NUFORC UFO Sighting 189749
Occurred: 2025-05-19 20:50 Local
Reported: 2025-05-19 21:34 Pacific
Duration: 2min
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA
Location details: I saw it from my backyard in the Wiseburn neighborhood in Hawthorne

Shape: Chevron
Color: Could not see.
Estimated Size: Unsure, but smaller than a plane
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: The craft was east from my perspective.
Angle of Elevation: 74
Closest Distance: Unknown
Estimated Speed: Unsure, but slower than a plane
Characteristics: Lights on object

A craft flashing white and red lights flew over my backyard. It emitted what appeared to be red flares opposite its flying direction.

At approximately 8:50PM I saw a craft flying northward over my home in Hawthorne, CA. The craft flashed alternating red and white lights at regular intervals. The craft appeared to be man made.

What caught my attention was that the craft emitted several red flares opposite of its flying direction. The red flares looked like roman-candle firework shots.

I could not see the craft’s fuselage clearly because it was the night. It appeared to be a chevron/diamond/triangular in shape based on the light configuration.

The craft was flying relatively slowly and low (it was still high in altitude, but not as high as a commercial airplane). It reminded me of the videos I saw of the drones in New Jersey in winter 2024.


Posted 2025-05-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 179890
Occurred: 2023-12-27 21:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-12-28 09:35 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes to an hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, NV, USA
Location details: Us 95 approaching Schurz, NV from north

Shape: Sphere
Color: Orange/white
Estimated Size: Large to see it at the angle and distance
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: South and east
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 7 miles
Estimated Speed: Unknown, may have been moving slow
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Orange/white changing orb

Throughout the last year, there has been two locations that I have seen stationary lights along US 95 in Nevada.

The first one is seen primarily above the mountains along US95 and Walker Lake. There is no one spot it is seen. It's above the ridgelines, slopes or even moving along the mountainside. Sometimes, this light will be seen over the western portion of the depot. The light sometimes pulsates and seems to be stationary, when seen. There are no other lights on this object, such as navigation lights. There is a ammunition storage area that is run by the US DOD at the south end of the lake.

The second light that is, again off US95, but south of Hawthorne near the towns of Luning and Mina, and south along the mountain to the east of the highway. Again, its along the ridgelines and above the lake bed. This area is south of the town of Hawthorne and the expansive ammunition depot. This light is white/yellow.

Again, neither of these lights have navigation lights etc. They primarily are stationary and do not move. But, when they are seen, they are never in the same location in either of the two areas. The lights are not consistent in where they are seen in the two areas, but they are in the area with no specific location. You may see both. You may see one and not the other.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176354
Occurred: 2023-06-16 22:35 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-06-19 15:35 Pacific
Duration: 10:30-10:40pm 10 sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA
Location details: Eastbound by Rosecrans and Praire

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Blue illuminating light that lit up the whole sky

Bright blue illuminating light that shot up and stayed in the air for a bit. The whole sky light up in a blue illuminating light that could be seen through the clouds. The sky stayed lingering with that color after the bright initial flash/orb left. The color of the sky then subsided and turned normal.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172570
Occurred: 2022-10-22 00:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-10-24 17:21 Pacific
Duration: 30 Seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, NV, USA
Location details: Approximately 1000 ft in the air, close to Mt Grant (the mountain)

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects

I saw this weird formation of multiple cloud shaped flying objects going against the wind.

I looked out my window and saw this large strange formation moving in the sky against the wind. I decided to record it to send it to my mom and ask what she thought of it. It looked like multiple cloud like objects with smoke trails behind them. They were flying the same speed and same direction. I’ve never seen anything like it. It is obvious it isn’t birds




Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156203
Occurred: 2020-05-03 20:30 Local
Reported: 2020-05-04 05:45 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, NJ, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

My wife and I were sitting on my porch and I noticed what looked like a light in the distance. It was hovering and moving in different directions. its directional patterns changed quickly and drastically then stopped and hovered. it seemed to have disappeared then re appeared again and made a quick b line movement toward the horizon where it stopped, hovered, then came back towards us for a few seconds then zipped off to the horizon and it was gone.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154088
Occurred: 2020-03-01 19:00 Local
Reported: 2020-03-06 13:23 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, NJ, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

FLYING OBJECTS

Saw a star like object in the sky.

Watching thinking it was a star.

Then 2 objects flew out of it then turned and had red tail lights and flew out in the opposite direction.



Posted 2020-05-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150500
Occurred: 2019-11-09 01:21 Local
Reported: 2019-11-09 01:57 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


Weird light brown object flew low and slow across the sky

It was 1 object about 100 feet high & it flew horizontal from north to south. Appeared light brown in color. From my angle it was possibly the size and shape of a cheap refrigerator. If i could estimate ground speed, it covered only 2 miles per minute.

We are just two average joes who happened to be observing the sky & arguing about which is the north star. We dont use & have no history of mental health issues or of telling crazy stories. I am not scared easily but the unusual shape, speed & flight path set off many alarms in my head.

For some reason, this object struck fear in me. Either it or the situation made absolutely terrified

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143419
Occurred: 2018-10-06 07:30 Local
Reported: 2018-10-07 19:36 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

two lights almost as if fighting each other. Red ligh move almost in aquatic manner, then burned out like signal flare. white light strong enough to light up sky visibly moved away. immediatley helicopters seem to be in the sky.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2018-10-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137813
Occurred: 2017-12-08 18:47 Local
Reported: 2017-12-16 04:30 Pacific
Duration: 1-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

RED light seen at night gliding together and lights disappearing one by one along with sound.

On December 8th, 2017 Friday night. I was sitting in my car facing west as I noticed red lights traveling together in a cluster of 5-6 lights gliding together. I looked around and saw airplanes traveling towards airport which is the opposite direction. The lights traveled low enough for me to hear a craft sound flying above and as each light disappears one by one until all gone I could hear the sound shut off until all you heard was the sound of people and cars.

A min later I could see helicopters or small planes flying around way different that the huge cluster of lights spread apart. I immediately text two of my friends to log the time I saw the red lights and I also drew what I saw on a blue piece of paper with red lights. After hearing other witnesses come forward I knew I had to account for my Experience.

Posted 2017-12-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128340
Occurred: 2016-07-04 21:12 Local
Reported: 2016-07-06 20:22 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

A strange formation of lights flew low over an LA suburb.

I was sitting on the lawn of my grandmothers house shortly after nine pm on the Fourth of July. We observed several Chinese lanterns to the north and there were intermittent fireworks going off around us.

A short while later I observed what at first glance appeared to be an airplane. It was flying quite low, less then five hundred feet and yet made no sound. It was moving slowly. I first noticed its front lint which was white and solid but emitted no beam. The other lights on the wings were flashing but they were also bright white and emitted no beam. They were flashing at a much faster rate than any wing lights I have ever seen and they were to bright as well. Then instead of a rotating red beacon on the bottom it had a flashing white light. There was no body to the craft that I could see. I pointed it out to my godfather who is an engineering technician at Raytheon. He said he had never seen anything like it. He pointed it out to my grandfather, a retired naval aviation mechanic, who caught a fleeting glimpse as it flew away to the southeast and he was about as baffled as we were. The craft came from northwest to southeast and was visible for only about thirty seconds.

Posted 2016-07-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110677
Occurred: 2014-06-26 21:45 Local
Reported: 2014-06-26 20:13 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Animals reacted

Two round shapes moving very fast in a circular motion away from each other and meeting in the middle, went on for 20 min.

Was walking my dog and noticed two faint white round lights moving very quickly in circular motion away from each other and then meeting in the middle. They were going fast and slower, they moved higher in the clouds when I stood in the street looking up at them. Almost like they were trying to hide. Very frightening.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109287
Occurred: 2014-05-11 23:00 Local
Reported: 2014-05-12 02:21 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne/Gardena, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object

Ufo from out of this world

At around 10 pm me and my friend saw some type of aircraft flying in sight from my backyard. It was a bright green orb with 4 red dots on the back.

This object was flying in patterns no man made air craft on planet earth could.

The ufo was scanning the aircraft on the LAX flight route just where the planes go in for the landing.

Every time a plane flew by the UFO scanned each plane.

This whole ordeal lasted 10 minutes

Posted 2014-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93253
Occurred: 2012-10-01 08:30 Local
Reported: 2012-10-02 08:57 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne/Los Angeles, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Metallic Stationary Object

I observed an object for 7 minutes that changed from a dim gray, shinny metallic white, and shinny metallic red colors that set stationary proximity over the LAX airport.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89010
Occurred: 2012-05-16 20:15 Local
Reported: 2012-05-16 21:47 Pacific
Duration: 20-30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Black, round to slightly oval unlit object (except for the little blink my daughter saw), fast moving in one direction

My daughter and I were taking an evening walk around the block. It was getting dark, but still somewhat light out. My daughter saw it first, just to the left (south of the planet venus. She said "is that a blimp?" I said "where?" and looked up to see a totally dark almost round but slightly oval object traveling in what appeared to be a northwest to southeasterly direction. It appeared small, but the outline was very easily seen against the twilight sky. My estimation, although I don't know the altitude, was that it seemed to be fairly low (below 5000 feet) and moving at a fast clip, in a straight line, making no unusual movements that would rule out an aircraft. However it could be easily seen that there were NO wings, and I saw absolutely no running lights and no sound was heard. My daughter, who was able to see it longer than I, said that she saw a small white light appear on the bottom right side of the object for about one second. I didn't see this. I lost sight of the object as it passed over and was no longer visible by means of the twilight behind it.

Posted 2012-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86979
Occurred: 2012-02-03 00:45 Local
Reported: 2012-02-02 22:46 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, NY, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

Mysterious "flood lights" spotted in sky

As I was driving home from work I was on route 9A heading north.

As I came around the bend by the movie theater I looked up through my windshield into the sky and at around a 50-60 degree angle I saw 1 object that had 6 bright white lights moving in synchronization as if they were part of an aircraft. The lights had space in between them but smaller than the actual lights.

The UFO was in an I shape going up and down. The object went down towards the earth and then behind clouds, vanishing after without a sign. The object appeared to be as long as the moon but it was also approximately 1-2 miles away in the sky. The lights were very bright, they looked like flood lights from 50 feet away. I pulled over to use my iPhone 4s compass to determine the direction of the lights and they were 35 degrees NE and my location was 41• 5'52" N, 73• 48'33" W.

Posted 2012-02-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82188
Occurred: 2011-07-04 21:37 Local
Reported: 2011-07-04 22:58 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Orange fireball over South Bay/L.A. county

We were all outside when one of us spotted the object in the sky. It was traveling south east very slowly, then it stopped and it shrunk as if it flew into the horizon and completely disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71514
Occurred: 2009-08-05 10:00 Local
Reported: 2009-08-06 02:28 Pacific
Duration: 4 hrs
No of observers: 8

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

light formations, objects that go from slow moving to fireball like. strange lights moving in circular motion

more than a dozen easely thru out the west side of the moon scattered thru the sky some in formation and some stading alone. A few moving back and fourth at times looking as if turning into a fireball, real bright, then back into a slow moving object almost to look like a straight line with a shadow black top. at times displaying a red and blue light. others in the sky in wierd line formations as many as four in a row, slow moving all togeather with distance beween them, moving in circular motion then up and down. what seemed to be a red ball of light moving from the west to the east at a fast rate. to the north there was a formation of lights the brightest one alil. ahead of the other 5 lights. 4 of the lights were flashing red while 1 was flashing blue, then like at the 2nd light, what seemed to all of us to be a spirt of red dots that would spirt above the 2nd light then disapear then spirt again, over and over, all the while this strange formation of lig! hts were at a stand still. the strangest thing is that there is one real bright circalur object to the east of the moon. that moves up and down, in a circular pattern. we noticed that as time is passing its moving more in line with the moon. The moon also seems extrodonaryly bright, like blinding bright, with an orange glow around it, which seems to come and go. Iam really freaken out !!!!

Posted 2009-08-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68406
Occurred: 2009-02-02 12:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-02 14:05 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 4 min.
No of observers: 0

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


one red orange jagged circle high up blue sky white spark coming off of it,staying in one spot.

One jagged edge redish yellow orange colored circle high above Hawthorne, Ca. staying pretty much in one small area, bright blue sky day seemingly moving south with a white spark at times coming off of it from time to time, at first thought maybe a strobe, but NO wings, nor a copter.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67977
Occurred: 2009-01-09 17:15 Local
Reported: 2009-01-12 04:52 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, FL, USA

Shape: Unknown


An aircraft reflecting the sun light went behind the moon and disappeared

I was driving on a highway and looking at the nearly full moon. The sun had not set yet. While looking at the moon I noticed a sliver of light (reflection from the sun), approximately ½ to ¾ inch long moving toward the moon. I thought it was unusual because there was no vapor trail (I thought it was a plane). I kept watching it to see what it would look like in front of the moon. As it approached the moon and began crossing the moon it grew smaller and smaller, and then I realized it was going behind the moon! I kept watching to see if it would come out the other side, but it never did. It simply disappeared.

Now that I think about it, it could not have been a plane because at that distance you would not have seen it. The fact that it was the size I mentioned means it must have been a huge aircraft of some type.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47854
Occurred: 2005-11-20 12:21 Local
Reported: 2005-11-20 14:47 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Bright Yellow-orange boomerang,with higher up white round object moving with it.Seen for 10 minutes,moving south-west.

Sunday afternoon 12:21Pm.saw what looked like to be a good sized yellow-orange boomerang shap object straight north from my large front window.

As it moved slowly south-west,another white small round object,much higher up seemed to follow the lower bright boomerang object.

The boomerang object seemed to have flared wing tips,as it tumbled slowly over itself.

Lost sight of both objects,when trees blocked their movements now going west,toward El Segundo,Ca.

Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 41587
Occurred: 2005-01-18 07:00 Local
Reported: 2005-01-21 17:17 Pacific
Duration: 3 min.


Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was at work about 7:00 to 7:30 AM when a co worker said look at the U.F.O. at first I said "it was just a helicopter with two big lights on it".These lights were about 7 feet in diameter with a third small light blinking like a strob in the top center. there was was a glow from the outher side witch i think was another 7 foot light. It did not move (hovered)obout 200 feet in the sky over the erea of the old northrop bldg in hawthorne Ca. did not here eany sound.This was seen by two other people, and we are not shure what it was.



NUFORC Note:

First posted as "Hawthorne, CO," for Colorado, but corrected above. It should be "Hawthorne, CA." We express our gratitude to a sharp-eyed reader of our reports. PD


Posted 2005-01-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40899
Occurred: 2004-12-01 19:30 Local
Reported: 2004-12-03 11:38 Pacific
Duration: 4 or 5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne/Lawndale, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Aqua green florescent lights on leading edge of triangular craft moving at great speed downward and seemed to disapeared into a portal

Triangl craft with aqua green / florescent lights in the front only. Trailing edge did not have lights. It was dark but there were a lot of city lights you could see the outline clearly with good eye sight. It was traveling extermly fast as if it was a shootong star coming to crash on earth then it suddenly diaaperaed but not in a way as if the lights went out but as if it went into a portal right into the clear night sky. Oh, it was a very clear clod night. It was close to LAX so right at first we thought it was a plane of Helo crashing because of the seed coming down but then it slid into nothing??

Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34830
Occurred: 2004-02-01 11:57 Local
Reported: 2004-02-02 02:43 Pacific
Duration: 11 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Two white round star objects moving very slowly over Los Angeles during daytime bright blue skies.skies

Looking north,to over Los Angeles,Ca.from Hawthorne,Ca.from my large sit-down looking out window,listening to radio,I saw what looked to be a white daytime star moving very slowly north west against a very blue sky.It moved in one direction a little,then in another,then at times coming to a complete stop.I then wondered if it was a white baloon....but a baloon would have been wind blown east,not moving a little,then stopping.Then just after 12 noon out of no-where another white star appeared fairly near-by the other white star looking object.Yes,they both moved just a little,with one seemingly looking down at Hollywood,and the other looking down at the San Frenando Valley parts of Los Angeles....8 minutes after 12 noon my eyes were too light-struct to keep watching,so gave up following them.Later after 10 minutes I checked to see if they were still there,but saw nothing futher.



Posted 2004-02-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12178
Occurred: 2000-03-01 00:00 Local
Reported: 2000-03-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, NV, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Unusual heat lightning

I was travelling south on US highway 95 towards Hawthorne with a friend. We saw what would appear to be heat lightning on the horizon to the south. But this lightning flashed in a tight sequential pattern, about 10 times with 1 second intervals between flashes. The first ten or so flashes were an orange yellow color, but the last flash was blue. this pattern repeated twice. It may be nothing but I decided to report it because the mechanical beat of the sequence appeared to me to be artificially controlled.

Posted 2000-03-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70028
Occurred: 1997-04-15 10:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-05-13 13:30 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

A light flashed by a man at close range.

2009 05/13 These notes are just for me. They are not intended for others to see or judge me by. Please forgive me for writing down these observations. I am a hard working man focused on making a living for my wife and family. I do not make things up. The observations I am writing about actually happened to me. I was never going to write about them, but then today I decided to make a few quick notes about my experiences. I have two college degrees in science and have worked in the medical field for over 30 years..

About 10 yrs ago, I lived with my wife in an upstairs apartment. I was the only one home that day. It was a spring day at about 10 AM. I went to the bathroom and as I was leaving the bathroom, a bright orange object shot by me faster than my eyes could follow it. It was about the size of a dime (0.25” diam), it came from my left(east to west) (bathroom window sill on left is about 5’ above floor and window was open) and went to my right at about shoulder height (decending at an angle of 10 deg toward the floor). When I looked to the right to follow the object, it was gone in less than a split second and all I could see was the closed bathroom door. Needless to say, I was startled; the object came within 1 ft of me. My eyes only gazed at the closed door for a second and since there was nothing to see, my eyes returned to the center (normal position). Then, to my surprise, the orange ball streaked back in the opposite direction (to my left going west to east) toward the bathroom window. Again it went so fast that my eyes couldn’t follow it. I looked to my left and it was gone.

The incident shook me up. I have to admit that I was frightened and shaking for a few minutes. I immediately went to the bathroom window and looked down and up. There was no one down below, all the surrounding buildings were only one story, (so no one from another building could be playing a prank on me with a laser pointer), and there were no airplanes or helicopters in the sky above. I left the bathroom and looked around the apartment and noticed that all the the windows had the drapes closed. I immediately ran outside the building and looked around. No one was there. I wanted to knock on doors and ask neighbors if they saw anything, but I stopped myself. I would have made a fool out of myself.

I calmed myself down, I had a busy day of work ahead of me. I tried to convince myself that I was just seeing things that weren’t really there (an optical illusion or a malfunction of my optic nerve, or brain). But, the fact that the object came back and went the other way made me think it was real. Still, to this very day I refuse to speculate on what it could have been. The only thing I know for sure,is it did occur, and I try not to think about it. I am only writing this down for my own notes about life. About how things happen to people that can’t be explained.

I had this same bazaar experience a few weeks later, while I was walking out of my bedroom in the hall between the bathroom, bedrooms and living room. The orange ball flashed by me at about shoulder height. I can’t remember the exact direction it came from, but I do remember it was a different direction than the event in the bathroom. I don’t remember if it went in front of me and then came back the other way as it did in the bathroom. It occurred at about the same time (around 10:00 AM). The hall was dimly lit as all the drapes were closed. I was the only one home. I was startled but not as scared as the previous time. I looked around inside and outside the apartment as and found no one or nothing out there.

I even went to get my eyes checked after these experiences. The doctor told me that a detached retina would be a blinding flash of white light over my entire visual field. So this anomaly was not caused by a detached retina. I don’t fantasize or make up stories to entertain myself so this was not the result of that. In fact, I wish I had NOT experienced these events. Nevertheless, it did open my mind to the possibility that there are things going on around us that we may not be totally aware of.

Nothing like this ever happened to me before or since then. It has been more than ten years since I observed this anomaly. I was too busy to write down what happened at that time and I really shouldn’t be taking the time to write about it now. I didn’t want to scare my wife, so I didn’t tell her what happened until a month later. I just wanted to know if she had encountered anything like this. She told me she had not seen or heard anything unusual. At first she thought I was joking, but when she realized I was serious, she became frightened. I calmed her down by telling her since nothing bad had happened to us, there was nothing to worry about. This experience, changed the way I look at the real world. It made me ask myself many questions: • What if the orange ball that flashed past me would have me hit me? Would it have damaged my body? What if it had already hit me on another occasion and I didn’t know it? • Why did I see it? (I do not believe I was chosen to see it, or there was a message to me in seeing it, I think it was just a random event) Why did it flash by and then come back the way it came? Why did I experience this anomaly twice? It is pointless to speculate on the causes of this anomaly, so I try to put it out of my mind, but something tells me I should record these events.

• Have other people encountered anything like this? • What other things are going on that people observe, but dismiss them as illusions, or say to themselves, “What I just saw couldn’t have happened, so I must be seeing things.” Or people might think to themselves, “ It didn’t really happen, so I should just forget about it. I better not tell anybody else about it, because they will think I am weird or crazy.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42497
Occurred: 1985-10-25 01:00 Local
Reported: 2005-02-26 16:56 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

In 1985 during a meteor shower asked object to come my way if not a plane, and it did.

While waiting for the coming meteor shower, my husband and I were warmly wrapped in blankets, sitting on lawn chairs in our back yard looking to the North.

As the showers began, we were enjoying the show when I noticed a very bright light gliding slowly across the sky going North to South off in the distance. At the time it looked like just a white light. At the time we lived near LAX and at first I thought it was an airplane. But then I realized there were no red or green runnung lights.

My husband continued watching the showers and was unaware of what I was seeing. For no reason, I said, "If you're not an airplane, come this way, come this way". No sooner than I spoke the words, the object slowly veered west in our direction.

I got an eerie feeling and I pointed the object out to my husband. It moved very slowly and when it reached a point of about one half mile from us we still couldn't make out a shape since the light in front was so bright.

We stood there transfixed by what we were looking at. It was only about 50-75 feet above us as it moved directly above our heads. We looked straight up above our heads and it seemed so low I felt I could reach up and touch it.

It was a triangular shape, dull black and there was no sound. It was gigantic. At each point of the triangle was a dull white light with a very bright white light in the center. It glided over us and slowly headed west towards the ocean. There wasn't any noise or sound of any kind.

After approximately one half mile or so, the craft veered back to the south as we watched it fly out of our line of sight.

At this point, my husband, who was no longer watching the meteor shower looked at me and said, "well it's time to go inside". And that was the end of that.



NUFORC Note:

Date in 1985 may be approximate. Two major meteor showers occur during August and November of each year. PD


Posted 2005-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125102
Occurred: 1981-01-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-01-04 16:50 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hawthorne, NV, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Green ball of light flying parallel to school bus.

I was traveling on a school bus on Highway 95 north, between Hawthorne and Fallon, Nevada, at around 10 p.m. I looked out the window and saw a green glowing light flying level at the same speed as the bus. I remember telling a couple of others sitting nearby, "hey, check out that light." I don't remember their response.

After watching a few minutes, I thought it must be some weird situation with the power lines along the highway, (though I don't know if power lines do run along that highway).

I then slept.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32392
Occurred: 1968-10-10 13:00 Local
Reported: 2003-10-18 17:05 Pacific
Duration: 5 MIN.
No of observers: 2

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

ROUND , ORANGE , WITH WHAT I WOULD SAY WAS POLISHED METAL OF SOME KIND AROUND THE EDGES .

FIRST IT WAS 7 AM IN THE MORNING 07:00 . I TRIED TO PUT BOTH IN AND A WINDOW KEPT COMING UP TELLING ME TO DO IT AGAIN . ANYWAY , 7 AM AT LEUZINGER HIGH SCHOOL . MY PE CLASS DID NOT DRESS . WE WERE SITTING IN THE BLECHERS AT THE FOOTBALL FIELD WAITING TO BE DISMISSED . LOOKING WEST TOWARD THE OCEAN I SPOTTED 3 ORANGE COLORED DISKS . THEY WERE VERY DISTANT AND IN A MORNING HAZE , OR AS WE CALL IT THE MARINE LAYER . OF THE CLASS OF 25 OR SO ONLY ONE OTHER PERSON PICKED THEM OUT . I KEPT TELLING THE REST OF THE CLASS TO LOOK DEEP , THEY WERE REALLY OUT THERE JUST PINHEADS TO THJE NAKED EYE . THEY HOVERED IN A RECTANGLE SHAPE . AFTER ABOUT 5 MINUTES THEY SHOT UP AND OUT OF SIGHT IN THE MORNING FOG . THEY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN HELECOPTERS , FOR THERE WERE NO PROPS AND WERE WAY TO FAST WHEN THEY TOOK OFF . HAVE BEEN INTERESTED EVER SINCE IN U.F.O.s



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51927
Occurred: 1954-06-30 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-08-04 23:10 Pacific
Duration: several minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Stationary light for several minutes (far away), takiing off suddenly at great speed.

I was 24 or 25, never heard of UFOs, lived a block from Northrup Aircraft co. and was fascinated by the huge 6-engine bombers (engines on back of wings), and could feel their engines ahead of them being visible. I was always watching the sky.

I saw this "star" in a bright Calif. day and watched it, getting a 'bead' on it using telephone lines. After a few minutes, it suddenly darted off, very fast, faster than even the jets Northrup was testing.

I must add that it was quite a distance off, as one can tell by how the eyes feel with focusing either near or far away.

I decided this should be known by someone other than me!




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date in June 1954. PD


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 127936
Occurred: 1954-06-01 03:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-06-17 20:13 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hawthorne, CA, USA

Shape: Other


It was 1954.

Background. I was 24, busy building our young family, had never heard of the 1947 Saucers by Mt. Rainier, never even heard the term UFO.. but rockets etc belonged to my little brother: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers... all for the entertainment of young boys!! Also had never seen a SciFi movie!!

We lived in Hawthorne CA, just down the street from Northrup Aviation (on Doty ave. if you want to verify). As a teen during the war in SoCal we were trained to be "spotters" of planes... ours and foreign, and I became enamored of B36s... they had a flight pattern over our house in Hawthorne, and I could feel the low vibration of those suckers before they were visible. I'd actually race outside and stand watching, then thrill to see those giants overhead.

So, I was watching that quadrant of the sky (no idea what direction... I was directionally impaired all those years in CA, but WA is easy somehow!). I noticed a star... in broad daylight! It was far away, as I could feel my eyes focusing on distance. I'd heard that some had seen stars during the day, but this was my first. I had a "bead" on it with the telephone wires, and stood gazing at the stationary object, tickled to have seen a star in the day! Still awaiting the B36. When suddenly the star took off like a shot heading left and out of sight.

I just thought it was interesting. It was years before I understood what I had seen.

((female's name deleted)), Bellevue, WA




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-06-24