NUFORC UFO Sighting 143668
Occurred: 2018-11-05 23:45 Local
Reported: 2018-11-06 09:43 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes +
No of observers: 3

Location: Granite Bay/Loomis, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Multi-colored light pattern, spinning? Object, maintaining stationary position in sky

Witnessed a multi colored stationary object in the sky. Hard to determine shape, appeared diamond shaped. Lights changed/flashed: red, blue, white, yellow. Appeared to be spinning. Called my adult daughter who was at a friend's house....they ran outside and also observed the same object. I watched it for about 20 minutes, it never moved. May have dimmed from time to time. I went back outside a number of times to observe it, eventually after about 45-60 minutes, I looked and it was gone. But, the whole time I observed it. It remained absolutely stationary and exhibited multi colors, and rotated through the same pattern. I tried to get pictures/videos but my phone is only good enough to capture darkness.

Posted 2018-11-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125602
Occurred: 2016-02-01 22:00 Local
Reported: 2016-02-02 16:54 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Cluster of color changing lights in sky, stationary, then moving slowly, then vanishing.

Around 10pm, I was lying in bed and saw what appeared to be a red light in the northern sky, through my sliding glass door. I got up and looked at the sky from my deck. As I watched it, it turned colors: red, blue, white and green. Upon closer inspection, I could see it was a cluster of lights. It was stationary. It did not appear to be a plane. I watched it for about 2 minutes as it remained stationary and changing colors every 3-4 seconds. I began to think it may be a star, but then it moved slowly to my left and then my view of it was obstructed by large trees at the back of my property.

I returned to my bed and was lost in thought about what I may have just seen. As I was thinking about it, I turned my head to my sliding glass door and there it was again! In the exact same spot that I initially saw it before it moved to my left. I watched it again for at least another full minute. And then, right before my eyes, it vanished.

I have done a internet search and was amazed and excited to see that the exact same thing has been seen before! Same colors and all, but primarily on the East Coast. UFO? Very possibly in my opinion.

Posted 2016-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123603
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:38 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 19:23 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Cone shaped light seen in sky

A large cone shaped light slowly rising at a 45° angle. Like a light glareing in the fog.Very dark background sky. The light shut off suddenly. Dark object disappeared in the sky.

Cone shaped light appears over head.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 129072
Occurred: 2015-04-01 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-08-08 10:19 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Rectangular craft Uncloaks b4 two witnesses during meteor shower.

During meteor shower, biggest in years. Myself and my wife laying flat on our backs in a secluded grassy area on a picnic blanket around ten pm.

Huge meteor shows up, we track it w our eyes, as we track it, this rectangular ship LITERALLY APPEARS, not flew into our view, NO, this thing was "cloaked", and it became visible b4 our eyes. Simply moved slowly out of the way of the oncoming meteor and cloaked again. Literally happened in five seconds.

Wife saw it too. Clear as day. There wasn't even time to grab a cell phone shot. This was two years ago? I think. And I wanted to report it to somewhere more credible than Mufon. I hope this helps. I do not mind answering any further questions you may have.

Thank you.

Sincerely, ((name deleted))




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 97682
Occurred: 2013-05-11 21:15 Local
Reported: 2013-05-11 22:58 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

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

Four fireball orbs hover over Placer/Sacramento County Line near Folsom Lake

We were driving south on Auburn-Folsom Road toward Folsom Dam Road when we noticed in the sky, four orange or red orbs. They were not helicopters. They were suspended vertically at different angles, and they seemed to just sit there. Other motorists saw them, and pulled over to look. As we traveled south, they just disappeared, or extinguished themselves. Could have been Chinese lanterns. They all went dark at different times, not simultaneously.

Posted 2013-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75637
Occurred: 2010-05-30 02:30 Local
Reported: 2010-05-31 23:45 Pacific
Duration: 10 Minutes
No of observers: 25

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Strange color and shape changing light over Northern California

At around 2:30 AM on May 30th, myself, as well as a number of friends and neighbors (roughly 30 in total), witnessed an object in the sky that we all believe to have been a UFO. The object was first noticed toward the right hand portion of the sky, and at the time, didn't seem much higher than around a few hundred feet up (judging by the speed it was traveling, and the movements it made). The object was round in shape, and moved across the sky towards the left, all while it's color changed from a vibrant blue, to green, purple, red, orange, and so on. It wasn't making any sort of sound, and didn't seem to be moving like it had a distinct front/rear and left/right.

The object then changed direction with seemingly no effort, and did something similar to a figure 8 (still only moving at a medium pace). Just after the erratic movement, the object then proceeded to change it's shape from being round, to a more cigar shape with what looked like a bend in the center (it almost looked like a DNA strand in shape). At this point, the object's two "halves" both started to change their own colors, all while the object started to move south and in a straight line. The shape slowly morphed back into being round (as well as it's color back to a white), as the object increased speed and continued straight.

It appeared that my first guess of it was being a few hundred up was wrong, because after a minute or two of this, the object then started to flash 3 times consecutively, every few seconds, as if it were exiting the atmosphere. The object eventually disappeared after another minute or so, and no further lights/objects were seen again.

I myself am an avid lover of UFOs and their mystery, but had yet to see anything abnormal in my life until this happened.

Posted 2010-06-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67050
Occurred: 2008-11-20 00:00 Local
Reported: 2008-11-20 23:06 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 100

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

spherical rectangular UFO sighting in Granite Bay Roseville over freeway

spherical rectangle.3 sets of rotating likes continually rotating around it,not around but top to bottom.Huge...was first way up in sky then shot off then returned and was under it for about 3 miles on HWY 80 going towards airport.Was not a far off dot in the distance was right down close to the freeway.I heard someone call into 107.9 who saw it then I called then about 100 others called in.The lights were in 3 lines and as they came around to the bottom each time there was a short section with no lights..you could see it was rotating because of this.On each side there was another consistent bright light that showed the ends.It flew hovering but then took off then came back...it was right over the freeway so there would have to have been 100s that saw it.It was HUGE!!!!!Someone called in from Vacaville who saw it too and said there was a power surge on her street as it went over.



Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 61440
Occurred: 2008-02-04 20:05 Local
Reported: 2008-02-06 12:18 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large blimp-like object hovering with multiple white bright lighte, leaving quickly at a rapid speed

Driving north on Folsom-Auburn rd from the city of Folsom toward Granite Bay. First spotted what appeared to me to be a large aircraft with I’m guessing 2 to 3 lights, very bright white, almost directly inline in the direction I was traveling. This was just a little south of Folsom Damn Road. My initial impression was of a commercial aircraft with landing lights on heading toward me. Based on this assumption, my estimate was that it was over the Roseville-Rocklin vicinity, maybe 10-15 miles distant. This was a winding, slightly hilly road and I was driving between 45-50 mph. Initially it was within my view for a few minutes consistently. I did not focus on it all the time but was interested in figuring out maybe what it was since it seemed unusual in it’s flight path for the area. Most commercial lights run E/W and having landing lights at that position seemed premature, especially for any southbound flight path toward the old Mather AFB where I know there is corporate commercial traffic.

As I proceeded north, the road became more winding, with many tall trees bordering it. My view of the craft became more intermittent. My focus was on driving safely, since I still assumed it was nothing more than an aircraft. But I still tried to keep a general eye on it. Not knowing whether the winding road was affecting by judgment, my distinct impression was maybe it was gradually swerving in a gentle turn slightly west. The trees along the west side of the road were interrupting any continuous view to just a few seconds.

As I approached at some point seemed to be stationary in it’s position. Without being positive one way or another, it is possible it was stationary more or less from the point I first saw it. At this point I assumed it was a helicopter, with not the ordinary display of lights. This still seemed off since this is not an area I would ordinary think of helicopters. These lights were not searchlight, as the they were not scanning and there was not light stream through the sky. At approximately 2 - 1 ½ miles of Douglas road it was evident the object was hovering within a mile ahead maybe ½ - ¾ west of Folsom Auburn Rd. Not knowing it’s size but based on my speed an approaching it I would guess it was between 500 - 1000 feet in altitude.

At this point I was pretty sure it was not a helicopter. There was no noise associated with it. The lights were more blurry at this point, not knowing whether it was due to cloud overcast or moisture in the air. My observation was still limited to quick glances of it when it came into view. My distinct impression of it at this point was of something poivnting E/W, large hovering with some type of frame of lights on its south facing side. At this point I felt it had to be a blimp, or some very large balloon like object. I felt I needed to pull of to get a better & consistent view of it. There was a single vehicle behind me, following closely but no shoulder to safely pull over. I knew there was a place to turn off right within a couple hundred yards so I kept proceeding. At this point I was approaching being perpendicular with the object to the East. At this point I was able to see some of its outline. The sky was fairly dark and I could see slight difference in the shade of darkness between the object and the background sky. I saw it twice for just a split second each time. It seemed I was mostly seen maybe the top right quarter of the object, and the closest I can say was it appeared do be blimp-like. The top portion ran E/W slight curving downward East with it changing to something indistinguishable at its end. The light were still on but much less visible and bright, seemed to be slight away from the body of the object. My impression of the lights were very indistinct, blurry, maybe shadowy, if that makes sense. There was awareness of a bulk behind them but at the same time I saw nothing distinct that you would think you would see based on the lights even if they were pointing away from the object.

I lived in Southern California for thirty years until the early 1980’s, and seeing blimps were a very common occurrence living in northern Torrance near the Goodyear blimp airfield in Carson. This just seemed different. Too low to the ground where there was no imminent landing. The lights were different. Not like the normal running lights of an airship and definitely not like the commercial lights for ad display. There was no familiar hum of the engines. There was absolutely no sound at all.

As pulled past it slightly the lights were less easily seen, my assumption because I was now behind it , more toward it’s north side. I pulled over on the next intersection at Fuller St. and made a quick U-turn and pulled over to the curb, expecting to see the objection facing west at maybe 10-11 o’clock. But to my surprise, it was already moving south, much quicker than I anticipated, especially since I assumed it was a balloon like object. I could still see lights but much dimmer and it was moving south still. I’m guessing maybe at this point it was 1-2 miles away already. This shocked me. Blimps do not move that fast. But at the same time, it did not seem to pulling away at a fantastic speed. I decided that if it was a blimp like object I should be at least able to keep in view for awhile if I headed back south in direction I came and the direction it was proceeding so I turned left back on Auburn Folsom Rd. I had to wait from 5-10 seconds for the light to change. Already the object was I’m guessing was at least 5 mi, so I was anxious but still I followed. I only caught a glimpse of the light a couple time over thles away next 5 minutes. Losing sight due to the winding road and the trees. I knew after I got closer to Folsom Damn Road my view would open up and then I might be able to reacquire my observation. My impression was that since I was no longer able to see the lights that it had moved back east across the road and that I had missed this flight path. When I got to the clear area it definitely not south or southwest. It was not in the air east either but I concluded the only possible conclusion for the disappearance of the craft was it went east over Lake Folsom or landed in that direction. I thought all of the assumptions were very slim. I was just trying to think of a rational logical explanation for what I observed.

If I heard this story from someone I would be skeptical. I would assume there were flaw in persons observations, logistically in the least. I am not one to make any fantastical assumptions about anything in life. I ALWAYS assume a logical explanation for everything that seems less than logical. I am very observant and analytical. Its what I do and who I am. Most people would consider me very intelligent and very informed.

If someone could explain to me possible scenarios to what I observed I would welcome them. Based on my experience I can think of absolutely nothing that would conform to my observations. Thought I will admit my view of the object were fleeting and less than very distinct, they were such that they were very analytical. I would definitely refute anybody’s allegation of anything that would explain it that did not fall in line with what I observed. But at the same time I would accept that would explain it that made sense. But my sense of the timing and logistics were very accurate. I would say my guestimates of distance and height are subject to some question based on the size of the object and never getting more the a second or two glimpse of it, my ability to gauge these things has always been way above average. I am a very observant fellow. I do not base my observations on whims like most people. If I say something, it is. If I’m not sure, I will say so without problem. If I don’t know, I will say so.

As far as my thoughts whether this was observed by anyone else, until I figured out it was hovering, I doubt if most people in the cars would have assumed anything abnormal. If I lived in the vicinity of where it was hovering and was outside, I’m guessing if I saw it I would had observed it. I’m guessing within a mile of the object, anyone walking or outside would have definitely after seeing it, would have continued to observe it. It was a cool night and maybe two hours after sundown. The air was generally still and the sky seemed mostly overcast but I could distinguish of couple of stars. This a suburban, semi-rural area. There seemed to be slight reflection of city lights off the overcast clouds but getting darker definitely as you move East, with it getting much darker just about at the juncture of Auburn-Folsom road, with the definite effect of the large Lake Folsom to the immediate east. When I saw the silhouette, this difference in shade of darkness of the object and sky was very slight but enough to distinguish the shape that I saw.

If needed I could make a cursory drawing of what I saw. It was not a whole image. I do not have scanner available at this moment but could do so if it would help. The drawing would be rudimentary.



Posted 2008-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17017
Occurred: 2001-03-24 00:06 Local
Reported: 2001-03-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Granite Bay, CA, USA

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

While driving home from ((deleted)) house, a friend of mine (deleted) and I saw a very white bright point of light up in the sky, and we thought maybe we were looking at MIR's re-entery into the atmosphere. As we got closer, we realized that it was comming towards us, and had what appeared to be blinking lights on the side. As we got closer to it and it to us, it became apparent that it was either close to the ground or very large, and had I believe 8 lights on it, 7 on the front in the chevron formation, and an 8th white blinking light in the back, located two inches(from my vantage point directly below it) from the frontmost light in the front. The front lights were varius sizes of cirlcles ranging from medium to large, with a red light at the "nose" of the object. The size of the circles were in no apparent order, but were symetrical in placement, i.e. a medium was across from a medium, and a large light was across from a large light. Once the object moved over the road, it slowed down to a nearly complete stop and shot out what looked like a faint spot light on the shoulder of the road at an angle of about 45 degrees from either the center or one side of the chevron. After the spotlight went out, it sped up, crossed the road diagonaly, and contined to move away from us towards the house at a fairly quick clip. At this point I called ((dleeted)) to tell him to get outside and see if he could get a look at what we had just driven under. I was on the phone with ((deleted)), who had answered ((deleted)) phone, for about a half of a minute when I looked out the window and spotted another object, this time shaped like what I would call a classic saucer, only fairly then what is normally reported.. like a sort of cigar, but more saucer shapped. It was moving over a field in the distance, complete with blinking lights that formed the saucer shape. It stopped over the field, sat there for about 5 seconds, then moved about three inches into what I presume was a different field, and stopped again, this time for about three seconds. Then continued its course in the same direction as the first object we had seen. My friend thinks that it was a helipcopter, but I havent seen helicopters with that many lights on it.. there may have been 6-7 lights on it, that appeared small from where we were. Also, from the distance that it seemed to be at, it must have been a very large helicopter, as it was about the size of a Altoid from where we were sitting on the road (we had pulled into a shoulder at this point to watch the object over the field). I was already extreemly excited over the first sighting, but this second one sent me over the top. I was yelling into the phone, "oh my god what the hell is that, theres another one out there, look at that thing ((deleted))! Do you see it? Is that a helicopter? Jesus man its stopped!" Then, as it sped away, I said something like, "Holy *&^@! Holy *&^@! Christ man look at it!" At this point I heard ((deleted)) say to ((deleted)), who must have been in the room with him, "Damn man it sounds like ((deleted)) is flipping out, do you see anything?" Shortly thereafter the object disipeared behin the treeline and we continued home. I couldnt shut up about it, while ((deleted)) didnt say much. I kept asking him if he had seen "that first one" shoot out the spotlight, and he would say yea, he thought so. PLEASE get back to me, I am dying to know if anyone else saw these things and reported them.

Posted 2001-04-01