NUFORC UFO Sighting 175005
Occurred: 2023-03-12 19:21 Local
Reported: 2023-03-14 20:53 Pacific
Duration: A couple of seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, CA, USA
Location details: 32.85061° N, 115.59729° W

Shape: Teardrop
Explanation: Camera Anomaly - Certain
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Saw 3 blue lights after taking photo

I was on a Delta flight 652 on 3/12/23 and we were about 20 minutes before landing in LAX. At 7:21 pm, I took 3 consecutive photos of the horizon with my iPhone. I noticed the 3 blue lights in the photos the following day. The location on my iPhone showed “Imperial”.




Posted 2023-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171382
Occurred: 2022-08-24 23:30 Local
Reported: 2022-08-24 21:58 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA
Location details: 55 south

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object

Object accelerated through the sky heading south then stopped and headed north and remained stationary. Object is still stationary

Object still in sky, appears to be doing surveillance. Was rapidly moving south then switched trajectory to North. Object is now stationary.










Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167867
Occurred: 2022-05-01 14:51 Local
Reported: 2022-05-13 07:46 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 25



Posted 2022-05-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167573
Occurred: 2022-04-21 10:06 Local
Reported: 2022-04-21 20:16 Pacific
Duration: About 3 mins.
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, PA, USA
Location details: From my front yard

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright very slow no Soundwave very bright

Was very bright white very slow no sound cigar shaped traveling north to south west. was in.sight for about 2 or 3 mins. This was at 10:06 pm had to be about 2 or 3 football fields long.













Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167325
Occurred: 2022-03-30 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-04-01 09:08 Pacific
Duration: 4-5 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Salton City, CA, USA
Location details: Near my district office at the intersection of the 86 S Highway and the S 22 Brega Springs Highway

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

My friend and I witness approximately 13 very bright amber yellow round lights that held in a hover position they changed formation

We witnesses bright large amber yellow lights over the Salton city area at about 10 o’clock at night we stopped the car to get out we were very close probably within a mile or two appeared to coming towards us first and got larger I’m a private pilot and I did not hear an engine a jet no rotor wash they appear to be hovering but then in a very quick manner of the 13 to 10 lights four of them burned out instantly or just disappeared vanished and then there was a linear chain that went on a Wright degree angle all in a line at about a 45° angle and then it quickly turned into two triangles one on top of the other point-to-point one inverted one normal but then it went to a formation that reminded me of a the Air Force flying over the channel in World War II kind of a staggered on top of each other wingman formation and then two of them disappeared or the lights just went out they got really small like they were heading eastbound it appeared and just disappeared and then one by one they just disappeared it look like they got smaller and they vanished was very very surreal and bizarre










Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162810
Occurred: 2021-04-16 14:42 Local
Reported: 2021-04-22 09:14 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 0

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 25

Posted 2021-04-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159312
Occurred: 2020-09-09 22:00 Local
Reported: 2020-09-13 22:05 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Winterhaven, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Twinkling fast moving light/lights in a non-linear trajectory at high speeds

Star like twinkling - multiple lights, moving in a non-linear way at very high speeds and defying typical known flight patterns of aircraft or drones. High in the sky, could not make out any shape other than the light/lights. Saw it in the distance for almost 90 mins, saw it in the sky close enough to record video for about 5 mins

Posted 2020-11-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150511
Occurred: 2019-11-09 10:00 Local
Reported: 2019-11-09 21:46 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

Around 10:05 p.m. November 9, 2019 I was sitting outside my trailer looking at the sky when I seen a ball of light falling from the sky I immediately yelled at my roommate to come outside to see what I was seeing, by the time she made it too the door it had disappeared behind the trees that where a nice distance away, she went back in and not even ten minutes after that i seen two balls of light that where maybe a quarter size of the moon come out of nowhere and fly across the sky, they where maybe thirty feet away from each other and flew toward the exact same spot that I seen the first ball of light fell from the sky, I yelled my stepsons name to run outside, and we both tried to record it but was not able to get it in time. About 15 minutes after that we sat and watched about ten to twelve jets fly across the sky leaving white smoke streaks everywhere. I truly believe that we where not the only ones who saw it, so I hope others report if they saw anything.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 148876
Occurred: 2019-09-15 22:15 Local
Reported: 2019-09-16 08:53 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Glowing white flying wing overhead, very low and completely silent.

Sitting on the deck behind my house I noticed something in my peripheral flying above me coming from the North and heading South directly over my house. I was sitting facing North looking at the back of my house, I didn't get a great view of it because I was turning to see it directly over me I was trying to grab my glasses at the same time. It was Triangle shaped or more like a flying wing and it flew low and completely silent over me and vanished over the tree line behind me. I had thought it might be higher in the sky and much larger but judging by the way it appeared over my roof and then vanished over the tree line I knew my inclination that it was very low was likely accurate. It was white but glowing almost like it had a fog around it or like some sort of ghostly apparition. I had my phone in my lap, but it happened so fast and it was so low that it came in and then out of my visual space in less than 10 seconds. Here’s where I’ll put my though! ts about what I think but I can’t necessarily confirm size and speed. I fly drones, so I believe the height of this thing was about 150’ high or under and from that height I’m sort of guessing but it must have been at least 20’ from wing tip to wing tip and was moving at approx. 40mph. There was another entry on your National UFO reporting site for Missouri from 11/26/2018 in Columbia, Missouri that explained almost the exact same thing but they saw it from more of a distance away than I was able too.

Posted 2019-09-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145164
Occurred: 2019-03-14 07:30 Local
Reported: 2019-03-14 01:41 Pacific
Duration: 60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Niland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Object appeared at a height of around 500 feet above the ground near Saltin Sea/chocolate mountains military gunnery range. At first I was watching a helicopter fly across the Saltin Sea. Then a triangular shaped set of lights appeared above it and moved in front of the helicopter.

The three green lights seemed odd. Not a normal air craft. Possibly military top secret.

Full description of sighting. Three green pulsing lights, triangular formation, followed closely by a helicopter moving from north west to south east.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2019-03-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144924
Occurred: 2019-01-31 20:03 Local
Reported: 2019-02-17 17:20 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Winterhaven, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Left a trail

Bright white round with white/orange sparks tail disapeared over the Yuma Proving Grounds airport.

Thursday January 31, 2019, UFO sighting. On 1-31-19 at 8:03 PM looking out my east facing window, I observed a bright white object moving from west to east at a very high speed. It came into my view at about due north and traveled about 30 degrees west before blinking out in about 2 to 3 seconds. It was about 25 degrees above my level eye site view and flying level (horizontally level). It was larger than a pencil in diameter and smaller than a dime at my arm’s length. The object had a white tail that was about 5 times as long as the diameter. When the object got near the end of the flight the object disappeared and the tail is all the I could see, and it had turned to what appeared to be orange sparks. My coordinates are N 32.861848 and W 114.503079.

The object had to be at least an estimated 3 miles north of my position due to some mountains to my west that would have been in its path at the altitude it appeared to be. The object looked like it would have been disappearing over the Yuma Proving Grounds Army airfield.

My wife and I are Snow Birds and we live in a motor home full time. We travel from the Northwest to the Yuma area for the winters. She is a retired Accountant and I am a retired Engineer. We are boondocking on a BLM Long Term Visitors Area that is on the California side of the Colorado River. We can see the Yuma Proving Grounds Walker Gate and the Howard Gate areas from our campsite.

Posted 2019-02-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 183214
Occurred: 2018-10-31 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-09-27 02:04 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds to a minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, CA, USA
Location details: Victoria Ranch Neighborhood

Shape: Formation
Color: Red/Orange
Estimated Size: Possibly 600ft long
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North from our house
Angle of Elevation: 46
Closest Distance: 0.25 miles away
Estimated Speed: Did not move
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large Cigar Formation UFO over neighborhood houses

I remember back when I used to live in Imperial me and my brother were outside giving candies to the trick or treaters during Halloween, sitting on our porch back in 2018. Entire night was going as usual until about 7:30-8:00pm when I had handed candy to a trick or treater and my brother was busy giving candy to like 4 other kids, I was just kind of relaxing looking at the sky when I saw a massive glowing red light flash once out of the darkness in the sky with it then being accompanied by another one and then another one making it a series of five lights flashing from a left to right sequence. The part that got me was the fact that when they dimmed out after the flash was that there was no way you could tell anything was in the sky in the first place, there was no dark mass no nothing just a regular night sky. The lights as well by themselves were massive as I remember, probably as big as a house underneath them. A singular light. I then remember kind of hitting my brother on his shoulder to kind of get his attention to what was happening in front of us, but he kind of shrugged it off because again he was busy with the trick or treaters. I’d say the entire experience lasted about 20 seconds and they flashed left to right about 4 times within this moment. But man I remember seeing it and actually being appalled by the sheer size of whatever this thing was in the sky, with again one light being the size of a house underneath it, and if all 4 lights were an entire ship connected, my god. I remember he saw the very last of its sequencing before it stopped shining, so his memory of this experience is kind of vague but I remember it like it was yesterday. So creepy though that right when the flashing was over there was absolutely no trace to anything in the sky. If you’d looked down for that time you would have never noticed a thing. And it never moved away or anything, just completely stationed, so it very well could have still been in the sky just no longer showing its colors, which is what really frightened me.

Posted 2024-09-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143101
Occurred: 2018-09-14 05:45 Local
Reported: 2018-09-14 04:46 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

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

Lights and changing shapes with one master light

My wife woke me up at 05:40 ecstatic over something outside. We proceeded out to our driveway where we viewed a group of white orbs or lights moving in all different directions around one main orb or light.

The movement was from southwest and moved in a north to northe east direction. At several points during the 15 to 20 minutes we noticed that the shape change from round to triangle and then back to round. The smaller orbs or lights were moving erratically around the stationary or very slow moving center orb or light.

The moved at a very slow rate of speed in the direction of travel but the smaller orbs or lights moved extramly fast around the main orb or light creating the different shapes. It only disappeared due to the sun coming up.

Posted 2018-09-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144997
Occurred: 2018-01-17 19:00 Local
Reported: 2019-02-24 23:16 Pacific
Duration: sporadic 5 seconds severa
No of observers: 2

Location: Salton Sea, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

Multiple fireballs, sonic booms and a craft.

A friend and I drove from Los Angeles area out to the Salton Sea area on 01/17/18. We were going out that way to shoot astro photography, so we had all our camera gear. On the way out when we were on highway 111 I believe, when we saw a group of fireballs in the sky. They illuminated one after another going in a line what seemed like 2 or 300 feet in the air. I think there were about five or six in the first cluster we saw. One would light up really bright just like a ball of fire, then as it was going out after 1 second or so the next would light up, so on and so forth. We were pretty astounded at the sight of them and couldn't figure out what it was. I was thinking some sort of oil pipe we couldn't see burning off fumes or something. We really had no idea. We kept driving another 30 minutes or so and arrived at the Salton sea area. We were in the Bombay beach ruins section. Soon after we arrived we saw another group of fireballs shoot through the sky. I set up my tripod and camera and started shooting continuously trying to capture the fireballs.

I have included the one picture I got in unedited format, edited, zoomed and highly contrasted. I hate it when I see ufo images that look fake or terrible. I wanted to include all the high res pics and zooms and what not.

Our night was already feeling pretty special from the fireballs when we heard a very low and loud sonic boom. We both looked at each other like "did you just hear that?" We kept shooting and over the night saw a couple more groups of fireballs and heard about 7 to 10 more sonic booms. All of this was seeming very strange. We decided to walk up to another part of the beach area. While we were in this area we saw two lights coming over the Salton sea towards us. It was very dark, the craft was silent. It was cigar shaped and had a green light on the front and a white light on the back. It was a couple hundred feet in the air and moved completely silently. Since it was so dark and it was moving I wasn't able to get an image other than the green and white lights. It looked and moved like a blimp, but we could not see it and the fact that it came after fireballs and sonic booms made it feel even stranger.

I don't know if there is a military base out there or what was going on. I'd love to hear if you've had more sightings out there of if any of this can be explained.

Posted 2019-02-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 121641
Occurred: 2015-09-02 21:45 Local
Reported: 2015-09-02 21:55 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Salton Sea, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Once again strange lights in sky.

Went out side with family and we seen the strange lights once again. We had seen the lights on August 19, 2015.

And today again September, 2 2015. Lights are red orange and round they disappear and reappear.

I was able to take a few pictures. Very strange.







NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. Hence, we cannot confirm the time and date of the alleged sighting, and we are unable to request that a copy of the photos be forwarded to our Center. PD


Posted 2015-09-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 121109
Occurred: 2015-08-19 23:00 Local
Reported: 2015-08-20 11:11 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Salton Sea, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Four strange red orange lights.

We went outside at 11:00pm, on 08/19/2015, there were strange red orange flashing lights disappearing and reappearing. They were in sky for about 15 minutes or more.

I took a few pictures with my phone and one of the pictures shows 4 round objects 3 are like yellow greenish and 1 red object on one of the objects. It showed a strange figure, like really strange. I can't believe what I see in this picture.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2015-08-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 120743
Occurred: 2015-07-29 22:00 Local
Reported: 2015-07-30 08:55 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Salton City, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright yellow circle lights.

4 circular shaped, bright yellowish, lights, shining and moving across the dark sky. Lining up into one three disappears, and then the 4th also just vanishes into the sky.

Posted 2015-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112119
Occurred: 2014-08-01 23:00 Local
Reported: 2014-08-02 09:58 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Imperial, PA, USA

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

4 bright circles in the dark sky

We saw 2 circles then 15min later moves to 3 circles of light then ended up being 4 circles flying in a circle very fast very bright for up to an hour moving all around the sky.

Posted 2014-08-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109445
Occurred: 2014-05-18 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-05-19 21:33 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Salton Sea Beach, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Animals reacted

Two or three orange lights hovered, disappears, then reappeared for about fifteen minutes.

One orange light hovered soundlessly about 100 yards away. Another orange light joined it and the two went out over the lake to the east. they seemed to stop, regrouped, then disappeared only to reappear a minute later and seemed to be coming back toward my vantage point.

No noise, just lights acting mysteriously.

I managed to unprofessionally video three, three minute tapes.

Posted 2014-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107545
Occurred: 2014-02-28 22:30 Local
Reported: 2014-03-01 06:33 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Other


Bright orange lights flying a North/West direction, large groups at first then one at a time.

I was going out to my car, and noticed bright lights in the sky. I first thought they were stars. Then I noticed they were moving quickly heading North/West. They looked like large bright orange lights. They were in large groups at first, then the groups started to get smaller. I grabbed my cell phone and took a short minute and a half video. Then I woke my wife to show her. We watched for a few minutes until they started coming one at a time. They all followed the same course except the very last one. The last one looked like it was off course, or separated from the others. Then all of the sudden, the very last one just disappeared. Then about 5 minutes later, a helicopter flew the exact path they did, but in a South/East direction.

Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106860
Occurred: 2014-02-01 20:30 Local
Reported: 2014-02-01 20:40 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 5

Location: Imperial, PA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

2 lights circling/chasing each other

Two hazy white lights were seen circling/chasing each other tonight by myself and my husband and three children.

The speed and paths of the lights varied. Sometimes the lights came close together, sometimes it appeared as if they were chasing each other.

No sound was heard. No beam of light was seen, like you would expect to see from a spot light or a search light. The lights would temporarily disappear behind the clouds, making it seem as if the source of lights were from above the clouds.

After we had watched the lights for over an hour, the lights gradually started to move slower and became dimmer, to the point we could no longer see them.

I tried taking a video or picture, but the street lights were too bright and the mystery lights weren't visible in the videos and pictures.

Posted 2014-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 103455
Occurred: 2013-10-21 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-10-21 20:19 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Changed Colo

We were sitting on back deck talking and looking at the moon and ski she we saw a glowing diamond like shape in ski. I had my phone and snapped a pic and when I went to snap another it distorted my picture and then tried again and distorted it again. When we went to look at first one there wasn't anything in it but darkness.

Posted 2013-10-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 103144
Occurred: 2013-10-11 19:33 Local
Reported: 2013-10-11 19:37 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 3

Location: Winterhaven, CA, USA

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

Saw up to 5 orbs in the sky at about 1900 hours. Went on for a while.

3 in the formation of a triangle and one quite a distance from that formation.

I'm convinced it was UFOS.

Posted 2013-10-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101455
Occurred: 2013-07-13 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-08-23 12:15 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Redish glowing round light which suddenly disappeared

My house is located at the top of a hill on a private road at the edge of a state park. While sitting in the driveway with two friends about 10 pm on Saturday, July 13, my female friend said, “What is that?”

Coming from the southeast over the valley was a bright reddish glowing object, about the level that a small plane would fly at, and traveling at the speed of a small plane, traveling on a southwest path some distance away. My male friend got out his binoculars which have excellent optics and looked at the object. He said he had no idea what it was - no wings, no noise, just a round glowing light. I looked at it through the binoculars and saw only a bright orange-red glow. She looked at it and saw a tint of blue besides the red. We all heard no noise, saw only a round glowing object with no wings or discernible features. He watched it the longest and said it turned yellowish and disappeared. She and I could not see it at that point because our view was blo! cked by trees. She commented that there is no place to land around here. He insisted it did not land; it was still traveling when it turned yellowish and disappeared.

I have not seen anything like this before, and it definitely was not a Chinese lantern since we all viewed it through excellent binoculars and saw no flame or any features.

I am in my 60s and my two friends are middle 50s. All of us have technical backgrounds. I do not drink and my friends were not drinking that evening.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 97805
Occurred: 2013-05-22 19:00 Local
Reported: 2013-05-22 18:45 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Circle


Large round white ball flying across the sky super fast.

A floating white circle that made no noise but was rather large shot across the sky at a very fast rate of speed.

No engine sounds could be heard and the object moved in a perfect straight line.

Posted 2013-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92439
Occurred: 2012-08-29 21:30 Local
Reported: 2012-09-03 03:26 Pacific
Duration: 35 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Imperial, CA, USA

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

Amber cigar shaped object with segmented light in zig zag pattern, reappearing 3 miles away in a giant ferris wheel shaped object.

I was driving N/B on SR-86 approaching the intersection of Aten Road. This is a metropolitan desert community. The vicinity is a commercial/light industrial area with farm fields on the outskirts. The Imperial County Municipal Airport is immediately to the N/W of the intersection. The weather was clear and there were light streaks of clouds in the sky highlighted by the moonlight. There was a bright full moon and bright stars.

When approximately 1/2 mile from the intersection, I observed just east of me, a dull amber glowing, cigar shaped object in the sky with a zig zag or snake-like pattern of multiple colored individual lights adjacent to the amber object. The amber portion was much larger than the multiple colored lights. The multiple colored lights seemed disconnected to the amber object and were all evenly spaced from one another. The entire group appeared to be at least 500 feet from end to end, again, it did not appear to be solid, but instead, segmented. The individual lights adjacent to the amber cigar shaped object were yellow, green, red, and blue, respectively. There might have been other colors of lights, but I do not recall. All of the multi-colored lights were rectangular and solid. There was no display of any sort of blinking night-time aviation flight lights.

The object was estimated to be at an altitude of at least 3,000 feet, although it was hard to discern because it was night time. It appeared to be stationary. After about 10 seconds, it suddenly disappeared and you could see slight cloud streaks and stars in the background where it had been. It was not like a solid object that merely blacked out but was still there, in which case it would block out any objects behind it. Instead, it was completely gone.

About one second later, another object, or possibly the same one, just suddenly appeared from nowhere, about 3 miles further north, probably in the vicinity of SR-86 and Keystone Road., and about 1/4 east of that intersection. This time, it appeared to be in the form of a giant Ferris wheel in the sky: the same individual multi-colored lights were in a wheel shape that was vertically turned on its axes and at about a 45 degree angle. I could not discern whether the center was solid as that portion of it was too dull. The entire object was surrounded by a very soft white aura or haze. This too was completely stationary, not moving or rotating. The entire object was much larger than the previous one that first appeared to the south. It too was at least 500 feet in diameter. This stayed in view for at least 15 seconds, and then faded away to a very bright, small amber glowing cigar shaped object that remained stationary. After about 10 seconds, it suddenly disappeared.! I remained in the vicinity for at least 15 minutes to see if it, or they might reappear, but there was no further activity. I am very familiar with the area and the activity in and around the airport. This certainly had nothing to do with airport activity or any sort of night time crop dusting activities.

Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 91845
Occurred: 2012-08-12 19:30 Local
Reported: 2012-08-15 13:20 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Niland, CA, USA

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

Fireball in the sky with small craft and missing time

I live in a small camper, off grid, in the southern California desert. I was outside last night 08-14-2012 (I thought) around 7:30PM. I sensed something in the sky, looked up and a few seconds later I saw a large bright fireball appear and move upwards. There was no visible craft near the fireball. The fireball left a single (short) very bright trail which then split into two separate trails and recombined back into one. The trails were intermittent (visible then not visible). After the trail stopped, a very small craft (in relation to the trails) appeared by itself with a violet aura around it. It was there for a for a few seconds then disappeared (did not appear to move off, just disappeared). The trail began again farther up (but with no visible craft). It is difficult to judge what the size of the craft was because of the distance it was from me. There was no sound noticeable at any time. Total time of event was a little over one minute.

I thought this happened last night (08-14-2012). However, when I went to place the date/time stamp on the images, the date said 08-12-2012. I checked the camera and the date/time is correct. I cannot account for the time differential. I do have memories of the last few days. However, when I try to remember specifics about that time, my memories are incomplete/jumbled. This has happened quite a few times before. Usually it’s almost impossible to reconcile such time inconsistencies unless there is some type of anomaly that occurs (in this case photos with a time/date stamp, or a receipt, a specific event or some other type of evidence that can be used as an anchor point to help account for any missing time). Photos are being emailed separately.

Posted 2012-08-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86282
Occurred: 2011-12-31 23:57 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-01-02 13:32 Pacific
Duration: 20 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three glowing lights and one trianguler craft

Yes I know a sighting right before midnight on New Year eve could be mistaken for fireworks etc. But what I saw was not fireworks, But here goes.

The first object appeared out of the South at first it looked like an airplane when the object appeared overhead the object was a pale glowing light. No strobe on the craft was seen as you would see on private or commercial aircraft. At first I thought the craft was low flying but the craft I believe was at very high altitude and moving at a high rate of speed it almost looked like the craft for a second reflected the sun so I thought that perhaps it is a satellite.

The second craft appeared on the same trajectory as the craft got closer and saw that it looks just like the first craft at this point I dismissed the first craft as being a satellite. The chararesitics were the same pale light seemed to be at an extereme altitude. This craft appeared to look slow but again because of the high altitude, once you figure in the altitude you realize the the high rate of speed they ate traveling.

The third craft came in about 5mins later perhaps a little more SSE so I had move about 300 ft to get a better view of the object, the trajectory was the same South to North the object had the same chararestics as the first two objects no difference at all.

The fourth object appeared about 7 mins later but was diffent that the first three the craft looked bigger you could just barely see the craft. The craft was illuminated very dimly with white lights that were pale this craft also looked very high in altitude so size of the craft was hard to to tell however the craft a triangular shape. None of the four crafts had any sound what so ever. I watched the sky for thirty more mins and did not see any other objects.

Note I see aircraft, commercial and military in the night skies quite often so I know what those objects look like. I am thinking what I saw may have been some sort of military craft. Or perhaps some other “earthly explanation But I have not seen objects like this in the night sky before.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86207
Occurred: 2011-12-27 15:50 Local
Reported: 2011-12-31 23:01 Pacific
Duration: 10 to 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Fireball


Saw two reddish orange orbs or objects come down from the clouds in Imperial, MO while driving north on I-55

I was driving north on I-55 in Imperial, MO towards St. Louis, MO. The sky was blue with a lot of scattered fluffy white clouds, temperature was warm for December-in the 50's. All of a sudden I saw two reddish orange round objects. They kind of looked like fireballs, but were traveling together. They came down from the sky, hovered, moved to the left together-then shot back up into the clouds. I was just sitting there while driving, with my mouth open in astonishment! I wondered what the other people thought if they just saw the same thing I had! It definitely did not look like anything I had ever seen before, in broad daylight.

Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82364
Occurred: 2011-07-09 21:30 Local
Reported: 2011-07-09 21:49 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

Reddish orange fireball in sky in Imperial, MO

Around 9:30 pm on both July 4th and July 9th, my husband and I saw what appeared to be a fireball that was moving from south to north in a straight horizontal line. The object went horizontal for a period of maybe 6-7 seconds toward our location then went vertical into the sky until it disappeared. It seemed to be as high in altitude as a jet would be.

When the object was going horizontal, it made a 90 degree turn going vertical at what seemed to be a high rate of speed into the atmosphere to the point that we could not see the object any longer. There was no sound. The color of the object was a reddish orange single orb.

The events on both nights were exactly the same in time, location, appearance and movement. The event took a matter of maybe 15 seconds each time.

Posted 2011-07-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78356
Occurred: 2010-10-14 06:15 Local
Reported: 2010-10-14 08:42 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

cluster of lights in wheel shape with center hub light largest.

October 14, 2010 at 6:15 A.M. Central time.

I saw a cluster of orbs in a circular fashion. The center orb, or light, was the largest not necessarily the brightest. There were at least 8 smaller orbs, or lights surrounding the center light in a circular fashion.

The cluster was stationary in the sky for at least 20 minutes. The center light pulsed but the outer lights did not. As daylight came I could still make out the lights but lost them as dawn broke.

There location in my opinion may have been in the Kansas City Missouri area. My location is south of St. Louis Missouri about 18 miles. The location on the horizon would have been at around 9 o'clock and it was west and south of St. Louis. That's why I figure it was over Kansas City Missouri area and for some reason I'm thinking they were that many miles away.

I couldn't get an image with my phone. When I went back out after dawn they were still in the same position. Then as I said as daylight became brighter I couldn't see them anymore, I don't believe they left, I think I was just no longer able to make them out.

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78230
Occurred: 2010-10-07 23:30 Local
Reported: 2010-10-07 22:27 Pacific
Duration: 2+hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

3 cluster balls of light - UFO

Very high in our south east sky we saw at 11:30 pm on October 7 2010 what appeared to be a very bright planet until we noticed it was moving slowly. At first glance it looked like it was a single star but as we started observing it was actually 3 bright balls of light with 3d rays of light in all directions. You could see all the rays and where they ended, kindof like if you were to draw a picture of a sun with a bunch of sun rays. The movement was slight side to side then stop and then hover in cirlce at same time it was moving forward. It appeared to be bigger or closer than a planet or star.

We video taped this event with our home camcorder.

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62446
Occurred: 2008-03-29 14:30 Local
Reported: 2008-03-30 20:04 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Salton Sea, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I was driving north on highway 86 just passing the salton sea when i noticed an egg shaped object crusing about 3000 mph.It came from over the sea and passed over the the highway and continued behind the mountains in a strait line.about a minute after,one more object crossed in the same direction or flight pattern. As i looked to see if maby one more might pass a F16 fighter was flying across the salton sea towards the objects.Not normal if you ask me.




NUFORC Note:

Probable hoax. PD


Posted 2008-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49457
Occurred: 2006-03-06 05:45 Local
Reported: 2006-03-06 11:52 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Winterhaven, FL, USA

Shape: Disk


cresent reflection of light off of a cloaked, saucer shaped object over winterhaven fl. at about 5:45 am

i am an irrigatation tech and sometimes have to be at work around 4 am. today around 5:45 am i had seen a faint cressent light ( not a real bright lite but almost like a reflection from the street lights and such) reflecting off of the bottom of nothing but at the same time it was a clear circular almost mentos ( like the candy) but thinner shaped, and quite large, it was also heading north. moving very fast roughly about a mile away in the sky and possibly a few hundred feet up. my eyes are very strong and im reasonably smart. but this time i just cant really explain what i saw without explaining it with pictures.

Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51717
Occurred: 2005-07-14 10:30 Local
Reported: 2006-07-25 11:25 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Imperial, MO, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

4-5 ft. circular UFO floating about 45 feet of the ground seen above house.

I was driving towards my girlfriend's house at aproximately 10:15 when I saw a long strip of bright lights in the sky, changing colors from blue to a dark purple. It was aprox. 4-5 ft. circumference and about four feet thick. I pulled off the road and into a subdivision to get a better look and saw that it was directly above a house, perhaps fifteen feet from the roof (the house was aprox. thirty feet high). In what I suppose was the front of the craft were two lights and in the back was one longer strip of lights, both changing colors in synch with each other. The craft was completely silent and slightly swayed from left to right.

Furthermore, another car drove past on the same road that I had been driving on, and as it drove up the hill its head lights reflected off of the UFO revealing metal panels. The car slowed down, but did not stop. I was too scared at the time to contact the house owners and instead drove to get my girlfriend to see what she could make out of the situation. However, when I returned with her, it was gone. I should also note that I was about 60 minutes from any airpot or military station.

Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47994
Occurred: 2005-03-03 20:20 Local
Reported: 2005-11-29 20:49 Pacific
Duration: birthday
No of observers: 1

Location: Imperial, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 DIMOND SHAPED, BLUEISH GREEN OBJECTS SEEN DURING LOCAL FAIR NIGHT.

SAW 3 DIMOND LIKE FIGURES IN THE SKY ONE NIGHT. ON A CLEAR NIGHT WHILE THE LOCAL FAIR WAS GOING ON. WERE A BLUEISH GREEN COLOR.GAVE OFF A FLASH THEN LEFT AS IF THEY TURNED OFF THEIR LIGHTS AND LEFT.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22548
Occurred: 2002-04-15 21:00 Local
Reported: 2002-04-17 18:37 Pacific
Duration: approx. 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Imperial, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Lights along the desert mountains

My daughter's 14 & 16 and I were heading west on Worthington Road at approx. 9:00 p.m. When we got closer to the El Centro Naval Air Station we noticed that there were a series of lights along the moutain range to the southwest by the Mexican border. There were, at times, anywhere from 4 to 6 lights along the mountain. Some would fade out and others would appear. At first we thought they were headlights from cars on the highway.

It was coming up on shift change at Centinela State Prison and officers that live in Alpine and San Diego would have been coming into the valley at this time. The more we watch though the more we realized that some of the lights were actually higher than the mountains and some were closer, actually over the valley floor. The color was generally yellowish-orange, but occasionally they were bright blue-white. We have seen these lights out there before on a number of other occasions, but always assumed they were headlights on the highway. After really watching them the other night, now we're not so sure.

Posted 2002-04-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 15621
Occurred: 2000-12-27 07:00 Local
Reported: 2000-12-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, AZ, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

lights zig zagged repeatedly, then would brake. lights higher than aircraft fly.



NUFORC Note:

Report seems reminiscent of advertising lights, but that is a guess. PD


Posted 2001-01-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 7129
Occurred: 1998-06-04 06:19 Local
Reported: 1999-05-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 12 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Ocotillo, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

On a morning hike, we settled to rest after walking 4 miles on a desert trail. We stopped to drink some water and eat some snacks. My friend Jo-Jo sudenly told me " What the hell is that?" Jo-J0, I , and 1 other looked into the sky and observed 7 medium sized triangles glowing in the air, motionless. At first, we thought they might have been stealth bombers, but they were much larger, and had an ominous glow. For 5 minutes, they sat there. After five minutes , the crafts darted into the sky, and made 3 vast loops through the air. The crafts were suprisingly low. We took cover, and were scared of being detected. We had never seen anything like this before. After the three loops, the crafts stayed again motionless for another 3 or so minutes, and then they were gone.

Posted 1999-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2961
Occurred: 1997-12-05 18:00 Local
Reported: 1997-12-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1/2 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Salton Sea (Over), CA, USA

Shape: Disk


Summary : Unidentified Flying Object on commercial Flight From LAX to TUC on 12/05/97 in the PM.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2297
Occurred: 1997-03-16 20:30 Local
Reported: 1997-06-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Salton Sea, CA, USA

Shape: other


Summary : Saw across the Sea a big red flash, then white-orange orbs appear, about 10-15, not moving, all in a straight line except for one which was to the left which move horizontally towards the rest. They stayed for about 15 minutes, then went out about the same time. Then about 10 minutes later, appeared again all shifted over to the left. Again, more large red flashes on the ground, the horizon. No sound could be heard at all throughout the entire time.

Started with a big red flash across the Salton Sea, the East side. We were on the West visiting a friend. Then, moments afterwards, bright white-orange glowing orbs began to appear in the sky, above the horizon. Approximately 10-15, all lined up and appeared to not move -- they were more or less in a straight line. Except for one larger one off to the left, which moved towards the others slowly. We wathed for about 15-20 minutes, all trying to figure out what it was. Could not hear any sound at all, even after the big red flashes.Then, saw another big red flash on the horizon, not in the sky. Then, they went out all about the same time. Two of us remained to see if the lights would come back. They did. But this time all shifted to the left. Again in a straingt line and again the big red flashes on the ground. They stayed for about 15 minutes, with one to the left noticiably moving, the others not moving, then went out again at the same time. We left for home shortly thereafter. ((Name deleted))

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67429
Occurred: 1993-06-01 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-12-12 10:30 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Salton Sea, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

Six lights circle in the Salton Sea, California, area with no sound

We were at the Salton Sea on our way to Mexico. We saw what we thought were lights on a series of radio towers. They stayed in place for several minutes and then began to move in unison. They silently flew in a giant circle from southwest to north east and then back to their original position. They then went out. The whole time taken was about a quarter hour, more or less. There were somewhere between five and seven lights.

I did not report them because I thought people would think I was nuts. Then, I saw a program on the Phoenix lights and they were similar to what my wife and I had seen. There was no sound.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75362
Occurred: 1978-03-25 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-05-09 22:44 Pacific
Duration: several hours
No of observers: 0

Location: Winterhaven, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Landed, Electrical or magnetic effects

Nine menacing crafts rounded up a large group of campers on the Colorado River during one incredibly long night.

On the last Saturday night of March, 1978, I was with a group of friends on a spring break camping trip in a former California State Campground, 18 miles north of Winterhaven California. I say former because the facility had been virtually destroyed by massive flooding from the Colorado River where it had served as a landing for travelers navigating down the River. Before it had been destroyed, it had housed a seasonal general store, as well as a large camping area with large bathroom-shower facilities and Ranger trailer up on a hill overlooking the grounds. But by this year, all of that was gone, and the trailer abandoned by the Rangers but the area was still used by a handful of hardcore campers.

During this last Saturday in March, the nine of us were on the peak of last mountain at the farthest end of a chain of foothills that began at the campgrounds and ran north along the Colorado River ending at this last peak overlooking a panoramic view of the entire northwestern desert and river valley below.

Before our encounter that night, two truly amazing events occurred. First we experienced an unexplainable loud buzzing electrical discharges through our hands when flicking our index fingers. We could hear the loud buzz, as well as feel the strong current running through our fingers. This lasted approximately a few minutes and then disappeared. The second strange anomaly to occur next was - the sunset we watched from the peak lasted a abnormally long time - at least two hours longer than it normally would. We commented on this several times while in progress but no one could explain and unfortunately, no one had a watch to give an accurate accounting. However, it was undoubtedly much longer than can be explained by any normal physical means. And as if that wasn't strange enough, it ended so abruptly, we were caught completely by surprise in the complete darkness of the night. We normally would have already made the long trek back to camp, a couple of miles through the rug! ged foothills, during the twilight which always proceeds the setting of the sun. But in this case, we were so mesmerized by the incredibly long beautiful smoldering orange glow of the sun which appeared to stick right behind the mountains in the far west, we didn't leave, we just naturally expected the benefit of the post sunset, slowly fading twilight, which for some reason didn't happen . . . defying all laws of physics.

Once we were confronted with this sudden darkness, we tried to not let it freak us out and gather ourselves for the long treacherously difficult trip back in total darkness, the moon not yet risen, and frankly were a little more than concerned about our safety getting down - especially down the narrow path from the precariously steep cliff we were on - hundreds of feet to the canyon floor below. Anyway, right as we were beginning our descent down, one of our group spotted a star erratically zooming across the night sky in straight lines from point to point. We all began to watch, suddenly pointing to other stars that were behaving in a similar fashion. It didn't take long for the group of us to realize that they couldn't possibly be stars but must be lights in our own night sky that just resembled stars. And sure enough, with in a few minutes, they all gathered together in a tight rotating ball growing larger as they dropped out of the night sky in to the distant horizon,! appearing to settle into the river basin several miles northwest up stream from our location.

Although below our view, we watched their bright domes of light wind down the river south towards us. In a fairly short time they came into our view as they appeared from around a bend in the river entering our section of the valley. There were nine crafts flying in a diamond formation. They each had several search lights fanning the area as if they were frantically looking for something or someone. As they came underneath us in the washes below, we were, of course, still several hundred feet above on our perch, they suddenly broke formation and shot out in different directions in what appeared to be a co-ordinated military maneuver securing the area.

Until this point, they had hovered silently down the river - but when they broke into their frantic search in different directions, their crafts gave off bright flashes of lights and loud crackling blasts of electrical discharges resembling thunder and lighting. I could feel and smell the static electrical energy fields they were creating as they surged about. I could also hear the roar of air they propelled and also the sound of the water being displaced by the rush of air as well. It was amazing how quickly they would move from one point to another - a brilliant flash light with a simultaneous crack of thunder and instantaneously be somewhere else stopped dead but for the roar of moving air which appeared a breaking mechanism.

As I said, when they came into our area of washes, they broke out of formation and sped around as if looking for something, as this was happening, a very strange event occurred at the very same time. The other eight people I was with on the ledge began talking amongst themselves as if they were in a different time and place. And no matter how hard I tried to get their attention concerning the fantastic scene unfolding below, they just continued talking to each other seemingly oblivious to it all. In fact I got the distinct impression they were discussing a sunset lasting a very long time. I basically felt they were sacred senseless and were in some kind of fear induced manic behavior which seemed impossible to break, so I gave up trying, turning back to the crafts below which had moved down the river past us to the campground a couple of miles away to our south - except for two craft that had shot below our position inland around the other side of the foothills.

Instead of moving on south on the inland side, these two came quickly back to right below us and one of the craft shot up to our position on the ledge and hovered level with me about a hundred feet away - out over the canyon floor. My companions were still completely engrossed, talking frantically to each other, even though I made one last futile attempt to draw their attention to the ship silently hanging in front of us. It was shaped like the Bat plane - with a curved, rounded front, and sweeping back to two large wings comprising the back. The front appeared to have a elongated windshield mimicking the line of the curve - making up about a third of the height of the ship which was probably fifteen to twenty feet. The width at its widest - near the back from one wing to another - was approximately twice its height, maybe more, like fifty feet. It radiated a fluorescent reddish light from underneath that lit up the entire area in a eerie blood like glow. And I could see! equipment like or led lights inside the front windshield. There was also a gentle humming sound similar to an electric train transformer. I felt a pronounced static electrical field like presence engulfing the area.

In a matter of a few moments the craft began to rise above me and came closer - to about fifty feet - now I could see the shape, which I described already, because of the glow of the red panels which mimicked the shape of each back wing. It was about as long as it was wide. It was making no noise as it lifted above me and it did this very slowly and gently with just the faint transformer hum.

As soon as it was directly above me - a green spotlight came on in the middle of the craft between the two red panels and I was entirely encased in a green mist that felt hot to my skin. I immediately felt a sexually charged sensation in my balls as well as the base of my spine that began to surge through my entire body. It was like an all consuming orgasm of heated energy pulsating my every fibre. As I seemed to climax, I felt myself lifting or levitating towards the ship. It wasn't like I was being pulled, as much as I was being energized to a float on my own - like my molecules were being manipulated by an internally-produced, stimulating force. The last thing I saw at this point was looking down on my friends still talking manically amongst themselves as I floated upward.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. However, the last Saturday in March 1978 was March 25. PD


Posted 2010-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 139460
Occurred: 1976-01-15 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2018-04-15 20:20 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Imperial, NE, USA

Shape: Cone
Characteristics: Lights on object

UFO parked on trail road at night.

My dad and uncle were calling coyotes one night and drove up a trail road with their lights off, about 15 miles West of Imperial, thinking to park there to start calling for coyotes. They were driving slowly towards the East when all of a sudden a craft directly in front of their pickup lit up with many lights on the bottom, and rose straight up from the ground in front of them and proceeded to head due East towards the town of Imperial. My dad had exclaimed to my uncle, "What the heck was that", and my uncle never spoke a word, nor did he tell his wife about it, nor did he ever speak of it. I asked my dad if he had any missing time, and he wasn't sure!




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2018-04-19