NUFORC UFO Sighting 180272
Occurred: 2024-02-01 20:13 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-02-03 23:57 Pacific
Duration: Off & On about an Hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Gridley, CA, USA
Location details: I live in the country in Butte County California.

Shape: Cylinder
Color: Red ones & Orange
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Shooting pictures looking South
Angle of Elevation: 45


I have been practicing taking night sky Pictures with my iPhone 13 Max Pro.

I have been practicing taking Night Sky Pictures with my IPhone. Usually in the Orin Area of the Sky. Lately I have been finding these Cylinder shaped Objects I thought were satellite's. However, I can’t find them on the internet. I am new at this so I don’t know how to get measurements you are asking for. I just want to pass on the Pictures & get an Idea of what they are & if I should not be posting them on line.







Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176478
Occurred: 2023-02-05 21:06 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-06-26 15:58 Pacific
Duration: one min
No of observers: 1

Location: Gridley, CA, USA
Location details: west sky Gridley Ca

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Changed Colo

A round blue pulsating light that resembled a Alamy Naval mine.

I filmed a round pulsation light in the west sky of Gridley Ca. It resembled a Alamy Naval mine.




Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171022
Occurred: 2022-08-07 03:00 Local
Reported: 2022-08-08 22:29 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gridley, CA, USA
Location details: Locust Street

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Super bright green oval

My nine-year-old,and myself seen oval ball shaped it’s was very large and started off high in the sky. It was a strange color of green and as it got lower it lit up the my room green, and then took off at unbelievable fast speed in seconds. But before the large ball There were other little lights that we saw those were higher! and moved from one side to the other until they disappeared and one of them was like a shooting star.

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 155631
Occurred: 2019-12-20 18:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-04-22 13:10 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Gridley, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Circular object with 3 big lights continuously moving from 1 light to another until it made it back around to the first light.

The sun was going down when my sister looked up and asked what the object in the sky was. I look up and saw a circular object with 3 big lights, the lights would continuously move from 1 light to the other, it was just floating in the sky. I took a video but did not keep it because it was just way to blurry.

Posted 2020-05-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164087
Occurred: 2015-06-15 11:45 Local
Reported: 2021-07-19 01:09 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Gridley, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

While sitting in the backyard, my friend and I talked about the day and we saw a green light, appear on the power line, at the same time. Assuming this was a neighbors lazer light, or some sort of decoration, we kept talking. We realized quickly the light was not a lazer, as it weaved in and out of trees across the street, admitting an orb similar to what a flashlight looks like three ft from a wall, except there was no center. We continued to talk, but we're looking about now across the street at the trees. The green light zipped on the power lines next to us again, causing us to turn around. One craft was spinning. It had green lights lining the center of the one craft, they were no more than 200ft from the ground, and 300ft from us. Both were clearly visible. The other was not moving, and it had no lights. The material was a dark metal. It did not reflect light at all. We heard no sound. My friend exclaimed some curses, and ran to the front door, going in! side. I stayed at the table we were seated at, and continued to look on, as I've seen many UFOS in my life, but never so close. I walked to the front door after 3 seconds of contemplating if I should stay. With my back to the front door, I watched a black helicopter head directly to where the crafts were,from the direction of the street we were watching. I quickly headed inside and recounted the experience with my friend immediately. We checked our bodies for marks, and checked the time. We were okay. This was my idea, since I have had many close encounters before. So as stereotypical as this can get, I know, but they were actually Saucers. I have seen lights, triangles, orbs, but never, saucers. Worth reporting I thought.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71362
Occurred: 2009-07-25 21:30 Local
Reported: 2009-07-27 10:44 Pacific
Duration: 60 Minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Gridley, IL, USA

Shape: Orb


Multiple Moving Stars in Rural IL

Myself and three other males were relaxing on the back porch following my niece’s birthday party on Saturday July 25, 2009. While sitting in our lawn chairs, facing due east, we were scanning the sky but no really looking for anything. It was relatively clear night with just a few low level clouds. After a short period of time (15 minutes) a bright object was observed traveling in a south east direction. The object appeared to be twice as large as Venus, moving very fast (twice as fast an airplane) and dimmed in brightness as it’s distance from us increased. We assumed it was the ISS with the docked shuttle Endeavor. This initial sighting was approximately 30 minutes after sunset.

From that point onward we observed multiple lights exhibiting various levels of brightness and speed. Our observations lasted until approximately 10:30pm CST. We assumed that the lights we saw were satellites in orbit. If this is the correct explanation what explains the variable brightness, speed, and the large number of objects? The path of the objects appeared random. Some traveled directly north, while others traveled east, south, west, and varying combinations. More than one object exhibited brightness variations even though the sun had set one hour before.

The objects were star like and fast. In one case a commercial airliner was flying due west and was overtaken (as viewed from our perspective) by one of the star like objects flying in the same direction. Our interpretation was that the smaller object was at a substantially higher altitude ... possibly low earth orbit. At one point we saw four objects moving in separate directions.




NUFORC Note:

ISS sighting. Satellites are different sizes, and have different albedos. PD


Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64703
Occurred: 2008-07-21 21:21 Local
Reported: 2008-07-22 00:14 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Gridley, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Silent Lights

Around 9:20 pm on Monday the 21st of July I was coming out of my shop and was walking up to our back door when I noticed something in the night sky coming towards me from the east. At first I just thought it was an aircraft due to the fact that there was a large blinking red light, which appeared to be in the center.

As it drew nearer I thought that there were an extremely large number of lights around the blinking red light which was larger than any light I’ve seen on aircraft that I’ve observed flying over. Then I thought, it’s most likely one of those sky crane helicopters that’s been used in our area lately battling the fires that has ravaged the surrounding mountains to the east. The next thing to go through my mind was do they have whisper mode, because there was no sound at all.

All of these thoughts went through my mind at the same time as I tried to rationalize what I was seeing. Then I ran into my house grabbed my camera ran back outside to see the object make a graceful turn to the right at which time I pointed my camera up and took one picture. Thinking I hadn’t captured anything because it was dark I lowered my camera while watching the object head north, still hearing no sound.

I went back inside and told my wife what I had just seen and then I looked at the photo I had taken. To my surprise I had captured a group of twelve lights surrounding the larger red light. Also, due to the fact that it was a longer exposure it had formed trails, with three of the trails making the exact same pattern in the sky, which I noticed after I put it up on my computer.

The other thing that I noticed about the red light is, to me it appears to be closer to the left side as it makes its turn.

I have no idea as to what it was whether it was a group of lights in formation or lights fixed on an aircraft.



Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55451
Occurred: 2007-02-21 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-02-26 09:14 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Gridley, IL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle Ship spotted in Gridley Illinois with red and white sparkling lights

I was inside of my apartment in the evening with my 25 year old daughter. Suddenly I felt hot inside my body and I ran to the door to get some fresh air. I looked to my left out the door, which is the North, and saw two HUGE what looked like white headlights moving slowly and fairly low over the trees next to our apartments. They were NOT airplane headlights as I have seen them go over many times as they pass to go over to the nearby airport. I called to my daughter to come and look and she came over.

The next thing we saw was the headlights went out and three white lights came on and formed a huge triangle shape. I told my daughter to grab our binoculars so we could see up close what this thing was. The thing made no noise whatsoever the whole time.

Suddenly it began flashing red and white lights, the kind I've never seen before. They sparkled like diamonds and were flashing in all directions and the (what I call) spacecraft, stopped and hovered up in the sky above our complex. Nobody else was outside except just me and my daughter. I grabbed the binoculars and took a look and saw the ship was moving in it's place and spinning slowly in the sky and I could see detail of the markings on the ship through my binoculars. The ship was a dark grey metal with squiggly looking lines and shapes all over it.

I got scared and handed the binoculars to my daughter to make sure that what I was seeing was real. She looked and got scared and tried to pull me into the apartment.

I said did you see what I saw? And she said YES!! It's a UFO, get in here! Then I got really scared and went in for a moment to calm down my daughter. I went back outside again to see if it was still there and it had started moving towards the south slowly and I watched until it disappeared over the town.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate, even though it allegedly had happened just five days earlier. PD


Posted 2007-03-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 3929
Occurred: 1998-08-16 23:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1998-09-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Gridley (10 miles N of, and 20 miles SE Chico), CA, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Left a trail

Brief period of light flashed in my car window about 1/4 mile to right and problably no further than 2 to 3 miles in front.

First noticed greenish strek in car window that was dropping almost straight down rather than perpendicular to the area as a meteor might come in at. It had greenish blue sparks from it. Tried to find it for the next few days without any luck.

Posted 2001-02-24