NUFORC UFO Sighting 185288
Occurred: 2024-12-15 01:32 Local
Reported: 2024-12-15 15:21 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Color: Unknown
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 34
Closest Distance: Unknown
Estimated Speed: Unknown
Explanation: Drone - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Made a sound

Spotted an unknown drone in the night sky, hovering slowly with audible sounds. Unable to identify it. Very sketchy.

I was outside at night when I noticed a large drone hovering in the sky. It was moving slowly and I didn't seem to hear anything from it. The drone had bright, steady lights, and it seemed much bigger than a regular drone. It stayed in one spot for a while, then started moving very slowly across the sky. It was very high in the air, soaring above like a plane almost. There were no other aircraft around, and it didn’t look or act like anything I’ve seen before. After a few minutes, it drifted out of view. It also reminded me of the big drones people have been reporting in New Jersey lately quiet, steady, and just very strange for Hollister especially.

Posted 2024-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181304
Occurred: 2024-04-13 21:22 Local
Reported: 2024-04-28 19:19 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1 - Aviation Expert

Location: Hollister, CA, USA
Location details: California West Coast

Shape: Unknown
Color: Unknown
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: West
Angle of Elevation: 33
Closest Distance: Unknown
Estimated Speed: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Night time

While spotting satellites at night with my digital night binoculars, These two objects appeared in my viewing screen while I was recording.




Posted 2024-05-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178583
Occurred: 2023-10-01 20:47 Local
Reported: 2023-10-03 11:27 Pacific
Duration: between 10 and 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, MO, USA
Location details: Downtown Hollister, MO outside at my home

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

A very long, BRIGHT white, thin rectangle appeared between the Moon & Jupiter and moved directly towards the Moon & disappeared

I arrived at home from the grocery store in Hollister, MO at 8:47PM and noticed how big the Moon appeared to be and how it was almost an orange color. I stopped to take a couple of pictures to send to my mother, who was staying about 10 minutes from me in Branson, MO at Stone Castle Inn. I continued to look at the Moon and opened my Satellite Tracker app to see what planet was close to it and saw that it was Jupiter. As I was about to walk indoors, I saw a VERY bright white, long and thin rectangle appear inbetween Jupiter and the Moon. It was moving at the pace of a pretty fast jet directly towards the Moon. It began to get even more bright white (I've never seen something this "shade" of white), it began to go faster, angling up towards the Moon and as soon as it was directly in front of it from where I was standing, it completely disappeared. It literally was there one moment and gone the next. I have never seen anything move quite like it before and the speed it reached, made no sense to me. There was no noise and for something THAT large, I do not understand why I did not hear anything. Anyways, whatever it was, was absolutely captivating and beautiful. After this event, I received a text message from my mother and she asked me if I had seen something weird by the Moon (as she went outside after I had initially sent her the two photos of the Moon). She described a very similar experience, with the only difference being that she thought she saw a smaller round shaped "something" further below this object that was moving in sync with it. I attached a photo that I sent my mother, with a circle where this object first appeared and the direction that it moved. I would love to be contacted if anyone else has reported this event.




Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174874
Occurred: 2023-03-03 19:15 Local
Reported: 2023-03-05 04:33 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Hollister, CA, USA
Location details: NORTHERN END OF TOWN 240 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL

Shape: Fireball
Explanation: Chinese Lantern - Possible
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Two fire-red objects, 500 feet up, were traveling from the south, heading north, and slowly climbing.

They were 300 feet apart and then went dark, but were still there. This is not the first time I have seen them. At 7:15 pm, I was facing east, leaving the grocery store parking lot. I was driving a 1952 Jeep with no doors or top on the vehicle, which granted me a clear view of the sky. While pulling out of the parking lot, I looked up to the south-southeast and observed two beach ball-sized objects that were either balls of fire or fire orange/red in color. I estimate that these objects were no more than a mile or two away from me. The two objects were traveling slowly from the south to the north, about 500 feet up, and slowly gaining altitude. The objects were about 300 feet apart from one another. The lead object was about 50 to 100 feet higher than the other and seemed to be gaining altitude while the other object kind of held back a little, taking a more gradual climb than the other, and then started climbing up following the other but not traveling the same path.

I drove down the street heading east facing the objects for about 200 feet, then made a right, so now the objects are up and to my left. When I turned onto this street, there was a car stopped in the road with its flashers on, and a truck that pulled off to the side. The occupants of both vehicles were looking up at these things, and I could hear somebody saying, "What the hell are those things?" I pulled over and turned off the engine and jumped out and heard no sound. I was getting my phone out of my pocket to snap a picture while keeping an eye on these things, but they went dark before I could take a picture.

I say that they went dark because it looked like there was still something that was still there after the fire or possibly orange reddish light source went out or turned off. The light was not a steady light, not like the steady stable light that is emitted from a man-made artificial source like an LED or some sort of light bulb. The light seemed to fluctuate slightly, giving me the impression that these things were not illuminated by a light bulb or anything but more of a natural light source like that of a fire would emit. There did appear to be a separate light source within the light that was toward the top and to the side that looked to be a more stable and more red color. These objects operated independently from one another. These lights started gaining altitude, which took about 10 seconds to climb 200 feet or so. They traveled with one following the other but taking a slightly different path for about 10 seconds and then went dark but at different times, with one going out one or two seconds before the other.

While I was parked on the side of the road, observing these things and trying to take in as much detail my 20/20 eyes could, the car that was stopped in the road with its flashers on drove up to me, asking, "Did you see that?" and "Wow" "What were those things?". I am no rookie when it comes to observing the night sky. This ain't my first rodeo. I have spent countless hours over the past 20 plus years farting around with all sorts of high-tech gadgets with everything ranging from large scopes outfitted with cooled CCD cameras to prototype military wiz-bang gadgets the public won't see for a decade.

I have observed these things before over the years along with just about all my friends and neighbors. I have been on the hunt for information on these orange and red balls of light since the first time I observed one of these things many years ago. I am very lucky to have been with somebody every time I have had an encounter with these things. I can't imagine seeing one of these alone and trying to explain to others what I saw and not sound like somebody with a few screws loose. It is a shame that more people do not make a report of any kind after they see something unidentified. It is like pulling teeth to get people to make even the most simple basic report. I told the people that also saw these things about NUFORC and asked them to take a look at the website and to please file a report. I can't thank Mr. Davenport enough for the hard work and dedication in providing the most extensive, reliable, and professional source of information on the subject of UFO.

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174402
Occurred: 2023-02-10 05:50 Local
Reported: 2023-02-10 22:35 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds


Location: Hollister, CA, USA
Location details: Driving North on Highway 25 To Work

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Had two or three lights, one at each end, ~2000 ft

I always look up, have had multiple UFO incidents over the last few years, but this one was rectangle, flying about 2000 feet, and had lights at both ends. It was slim in nature and was traveling rather slow, just cruising. I've witnessed two triangle-shaped crafts about three .months ago, and more earlier last year and the year before.

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160955
Occurred: 2020-12-03 18:15 Local
Reported: 2020-12-03 18:53 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Many craft moving quickly in a straight line.

We were walking through our backyard which leads to an alley that is very dark. I always look up at the stars. I looked up & gasped, & my 25 year old daughter looked up & directly above our heads were 15-20 craft, moving quickly, in an exact straight line. It looked like they were round with just one large round light on the bottom. They were absolutely silent. We watched them until we could no longer see them, just a matter of minutes. She got two pictures on her iphone. I am emailing them to you.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156353
Occurred: 2020-02-23 00:00 Local
Reported: 2020-05-07 20:56 Pacific
Duration: Unknown
No of observers: 0

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


This photo was captured on a house camera at ((address deleted)) the photo captured my aunts house at 160 miller rd and in the photo it clearly shows lights above her house even to to the next house.on a closer look it appears to be a UFO ill try to send that photo and a nother normal one

Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143247
Occurred: 2018-09-23 08:28 Local
Reported: 2018-09-23 21:00 Pacific
Duration: <120 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

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

Reddish Orange egg shaped object spotted in or near Northern California/ Central Valley

I was exiting my living room and immediately noticed the object as I looked up due North at about 1:00 o’clock position and realized it was moving erratic.

I called my wife to come out and get a look. By the time my wife came outdoors it had become mostly stationary and the intensity of the light had become bright. The light then dimmed out and faded into the night sky. The Color of this object remained a fire colored orange reddish color through out the observation which lasted no more than 2 minutes.

It was quite noticeable despite a bright full moon. I’d estimate the object to be somewhere in the vicinity of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, or somewhere in the vicinity of Northern Central Valley California.

Posted 2018-09-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132617
Occurred: 2017-02-14 06:15 Local
Reported: 2017-02-14 11:35 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

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

Saw a light in the sky towards the south and thought it could be a plane or helicopter. It began to make a zig zag pattern in the sky and turned on a very high powered cone shaped light at this point I still suspected a helicopter searching the ground but the craft was too high to be usefull. About 30 seconds later the light formed a circular ring shape that emitted from the craft.

I took video until it disappeared heading west towards the coast.

Posted 2017-02-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 129948
Occurred: 2016-09-13 16:00 Local
Reported: 2016-09-15 15:23 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Dark Shape Following Interest Airliner

A craft follows an airliner, appears simpler to what I witnessed on the eve of 9/10/16 at 9:43pm in Clayton CA entering /decent in into earth

https://youtu.be/0wlBFeAGprU

Time stamp 5:30 in video of Hollister CA bbq video sighting.

((name and telephone number deleted))




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-09-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 129558
Occurred: 2016-08-27 20:14 Local
Reported: 2016-08-29 04:16 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 5

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

SIX RED LIGHTS IN A ROW TRAVELING SOUTH EAST NEAR HOLLISTER

I WAS WATERING THE LAWN IN THE BACK YARD OF MY HOUSE IN HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA. IT WAS A NICE CLEAR NIGHT WITH A SLIGHT OFF-SHORE BREEZE OUT OF THE EAST.

AT ABOUT 8:45PM, LOOKING NORTH, I NOTICED A LOW FLYING RED LIGHT, TRAVELING FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST. AT ABOUT THE SAME SPEED AS THE AVERAGE CESSNA AIRCRAFT AT 50 DEG. ABOVE THE HORIZON.

I RAN AND GOT MY PHONE TO CALL SOME PEOPLE BUT DECIDED TO TRY TO GET VIDEO OF IT WITH THE PHONE, KNOWING THAT IT PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PICK UP ANYTHING USABLE.

AFTER A FEW SECONDS ANOTHER RED LIGHT CAME INTO VEIW FOLLOWING THE FIRST FLYING AT A SLIGHTLY LOWER ALTITUDE AT A DISTANCE OF TWO FINGERS TOGETHER AT AN ARMS LENGTH BEHIND THE OTHER ONE. BY THIS TIME I HAD GOT TO THE VERY TOP OF AN EIGHT FOOT LADDER THAT WAS ALREADY SET UP IN THE YARD SO I COULD GET UP ON THE ROOF AND WATCH THESE THINGS AS LONG AND FAR AS POSSABLE. A THIRD OBJECT CAME INTO VEIW SAME ALTITUDE AND DISTANCE AS THE PREVIOUS AND THEN ANOTHER MAKING FOUR! RED LIGHTS FLYING IN A LINE ONE BEHIND THE OTHER. HERE I WAS ON THE ROOF OF MY HOUSE DRESSED IN NOTHING BUT BOXERS AND ALL ALONE WATCHING THESE GUYS TRAVEL BY AND NOBODY AROUND TO YELL TO SOO THEY CAN SEE ALSO. WITH THE LIGHTS ALMOST OUT OF VEIW ON THE EASTERN HORIZON I WAS GETTING READY TO GET OFF THE ROOF THEN ANOTHER TWO LIGHTS CAME INTO VEIW FLYING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE PREVIOUS BUT WHAT APPEARED TO BE CLOSER AND A LITTLE BRIGHTER. THE FITH LIGHT WAS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THE REST AND THE SIXTH SLIGHTLY LOWER BUT STILL HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS FOUR. I AM A 37 YEAR OLD EXPERIENCED ASTRONOMER USING A LARGE TELESCOPE FOR MANY YEARS, I KNOW WHAT SATELLITES LOOK LIKE AND HAVE A GOOD DEAL OF KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT AND THEIR FLIGHT PATHS AND SUCH. I AM SURE THAT WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT WERE NOT DRONES,CHINESE LANTERNS, WEATHER BALLOONS, SWAMP GAS OR ANY NORMAL AIRCRAFT DUE TO THE LACK OF FLASHING LIGHTS AND MARKERS REQUIRED ON ALL AIRCRAFT NOR WERE THERE ANY OTHER AIRCRAFT AROUND IN THE SKY.

AFTER A MINUTE OR TWO AFTER THE SIXTH LIGHT PAST BY, I DECIDED TO GET OFF THE ROOF AND JUMP IN MY CAR. I TOOK NOTE OF THE TIME 9:05PM PACIFIC AND AS FAST AS I COULD I GRABBED SOME PANTS,NIGHT VISION,CAMERA AND SOME BINOCULARS WHICH WERE ALL TOGETHER ON THE DINING TABLE. I HAD ALL OF THESE THINGS READY TO GO BECAUSE I HAVE OBSERVERD THESE RED LIGHTS SEVERAL TIMES IN THE WEEKS PRIOR WHICH WERE REPORTED TO THIS WEB SITE. WHILE I WAS GETTING DRESSED A LOW FLYING HELICOPTER FLEW OVER MY HOUSE FROM THE SOUTH TOWARDS THE NORTH THAT HAD ONLY A FLASHING RED LIGHT ON THE BOTTOM OF IT BUT THIS WAS LIKELY THE NORMAL MEDIVAC HELICOPTER. I HAVE HAD AN IN MY FACE CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN 2001 OF A LOW FLYING TRIANGLE THAT I WAS NOT COMFORTABLE WITH AND WISH NEVER HAPPEND AND SINCE THEN HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I SAW WITH COUNTLESS HOURS OF READING AND LISTENING TO ANYTHING THAT MAY BE LINKED TO THE SUBJECT IN A QUEST TO GET SOME SORT OF ANSWER TO WHAT I OBSERVED. LAST WEEK I CALLED AM1080 KSCO, A LOCAL AM RADIO STATION AND ASKED THEM TO ! ASK PEOPLE IN THE AREA IF THEY HAD SEEN ANY RED LIGHTS IN THE SKY. I HAVE ASKED POLICE OFFICERS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, AND ANYBODY WHO MAY HAVE SOME KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WOULD HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT IS FLYN AROUND ABOVE US. I TAKE THIS KIND OF STUFF SERIOUSLY AND WOULD SAY THAT I AM NOT OVERLY SERIOUS ABOUT IT BUT SOME MAY THINK OTHERWISE. ANYWAYS HERE I AM HAULN BUTT DOWN THE ROAD IN MY CAR WITH MY EQUIPTMENT IN HAND IN AN EFFORT TO CATCH UP WITH THESE LIGHTS AND REALIZE THAT I DONT HAVE A CHANCE IN HELL OF CATCHING UP WITH THESE THINGS AND DECIDE TO STOP AT THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE AROUND THE BLOCK. I PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND BEFORE I EVEN TURN OFF THE CAR FOUR KIDS RANGING IN AGE FROM 4 TO 12 COME RUNNING UP TO ME ASKING IF I SAW THE RED LIGHTS IN THE SKY. I TOLD THE KIDS HOLD ON A MINUTE AND TOOK OFF BACK TO MY HOUSE TO GET MY DIGITAL RECORDER. I AM FAMILIAR WITH INTERVEIWING PEOPLE AND KNOW THAT QUESTIONING PEOPLE ESPECIALLY KIDS ALWAYS GOES BETTER IF THEY DONT KNOW T! HEY ARE BEING RECORDED, IT MAY NOT BE TOTALY LEAGAL BUT I FIGU! RE ITS T HE BEST WAY TO DOCUMENT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO TELL ME. TURNS OUT THEY HAD BEEN WATCHING A FEW RED LIGHTS IN THE WESTERN SKY SINCE ABOUT 8:00PM AND HAD CALLED ME TO TELL ME BUT I DID NOT HAVE MY PHONE ON ME BECAUSE I WAS OUTSIDE IN MY BOXERS WATERING MY LAWN. THE KIDS EVEN DRUG OUT A TELESCOPE INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET TO WATCH THE LIGHTS AND WAS TOLD THAT THEY WATCHED A RED LIGHT IN THE WEST STAY STATIONARY FOR OVER A HALF OF AN HOUR THEN WATCHED IT GAIN A LITTLE ALTITUDE AND THEN TAKE OFF AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. THEY ALSO SAID THAT THE OBJECTS WOULD DISAPPEAR AND THEN REAPPEAR IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION I RECORDED THESES FOUR KIDS SEPERATLY AND GOT SOME EXELENT STUFF.

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT GUYS FOR THE THIRD WEEK IN A ROW RED LIGHTS IN THE NIGHT SKY. DONT BE AFRAID TO TELL SOMEBODY BECAUSE ODDS ARE THEY HAVE WITNESSED SOMETHING ALSO.




((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS))

I AM ((name deleted))
IM AM LOCATED IN HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA
I SEE THAT YOU HAVE LABELED MY REPORT IN THE AUGUST REPORTS AS A HOAX OR POSSIBLE HOAX.
IF YOU CAN COULD YOU PLEASE REMOVE THE HOAX TAG BECAUSE THIS IS NO HOAX AND I AM NOT SOME HOAXING LOSER.
I THINK PEOPLE THAT LIE AND FILE B.S. REPORTS OR CALLS ARE PATHETIC SCUMBAGS.
I TAKE THIS SUBJECT SERIOUSLY PROBABLY TOO SERIOUS AND I KNOW THAT YOU DO ALSO.
YOU HAVE PROVIDED A SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN THE MOST LEGITIMATE AND RELIABLE RESOURCE I KNOW OF.
DEALING WITH THOSE HOAXING MORONS MUST INFURIATE YOU BECAUSE IT DOES ME ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING IS OUT OF YOUR POCKET.
I HAVE DONATED BEFORE AND HAVE TOLD OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AND I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR WORK.

PICTURE OF JULY 24 2016 RED LIGHT IN SKY IN HOLLISTER CALIFORNIA
PHOTO TAKEN WITH A PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FZ5

((END ADDENDUM))



NUFORC Note:

Witness provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2016-08-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128741
Occurred: 2016-07-24 22:24 Local
Reported: 2016-07-26 14:17 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

RED LIGHT SOUTH OF HOLLISTER 10:23PM

AT AROUND 10:30PM, I WAS LEAVING MY FRIEND'S HOUSE IN HOLLISTER. IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT, EXCEPT FOR SOME SMOKE WHICH CAME FROM A FIRE LOCATED 30+ MILES TO THE WEST, NEAR CARMEL. THERE WAS NO MOON, YOU COULD SEE ALL THE STARS AND EVERYTHING.

AS I WAS GETTING INTO MY CAR, I SAW TWO PASSENGER JETS THAT STOOD OUT BECAUSE THEY WERE FLYING ON A PATH THAT WASN'T ORDINARY. THE NORMAL AIR TRAFFIC TRAVELS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH TO THE BAY AREA, BUT THESE PLANES LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE FLYING LOW AND ONE TURNED AROUND, AND I THOUGHT MAYBE BECAUSE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A LANDING DELAY OR SOMETHING.

MY FRIEND STOPPED ME FROM GETTING INTO MY CAR BECAUSE HE NOTICED A RED LIGHT IN THE SKY. THE PLANES DIDN'T SHOW UP ON HIS FLIGHT RADAR APP ON HIS PHONE, WHICH IS WEIRD. IT WAS DIRECTLY SOUTH; IT SHOWED ON MY FRIEND'S COMPASS.

THE LIGHT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS ASCENDING SLOWLY. WE WATCHED IT FOR ABOUT 1 MINUTE. MY FIREND WENT AND GRABBED HIS CAMERA AND BINOCULARS AND HOOKED UP A 65-MILLION CANDLE-POWER SPOTLIGHT, AND THEN THE RED LIGHT FADED OUT SLOWLY, JUST BEFORE MY FRIEND TURNED ON HIS SPOTLIGHT.

BELOW AND TO THE RIGHT OF THE BIG DIPPER, AT ARM'S LENGTH, IT WAS SMALLER THAN A PENCIL ERASER, AND IT WAS STOP LIGHT RED COLOR. NO STANDARD FAA LIGHTS AND NOT THE USUAL NAVIGATION LIGHTS LIKE A USUAL JET DOES.

Posted 2016-08-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116296
Occurred: 2014-12-25 17:20 Local
Reported: 2014-12-26 13:18 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar


Long black, long tindrils at one end and a changing shape like the tail of an aircraft at the other. No sound.

Former Pan Am Flight Attendant 25 years.

Black long metallic with something moving like tendrils at the tail end of it, was able to get binoculars changed shape at the opposite end (forward end)shaped like the tail section of an aircraft.

It moved back and forth, up and down slightly a few times kind of dancing but also appeared to be floating. No sound.

Began to descend slowly until it disappeared out of sight.

Posted 2015-01-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114806
Occurred: 2014-10-25 06:47 Local
Reported: 2014-10-25 08:38 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Translucent greenish perfect sphere highlited by sunrise. Even shined through cloud cover. At one point a red transparent circle surrounded green sphere.. Crazy




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113991
Occurred: 2014-09-27 22:10 Local
Reported: 2014-09-27 22:58 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

There were three objects then they became one and flew off

It was three in a row then they formed a triangle shortly after they become one and took off. No noise

Posted 2014-10-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114027
Occurred: 2014-09-27 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-09-28 10:18 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


9/27/2014 10:00 PM-ish Eastern Sky Hollister California I saw an upside-down triangle composed of three orange lights.

The triangle appeared stationary and was very bright.

It looked like this: .

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The bottom light began to fade first and it then looked like this: .

The top-right light then looked like it exploded, almost like a skeet clay as we could see what looked like a a a white smoke trail.

The bottom-left light was the last visible and looked like this:

Posted 2014-10-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107864
Occurred: 2014-03-13 20:30 Local
Reported: 2014-03-14 20:51 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Landed, Animals reacted

two blue/purple crafts over downtown Hollister Ca

At first it was just one craft blue very still in the sky then I thought wow that has been there for a while wonder what it is at that very moment it almost split into two craft witch danced around with each other as I sped up they sped up the then very quicly changed to a bring lavender purple color

As I followed them further they seconized (synchronized??)) and dropped down at a moderate speed.

This is not the first time ive seen double sightings in this town an I know its not the last.

Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106668
Occurred: 2014-01-25 21:45 Local
Reported: 2014-01-26 07:55 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Four randum colored lights that change colors with randum movements East of Hollister, CA

We went outside and observed several lighted objects in the sky to the East of Hollister possibly in the Fairview Rd. area. They appeared to be smaller colored balls that changed colors, white, red, blue, green.

They appeared to be near the ground less than 3000 feet in the air and moved in random motions, and stopping for periods of time.

This is not the first time we have seen these lights, we have been seeing them for the past 6 months but not on a regular schedule.

Posted 2014-01-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104837
Occurred: 2013-11-27 16:00 Local
Reported: 2013-11-28 14:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

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

Four multi colored orbs / lights over Hollister CA on 11/27/2013

I stepped outside about 8:00 pm and walked southbound about 50 yards from the house, as I turned around and began walking Northbound I saw what I thought was a plane going into the little airport in Hollister.

Then I saw what appeared to be a red light, as I watched I was thinking this must be the southern end of the flight path to San Jose airport.

Then I saw a second ball of light that had more colors, again thinking these were planes I just watched then all of a sudden the first light moved back in a unnatural way towards the second light. It was at that time that I realized there was no sound.

I listened intently to see if I could here a plane, or helicopter. There was nothing no sound.

Then, as I continued to walk Norhtbound toward downtown Hollister, I saw 2 more orbs, for a total of 4 orbs. They were all changing multiple colores, and they moved back and forth, up and down very quickly and almost gracefully.

I thought I should get my family to have the! m bring out a camera, and I turned again to walk back Sothbound to the house, as I looked over my shoulder to continue watching they all just seemed to disappear.

I heard no noise, saw no lights shining up like search lights, or did not see any other air traffic.

I went back inside, and was a little freaked out because I believe that I just saw a UFO's.

I have searched the local papers and news for any other reported sightings since last night, and as of this report I have not found any other sightings or explanation for these lights over Hollister, Ca.

Posted 2013-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104650
Occurred: 2013-11-20 20:00 Local
Reported: 2013-11-21 11:32 Pacific
Duration: 6-7 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

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

Triangular solid blue light flying over South end of Diablo Range in Hollister

November 20, 2013 8:00 p.m.

Saw triangular solid neon blue light in the sky over Hollister, CA. Flying from North to South under the cloud level.

Was there for about 6 to 7 seconds before I lost sight.

Was completely silent, moved faster then an ordinary plane but at a constant speed.

Once it was over the south end of the Diablo Range, it spiraled downward twice, then at an accelerated speed disappeared behind the hills.

Posted 2013-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 126223
Occurred: 2013-08-23 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-03-06 12:52 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Black triangle shaped, low flying craft seen in Hollister Ca

I was leaving town to go to San Jose, CA, and I was driving on Hwy 156, making a left turn onto hwy 25, sitting at the light. I was looking up into the sky, when I noticed a black triangle shaped craft, coasting very slowly above my car. It almost blended in with the night sky and it was flying very low like just above the tree tops.

I made the left turn and tried to get a better look at. It made no sound and had 3 very dim lights on the bottom of it. I was unnerved by this sighting but later summed it up to being military craft.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 91993
Occurred: 2012-08-19 09:30 Local
Reported: 2012-08-20 12:21 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 6

Location: Hollister, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

V-Shaped formation, hovering for 45 minutes to 1 hours, red and white flashing lights

Husband called me out to say something weird is in the sky, they were changing colors from red to white, like it was stationary moving in a circle, the first 3 we spotted hovered over the sky in a v shape or triangle form, then we spotted 3 more in the same v shape formation hovering for over 45 minutes to 1 hour, finally one of the ufo just shot off, leaving the others to still hover. Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but saw a shooting star go in between them.

My cousin ((name deleted)) - senior retired, my husband - 46 works for UPS, my Mom 87 and my Dad 92 all saw these ufos. Also ((deleted)) boyfriend ((deleted)) - a retired steel working also saw and witnessed these object, I work the for the US Coast Guard and I am XX. In all my life have never witnessed anything like this, was really strange.

Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90891
Occurred: 2012-07-14 22:05 Local
Reported: 2012-07-14 23:42 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Formations of lights hovering in the sky, then moving up in an angle.

I was a heading home from a late night jog a block away from home. As I crossed the street I looked to the left then to the right. I did a double take back to the left side because the sky was bright and it caught my attention. I then sprinted home as I kept my eyes on the sky. There were 6 or 7 bright orange lights, they were all moving together at a right angle. One light did a question mark shape movement from the bottom up to line up in the formation of a back slash. To the right of those, there was a formation of a triangle. They all were moving together at an angle and disappeared into some clouds. I waited for them to pass through the cloud and come out the other side, but they never did. The cloud was thin and you see the lights get smaller in them. After that I rang the doorbell to get my parents attention to see the lights, all the lights had disappeared, but my mother managed to see one new orange light that was moving slower than the o! thers, but then soon disappeared into the same cloud.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83393
Occurred: 2011-08-23 20:30 Local
Reported: 2011-08-23 20:53 Pacific
Duration: 120 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

A triangular object glowing red/orange moving accross the sky in a north-east direction.

At approximately 20:30, with a pair of binoculars I observed a triangular object moving across the sky in a north- easterly direction. The object looked as if an orange and red flame or glow was beneath it for approximately 60 seconds. The object did not appear to be falling.

My two sons, ages 15 and 11 also witnessed this same event.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80987
Occurred: 2011-04-22 00:00 Local
Reported: 2011-04-23 14:05 Pacific
Duration: 15-25 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Square craft, 4 orange lights with 1 flashing light in center

4/22/11 approx. 12:00am

HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA On the night of April 21st around 12:00am PST (technically April 22nd), me and two others were having a cigarette outside of my sister's home, and noticed a helicopter coming in for landing at our local hospital (which is closeby her home). Shortly after the helicopter passed, we were conversating about something unimportant when I couldn't help but cut in and say, "it could just be a plane or another copter...but look at that thing, it looks so weird".

And the guys looked up and agreed, it was a very strange looking craft. But I always throw out something like "its probably just a governement plane"...so I don't look like an idiot assuming crazy things.

But the guys confirmed to me that they'd never seen anything like that before, and that it was quite low and easily visible at first then gained altitude quickly but almost unnoticeably as it moved North-bound and away from us. Way high above it, we noticed and heard a commercial jet-plane as it flew Southwest, and after the trailing engine sounds from the jet passed (and the UFO still in sight, slowly and very closeby) we were SURE that this object was emitting no noise. Within about 15 seconds it seemed to go from a few hundred feet above us, to about 30,000ft with effortless grace.

The craft itself had a large dark gray/black rectangular body. It was hard to see the actually body in the night sky, but it was the lights that were most obvious to me. And all that we could really desribe of the craft was the ventral surface (or underside), being the only side we could see very clearly. It had 4 lights in its four corners, all gleaming a constant orangish light, and in the center of the 4 lights was one flashing yellow or white light.

Being familiar with air traffic lights and landing lights, etc, I knew these were not normal lights nor was their positioning. And, because I know where our airport is located and the directions of our runway, I knew this was not a craft that had just taken off, nor was it coming in for landing while making its descent.

The movement of the craft was, as I said, effortlessly graceful.

When we first spotted it, it was going at a slow constant rate and staying at about the same altitude for probably a full 10 seconds, but then gained altitude very quickly going northbound and within seconds, was noticeably very far from us.

Posted 2011-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77370
Occurred: 2009-12-20 05:45 Local
Reported: 2010-08-23 00:25 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister ( Lone Tree Road), CA, USA

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

Unidentified Flying Object in Lone Tree Rd. San Benito County, Hollister

It seemed as tough there was a craft with a powerful beam of light searching for something, the intensity of the light was soo bright it seemed like search or light house. My friend as and were watching the saucer as it blinked with intensity. We immediately got into the car and drove down lone tree road because all this took place approximately on the top of Lone Tree Rd. The craft followed us down to a turn where it seemed to hoover at the end of the road where as my friend and I had to drive underneath it in order to leave.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-08-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102855
Occurred: 2009-10-21 20:00 Local
Reported: 2013-09-30 22:12 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 6

Location: Hollister, MO, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Landed

Unexplained object

One night in October, 2009, I heard an odd noise like a high pitched whirring, but thought nothing of it.

The next morning, I found an object in my back yard. It was pink/purple-ish and had a large hole in it. It was leathery to the touch and the clear gel was like soft gummybear. In the gel was a form that looked skeletal. The lower left looked like a skull of some sort (to me) and the rest looked like a body form.

I tried freezing it for awhile it was okay and about a week or so went by and it just deteriated and turned to goop. If there is anything you would like to ask, please reply.

This is not fake or a hoax.

Posted 2013-10-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70471
Occurred: 2009-06-06 00:01 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-06-12 11:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Orange glowing disc over Hollister, CA

I saw a round baseball size glowing orange ball that zipped horizontally back and forth several times, it glowed dim and then bright. It stopped moving and then just faded away.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68591
Occurred: 2009-02-10 12:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-12 10:17 Pacific
Duration: 8-10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, NC, USA

Shape: Cigar


Brilliant silver vertical cigar shaped object moving slowly which suddenly disappeared followed by a big flash.

On Tuesday, February 10, 2009 my brother came to my office at my workplace to debug my computer as I was having problems with it.

At approximately 11:15-11:30 am we walked out on the porch for a smoke break and my brother commented on an airplane he was looking at. When I looked up I saw a brilliant silver object that to me appeared oblong,(cigar shaped), vertical, and approximately 1-1/2 inches in height moving slowly from left to right.

When I remarked that it looked like it was standing straight up he agreed that it did appear to be vertical. We watched maybe 15-20 seconds and all of a sudden it was gone. It just blipped out and far to the right was a big flash and we watched for several minutes searching but it did not reappear.

Although there were a few thin clouds, the sky was clear and there was absolutely no way it could have disappeared behind them because they were too far away. Upon reflection, I recall having seen the same thing in the fall of 2008 while standing in my front yard and I recall thinking that it was odd that it disappeared so quickly and actually decided that it was just a reflection of some kind.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66292
Occurred: 2008-05-15 05:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-10-18 08:55 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, MO, USA

Shape: Other


Hollister MO boomerang 2 to 3 seconds boomerang object flew right over me. about 5 am

Im sure alot of the videos ect we see on tv and internet might be real. However if they are. What I seen doesnt match. I seen what I saw one time on a video on here somewhere, I dont remeber where. I went out in the am to have my morning cigerette. I always look up at the stars ect when im out smoking in the am, Theres alot of shooting stars ect... I was looking up to the sky, when a boomerang object flew right over the top of me. I have no idea what it was, but it was clear as day. It made no sound at all, It had no Lights that i could see on the bottom side of it. It almost looked kind of transperent, to a mirror chrome like object. It looked like it could have been man made, but it would be very hard,, the edges were so clean. Also the there was no sound and it moved so effortlessly. Im not a liar and i have no reason to lie. I saw what I saw, and yes it was a litgtle strange. I still think about it everyday. If i seen it again or a picture of it, I could easily identify it.

Thank You, ((nme deleted))



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53751
Occurred: 2006-11-30 05:00 Local
Reported: 2006-12-01 16:31 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


ORANGE ROUND GLOBE, Hollister, California - SAME DAY "EARTHQUAKE"

On November 30th, 2006 I previously reported on this website that I witnessed a ORANGE ROUND GLOBE which had a White Line attached to it on the Left Side. The Object was spotted at 5:00 in the morning from our bedroom window (sliding glass door) when I woke-up and noticed the object was 1st Stationary, 2nd began to slowly descend STRAIGHT DOWN. I could not longer see it as our Tall backyard Trees caused me to loose view of the Object. At that moment I noticed the neighbors backyard lights start to FLICKER OFF AND ON. Then I ran down the hall to the Kitchen to see if I could get a view of the object. But it was not in view any longer. However, at that moment I also noticed the other neighbors home from our Kitchen View Window their lights began to FLICKER OFF AND ON. (Then later that same day the town experianced an unusual type of EARTHQUAKE)as noted in the below article in the newspaper. Yes, this area is prone to Earthquakes but this one was UN-USUAL than all the others as indicated clearly im the article you can read. At one time SETI wanted to put their Scientific Instruments near the Pinnacle National Monument area. SETI trys to make other planetary contact with other planets. What is odd is that their was reports of local boys in the Pinnacles area that even reported seeing UFOS in that area. And as for me this is the 4th Object I have witnessed over the years in this same area in the same location more or less. I have even seen them when we lived on an old Ranch in a secluded area. Hollister Free-Lance Newspaper Small Quake Rattles Hollister- Thursday, November 30, 2006 Hollister - Hollister residents received a jolt Wednesday afternoon when a mostly harmless 4.0 earthquake struck the county, followed by two smaller quakes. "Of course, in San Benito County you get so many earthquakes," said Steve Walter, a seismologist with the United States Geological Survey. "But this one was a little unusual." The quake struck at 1:20pm, with its epicenter located near the intersection of Freitas and Mitchell roads, roughly three miles west of Hollister and five miles east of San Juan Bautista. It was ranked as a 4.0 or "light" earthquake on the Richter scale, with a 1.0 being a microquake and a 10 being a quake of awesome force. The quake originated 1.9 miles below the surface of the earth. This was followed by a microquake ranking 2.8 at 1:38pm. A third, even smaller microquake may have occurred afterward but was not confirmed by the USGS by press time. Neither the Hollister Police Department or San Benito County Sheriff's Department received any calls reporting damage. The quake was unusual for two reasons, said. San Benito County quakes most often originate from the San Andreas Fault area, or the Calaveras Fault. This one took place from a point between the two and cannot be confirmed to have originated from either. It was the first 4.0 or greater quake to have occurred in the area between the faults since at least 2000, according to the USGS. Also, most local earthquakes are characterized by horizontal motion, as the earth's plates move past one another. This quake, however, moved in a vertical fashion. "There were elements of horizontal motion, but most of it was vertical, and that's rare (in the area)," said. The quake could have been felt as far north as Pleasanton and as far south as Monterey, said. One quake report on the USGS Web site came from San Diego, but said it was highly unlikely. "Sometimes people hear there was an earthquake and think, 'Oh, that was what I felt,'" he said. "When usually it's just something like a truck going by."

Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53747
Occurred: 2006-11-30 05:00 Local
Reported: 2006-12-01 15:07 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


The 5:00 UFO sighting I reported previously on this site that was a ORANGE ROUND GLOBE with a WHITE LINE on the Left side going down gradually after standing stationary is the SAME DAY this EARTHQUAKE was reported and the Paper said the type of quake it was RARE!! Also to note I witnessed my neighbors Lights Flickering Off and On during the Event of the UFO siting. Earthquakes happen here all the time HOW EVER if you read this article you will read that this one was differant.

Free-Lance Newspaper Small Quake Rattles Hollister, California Thursday, November 30, 2006 Hollister - Hollister residents received a jolt Wednesday afternoon when a mostly harmless 4.0 earthquake struck the county, followed by two smaller quakes.

"Of course, in San Benito County you get so many earthquakes," said Steve Walter, a seismologist with the United States Geological Survey. "But this one was a little unusual." The quake struck at 1:20pm, with its epicenter located near the intersection of Freitas and Mitchell roads, roughly three miles west of Hollister and five miles east of San Juan Bautista. It was ranked as a 4.0 or "light" earthquake on the Richter scale, with a 1.0 being a microquake and a 10 being a quake of awesome force. The quake originated 1.9 miles below the surface of the earth.

This was followed by a microquake ranking 2.8 at 1:38pm. A third, even smaller microquake may have occurred afterward but was not confirmed by the USGS by press time.

Neither the Hollister Police Department or San Benito County Sheriff's Department received any calls reporting damage.

The quake was unusual for two reasons, Walter said. San Benito County quakes most often originate from the San Andreas Fault area, or the Calaveras Fault. This one took place from a point between the two and cannot be confirmed to have originated from either.

It was the first 4.0 or greater quake to have occurred in the area between the faults since at least 2000, according to the USGS.

Also, most local earthquakes are characterized by horizontal motion, as the earth's plates move past one another. This quake, however, moved in a vertical fashion.

"There were elements of horizontal motion, but most of it was vertical, and that's rare (in the area)," Walter said.

The quake could have been felt as far north as Pleasanton and as far south as Monterey, Walter said. One quake report on the USGS Web site came from San Diego, but Walter said it was highly unlikely.

"Sometimes people hear there was an earthquake and think, 'Oh, that was what I felt,'" he said. "When usually it's just something like a truck going by."

Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53708
Occurred: 2006-11-29 05:00 Local
Reported: 2006-11-30 06:42 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Other


Our master bedroom has a sliding door leading to patio. I sleep facing the sliding door where I can look out into our backyard at our tall Trees, Fence, Hot Tub, Birdbath area and all the Stars at night. I wake-up early to feed our Tabby Cats.

I happen to open my eyes and could see out of the bedroom window a large ROUND/CIRCULAR looking ORANGE Glowing BALL literally coming from the Sky slowly DOWN-WARD and on the left side of the Globe was a small white light that was in the shape of a Straight Line. It was not a big straight line but was attached to the ORANGE CIRCULAR object. I leaped out of bed to get a closer look but it went down fast enough that I lost view of it because our TALL TREES blocked the view. It looked to be distant enough from our home that it had to be near the outskirts of the Golf Course and near Tres Pinos a really small town that adjoins Hollister. Further out that way is Pinnacles National Monument area. NOTE: What is odd about it is that I left all the lights out in our house when this occured. And when the object went down my neighbors behind our home - their lights in their house started to FLICKER off and on as if someone in their house turned the lights on to look out and then turn them off. They flickered the lights several times. Then the house opposite our Kitchen Window that neighbor on that side of the house also had their lights FLICKER on and off. (I thought it odd that at the same time-frame I saw the Object that the Neighbors all had their lights Flicker off and on then off. This all happened at 5:00 in the morning as I looked at our Digital Clock in our bedroom nightstand to verify the time this took place. NOTE: Then that afternoon there was a EARTHQUAKE here in Hollister. It literally rattled and shook the DOORS and Fans above the Ceiling. (I have seen shooting stars before and orange bright stars burning out. This thing was differant. It did not fall from the sky. It was statinary for a few seconds then descending DOWN. ! **This i s the FOURTH time now in several years of seeing objects in this same area more or less within the vacinity. There have been reports of actual UFOS in the Pinnacle National Monument area and there was even some local jokes about it in the paper.

Local Newspaper: Small Quake Rattles Hollister Hollister - Hollister residents received a jolt Wednesday afternoon when a mostly harmless 4.0 earthquake struck the county, followed by two smaller quakes.




NUFORC Note:

One of MANY reports from same source. May not be a serious report. PD


Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53295
Occurred: 2006-11-07 00:00 Local
Reported: 2006-11-07 13:31 Pacific
Duration: at least two hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister (southeast of), CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Stationary object with lights

My son and his girlfriend watched for about two hours before awakening me shortly after midnight. The object looked like a bright planet. It did not move from its spot, but -- using binoculars -- it appeared to have large lights (blue, green, orange) that may or may not have been rotating around the outside. The object seemed to rotate on its axis because those lights would change from a horizontal plane to a vertical plane. Truly one of the most amazing sights in my 52 years! -




NUFORC Note:

Probable sighting the star Sirius, we believe. PD


Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50005
Occurred: 2006-04-07 06:05 Local
Reported: 2006-04-07 07:12 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Break of dawn, an orange sphere shooting thru the sky stops & hovers with an huge white light illuminating from it in a cone shape.

I thought It was a meteor shooting thru the sky as it looked larger than a shooting star but bright and orangish in color. It appeared to be gone when all of the sudden to the west something was in the sky and all I could see was a huge bright spotlight illuminating from it. I could not see the shape of the ufo as the light was too bright. It seem to be still or moving very slowly and I stood mesmerized watching it for about one minute. All of the sudden it was simply gone, no noise. I looked around frantically and did see a light shooting off in the distance to the South upward. I could then see a purple haze or vapor against the morning sky trailing off in the distance to the South.

I also noticed in the sky as I continued my walk just southeast, some angular shaped white vapor trails like those an airplane would normally leave. But since they were angular and zig zagging everywhere..I assume they also came from this ufo.



Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39425
Occurred: 2004-09-22 10:00 Local
Reported: 2004-09-22 11:29 Pacific
Duration: 12 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Other


These were 4 or 5 connected globs of white material floating down out of the sky, no sound, no aircraft seen.

This did not appear to be a craft but globules of white floating objects, connected.

There were about 4 or 5 globs of white gunk floating down out of the sky in a SW direction over the RV recreation area south of Hollister. There were no parachutes or balloons. These were white gobs of gunk connected by a string of more of the material and floating down out of the sky. There were 4 or 5 at the same time floating down in the same direction. Very strange.



Posted 2004-09-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25586
Occurred: 2002-10-14 20:00 Local
Reported: 2002-10-14 20:29 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes


Location: Hollister, NV, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Very Bright Light in the Western Sky over Hollister, NV on 10/14/02

Not sure it was a craft. Was driving down rt. 93 towards Jackpot, NV at around 8 PM on the 14th of October. I saw a Very bright light almost hovering, in the western sky, shining down from what appeared to be several miles up, and at first thought it was a helocopter, but no noise. There was a plume of white trailing the light and it was going a little up, not down as a meteor would. The light was very large and then suddening it went out. The sparkly plume then died out something like a firework would when it's at the end of the display. Then it was gone completely.

((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))

Posted 2002-10-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25158
Occurred: 2002-09-19 19:30 Local
Reported: 2002-09-19 19:51 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

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

I was following a contrail which was not the usual contrail, it had a very robust signature and a glowing aspect to it. It was heading south to north and all of the sudden it blew up?



((BEGIN ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE ABOUT LAUNCH))

Air Force Test Missile Out West
Fri Sep 20, 1:25 AM ET


VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - An Air Force missile test Thursday provided a spectacular light show seen over California and much of the West, as far away as Utah and New Mexico.

The colorful contrail was seen soon after the unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off at 7:36 p.m. from an underground silo at the Vandenberg military base north of Santa Barbara.

"The smoke went up in spirals as the sun was setting and turned into an orange, amber color. It was like a flower going into bloom pretty quickly," said Simon Cox, who saw it from a restaurant terrace in Santa Barbara.

The missile traveled about 4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, striking a predetermined target at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands, the Air Force said.

Vandenberg spokeswoman Kelly Gabel said clear conditions were responsible for the spectacular light show.

"We do this two or three times a year, but because the weather was so perfect we decided to launch it early," Gabel said. As a result, people were still awake to see it, and although the sun had set, sunlight below the horizon glinted off unspent fuel particles and water droplets.

"Suddenly we're getting calls from people as far away as New Mexico who saw it and want to know what it is," Gabel said.

The mission was directed by the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg and the 341th Space Wing and the 341st Space Wing, from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

The purpose was to test launch systems and the missile's accuracy and reliability.

((END ARTICLE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS))

NUFORC Note:

Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. Please see article. PD


Posted 2002-09-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25160
Occurred: 2002-09-19 19:30 Local
Reported: 2002-09-19 19:59 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 9

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

looked like a single landing light with a vapor trail that grew and grew till it was 8 to 10 times the size of the object, then with a big flash it was gone like a firework. there was a wavey vapor trail left in the sky for a long time afterwards



((BEGIN ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE ABOUT LAUNCH))

Air Force Test Missile Out West
Fri Sep 20, 1:25 AM ET


VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - An Air Force missile test Thursday provided a spectacular light show seen over California and much of the West, as far away as Utah and New Mexico.

The colorful contrail was seen soon after the unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off at 7:36 p.m. from an underground silo at the Vandenberg military base north of Santa Barbara.

"The smoke went up in spirals as the sun was setting and turned into an orange, amber color. It was like a flower going into bloom pretty quickly," said Simon Cox, who saw it from a restaurant terrace in Santa Barbara.

The missile traveled about 4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, striking a predetermined target at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands, the Air Force said.

Vandenberg spokeswoman Kelly Gabel said clear conditions were responsible for the spectacular light show.

"We do this two or three times a year, but because the weather was so perfect we decided to launch it early," Gabel said. As a result, people were still awake to see it, and although the sun had set, sunlight below the horizon glinted off unspent fuel particles and water droplets.

"Suddenly we're getting calls from people as far away as New Mexico who saw it and want to know what it is," Gabel said.

The mission was directed by the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg and the 341th Space Wing and the 341st Space Wing, from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

The purpose was to test launch systems and the missile's accuracy and reliability.

((END ARTICLE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS))

NUFORC Note:

Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. Please see article. PD


Posted 2002-09-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 184400
Occurred: 2001-08-02 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-11-21 08:30 Pacific
Duration: 10 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA
Location details: On Bolsa Rd. near Shore Rd.

Shape: Sphere
Color: Silver
Estimated Size: 13"-15"
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: East
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 2 feet
Estimated Speed: I was driving 65 MPH and passed me, maybe 80 MPH


It approached 3 cars before coming to my window

The Sphere traveled from my left at an angle and stopped at the window of the 1st car up ahead of me them came back to the next cars driver side window then flew over to the passenger side window, then it came back to 3rd cars driver side window then straight back to my driver side window. all these stops where split second stops. the sphere was about 13" round, silvery slightly luminated. This was around 23 years ago and don't tell people.

Posted 2024-11-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53089
Occurred: 2000-06-30 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-10-25 23:44 Pacific
Duration: 20/30 Minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Bright Round Object Winking Off and On Fast Manuevers and a Triangle Next Night Appeared

It was about 10:00/10:30 approx. more or less. I was laying on our bed in master-bedroom just gazing at the stars as it was a still/quite night. We have a sliding door from the bedroom and the kitchen area leading out to patio. I noticed a bright white, round object. What made me aware/alert that it was not a star was that it was Number 1: Making itself WINK in and OUT. 2: It made itself GROW LARGE & then GROW SMALL again repeatedly. This went on for awhile. 3: I decided to call a close friend of mine that I had worked with in the Aerospace Industry locally years ago to come over and see what I was witnessing. So she came over with one of her brothers to see the object. We went into the Kitchen and started to watch the object from the sliding glass door inside the house in the kitchen area as it was cold outside. We witnessed the object continue to WINK IN AND OUT and Change Size. Then we watched it do MANUEVERS at HIGH SPEEDS across the Sky then stop and then REVERT BACK to the original area it first was seen. We got excited. We also saw a Small Commerical Airplane in the area and that Airplane took off as fast as it could when it saw the OBJECT we was seeing. It got the heck out of the area as fast as it could. We all laughed together because we all thought gee we are glad we ain't up there with that strange object in the sky. My friends brother however after awhile he was in denial of what we was seeing so he made excused by saying it had to be someone pointing a flashlight in the sky playing tricks outside. I never bought into that theory as you would have to be an idiot not to realize the object we saw a flashlight could not perform that kind of manuever nor that high up in the sky as well as blink in and out and disapear from the naked eye and then reappear.

The next night I decided to borrow my friends husbands Binoculiars to view the sky and see if the object would reappear. This time it was ANOTHER object far up into the sky it was Triangle Shape in size with Three round objects underneath on each point of the craft. It was stationary. I placed a call this time to Nasa up in Palo Alto/Sunnyvale area in the Bay Area. A lady got me in touch with a well-known Scientist, book author who studied this type of stuff. He was a member of Mufon he and his partner came and interviewed, video-taped me.

Several years after these events while I was out in our Hot tub in the backyard I witnessed a Light PINK Translucent UFO that was able to Appear out of no where and it was almost in the shape of a FLY just to give you an idea of the SHAPE. It somewhat flowed and then disappeared. It was most incredible to have seen out of all the ones I have seen over the years.

So far I have seen 2 Orange Round Objects, 1 Triangle Object, 1 round Object, 1 Pinkish Translucent Object shape of a Fly.






NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We have assigned an approximate date above. PD


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2740
Occurred: 1997-10-16 19:05 Local
Reported: 1997-10-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Summary : Very dim light, extreme altatude, traveling from Pacific easterly aprox. over San Jose or S.F., dramatic turn to south/east toward Arazona or New Mexico, extreme speed, no heat trail, shape unknown due to altitude.

Object was at such altatude that size and distance are difficult to estimate. Object was spec of white light. Came from Pacific Ocean to the west, traveling east at extreme speed! Aprox. over central valley object stopped and then sped south/east in direction of southern California or Arazona. Duration was about 40 seconds. No sound, not aircraft, appeared high enough to be just outside of atnosphire, like a sattlelight except for the speed and dramatic direction change. PLEASE TELL ME IF ANYONE ELSE IN CALIF. SAW THIS, OR IF THERE WERE SIGHTINGS SOUTH OF HOLLISTER SHORTLY AFTER 1905????

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2730
Occurred: 1997-10-13 22:15 Local
Reported: 1997-10-14 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Summary : I was walking on a county road looking at the stars as I often do When I noticed a star becoming brighter, Then to my amazement it moved! It swooped with amazing speed towards the horizon. When it reached its destination it proceedeed to hover for a period of one to two minutes. I took cover behind a large bush along side the road. It had three lights on the craft that spun counter-clockwise and another beacon light that was on top of the craft that remained stationary. Then there was a tremendous flash and the object shot across the sky in a south-easternly direction and had disappeared within seconds. behind the Quien Sabe Mountains. was out of sight within seconds

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 920
Occurred: 1995-10-24 02:00 Local
Reported: 1995-10-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1 min.


Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53142
Occurred: 1980-06-30 09:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-10-29 16:01 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Disk


My UFO Sightings, My Gifts-Dreams/Premonitions

I recently reported various sightings of unidentified objects on your website. I however did not write to tell you that I had a dream on the Ranch that a UFO was hoovering over our house on the ranch. There was telepathic communication going on from the Craft to me in my dream-state. They told me that they have known me since I was about 8 years old and was aware of my age at the time of the dream. It was so vivid that I woke up and looked out the window as the sun was piercing through the window as I had the curtain pulled/drawn back. What was stranger was back in high school alone in my bedroom I was in a sleep coming out of a sleep (meaning my eyes where alert and I could feel the bed) Something was literally PULLING me like a force as I was on the bed. I recall Digging into the Sheets with my fingernails. It was my way to stop whatever it was trying to suck me out of my bed. At that moment I was laying in bed in Shock. I could not yell, nor talk. All I could feel was muscle spasms in my leg doing down my knee and I could actually hear my body making the noise. Then about several minutes or more I was finally able to get up and move around. Also by the time I was age 6 years old I have been gifted with seeing the Future and Predicting Events or things before they happen. I find it odd that, I have now seen in my life time 2 Orange Round Disks, 1 Triangle Disk, 1 Pinkish Translucent Craft shaped like a Fly, 1 Round/White Disk. I don' understand why I have been able to see these objects so much and that includes seen most of them with WITNESSES to boot.






NUFORC Note:

We usually do not concern ourselves with alleged dreams, but we include this report, principally because the source has included other, seemingly credible, reports. Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53088
Occurred: 1980-02-15 22:00 Local
Reported: 2006-10-25 23:18 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes more or less
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

I was in High School just got out of late Basketball Practice. My older brother came to pick me up and take me home. It was late evening. It was dark, cold outside. It was off Bolsa Road off Hwy 25 on old McConnell Road where this occured. Observation: 2 large orange glowing objects kept spinning (high rate of speed) side to side of one another. They were somewhat Oval/Egg shape. I recall that they spun almost oblong looking in other words not perfectly round. My brother asked me if I was seeing what he was seeing. He had stopped the Car on the one way road near our mailbox that was near the Apricot/Walnut orchard trees. I told him yes, what do you think it is ? He said I believe they are UFO's and then he told me he was scared. I did not take my eyes off the orange objects. I was more frozen then anything out of fear of what we were seeing. About that time I recall thinking to myself I wonder if anyone else is seeing what we are seeing. All I saw on the right side in the distance of Hwy 25. was one car going by. We were all alone on this one way road (McConnell). About that time my brother asked me what we should do? I said I don't know. He said should we call the cops or should we just go home and tell our mom. I wanted to keep looking at the objects. But he started to get more scared of what we were seeing. So we went home and my brother told my mom who was in the Kitchen when we returned home. To this day that brother is a Director of Engineers in Silicon Valley. I brought it up to him about three years ago and he was uncomfortable about the subject and was in denial (to himself) of the subject. It was as if he wanted it to all go away and NEVER be brought up again. So I never talk about it to him out of respect.






NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We have assigned an approximate date above. PD


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152539
Occurred: 1979-11-21 22:00 Local
Reported: 2020-01-12 16:40 Pacific
Duration: 25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Landed

Huge Triangle, "headlight orbs" 20 feet off the ground with a blue column of light underneath them, and a 7.5-8.5 foot tall r

Huge Triangle, "headlight orbs" 20 feet off the ground with a blue column of light underneath them, and a 7.5-8.5 foot tall red human type ET. The night before Thanksgiving & Thanksgiving Day, 11/21/79 & 11/22/79, Hollister, CA. out in the country, but not too far away from downtown Hollister. The night of 11/21/79 I went to my car to get my suitcase. I set it on the ground, looked up and saw two lights about 20 feet off the ground, spaced apart about the distance of headlights. They were a bright, illuminated golden color. I'd never seen that color of light before, very bright but not glaring. They were on top of a light blue column of light. A vibration went though me. I knew they weren't from here. It was completely silent.

I sidled around the front of my car, keeping my eyes on the lights and went into a building to get my friend. We both stood shoulder to shoulder looking at these bright, golden lights and the light blue column of light underneath them. After awhile, the lights started to get brighter and brighter. My friend left to get her brother. I stood watching the lights as they became brighter. When they were becoming too bright, I went to turn my head. The lights flashed brighter into my eyes before my head turned. I went to get my friends.

When the four of us came back out, seconds later, the lights were gone. We stood there looking around and couldn't see anything. Then I heard the smoothest, quietest engine I had ever heard and it was close by to us. I asked my friend if she could hear the engine and she said yes. We couldn't see anything. After a little while longer, I looked up at the sky and saw a huge, silent equilateral triangle flying overhead. I could see the lights in the vertices, not an aircraft. As we watched it fly silently along, a huge beam of light was turned on in the direction they were flying. We watched it fly out of sight.

When it flew out of sight, my friends started talking about a strange, red light in the center of the triangle of lights. They said it had a strange optical effect. I didn't see the red light. All I saw was the huge magnificent triangle created by the 3 vertex lights. I wondered if the reason I couldn't see the red light in the center was because the "headlight orbs" had flashed the lights into my eyes before I turned my head.

The next day, Thanksgiving, I went to the back of the building to use the toilet. The buildings had been a poultry farm years earlier. My boyfriend converted one of them into an antique furniture restoration business.There were missing boards on the side of the building where he had put in a toilet. I was sitting on the toilet peeing, looking out through the missing board spaces towards the front area of two parallel buildings. A 7.5-8.5 tall, red colored skin, human type male ET walked into the space between the two building with his back towards me. He came from the direction of the other building. I couldn't see the front of the other building. He circled around with his back towards me, motioning his right arm up and down on his side and moved out of my sight. It was the motion people use to get someone's attention. Seconds later he came into the open area between the two building again. He had his back towards me, motioned his right arm up and down on his right side and! circled back around out of my sight.

He had a very elongated torso and very long arms. His upper back and shoulders were very broad and really strong looking. He was really big, fit and strong! I didn't any hair on his head. I didn't see any pants, but I didn't see his butt either. What really stood out was how elongated his torso and arms were, and how broad and strong his upper back was. The red color of his skin also stood out. It was the color of red that a very overheated, or very sunburned white person would have. I asked everyone in the vicinity if they had seen him or knew anyone who could fit his description. No one else saw him or knew anyone who looked like him. I had never seen anyone with his type of physique or skin color before that day, and have never seen anyone who looks like him since then.

I have been questioned as to why he would have his back towards me. If he had been standing there watching me pee, I would have considered that intrusive. Walking into the space between the two buildings with his back towards me, gave me an opportunity to get a general impression of body type and skin color. I don't know if the skin color was actual or caused by other reasons. Plus, it was a jaw dropping experience seeing him. Coming back out into the open space a 2nd time gave me the chance to confirm to myself, yes, I did see him. His arm motioning was what humans do to get someone's attention.

The night we saw the "headlight orbs" and the triangle I didn't feel afraid. It wasn't eerie. It was calm. I felt akin, meaning somehow we were related.. I had never had the experience of feeling akin and that was before I saw the ET. .I sensed a living presence and it wasn't alien. It wasn't from this world though! I also felt that night that they are my parents.. That also was before I saw the ET. I knew "they" weren't my earth parents. I did however have a strong feeling that I was related somehow - maybe a parent race or related because we are both human types. When I saw him the next day, it confirmed my sense of, "akin or a kin." I was an Art student at U.C. Davis, CA at the time. I went down to Hollister, CA to spend Thanksgiving vacation with my boyfriend.

I had an interesting related coincidence years later. I was an administrative assistant at U.C. Davis working in the Department of Natural Resources. .I was given a form to type up. The former poultry farm where I had the UFO and ET experience was up for sale. The U.C. Davis Dept. of Natural Resources was considering purchasing it and was ordering an inspection done of the property. I got a different job and didn't followup on what was in the inspection or if they purchased the property.

I read on your site that the large triangle craft was sighted flying over Austin, TX, six days before our sighting in Hollister, CA.

Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23528
Occurred: 1979-06-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-06-29 20:59 Pacific
Duration: 2 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Egg


ORANGE BRIGHT EGG SHAPED OBJECTS

My Brother picked me up late from Basketball Practice. Drove me home off Bolsa Road. It was Cold and very dark out that evening as it was Winter Season. Our road we lived on was not a (through road). It was out in the Country which surrounded Agriculture Fields and Hills. When we got to our Mail box off the side of the road (which allows you to turn onto our small path leading to our home my brother (stopped the car near the mail box). We both got silent as we both were looking at the same thing at about the same time. He finally said; do you see what I see? I could not look at him, I was scared and could not believe what I was seeing myself. It was (two Egg Shaped round objects) spinning as fast as they could (side to side within space between them). They where in the (Deepest Bright Orange Colors) I had ever seen. We just sat there staring at them too frightened. (They appeared out of no where) My brother finally said; come on lets go home. When we got near our home my brother asked if we should call and report it to the Police our tell our mother what we saw. I said NO, lets just tell mom. I never forgot that experience. To this day my brother don't care to talk about it as he is a Engineer. I don't think to this day he really wants to believe or accept what he saw. So, we don't talk about it. I know exactly what we saw and deep down I know he does also.



NUFORC Note:

Date in 1979 is approximate. One of several reports from the same source. PD


Posted 2002-07-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53116
Occurred: 1978-06-30 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-10-27 20:15 Pacific
Duration: 15:00/20:00
No of observers: 3

Location: Hollister, CA, USA

Shape: Disk


Silver Disk Shape Object Flys over Motorcross Hill Climbers Heads in Hollister, CA

It was approx. 1977/1978 era and was a little the the early afternoon.

My brothers and our neighbor took their Dirtbike Motorcycles out to go ride off Hwy. 25 in Hollister, CA in a place known locally back in them days as "The Pitts". It is adjacent to the Police Shooting range now. But back in them days it was a sandy/dirt hill that local kids would (sneak onto this private property) and do what Motorcross riders call "Hill Climbing".

My two brothers were hill climbing with our neighbor when they all three spotted in daylight, clear day, a Silver Disk come out of no where and sneak up on them over their heads in the sky (yet close enough for them to see the object). They got to the top of the hillside and stopped their dirtbikes looking at it. They all said ; what is that ?

They got so spooked and scared they rode their dirtbikes home. I happen to be in the kitchen with my mom. They came in with so much excitment and fear they told me of what they saw. But was still so scared they stopped talking about it.

My mom was so scared for them she told them not to be going out to the Pitts to ride anymore. She said, I told you boys to stay away from that private property.

The one brother is now a Director of Engineers for a Government Contracting Company in Silicon Valley.

The other brother is a Chemical Engineer in Silicon Valley.

The other brother works in Construction.

The neighbor boy was a Sargeant in the Army when he got older.

These are all level headed, smart individuals.




NUFORC Note:

Date in 1979 is approximate. One of several reports from the same source. We requested that the witness have her brothers submit reports, as well, but she responds that that is not possible, for some reason. We are unable to certify that this is intended as a serious report. PD


Posted 2006-10-30