NUFORC UFO Sighting 184117
Occurred: 2024-05-25 20:00 Local
Reported: 2024-11-14 07:55 Pacific
Duration: approx 5 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Julian, CA, USA
Location details: Looking North towards the town of Julian - For GPS maps use Long -116.305 and Lat 32.95

Shape: Formation
Color: White
Estimated Size: no idea. Looked like the TV Doc small rectangles
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: We were looking North and it was very high up in the sky, a long distance from us.
Angle of Elevation: 26
Closest Distance: Very far away - like space x when nr earth,100 mil
Estimated Speed: No idea -
Explanation: Starlink - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object

Rectangular white boxes, like cabooses of a train.

Camping having a bonfire. See from between the V shaped valley looking North (S2 road) we see a perfectly formed formation of bright white lights, rectangular and at least 6 if not 9 of the boxes. We discussed it looking exactly like a train, but not connected at all. But the gap between each rectangle reminded us of cabuses on a train. Perfectly aligned horizontally, and appeared the gaps between the shapes was also the exact same size. It travelled way higher than an aeroplane would, but not as high as shooting stars. It came towards us from the North heading South across the valley. Perfect view from between the 2 mountains in the desert. Then it just disappeared out of sight. We all just assumed it was Elon Musk with his rockets, but there was no sound or smoke, or trails. It was not until watching the Documentary series of "Investigation Alien" on Episode 5 with the Phoenix Lights that, I thought, wow perhaps that wasnt space rockets but looked exactly what we saw, but more of them and in perfect alignment. Just like a train on a track.

Posted 2024-11-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160601
Occurred: 2020-11-13 17:50 Local
Reported: 2020-11-13 15:16 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 3

Location: Julian, NC, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

One light creating odd light scattering effect moving into 4 lights going in different directions.

One point of light moving from south to north causing a scattering of light effect similar to something entering the atmosphere at high speed (like a bullet entering water in slow motion) yet the night was clear and no other air craft presented this quality. The light then broke into two separate lights moving further away from each other with two more subsequent lights “breaking away” and moving in a N/NE direction.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174247
Occurred: 2019-08-03 02:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-02-02 00:56 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Julian, CA, USA
Location details: 32.84461° N, 116.44306° W

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Missing Time, Animals reacted

Precognitive dream followed by compulsion to drive an hour away to dream’s location, where I witnessed a large egg/ovoid shaped craft.

I would like to preface this report by saying that elements of the event extend beyond the sighting itself, but are nonetheless relevant.

I filed a report to MUFON over a year ago, coincidentally on the anniversary date of the sighting. I was reached out to via email with questions, and never heard back from the investigator after I responded. I heard a pilot on a podcast today saying he was told to report to NUFORC, because they could FOIA radar data.

The sighting took place near a USAF radar station, and I would assume military data may be inaccessible, but if it is accessible I would think the station picked up the object. FAA may also have track data as well, and I would love to hear of / see corroboration for this event you can track down for personal resolution.

This is roughly the same report I filed to MUFON, but slightly better written to be more concise, include greater detail, as well as include potential personal insight gained since my initial report.

Pre-Sighting:

On the night of August 2nd into August 3rd I was at home / enjoying a night in, and was dozing in and out on my couch watching TV. Typical evening.

In my half-sleep (near-sleep? hypnagogic?) state, I had a short dream/vision (unsure of how close to being asleep I actually was so I am unsure of how to characterize it) in which I was in my car at one of my usual places (a turnout overlooking the Sawtooth / Jacumba Mountain Wilderness) for stargazing/skywatching on Mount Laguna near the observatory, at night. I have seen unusual light displays that I could not explain there, as well as many meteor showers, so this is one of few places I go for this with relative frequency. Instantly recognizable.

Of note, I was observing myself and the scene/turnout from a third-person perspective facing the driver’s side of my vehicle at a vantage point I can only equate to as standing across the road from the turnout.

As I was observing this scene a large white light appeared above my car, which proceeded to turn on an incredibly bright spotlight shining down (or perhaps the white light appearing was the spotlight itself moving over my car) upon the car (with me sitting inside), and as I saw myself looking up at the light, I snapped out of it and was on my couch.

When I rose, I had the unreasonable urge (I felt legitimately compelled to a degree I am not really familiar with) to go to the place I had just been in the dream/vision. It was late (after 1am), so I tried to brush it off and go to sleep in my bed. I remained there restless, filled with the urgent need to get in my car and drive to that turnout. This lasted for about 20 minutes, I decided to put my clothes and shoes on, and got in my car.

The Sighting:

I drove out to the spot, and the drive itself was uneventful aside from the constant anxious feeling that something was going transpire once I arrived at the location. Once there I pulled over, turned my lights off, and left my car running. I got out of my car to briefly stretch and everything seemed normal. Crystal clear sky, typical ambient noise for the area (owls, crickets).

I got back in my car, sat for a few minutes, rolled down my windows, and began to cover my stereo and dash lights with a jacket (to mask any ambient light in my car so my eyes could adjust to the darkness), when I noticed a new frequency had entered my field of hearing. It was a very quiet, seemingly very low frequency, metallic hum or buzzing that remained static but had a faint, nearly indistinguishable rate of oscillation. At the same moment, I began to sense a strange feeling in the air and on my skin.

Thinking it was the stereo potentially making the noise, I turned it down and turned off my car. Upon doing so, I became immediately aware of the lack of any animal noise (which had been there in full effect prior, when I got out of my car to stretch). With the stereo and car off now, there was only the faint oscillating hum, akin to a beehive (but truly an unfamiliar sound even for someone into sound design) but without the high end frequencies and closer now than before. Completely baffled and weirded out by this, I stuck my head out of my window.

As I looked up, I saw a very, very large triangular egg shaped craft moving at an unusually slow speed directly overhead from my rear passenger side to come over the front driver’s side. The best shape I can equate it to is somewhere between a guitar pick and an egg placed on its side. It was much closer to ovoid in shape, but was somewhat wider like a guitar pick. It was not a triangle though, it was definitely ovoid. It was no higher than 500 feet above me, it felt like around 300 (or potentially less) but I’ll say 500 to be safe.

There was almost no moon that night, so there was nothing to illuminate this craft from above, which aside from its “lights” only allowed me to make out the outline of it against the night sky to decipher its size and shape. I had initially said it was about the size of a football field, maybe a little smaller, but not much in both length and width (at its widest end). This was due to the fact that it covered almost the entirety of my field of vision as it was overhead, but I drove by a local high school’s football field yesterday and I would like to clarify that after having a better frame of reference, the object was about 1/3 the size of the field if you split it up into thirds by width. Still very large.

On the underside, there were 3 large circular, almost oval or ovoid shaped lights that were glowing a reddish-orange color and gave the appearance of (what I could only imagine later to be) plasma swirling very slowly inside of a translucent shell. It would vary in brightness and color in perfect timing with the sound that I was hearing. It resembled lava in color and variance of color.

Each “light” was so large, you could have easily placed my car (VW wagon) inside of the light, or my car is a comparable size reference. The “lights” also (strangely) did not really illuminate the underbelly in any way I would have expected. They instead gave off a diffusive hue that moved outward from them upwards toward/onto the main body, where I could JUST faintly see it illuminated enough that it was gunmetal grey or black in color, and the hull was seemingly covered in what appeared to be small geometric plates or scales. This haze moved upwards and I perceived it to be the mechanism by which the craft was “flying”. Judging by this sight and the metallic nature of sound it was giving off, I assume it was made of metal. As far as speed, it moved at a snail’s pace. 15 mph MAXIMUM. It moved from coming up the mountainside from my back right to out of my line of sight in about one minute.

It never changed altitude as it moved overhead, but from where I was this craft seemed to have come from the valley below and was making its way up the mountain into/over the forest. As it passed overhead, it moved north/northeast into the forest towards the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park or Sawtooth Mountain Wilderness / Anza Borrego State Park. I watched it until it moved out of sight behind the trees. It appeared to be no more than 100 feet above the trees. It was very close.

I sat there for a minute to process what had just happened, then proceeded to turn my car on and drive further up Sunrise Hwy all the way to Kwaaymii Point in hopes of seeing it again, but saw nothing else.

I drove back to another spot I go to which is even closer to the radar station, and sat there dozing in and out for indeterminate periods until around 5am, at which I found that I was having trouble remembering exactly what the craft looked like, which I found to be extremely odd given this event had just happened. I now classify this as purposefully missing time rather than sleepiness. My mind began to remember 3 lights as 2 lights, so in an effort of preservation I roughly scribbled the shape I had actually seen on an iPhone note. It came out horribly and I could certainly do better now.

I was so in awe of the fact that it was so close to me that all I could do in the moment was stare at this thing. I wish I had taken a photo or even grabbed my phone because every other time I’ve seen something, it has been too far away to make out on a phone camera. I am unsure as to whether or not this sort of stupefying effect was a side effect of seeing the object itself, or if the object actually played a part in this effect, but it seems to make the most sense to me that it was caused by the craft (akin to crowd control technology) and not just my amazement. The elevation of the location where the sighting took place is around 5-6000 ft.

A footnote: in the years since, I have been compelled to go out there again several times, and do not follow up on it. I only return to the location now on my own terms, or what feels like on my own terms. I have not seen anything like that since on my return visits.

I greatly appreciate the work investigators do, and I hope to hear back. I thought about making reports of a couple other sightings but was left with a weird taste in my mouth courtesy of MUFON, so I decided to not do it. Hopefully this was the route I was supposed to take all along, and it turns out better. Thank you for your time and effort!


Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49305
Occurred: 2006-02-25 04:00 Local
Reported: 2006-02-26 21:38 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Julian, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Long sighting/studied lights

I was in my hometown neighborhood, on my way home from a friends house quite late at night. i noticed a bright light behind a nearby mountian. a light figure flew out. i was amazed by the beauty of the light, i saw the visible spectrum in what looked like to be tentacles, made out of bent light! i watched them enter the atmosphere in what I thought was a shooting star, which i later realized to be them entering the atmosphere. i was afraid of the light, being as it came very close to the car my friend and i had parked in. we didnt want to use our headlights in fear of startling the light. the actual light itself would expand and contract, and would sometimes resemble an angel. i watched the craft race at unhumanlike speeds and hover for three hours. the light was almost showing emotion, and stayed with us until the sun rose. i watched the light rise up until it could not be seen anymore. there were 3 total, my attention focused on one. the main one was at low elevation, the second one was at around what appeared to be about the middle of the atmosphere. The third was very high up, almost in outer space it appeared. They were alighned an a certian way that it looked as almost they were relaying information. I have a feeling that the creature is as curious about me as I was him. They were not hostile. They played and litterally hid in the clouds. That night was a night i will neve forget. I know the truth.



Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33205
Occurred: 1993-08-12 01:00 Local
Reported: 2003-11-17 22:33 Pacific
Duration: not sure


Location: Julian, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

huge crft moved slow and low during meteor shower

My brother a friend and afriend of his went campig at the camp ground by julian. ca named pasa pichico. it got dark and my brothers friend whimped out and sleeped in a tent. so three of us layed by the fire. it so hapens that those evenings was the height of a meteor showers most intense germany and mountains of sandiego.we were watching the showers whene my brother said whats that and pointed to an object in the night sky I said it a plane from miramar air base. I soon cam closer when I said Thats no airplane it flew over head at an angle I could hear the craft just as it went over heads the three of us we all dont remembe any thing else un tilll the next day. I have my brother and a friend that share the memories



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-11-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34057
Occurred: 1988-06-15 21:30 Local
Reported: 2003-12-21 23:56 Pacific
Duration: 2 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Julian, CA, USA

Shape: Other


moved from outer space into lower atmosphere at rapid speed...

Unknown object appeared to move from outer space into lower atmosphere at rapid speed.

Object also appeared to be linear in nature, resembling an octogonal kite configuration. The object did not seem to emit light, rather, it appeared to be reflecting a directed beam which was directing its course. The object seemed to be corrected in course by the beam, or some other unseen power source. (There was no visible beam of light or energy).

This object descended at a 90 degree perpendicular angle over Granite Mountain in eastern San Diego County, and then made a slow calculated inclination to the west between North Peak Mountain and Pine Hills, and then disappeared into an early summer cloud bank. The speed and direction of the object would have placed it over Miramar Naval Air Station in approximately 1 minute.

This object was and is an enigma to me and the other witness present. I am an Air Force veteran, and have never seen or experienced anything like this. I and the other witness are both ex CDF fire fighters and know eastern San Diego County very well. We both grew up in the mountains of San Diego County, and have watched Top Gun naval air- craft all of our lives. I have no rational explanation for this event. Is the Navy up to something, or what???? If they are, they're damn good!!!! Geee ellll



NUFORC Note:

Witness appears to us to have very strong credentials, and we suspect he is an excellent witness. PD


Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 5832
Occurred: 1986-04-15 00:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1999-03-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: app.4 1/2 hrs.
No of observers: 2

Location: Julian (near; bordering Cuyamaca Forest State Preserve), CA, USA

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

My husband and I experienced 2 glowing orbs (1 red at one end 1 blue at the other with us in the middle) approximately 50-100 yards apart. They came together no more than 10 yards directly in front of us and then shot directly into the sky.

My husband and I along with 2 of our friends went stargazing at a ranch that borders Cuyamaca State Preserve just outside of Julian ,Ca. About 12:30 a.m.I had to go to the bathroom. My husband walked with me into the woods.Off in the distance we could see poachers spotlighting for game. I do not remember going to the bathroom at all because of the very large red and blue orbs that appeared one on each side approximately 50-100 yards apart from us. The intensity of the orbs blinded us like a paralyzed deer in headlights. Slowly thay came together directly in front of us and merged they shot straight into the sky. We scambled back to where our friends were and were shocked as they began telling us how worried they were because we had been gone almost 4 hours.We never spoke about that night after that night. 2 years later we separeted. 8 years after the incident I ran into him . He came over and I asked him if he remembered the incident. His jaw dropped to the floor as he then told me that he has reacurring dreams of it but he did not remeber the actual incident or that I had been with him. and

Posted 1999-04-02