NUFORC UFO Sighting 182917
Occurred: 2024-09-01 23:19 Local
Reported: 2024-09-04 22:15 Pacific
Duration: Hours/Undetermined
No of observers: 4

Location: Olancha, CA, USA
Location details: Near the Olancha Dunes, at night, clear sky and conditions.

Shape: Changing
Color: Blue/Green/Red
Estimated Size: Unsure
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Northeast
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Unsure, light was very bright.
Estimated Speed: Unsure
Explanation: Planet/Star - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Witnessed a light flickering and glowing red/blue/green and moving the sky in a single area moving erratically.

A light flickering multiple colors (green, blue, red) Viewed through binoculars and the lights would appear in a triangular shape, but change to circular intermittently. It moved int he same general area erratically, described by some of the witnesses as "dancing". It persisted for at least 2 hours and witnessed the entire time. A second light showed after those 2 hours that was much brighter, of a reddish hue and much lower in the sky. It gave a very ominous feeling and the witnesses retreated to our tents shortly after this appeared.




Posted 2024-09-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 179909
Occurred: 2023-06-25 06:05 Local
Reported: 2023-12-25 18:06 Pacific
Duration: 0.5 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Olancha, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Color: white
Estimated Size: 20 feet
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: west
Angle of Elevation: 50
Closest Distance: 1/2 mile?
Estimated Speed: 1000 mph
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

3 formation tic-tacs with 4th one appearing suddenly.

An automatic sky camera caught this formation of 3 tic-tacs, then in next frame a fourth one appears below them. The 2 frames are taken a half second apart. The fourth one is completely invisible on the previous frame, just a half second earlier. Only two frames of the recording caught this sighting, so it is unknown how long or far they flew. Camera points to the west, in early morning light with the sun in back. Direction of travel was right to left, is north to south.







Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176512
Occurred: 2022-04-15 21:30 Local
Reported: 2023-06-29 12:13 Pacific
Duration: 5 mins
No of observers: 3

Location: 7 Pines Ca, CA, USA
Location details: https://www.mapquest.com/us/california/seven-pines-ca-283415123

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Walking up the road, we saw a blue orb behind us, it flew between us, then directly in front where it stopped at head level.

This blue orb seemed to be checking us out. This took about two minutes. As we felt a great positive energy we watched it fly up the road and disappeared.

A few nights after that we saw a blue rectangle in a rocky area behind the other cabins. This appeared to be a portal of some kind. This type of thing happens to only a few people who visit the 7 Pine area.

I am an Indigenous person from the Piute tribe. I feel nothing but positive energy for these experience.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163168
Occurred: 2020-10-17 22:00 Local
Reported: 2021-05-15 02:30 Pacific
Duration: 2.5 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Pearsonville, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

During a camping trip in remote wilderness, my dad and I saw a solitary solid white light maneuver above a ridge for 2.5 hours.

On the night of October 15th, 2020, my dad and I witnessed a UAP near Kennedy Meadows Campground in Pearsonville, California. We were car camping and had setup for a brief overnight stay in Kennedy Meadows Campground. The campground was empty except for us and one other camper that went to bed early. At approximately 10:00pm, I was looking north-east towards the nearest mountain (approximately 0.3-0.8 miles away) when I saw a solid ball of white light rise seemingly through (or behind) the trees on top of the ridge. I called my dad over to watch it with me. Initially, I suspected it was a hiker flying some kind of drone, or maybe some sort of governmental drone doing nighttime surveying. However, we proceeded to watch the object maneuver over the ridge for approximately 2.5 hours. I do not know of any drones capable of hovering and maneuvering for at least 2.5 hours. For the duration we observed, the object appeared as a steady white light, never once blinki! ng or changing color. It would hover, then move in what looked like semi-random directions, only to hover once more. At one point while observing, the object continued to rise up in altitude at least 500-1000 feet over the ridge, then it slowly descended to 100+ feet over the ridge.

Around 12:30am, we were so tired we decided to stop watching, especially since we'd run out of ideas for things it could be. Thoroughly fascinated and simultaneously unsettled, we went to bed. I am unsure at what point the object left. No matter the case, there was no trace of it over the ridge in the morning.

Due to the remoteness of the area we were camping paired with the lateness of the hour, proximity to our campsite (we would have heard a plane or helicopter), flight duration, and flight capabilities, I have been unable to draw any conclusions as to what the UAP might have been. I considered a balloon with a light, but it's ability to hover consistently and move in random directions did not remind me of how I have ever seen a balloon move in the sky.

To this day, I have no idea what the object could have been, but I wanted to officially report it.

Some background on myself: I'm a Database Administrator with a degree in Computer Science.



Posted 2021-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159767
Occurred: 2020-08-04 01:00 Local
Reported: 2020-10-05 19:01 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Little Lake, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

My boyfriend and I were driving on a remote section of highway 395, it was a clear night with a bright moon. We were heading north towards Lone Pine. I was sitting in the passenger seat with my eyes to the sky when I saw a strange blue light flying east from over the Sierra Mountains. The object flew down from over the ridge and across the highway, approximately 200 feet above the ground. The object was small, much smaller than any aircraft I'm familiar with. It didn't have any blinking lights, visible wings or rotary blades- just a tealish orb of light. It flew over a large field to the east, and hovered. Two larger objects with white lights followed behind it, coming from the same direction over the mountains. These objects were larger than the blue orb, and seemed to travel at a faster speed. All three crafts hovered in the field until I could no longer see them.

My boyfriend and I were, and still are, perplexed by what we witnessed. There were no other cars on the road, and no visible houses on that section of the highway. The crafts moved, and dropped over the ridge of the mountain in a way that I cannot explain, and no amount of research has led to any sort of explanation. These objects were not drones, and they were far too low to the ground to be satellites, planes, or helicopters. They moved with intent, and hovered silently over the open field.



Posted 2020-11-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142702
Occurred: 2018-08-08 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2018-08-13 07:45 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Cottonwood Lakes, High Sierras, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

High pitched sound growing in intensity with pink, organe, purple wave of light

I was sleeping under the stars in my sleeping bag in a high lakes area in Golden Trout Wilderness just below Mt. Langley near one of the Cottonwood Lakes (maybe 3 or 4). There were 14 of us in our party, part of a boy scout backpack trek. I was the furthest out, about 50 to 75 feet away from the 2 nearest me in their tents. We were camping at about 11,000 ft elevation.

This was just before the Perseid Meteor Shower and I was having trouble sleeping, going in and out for a couple of hours from 10:30 PM to 12:30 P.M. I was looking at the night sky and did see several shooting stars during this time. I noticed a couple of strange things. One, I could hear a sound in the woods that appeared to be coming from an electrical appliance. I knew it wasn't natural. It was low and very subtle but it was there. I also noticed at some point, don't remember if before or after the incident what appeared to be a star go dark before my eyes. It was there, then the star was gone. The light of the star disappeared before my eyes as I was looking at it. I just thought to myself what the heck was that.

Some time after 12:30PM, I will guess about 1:00 or so this is what happened. I was so rattled by the event that I didn't even look at my smartphone to see what time it was. I heard what I can only describe as a very high pitched electrical humming sound. It started to grow in intensity, so much so that I thought my eardrums were going to rupture. I didn't experience any pain, but the sound was intense. As I opened my eyes, there was a wave of pinkish, orange, purple light all around me. I was surrounded by granite boulders and foxtail pine trees, but I thought the whole night sky was dancing around me in these wave-like color tones. I was scared, because I knew this was not natural. In my head I said to God, "Dear Lord, please help me." And then everything went back to normal in an instant. I don't think this lasted more than 10 seconds or so.

In the morning, I shared my experience with the adults in the group. None of them heard or saw anything. They thought is was bizarre.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2018-08-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42712
Occurred: 2002-06-06 01:00 Local
Reported: 2005-03-04 20:37 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Tuttle Creek/Lone Pine, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Let me start off by saying that I do not do drugs and I do not drink alcohol. I am retired, after working 33 years as an electronics engineer for a popular aerospace company, and have taken part in designing some of the modern warplanes you see today.

Back on June 6, 2002, I was camping at a place called Tuttle Creek, near the town of Lone Pine, which is near Mount Whitney (the tallest mountain in the continental United States). I know it was the 6th of June, because that was my 68th birthday.

I was with another retiree, a buddy of mine, ((name deleted)). After a long day of fishing and BSing, we cooked and ate dinner, watched a VHS movie in my RV, then went to sleep. It was about 1 AM, and I woke up because, well, my buddy’s snoring was just too loud for me to sleep through.

I went outside and sat on the picnic table to have myself a cigar. After about a minute or so, I started to have this stange feeling, like the little voice inside me was talking. It was then that a light or reflection above me caught my eye. I looked up and, low and behold, there was this triangle craft moving above me, I would guess, about 5-10 mph. It was about 1000 feet up, and and it didn't make any sound. It was about 50-60 feet long by 30-40 feet wide, and had a reddish-orange light on each point.

The sky was clear and you can see all the stars, except for the ones that this craft blocked out. I pounded on the RV to wake up ((name deleted)). He came out cussing at me, and I all I had to do was point upward to shut him up. He was just as shocked as I was. We watched this craft for almost 5 minutes, and then suddenly the craft started to move faster, and within a few seconds it was out of our line of sight.

We stood up the rest of the night exchanging opinions about what we thought the craft was. We came to the conclusion that it was either a new experimental secret government aircraft (we both worked on the F-117 Stealth Fighter, so we knew that it could have been a new secret aircraft), mass hallucination (that was ((name deleted)) 2 cents), or an extraterrestrial craft.

I am not 100 percent sure what it was, but it was one hell of a birthday present.

Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12221
Occurred: 2000-02-28 14:00 Local
Reported: 2000-03-06 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min.
No of observers: 4

Location: Olancha, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Changed Colo

from my vehicle, I spotted dozens of small silverey spheres high above the mountains in a group that looked like birds, or how bats fly in groups and turn in and out as a group. They would disappear and appear, as the flock would turn, like one side was silverey and the other dark.

while driving on Highway 395, northbound, around the town of olancha, ca. south of Bishop, Ca. in the eastern sierra mts., I spotted from the passenger side of the vehicle what i thought was a flock of birds above the mountains to the east of the Highway. They were turning back and forth in the same location in the sky not going any direction. They would appear and dissappear as they turned and my reasoning was one side of the birds must be silver and the other side dark. They would dissappear in a wave motion and as I looked harder for them I couldn't see any sign of a one. Then they would appear in a wave motion and be in a flock pattern. I was thinking that I was seeing some native birds that live in the mountains, since i live in the L.A. area and wouldn't see this type of bird there. But as they appeared again, I'll be darned if the flock started to make a big circle, with other birds staying in the flock. Then the circle broke up and they started making horizontal lines , 2 or 3 at a time and at different levels in the flock and still staying in the same area above the mountains. The driver also saw this and stated that '' that's pretty strange''. As we drove into the beginning of the town of Olancha, I spotted a couple standing in a lot off the hwy. looking at the same flock and pointing towards them, so I felt better that someone else had noticed the same thing. The flock continued this movements untill we drove northbound and couldn't see from the cab of the venicle the flock anymore.

Posted 2000-03-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 768
Occurred: 1995-08-26 20:00 Local
Reported: 1995-08-27 00:00 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Inyo Co., CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33992
Occurred: 1993-07-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-12-20 09:58 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Cottonwood Lakes Trail (near Mt. Whitney), CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Night time fly over of object at Cottonwood Lakes, Mt. Whitney, California - 1993

After seeing the sphere earlier in the day we camped out under the stars at Cottonwood Lakes just south of Mt. Whitney. Our elevation was above the 10,000 ft. level in the Sierra Nevada Range.

While not quite asleep around 10 PM I heard a strange "whirring" sound in the sky. I opened my eyes and looked directly up towards the crystal clear, black and moonless, star filled sky. This slow moving object flew directly over us. The object radiated absolutely no light whatsoever. If it wasn't for the fact that as it passed over head it blocked out the stars behind it, I would have never seen it. It moved rather slowly across the sky. Much slower than a jet would travel. Its direction of travel was from north to south. Several seconds later, maybe 30 or so, two jets flew overhead in the same path of travel as the object, as if chasing the object. I could tell they were jets due to their wing tip lights and that I had served on an aircraft carrier in the US Navy I have had plenty of night sightings of US Aircraft.

I could not tell the exact height of the object as it flew overhead, but it must been at least 1,000 feet above us to clear the ridge line that surrounded the lakes. We were just east of the spine of the Sierras and the elevation at the peak is about 11,000 feet. The two jets were flying at higher than normal speeds but without their afterburners fired.

It just seemed so weird to see an object fly over and block out the stars behind it in a total blackness. It must have been rather large for it blocked out the section of the sky as if I held my hand out at arms length and blocked out the stars.

I could not make out the edges of the object but it was more of a diamond shape than any of the other shapes you had listed.

No lights, no openings, nothing other than being its shadow. Just a slight whirring sound was eminated from the object as it passed overhead.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33991
Occurred: 1993-07-01 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-12-20 09:40 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Cottonwood Lakes Trail (near Mt. Whitney), CA, USA

Shape: Circle


silver object seen on backpacking trip near Mt. Whitney, CA - 1993

My son, nephew and I were backpacking on the trail that leads up to the series of cottonwood lakes just south of Mt. Whitney, CA. While hiking on the trail we glanced across the canyon to the opposite ridge line and there was a silver colored round object just hovering above the ridge. It darted in short bursts in several different directions while we watched it. It was definately NOT an aircraft I had ever seen before. It would hover motionless for a few seconds and then burst to the left, hover, then burst to the right, hover, then burst upwards, etc. Each time it hovered it would sit for a few seconds and then burst. This went on for several minutes and finally dropped behind the ridgeline of the opposite canyon wall. It was never seen again after that.

That night I saw something completely different. That will be in a separate post.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 36617
Occurred: 1987-08-15 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-04-30 11:29 Pacific
Duration: 20 minits


Location: Olancha, CA, USA

Shape: Disk


In re to; Call I placed to you on 04-30-04 at 10;20 am. Note ; {unabe to enter date in report form}. Dear Mr. Davenport. Thank you for your time and effert. In 1987 I was assighned to The United States Dept. of the Interior, B.L.M. at the Olancha Ca. This was a prototype Uni-Mog test,we were responsible for over one million acres. At approx. 22;30 we were dispatced from heatquarters in San Bernadino to a fire reported by a deputy sherrif, in the Panamont valley area, this I thought unuseual since a unit was available much closer than us. We responded, and on the highway to death Valley, Panmont Valley and to a small town called Darwen, in 15 minite of Traval time,at appox 60 mph we saw what I at first thought was a semi-truck on the left, we whre going east,just off the road. We did not have on the overhead lights since we were in the midle of nowhere and did not use lights and sirens in unpopulated areas. We slowed and stoped in the middle of the rd. We all saw a saucer, at least 60 feet wide,appox15 to 20 feet high, below the raise road bed, light up by a bright :bug light yellow interior light,showing through portholes across the upper area that was nearly even to the road,since it rested on the desert floor and not the raised highway. My engeneer became very frightend and rolled up into a fetal possition on the floor of the vehicle. He is a Georgia country boy, and not a small man at all. My Capt. who was driveing at the time looked catatonic, and simply said,"Ive seen these before". I turned on the overhead rotaiting lights,the saucer turned off its lights. I tried to radio headquarters and the radio was dead. I left the engine and approched the saucer. I knew this was real and was very excited and interested,so I touched it with my hand, wearing a glove. The saucer rose up, no noise,lights out,and I could see it blocking out the stars, they were very bright. It rose to perhaps 30 feet,crossed directly over my head and landed just as it was before,just off the road and slightly b! elow it, now instead of arms length away,30 to 40 feet away. At this time for the first time during this incident I felt fear instead of amazment. I thought something was trying to sneak up on me from behind out of the dark. My memory is not clear from this point. My crew remained in the engine the whole time, somehow I foun myself handsignaling my Capt. in the back up lights of the engine , dircting him to back down a very narrow winding road. I dont know how we got their, engine,crew and all. Eventually we came to a gate, lock in place,but unlocked, and ended up in the town of darwen. I think we were on China Lake Naval Weapons Depot. and drove in to Dawen. You do not just go to China Lake . You will be shot if you manage to get far enough, even in uniform. I understand the Navy took the wholle town of Darwen and leveled it, due to its closeness to the base. It was just a few gold miners their.I filed a report with the navy and was contacted by a rear Admeral who interveiwed me and kept asking me if I was aware they had a captured Russian gun ship, helicopter and that it was classified. He aked what I knew about helicopters, and when I informed him my duties requiered to fly offten, he said,"with your knowladge of helicopters,what type would you say this was" Fially I responded with" I would say it is no type of helicopter I am familure with. He was content with tat answer. I will reach the other officers who were with me. You can reach ((name deleted)) at 530-((number deleted)), ((name deleted) Station. U.S.D.I. B.L.M. I am sure he will talk to you. I just called, but he is on duty,I left a message to call me. I will have more details for you if interested. Thank you. ((name and contact information deleted)) P.S. I am over what ever affect this had on me now, However, I did have some physical symptoms, and begain sleeping with my Ruger Pistol chambered under my pillow. I had some fear after this. That I do not understand, I was not affraid at the time, and was allways comfertable in any situation. It was unusual for me to keep a weapon in a state of that readyness in my own home. Any way, thank you for your time. ((name deleted)).



NUFORC Note:

We spoke at length with this witness via telephone, and he sounded quite credible to us. He has contacted at least one of the other witnesses, and will encourage that person to submit additional eyewitness reports. PD


Posted 2004-05-04