly away from the airplane and us and disappeared in a matter of seconds. After that we saw about 30 airplanes heading in that direction but we live near two airports a private local one and one air force base within a 30 mile radius. We always see Cessna planes and jets but this was decidedly different. Every other flying object we've seen we can also hear before they're in eyesight and well after they're out of sight, but before the other planes showed up, we heard nothing. The orb was silent the entire time it was observed.

Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 177629
Occurred: 2023-07-16 22:00 Local
Reported: 2023-08-15 23:13 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, NM, USA
Location details: US 64W between Folsom and Capulin NM

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Massive rectangular UFO/UAP, like a flying skyscraper that passes over our car and vanishes. It was unlike anything i could imagine

Driving west on US 64 from Folsom Capulin NM where it’s a Bortle 1 and at the time around the new moon and I noticed a fuzzy finger like object that wasn’t supposed to be there in the sky, Northwest of us. I pointed it out to my mother who was driving and as it got closer at first I thought it to be starlink and even said so to my mother, but then it kept getting closer and closer until almost right in front of us in the sky. A huge rectangular object standing straight up like a building. It had red lights that ran down the middle, the body a type of green with rectangles on either side of the red lights which were also a similar shade of green. Along the sides between the rectangular areas and at the base and tip of the object were little yellow type lights. I was in such shock and had a small flicker of fear that I couldn’t take my eyes and mind from it long enough to take more pics and video it with my phone but it happened so fast and had thought it starlink. As it passed over top our car I looked out the sunroof and to my surprise it was now laying flat, parallel to the ground and was rapidly vanishing from front to back as if cloaking. It made no sound, had no signs of anything pushing or pulling it along. I’ve also including a screen shot from a report on this site of an incident that happened the same night, within minutes of when I first saw it, and this 11 year old girl drew a picture that I swear is the same thing in her drawing. Almost seamed like something from Transformers movies and cartoons, but different. In her drawing you can see the red lights in the middle, the green body with the rectangles and even the ends where the yellow lights were and they said it vanished and the drawing shows it in the same position it was in when i saw it vanish. Included is also my pic from when I first saw it and also a zoomed in pic that you can zoom in on more and start to make out the red lights in middle. I’ve thought I’ve seen UFO/UAP before in my life, but this was on an entirely different level that I can’t explain.










Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170821
Occurred: 2022-07-23 23:03 Local
Reported: 2022-07-31 09:34 Pacific
Duration: 2-4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: folsom, LA, USA
Location details: approx 3 miles south of folsom, object was traveling west

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Saw an object disappear and instantly reappear further away multiple times, got closer and saw that it was a delta with 3 lights.

At approximately 11:03 pm on Saturday July 23rd, my wife and I were returning from the gym in Folsom to our home. While southbound on hwy 25, my wife remarked on an object that appeared at first to be a star, but said it was moving very fast and asked "what is that?"

Looking through the windshield I observed what appeared to be the same object, and thought it possessed the physical appearance of a bright star. It was moving westward, and seemed to be bouncing up and down, and would disappear and reappear further away. There were a few times where the object seemed to fade out of one place and appear far away at the same instant. The light appeared to blinking in a somewhat rhythmic fashion, gradually dimming out completely and then reappearing further away at a rate of one blink every two seconds.

While watching it I judged it at first to be extremely far away, but noticed that it appeared to be moving in a manner that would be consistent with a lower altitude (the object appeared over our heads as we drove underneath it, and it seemed to get higher as we got closer), and I would say it was around 200-400m high. From there I would say we noticed it about one to two miles away.

After judging it to be fairly close, it went behind a treeline. We continued straight down the highway, and we both became excited asking each other what we thought it was. When we got underneath where it appeared to pass, I rolled the window down and looked out west. I saw, very clearly, three bright lights in a tight triangle. It appeared to be directly over a field and someones home. The color of the light had changed to a more blue/LED color, but was still pulsing at the same rate as the other light. It did not disappear and reappear at this time. It dimmed and grew in intensity but remained visible. I looked around for any other lights but did not see any. The triangle shape of the lights was very apparent. We continued down the highway at speed and I quickly lost sight. The encounter lasted 2-4 minutes.
After this we were so astonished that we passed up our home. I checked the clock to verify the time, and turned around several miles down the road and returned home. On our driveway, we stopped to observe another very bright light that was behaving very differently. It passed overhead at which point we could tell it was definitely a jet plane. It was very loud and bright, and we could make out the green and red position lights. The other object made no sound, was not as bright, had no color position lights, and was fading in and out and constantly changing its flight path. The jet was on a static course. The object seemed to be on a carousel.

I am a 27 years old controls electrician. I install and program Siemens controls products. I do not drink or take drugs and have never claimed to have seen strange things. I am a very skeptical person, and am not religeous. I do not know what I saw, and am very interested to hear if anyone else saw anything that night.

My wife is 30 years old and has her Bachelors degree in applied nursing sciences. She is also a very skeptical person who does not drink or take drugs and is not given to fanciful ideas. She does not like to talk about the sighting.

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174938
Occurred: 2022-07-16 15:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-03-08 18:21 Pacific
Duration: For about 5 min.
No of observers: 0

Location: Folsom, CA, USA
Location details: Lake Natoma in Folsom CA. Young Wo circle.. PADDEL boarding in the waters in the coves.

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Shiny chrome,very fast and moved in every direction with easy.

There were 6 shiny orbs, like chrome tic-tacs flying in formation but in a box like formation, one of these chrome objects would break formation and take off and backwards for a few seconds then come back and perform moves in every direction like it was nothing. They would all take turns doing this, and at speeds I've never seen before, in every direction. And I think they were following a jet airliner that had past over me about 5 minutes earlier. These chrome shiney orbs could have caught the jet air liner with out hesitation. And then with a blink of my eyes they were gone in the cloud cover to there left.

Posted 2023-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167432
Occurred: 2022-04-04 18:15 Local
Reported: 2022-04-09 14:31 Pacific
Duration: I was on a plane
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA
Location details: I was on a plane flying over Folsom

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I was flying over Folsom from Sacramento to Vegas and saw a pill shaped dark grey object suspended in the air that did not move.

I was leaving from Sacramento Airport to Vegas Airport on April 4th. The flight took off around 6 and I was over Folsom lake I approximate around 6:15 to 6:30. There was a dark gray pill/ cigar shaped object suspended vertically with the round part facing up towards the sky. The object was not moving and was stationary the entire time. I approximate it was 3/4 the distance from the ground to where the airplane was. It was in my focus for about 30 seconds as the plane flew over it. It never moved and did not have any lights.

Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166690
Occurred: 2022-02-11 15:16 Local
Reported: 2022-02-11 18:26 Pacific
Duration: 2-3seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Filming a T-38 in flight and saw a UFO in the video

I was filming a T-38 on its approach to land at Mather Airfield and I noticed an object that flew into frame rather fast. I’ve lived near this airfield for 30 years, even when it was an Airforce base and have never seen any aircraft come close to another aircraft. When I slowed the video down to watch frame by frame, I noticed that it did not look like any other aircraft I’ve ever seen. It was spherical in shape and had some sort of vapor coming out of the back of the craft. As it moved forward the vapor seemed to move from the rear to the sides. It was also flying faster than most aircraft I’ve seen in the area. It was dark metallic looking (from what I could tell) however at on point light seemed to reflect off of it. It vanished just as quickly as it showed up.
















Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164444
Occurred: 2021-08-11 22:00 Local
Reported: 2021-08-26 19:13 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Colorful disk appears in Northern California.

Driving home on hwy 50 towards El dorado hills, around 10pm. We noticed a tall office building. It looked like 80 windows with silver metallic covers that were rippling. Then the windows turned metallic pink. Then all of the sudden it turned into a ufo disk. Vibrant colors. It was hovering. Then it became bigger. Then the UFO started having rings come down. I snapped pictures, until we passed it. People were slamming on their brakes. That's when I called 911. The next day, my daughter told me it was an Intel drone. The day prior to this I was reading about someone on TikTok? Was claiming to be from the future and wanted to warn us about aliens coming to earth on Aug 11th.



Posted 2021-09-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162035
Occurred: 2021-02-14 06:57 Local
Reported: 2021-02-14 17:09 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Folsom, PA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Two UFO’s reported in pa

At 6:57 pm est i video recorded two glowing fireballs flying @1600’ right behind one another, with constant speed 300mph right behind each other in the same pattern. Never changing altitude or course very straight in the flight pattern. We watched until they disappeared in the clouds i checked with my phones siri to check on flights above me and nothing was scheduled. As a drone pilot these made no noise and am very familiar with drones and flights of them. This was not two drone flying the same flight pattern and speed and direction impossible.



Posted 2021-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160456
Occurred: 2020-11-06 18:20 Local
Reported: 2020-11-06 19:07 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Seven consecutive noiseless, extremely high altitude.single file in north easterly direction. First four approximately 20 seconds apart, a little longer for last three. Maybe 30 seconds apart.

Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160311
Occurred: 2020-10-31 06:55 Local
Reported: 2020-10-31 16:14 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: folsom, PA, USA

Shape: Circle


I was walking across the street and I notice a orange UFO moving slowly across the sky then it disappeared

Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149087
Occurred: 2019-09-21 22:16 Local
Reported: 2019-09-22 09:20 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, PA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large orange sphere-shaped object slowly moved across the sky from the NW to NE in Pennsylvania

We were sitting in our yard as we frequently do on weekends. We like to watch for satellites, the ISS, etc., and have seen these plenty of times and are very familiar with them.

At 22:17 (10:17 PM ET) we saw this orange light appear from the NW sky and it moved slowly across the sky to the NE and then disappeared as it reached a certain point in the distance, much like a satellite does. However, unlike a satellite or the ISS, this object was much larger, approx. the size of a dime held at arm's length and it was orange like fire, but was not a fireball. It was bigger than any airplane lights and there were no flashing lights. It was just a solid orange light and it was silent. It took around two minutes to move across the sky.

Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147916
Occurred: 2019-07-30 00:00 Local
Reported: 2019-07-30 01:42 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

Large triangular object hovering slowly over highway 50 with red and white flashing lights on the corners.

Driving eastbound highway 50 my wife and I noticed strobing lights in the sky. As we approached we noticed the lights were strobing red and white. The Largest one was hovering about 500 ft. in altitude and moving at a very slow speed. We noticed it was a triangle as it hovered over us. There was a bright white light on the front and small red and white flashing lights on the two outside corners. Previously have seen same shape in area in a previous occasion.

Posted 2019-08-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137226
Occurred: 2017-11-10 22:45 Local
Reported: 2017-11-12 10:09 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


V-shaped object with no lights moving Silently over the town of Folsom.

On November 10th, at approximately 22:45 hours, I was looking up into the night sky, while talking to someone who was in a elevated position. As I was talking to them, I noticed a dark shadow move over their head. I focused my attention into the object and observed a large triangle object, moving in a southernly direction. The object was approximately 2500 feet about the ground moving at a slow pace. The object had no lights or markings and was about the size of a football field and blended into the night sky. The area I was standing in was lit up with powerful night time lighting and the light was reflecting off the metal material of the object. As I watched the object it was moving in a slow manner in a southernly direction. The thing that was the most amazing was that the object made no sound at all.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report describes himself as a public employee. PD


Posted 2017-11-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143989
Occurred: 2017-06-18 18:30 Local
Reported: 2018-12-07 13:43 Pacific
Duration: ?
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Disk


Something showed up in old picture

Hi Peter, I'm not sure what to do with this and although I'm a member of MUFON, you've always been my "go to" guy.

My husband and I were coming down hi-way 50 on 6-18-17 returning home to Lincoln, from Tahoe and I had my camera with me. I like to take shots of cloud formations and we had some clouds rolling through with all the pretty colors. Not sure what time it was but I'm guessing towards sunset and I believe we were around the Prairie City Rd. exit. I snapped some pix and decided to look at them later. The weather was beautiful that day. A few clouds but no rain in Tahoe or in the valley. At some point after that I checked them out and they were in my "gallery". All the pix are less than 1" square and I didn't look closely at any of them.

Two weeks ago, I was going through the gallery pix, deciding which ones to keep and I came across this one. I did not see this object or whatever it is at the time I took it. I do remember when I took it because it was my late mother's birthday and if I had seen it at the time, I would have showed it to my husband.

I don't know if you remember, but I emailed you or maybe wrote an account of possibly taking a photo of a ufo, it was pink/purple colored football shaped object and I immediately showed my husband and got all excited about it. I'm not very good at the tech stuff and couldn't figure out how to send you the picture. Turns out it was something on the window as the next time we went somewhere, I wanted to double check it and the same thing happened so I discarded it. I also sent in the account dating back to 1960 with my twin brother's experience.

I've taken a picture of the picture on my phone, I'm determined if nothing, and that's how I'm able to send it now. My phone is a Samsung 4G LTE and my camera is a Canon ELPH 350 HS Powershot. Oh, and my husband is a huge skeptic and when he saw this, he was amazed and told me I needed to send it to someone. Of course, my first thought was you.

I know you are a busy man but when you get the chance could you please take a look and get back to me with any thoughts. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Posted 2018-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132824
Occurred: 2017-02-27 18:11 Local
Reported: 2017-02-27 21:43 Pacific
Duration: 30-60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Orange light seen.

I was driving east bound Highway 50 just before sunset, to my 10'oclock I noticed an orange light about 30 deg above horizon. It seemed odd to me due to the color of the light being orange. I noticed that there was a dark spherical object that the light was on. I thought it may have been a helicopter or plane since it was near the flight path for Mather Field. There were no FAA lights on the object.

As the object came closer I kept looking to see if it was a helicopter, but still looked spherical as it passed over me. It seemed to be flying in the direction of Mather Field from the area of the Intel building in Folsom.

The lights were orange and I could not see any green, red or strobe lights that would indicate FAA regulated lights. I saw no wings or propellers. The object stayed spherical in shape.

Please feel free to contact me if needed.

Posted 2017-03-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 126706
Occurred: 2016-04-02 22:30 Local
Reported: 2016-04-03 14:16 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Craft visible by 2 very bright lights and high speed 45 degree angle to earth disappears

My friend and I were coming home it was around 10:30p. We’re driving along and out her front windshield we see what we thought was a shooting star come into view going left to right, but it lasted too long and is was too bright and going extremely fast. It was shooting down at a steep angle, 45 degrees. Then I can see 2 lights on it not just 1 and realize it's not a shooting star but a plane or something that is going to crash. Then it disappeared in less than a second. There were no clouds in the sky infact there were stars out.



Posted 2016-04-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123708
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:15 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:33 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

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

Saw a light followed by fire. then changed from fire to light, then a blurry line.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119401
Occurred: 2015-06-05 20:30 Local
Reported: 2015-06-07 20:05 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Orb


Was driving down towards highway 50 right after a lightning storm and noticed these two objects orbiting each other near a break in the clouds.

I pulled over into a parking lot, got out of my car and took 1 photo before the objects disappeared.

I was just about to shoot a video, but they were gone as soon as I started to record.

The entire event lasted approx 1 minute.

Posted 2015-06-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117026
Occurred: 2015-01-28 19:55 Local
Reported: 2015-01-28 20:04 Pacific
Duration: still there
No of observers: 3

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

There is a very vibrant multi colored light. Changes between red, blue, white, green, voilet, purple, orange, and yellow.

Posted 2015-01-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116564
Occurred: 2015-01-07 01:00 Local
Reported: 2015-01-08 12:17 Pacific
Duration: until sunrise
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

I've been watching crafts with multi-color lights pose in the sky as stars through my telescope since November of 08 every night.

Since November 16th of 2008 I've been watching objects in the sky pose a stars is what it seems. During the same time each night, these objects it seems turn multi color light on which are blue, green, and red and it zig zags and dances around. There is one red light that is on top of all of these objects and looking through a telescope and binoculars it would seem that these so called stars are in our airspace. If its a clear night I can show anyone who would like to see them. The best time is between 7:00-8:45 PM is when the lights are on.

Again, I've been watching these objects every night since 11/16/08. On 11/22/08 a News 10 Sacramento helicopter was covering a high school foot game and try to get close to one of these objects and it got further and further away from the helicopter.

It was since explained a few days later that it was an airplane with lights doing advertising which is not the case. I went online and the video of the helicopter chasing this object has been removed from every site it was on and only a still picture of what they chased is there.

Posted 2015-01-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115372
Occurred: 2014-11-14 22:20 Local
Reported: 2014-11-14 23:20 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Object spotted overhead moving quickly from east to west with three linear non flashing lights.

Enjoying the hot tub with my wife looking up into the very clear night sky and witnessed a moving object never seen before. It had three non-flashing evenly spaced lights in a linear formation moving quickly from east to west.

There was no sound emitted and could not judge the elevation of the object but it was moving quicker than any normal plane would.

Observers are 40 and 50 and would like to think this was not a drone or something similar.

Posted 2014-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113024
Occurred: 2014-08-28 22:30 Local
Reported: 2014-08-29 10:47 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Left a trail

A bright Orange boomerang shaped object disappeared into the sky leaving a distinct blue tail.

The colors were distinct and separate, the trail was bright and sharp, it wasn't a glow, just bright.

Like nothing I've ever seen. It didn't trail down but more so looked like it went off into the sky.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-08-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108008
Occurred: 2014-03-21 21:30 Local
Reported: 2014-03-22 10:11 Pacific
Duration: 1 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Orange light over Folsom, CA.

Bright orange light, much larger than surrounding stars, moving from SE to NW.

Moving about the speed of an airplane, but no noticeabke navigation lights.

Appeared to be a red light revolving on top of or behind the brighter orange glow.

No contrail or smoke trail.

No sound heard, but object appeared to be fairly high up.

Clear, cloudless night.

Posted 2014-03-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101103
Occurred: 2013-08-12 00:45 Local
Reported: 2013-08-12 13:43 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

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

5 lights in a V heading southeast very fast and silently, then lights split going different directions and disappeared

5 faint Lights in a V or Chevron formation with dark figure behind, flying silently at very high speed southeast, then lights split into different directions and disappeared. Had the appearance of gliding




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 94397
Occurred: 2012-11-12 20:00 Local
Reported: 2012-11-12 22:43 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, LA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Gold/yellowish light stops by what might be ufo then I see a circular object fly by with green and red lights

Around 8 pm we walked outside to see something far off in the distance. When I grabbed the binoculars I seen something that was blinking green...red...orange...then repeats. I don't know what that was but then 5 mins later a gold, yellowish ball shot out randomly from the sky and went next to what we thought was a UFO blinking green red and orange...it sat next to it for about 5 seconds then started coming over towards my house.

When it came over my house I looked through the binoculars...I saw a circular object! A green light on the front, a red light on the back and one green light on both sides of the object...then we ran to the front to see and it was too far away. I got a picture but its too small. My dad and sister thought it was a plane...but before that happened two planes flew over us and I know what a plane looks like. This was a ball of a bold gold/yellowish light and it was pretty big... And a plane doesn't stop in the air...it happen to stop rig! ht by what we thought was already a UFO...then when it took off the gold/yellow light was turned off and green and red lights were seen then. And I don't know if those planes I saw were after the object because they were going the opposite direction but the planes came around 2 minutes before the ball of light

Posted 2012-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182247
Occurred: 2011-08-10 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-07-11 05:11 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA
Location details: In the sky over neighborhoods east/southeast of Folsom Heights

Shape: Triangle
Color: Black or dark gray
Estimated Size: 100-300 feet long, difficult to say for certain
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: east/southeast
Angle of Elevation: 65
Closest Distance: 60-100 feet
Estimated Speed: Unsure, but quite fast at first and then very slow
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangular aircraft was spotted 400-800 feet in the sky, eventually following myself and my friend and stopping to hover over the trees

Late at night in 2010 or 2011 my friend and I decided to take a 15 minute walk to grab some soda from the vending machine in front of a local store. We were two 19 year old girls who had spent the night hanging out together.

On our way back to her apartment with our soda, I was looking to the east at the neighborhoods there and the skies above them. I saw a very bright yellow/white light in the skies, I'd guess 400-800 feet above the houses. It was high enough that I thought it might be one of the brightest stars, but upon closer inspection my depth perception allowed me to see that it was much closer than I'd initially thought.

It quickly became evident that the bright light was growing larger and brighter very quickly, and it reminded us of seeing a helicopter's searchlight from a distance without the beam. Just a concentrated point of extremely bright light, like a star.

Eventually it seemed that it wasn't just moving in our general direction, but coming toward us specifically. It was hard to believe that this was happening. We started running to her apartment then. After turning down her street and slowing to catch our breath, we turned around to see that it had followed us the whole way. It was gliding very slowly before stopping and silently hovering just above the neighborhood trees (maybe 50-100 feet above us).

The object was black or dark grey, triangular, and had a single white/yellow light at each point. It was completely silent while in motion and while hovering. It didn't visibly disturb the trees. It really felt like we were being stared at and it felt unsettling.

After a few moments, we ran the short remaining distance up the road and went inside her apartment. We didn't dare to go outside or even look out the windows again that night. I've never seen anything like it before that night or since.

Posted 2024-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82580
Occurred: 2011-07-19 11:40 Local
Reported: 2011-07-19 12:08 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Four white objects in formation over Folsom, CA

They were white and looked like large birds lazily gliding - but the perfect formation was never broken.

While I watched, I saw an odd, experimental looking airplane fly overhead, and by the time I looked back at the formation, they were gone.

I drove back to work, studying the sky and saw two objects, maybe aircraft, flying low on the horizon at the same altitude. I couldn't see more than two, due to nearby trees. Back at work, I saw nothing.

The three objects in formation moved like aircraft in an air show, but their speed seemed too slow to be planes - and the formation was too perfect to be birds, though they seemed to fly like gliding birds.

I wish I had binoculars.





NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides little contact information. PD


Posted 2011-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78846
Occurred: 2010-11-11 01:00 Local
Reported: 2010-11-11 18:29 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright lght with glowing red lights top and bottom changing speed and direction over Folsom

Nov 10th 2010 My brother in law and I just got off work at 12:45 a.m. and where on our way home. We take White Rock to Old Placerville road every night. Like every night I’m on the lookout for strange things in the sky.

Last night we came over the hill and I noticed a bright light with a flashing red light and it was moving slowly east coming right at us. It got over the top of us and it started moving north toward Folsom at a high rate of speed. The top of the craft had a glowing red light as well as the bottom. The middle was lit up with three dull white lights and the middle of the craft was wider so it made it looked saucer shaped. We headed down east Bidwell following it into Folsom. It stopped over the housing project where I live and turned and headed east again. We tried to follow it but it eventually flew off and we lost sight of it.

When I got home at 1:00a.m., my wife was up waiting for me. I asked her if she had herd a helicopter or any planes flying over in the last couple of minutes and she said no. The craft was flying low enough where she would have herd something.

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74292
Occurred: 2010-01-28 20:00 Local
Reported: 2010-02-05 17:59 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, NJ, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Left a trail

reflective object leaves light trail, disappears

As I was driving home I looked up to see what apeared to be a plane without any lights on heading east but only the reflection from the full moon which was behind me. I watched it for about 30 seconds as it traveled at a normal speed for a plane when without warning it instantly accelerated at an alarming rate, left a short dull light trail and disappeared. I have seen my share of meteor showers and I have never seen one change speed, and I dont think that it could have been one simply for the fact of it cruising at a normal speed and then speeding off.

Posted 2010-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67957
Occurred: 2009-01-10 17:30 Local
Reported: 2009-01-10 17:28 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, LA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bluish white light over Folsom LA.

We were traveling North on Hwy 25 and a bluish white light crossed from East to West across the highway. Its movements were somewhat sporadic but intelligent. It did not blink. We could not find a source for the light on the ground.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67045
Occurred: 2008-11-20 19:40 Local
Reported: 2008-11-20 21:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

There was a disk with lights around it spining around itself while moving in the air

Driving on a main street, as I noticed some lights up in the sky. Then I saw that it was a disk with lights moving around itself and moving around itself. It was spinning around and moving away! Crazy




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68633
Occurred: 2008-07-09 22:15 Local
Reported: 2009-02-14 12:24 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

A bright, big circular object over Folsom, California

I was taking out the trash at my job when i looked up in the sky and saw a very bright circular flying object. It was very close to the ground to be a plane and was moving at speeds that were unthinkable. It was brighter than a full moon and about half the size. It flew over me then stopped in mid-air. It waited for 15 seconds, then abruptly moved very fast to the left. It floated for another 10 seconds and then miraculously the light when dark. It vanished just like that.

-Another thing i found odd was i was in a back parking lot with only two cars in it and when the object disappeared both of the car alarms went off without any outside interference.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63227
Occurred: 2008-05-16 21:45 Local
Reported: 2008-05-17 10:52 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Electrical or magnetic effects

Extremely fast, bright light flies then disapears

I was taking the trash out from my job around 9:45 at night, when a bright circle-like object flew above me. It was going very,very fast. Then, all of the sudden, it stopped in mid-air and hovered there. It zipped to the right at an extremely fast speed, which i've never seen any other flying object do!. It hovered again to my right. Then, it just went blank. The light literally just went invisible or teleported. There was nothing there. It vanished in the sky. It didn't fly somewhere, but just went blank. As soon as i saw it, four car alarms next to me went off! There were no people so i found it strange that it did that.



Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55082
Occurred: 2007-01-30 07:30 Local
Reported: 2007-02-02 20:11 Pacific
Duration: 30 secs
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Changed Colo

An object was seen in the night sky like a star, moved slowly then shot up & dissapeared.

I & my stepfather were gazing into the night sky & we saw a moving star we thought it was a shooting star it moved slowly then shot up quickly like a rocket & dissapeared.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-02-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50527
Occurred: 2006-05-11 20:25 Local
Reported: 2006-05-11 22:09 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

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

bright orange object moving across horizon

at 8:25 pm on 5/11, my wife and i were going to a local store in folsom ,ca. my wife noticed a long glowing yellow-orange "slit"looking or "line/disk" looking object towards the west during sunset moving across the horizon heading south. while driving, it appeared to be still. we pulled over and got out of the car to get a better look. it was definitly moving. we watched it for a few minutes, trying to figure out what it was, when it suddenly vanished completely.

im not sure where this object was located exactly, maybe over the bay area or ocean. it was pretty far away. if anyone else seen this or has any information on what it might have been, please let us know!!!!




NUFORC Note:

We wonder whether the witnesses might have been observing a "contrail" behind a high-altitude aircraft, which was being illuminated in the western sky by the setting Sun. Just a guess, since we did not see the display. PD


Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49551
Occurred: 2006-03-11 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-03-12 01:08 Pacific
Duration: 60seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

two hawk shaped objects paceing small jet at high alt. and speed

I was driving and when came to a stop light I looked out of my open window up into the semi puffy wierd cloudy crystal clear blue sky of which i have a slight habit of doing , quite frankly i observe the skys every day, so to say i have a keen eye like a hawk again my sight is highly trained and practiced. well,I quickly spoted a small leer jet type plane at 11:00 position headed north east at about 20,000 ft. just above the cloud level. I was observing the plane mainly for a con-chemtral when i noticed just behind the plane on both ends of the wings of the plane where to hawk shaped objects paceing the plane they where both the same distance behind the plane about a thumbnail length but seemed to be just higher then plane they looked like two souring hawk at high altitude but they flew at the exact same speed as the plane, they and the jet plane flew pretty much right over my head and off to the north going extremely fast I just kept looking and looking saying to myself no no no hawks dont fly at the same speed and hieght of a jet air plane I have been perplexed ever since that bazarre event oh every one in traffic was laughing at me as i pulled myself back through my car window






NUFORC Note:

We have corrected the date above. PD


Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48755
Occurred: 2006-01-17 18:00 Local
Reported: 2006-01-18 17:55 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects

black government triangular shape hovering above Hwy 50 in Sacramento

The craft was triangular in shape and appeared to have three lights fixed at each angle. It was hovering at a stand still over Highway 50 just above the tree line of some large native pine trees and looked to be 2 yards length from the ground. I could'nt believe my eyes as we drove by it and noticed no blinking lights that would portray a personal/commercial aircraft. If I were to guess, it looked to be a one of ours due to the engineering aspest of the craft.

I've spotted E.T UFO's in the past but, this one was somewhat rustic in nature. I say this because there was no discoloration from the lights at the bottom of the triangle it just shined a yellowish/white light. I should of pulled over to get a closer look however, circumstances and traffic didn't allow it.

I also forgot to mention that after sighting the object some of the street lights blacked out as it appeared there was a energy force within the area.



Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48054
Occurred: 2005-12-03 19:25 Local
Reported: 2005-12-03 22:01 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was in my backyard the night of 12/3/05, admiring my landscaping. There was a formation of 4 lights rapidly moving from west to north. As it turned north, the lights were obstructed by an oak tree in our cul-de-sac, and I ran to the front yard to see what this was. It took me about 8 seconds to view around the oak tree and there was nothing in the sky.



Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45838
Occurred: 2005-08-24 19:00 Local
Reported: 2005-08-25 13:29 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 5

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

White cylinder craft dissapears and reappears right above us on Folsom lake in CA. 5 witnesses

There was a group of 5 people wakebarding on Folsom lake around 7 o'clock on Wedensday the 24th. Our boat was travelling parralell next to the Folsom dam.

Above the damn we saw a white cylindrical object in the sky. It appeared still at first then slowly moved away from the dam. In no way did it appear to be a plane.

It was in the sky for a good minute when our friend fell down in the water, and we took our eyes of the craft for no more than 5 seconds. Then we look back and it had dissapeared.

Before we had turned away it was a fairly close distance and no plane could have dissapeared that fast from how close it was to us.

This day there were absolutely no clouds in the sky.

10 min later on the way back to the dock, we were all scanning the skys when suddenly the same craft was directly above us! It had appeared there in practically an instant. Then it moved toward the damn at a faster speed. We eventually lost sight of the craft until it was too far.

We also saw a helicopter in the area that appeared to be head in the direction of the craft. We also saw plenty of passenger planes that were instanly identifiable as planes. This craft shared no resemblence. None of the plane were moving at the speed of the craft.

Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26437
Occurred: 2002-12-05 19:45 Local
Reported: 2002-12-05 20:38 Pacific
Duration: 5 min ?
No of observers: 1

Location: Folsom (over/Cameron Park), CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

I saw a large triangular craft with three large white lights on the tips and dimmer light in the center.

I saw a bright light in the night sky as I approached Scott Rd (Folsom, CA) to the right. I thought it was a helicopter hovering as they do sometimes watching the traffic. I was headed eastbound on Hwy 50 and as I proceeded it became obvious that the craft wasn't a helicopter because it was much too big and far away. As I got closer to it, it was evident that it had three lights and as I passed near the Cambridge Rd. exit, it was now on the right hand side of the freeway and you could see under it and it was triangular, had three large white lights on the tips of the triangles and a dimmer light in the center, with some smaller little lights around it.

Posted 2002-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22623
Occurred: 2002-04-19 23:06 Local
Reported: 2002-04-23 22:06 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Triangular shape over Folsom, CA

The object was witnessed by 3 people who have never seen anything like this before, or made any such report. Male age 52, son age 18, female age 50. All three of us wrote down our observations independently and they are almost completely identical. Object was observed almost directly overhead, moving roughly northwest. It was a triangular shape, with softly glowing orange tips on all three points. The outline appeared to be faintly lit as well. I would guess its' altitude to have been at least several thousand feet. It moved steadily in a straight line until it was blocked by the roof of the house. There was absolutely no sound we could discern.

Posted 2002-04-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 642
Occurred: 1995-07-28 00:15 Local
Reported: 1995-07-28 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 sec.


Location: Folsom, CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 403
Occurred: 1995-04-04 23:50 Local
Reported: 1995-04-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Folsom, NJ, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 404
Occurred: 1995-03-04 16:32 Local
Reported: 1995-04-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 sec.


Location: Folsom, NJ, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02