NUFORC UFO Sighting 187871
Occurred: 2025-02-21 11:30 Local
Reported: 2025-02-21 23:51 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
Location details: Parking lot dimly lit area with alot of air traffic

Shape: Cylinder
Color: Light grey
Estimated Size: Size of a school bus maybe
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: I was facing about due west
Angle of Elevation: 69
Closest Distance: It was up there, I think it was lower than the
Estimated Speed: Fast, 4 seconds from 1 end of the sky 2 the other
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

A cylindrical Gray object went flying past the sky, crossing another flight path of two aircraft

While watching a couple airplanes make their way across the sky in a northern direction, I noticed a light Gray object. You could clearly see the silhouette of being cylindrical? And was flying at astonishing speeds. This object crossed the path of two flying aircraft with, navigation lights on. The cylindrical object had no identifying navigation lights, and like I said, was astonishingly fast heading in a northern direction. I hope this is enough description to maybe find out what it was that flew over me in such a manner that I am reporting this to you. Immediately I thought tic tac. By the way, thank you for all your hard and informational gathering of this subject.

Posted 2025-02-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 180205
Occurred: 2024-01-28 22:00 Local
Reported: 2024-01-28 22:13 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Color: Amber
Estimated Size: No idea
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: It was south west of my location
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: No idea
Estimated Speed: No idea
Explanation: Rocket - Possible
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

One fireball and one small dot with a halo around it traveling slowly

I was in the passenger seat driving south on I-15 when I saw a small dot with a redish halo around it traveling across the sky. As I was looking at that, I saw a fireball shoot downward and eventually disappear. The small dot kept flying away.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164510
Occurred: 2021-09-05 23:00 Local
Reported: 2021-09-06 00:01 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Was sitting upstairs feeding baby and looking out window to pass time. Saw lights in the form of a triangle above the house across the street. Was sitting still then started moving slowing. Vanished in thin air. Just gone and never reappeared.



Posted 2021-09-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 161275
Occurred: 2020-12-22 22:05 Local
Reported: 2020-12-22 22:30 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: lake elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted

saw a glowing object.shape not discerned. travelling somewhat slowly.direction roughly Northeast to Southwest. large and somewhat Long trail of debris behind object. molten material falling from the end of fire trail. disappeared behind southern Hill. it had a glowing amber color. object made no discernible sound.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 151659
Occurred: 2019-12-15 06:45 Local
Reported: 2019-12-15 07:01 Pacific
Duration: 2-4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object

Green UFO spotted from North Lake Elsinore moving Northwest at extremely high rate of speed.

Green UFO spotted from North Lake Elsinore moving Northwest at extremely high rate of speed, faster than any aircraft. The speed made me think it was a crashing aircraft, but the angle did not match. The shape was unidentifiable, looked like just a green light.

Posted 2019-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 151348
Occurred: 2019-11-26 13:00 Local
Reported: 2019-12-07 15:24 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


Seven UFOs

Hello. I’m working at a house we own to fix it for sale. My friend tells me to look at a roofing shingle that was caught on a cable wire that ran from a pole to the upstairs unit. As im looking at the shingle I saw what I first thought were brids, sea gulls, circling up high.But they were uo too high and they didn’t have wings. They werent heading in a direction. They were circling around in a small area, going in and out and around in no pattern. That’s why I thought they were sea gulls. They were white and I couldn’t make out if they were disks or round. But they were circular. I didn’t take my eyes off them, not even for a second because I was slowly beginning to think they were extraterrestrial craft. My friend I was with saw the fleet of UFOs over our town one day standing on his balcony. Plus, I saw my first UFO go right over our house in 2014 july 2. I was called to go look at a house that needed painting by my employer/ friend . I didn’t want to g! o cause it was Sunday. On the way down the hill , right below where our house is, I saw what I first thought was a paper bag that blew up from the parking lot of a grocery store down below about 60 yards away. I stopped and looked, never taking my eyes off it. I began to sense something not right, because the plastic bags are white and this thing was a brass color and seemed to be floating along with the wind, which is why I thought it was a bag. It floated over a tree on our property and I noticed the sun reflect off it. That’s when I knew it was metallic. It was a disk with a convex area on the bottom. No seams or lights and it was low enough that I could almost hit it with a rock. Since then im always on the lookout for UFOs.

Getting back to the 7 UFOs , they were right below the clouds circling around and I never took my eyes off them. They moved around for about 90 seconds and then faded away, maybe moving up into the clouds. They were gone. I yelled for my friend to look but he wasn’t interested in seeing some birds, so he didn’t bother. I knew then they were UFOs and told him about what I saw. I kept looking and explaining how they acted. Its not every day you get to see craft from another star system. After about 3 minutes of talking a jet fighter came along and went throught the exact area where the objects were. I didn’t bother calling the air force base near us because I know they will deny everything.



Posted 2019-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150351
Occurred: 2019-10-18 20:00 Local
Reported: 2019-10-18 22:09 Pacific
Duration: 7 min
No of observers: 5

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

30 to 40 Star like objects moving in the sky to form one giant star like object

So my family and I were at a baseball stadium that was for haunted houses so very dark so the stars were very easy to see and in the distance we saw about 30 to 40 stars and we thought it was a constellation but they all started to move so three of us stay and watched them and they all moved into one big ball of light like a huge star and we looked away for not even a minute and it just disappeared, not one light in the sky. Like it was never there. And we kept looking all night and couldn’t see it again.



Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147854
Occurred: 2019-07-27 23:00 Local
Reported: 2019-07-28 03:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds


Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape:




NUFORC Note:

Source of report provides no detailed information about apparent sighting. PD


Posted 2019-08-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145989
Occurred: 2019-05-05 15:30 Local
Reported: 2019-05-05 18:54 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

This object was stationary in the sky for around 1 hour, seen threw my binoculars it seem to change shape from cigar shaped to chevron shaped.

Also seemed to split apart at a time into 3 objects then back into one.




NUFORC Note:

Possible sighting of a star?? PD


Posted 2019-05-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135756
Occurred: 2017-08-17 01:00 Local
Reported: 2017-08-17 08:57 Pacific
Duration: 120 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

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

About 20 lights flying in the sky over Lake Elsinore area for about 2 hours

Around 1 a.m. about 4 lights started flying in formation with their lights flashing in secession. within 5 minutes of the first 4 lights, about 16 more joined and they began flying around in a fluid like motions huddling together and then dispersing. The lights were very high in the sky, and moved too quickly and changed direction too rapidly to be any known aircraft.

After about 2 hours they started to disperse a few at a time until they were entirely gone from sight.

Posted 2017-08-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125441
Occurred: 2016-01-24 23:00 Local
Reported: 2016-01-25 02:11 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

A craft about the size of a 747 flying less than 1000 feet off the ground, hovering over a small hill near the 15 freeway, with light shining from all four sides of the craft.

It went down behind a hill the hill in less than 500 feet tall. The nearest airport is 20 miles away, March Air Force Base.




NUFORC Note:

One of four reports, submitted by same witness. PD


Posted 2016-01-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117232
Occurred: 2015-02-06 18:20 Local
Reported: 2015-02-08 13:24 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Strange lights and strange aerenautica manuvering

We saw a craft hovering about 300 ft in the NW hemisphere - it was not conventional aircraft or helicopter but no sounds, suddenly there was a bright pulsating light blinked 2 or 3 times and then the craft dropped to the ground behind the tree line about 10 minutes later it appeard in the eastern hemispher and gluided towards the Eastern hemisphere.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2015-02-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106569
Occurred: 2014-01-01 01:30 Local
Reported: 2014-01-22 21:27 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Lake Elsinore ufo with blue thrusters

Ok, so New Year's Day early morning I was driving into lake Elsinore on the hwy 74 I was coming down the grade and I saw a yellow ball of light about 2,000 feet or higher float kinda slow then speed up horizontal and then bam it turned on its thrusters and boom it went for space at an unbelieveable speed it left blue exhaust or blue thrusters that were circular and there was 3 exhausts like a total spaceship something out of a movie and it was gone within 15 seconds

Posted 2014-01-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 103848
Occurred: 2013-11-01 19:32 Local
Reported: 2013-11-02 21:50 Pacific
Duration: 6 minutes
No of observers: 20

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Hundreds of mini stars flying low above the ground.

It was a new moon night and approaching from the North at about 500 ft over the ground. Hundreds of very bright lights, like small stars, blue white in color, were traveling across the sky at about 5 to 15 mph. Each light was a individual light .

I am a hang glider pilot , and watching the movement , it looked like birds with a very high power ball of light attached. At one moment the cluster turned into a column gaining altitude. The show was amazing. Cars pulling off the road everywhere. The main cluster moved to the west at about 1500 ft agl now and was out of sight towards the coast. There was a few ball of lights on there own maybe half a mile behind the main group and trying to catch up. I have never seen anything like it. My best guess is some kind of a experiment. I think the lumen s of the lights was very high, very bright . I am doing all i can now to find out what it was. Amazing to say the lease.

Posted 2013-11-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104813
Occurred: 2013-11-01 19:30 Local
Reported: 2013-11-26 23:23 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 100

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Possible abduction

Hundreds of lights over Lake Elsinore 11/01/2013 7-7:30pm

I am a 33 year old man and work as a project manager. It was about 7 to 7:30pm. My Wife, my three sons had left our home in Lake Elsinore and were heading to camp Pendleton to go camping with family for the weekend. We were heading south on the I-15 approaching exit to HWY 74 and I was on speaker phone with my brother asking for directions when I noticed a line of lights in the eastern sky approaching from a distance.

Just as I began to mention them to my wife, the freeway came to almost a complete stop adjacent to the outlets mall. People were pulling over on the sides of the freeway and as we crawled forward I could then see that the lights I saw were part of stream of lights crossing over the freeway.

I pulled over on the side of the freeway, and stepped just out of my vehicle, directly under the stream of lights. The lights flashed but to me they seemed almost holographic. Bluish-white sphere shaped approx. four to six feet in diameter (seemed to vary in size and distance) The nearest ones to us were about 100 above us at their lowest point.

As they moved they seemed to flutter around almost like a group of butterflies, but in a deliberate direction; west. When they flashed I could almost make out a silhouette of something inside the light orb.

As I was looking up, describing the scene to my brother on the phone, my wife yelled, "Oh my God, there are hundreds!"

I turned towards the west and saw a huge swarm of them over Lake Elsinore that the stream seemed to be dumping into. I hung up with my brother and called my neighbors, who went out to see the lights.

I then called my best friend, who went out and saw the lights as well.

Then I got back in my vehicle. I wanted to take HWY 74 and follow the objects, but at this time my wife and children became very afraid.

So we decided to continue south, the long way so as to avoid the lights.

My wife has some phone footage as well as my neighbors. These things didn't seem to be aircraft, or spacecraft. they seemed organic, or alive, so to speak.

Posted 2013-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 177208
Occurred: 2013-04-14 19:45 Local
Reported: 2023-07-31 06:15 Pacific
Duration: 4-5 minutes
No of observers: 999

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
Location details: 15 frwy between Diamond Exit and Main exit

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

3 orange orbs hovering and moving in sequence

We were driving south of 15 frwy when my entire family observed 3 orbs traveling north above 15 frwy in Lake Elsinore between Diamond and Main st exit. We decided to pull over on shoulder in a white Expedition, we all got out of the car at the time all 3 stopped in front of us meanwhile cars speeding down the 15 frwy were hitting the breaks as they were also seeing the same thing, some honked there horned. We stayed looking at them in awe , they were about the size of a car and all 3 were hovering with no sound and frozen about 200 feet from us, after what may have been 1-2 minutes the first orange orb closest to us shot into the sky with no trace followed by the second orb which moved in exact location of first one and repeated and shot straight into sky and the last one did the same thing in the exact location. It was so amazing that they had stopped in front of us and disappeared that we all decided to not report until we were ready. This has not been our first encounter so it was really not a big deal to report but knowing now that there are government release we feel it is ok to report. I am interested in cars traveling down and seen us frozen if they can report and confirm our story.

Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93870
Occurred: 2012-10-03 05:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-10-25 13:19 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 seconds


Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Giant black plane

I work night shifts. I had gotten off early and was sitting outside before I tried to go bed. It caught my eye when it lit up. At first, I thought it was a shooting star but there were 2 bright lights, parallel to each other, moving at the same speed. It didn't go very far before it took off but when it did, the sky around it lit up for a minute. It looked like a plane, only black and a lot bigger. And even though it was big, it shot off fast. I only saw it for a few seconds after it took off.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2012-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89113
Occurred: 2012-05-19 20:15 Local
Reported: 2012-05-21 20:35 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

Extremely bright sphere over Canyon Lake, Canyon Hills area

My husband and I have been seeing this same "object" periodically since moving into our house. We live in Canyon Hills and for almost 6 months saw the object down in the valley - 364 degrees north. We didn't normally see it until after 10:00 p.m. Within the past two weeks we are seeing it earlier (tonight right at dusk) at 288 degrees west. I have several pictures and video.

When looking at the object with the naked eye it appears extremely bright and normally remains still. There have been times when it would go extremely bright red, then in the blink of an eye dim to where you almost couldn't see it. It would then go bright and move vertically - then immediately disappear. At times there have been two objects.

When we zoom in with the video we discovered that the object is actually continually moving in zig zag movements - extremely fast. Then it stops and blows into a huge, bright round ball.

We would love to figure out what this is. The video is quite compelling.

Posted 2012-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88556
Occurred: 2012-04-20 21:33 Local
Reported: 2012-04-21 01:47 Pacific
Duration: 8 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large, dark, triangular winged object with numerous small dim lights, silently floated by us.

I have seen many meteors, fireballs, aircraft in my 56 years, but have never seen what I would call a UFO until tonight. I am a high school teacher.

5 of us were sitting in my friend's (a middle school teacher) back yard around a small gas, fire pit from 9:00PM pacific time until about 11:00PM. I looked up at the sky (clear, star filled- the moon had just gone down) and noticed what looked like a dark, winged object floating by low in the horizon, but just above the backyard trees.

At first I thought it was large bird, like an owl (we have white owls that I've seen at night many times) but quickly realized it was much too big (and too dark) to be an owl or even a large hawk. It took about a second to realize what the scale of it was and to notice dim but numerous lights all along the wings. The wings appeared to be curling, or slightly flapping but seemed obvious that it was mechanical now.

I pointed and said "Look at the UFO." Everyone turned to look and were all amazed at what we saw. I got up to see it a few more seconds before it disapeared. 3 of the others saw it and the one who had his back to it and was a little more behind the tree didn't. I probably saw it for 7 or 8 seconds. The others for 3 or 4 seconds. It didn't seem to be traveling extremely fast (unless it was high), but the angle of view and the trees eventually obscured it. But it actually seemed to just disapear to me. It was traveling close to due north, maybe slightly west as well.

It was hard to get a scale on it. If I had to guess, I'd say it was about the size of a B-2 bomber or up to a B-52 bomber with swept back wings. I only saw wings, nothing sticking out the front or back. The wife of the other teacher (she works for a car dealership) said it looked like a dragon from Harry Potter with no head or tail. Most of us thought we saw the wings moving. But the soft, diffused lighting on it (small spots of diffused lights, mostly on the edges of the wings) definitely showed it to be mechanical. It was completely silent. That was an eerie part to all of us.

It was either large airplane size, and about one or two thousand feet up, or gigantic, and far away. All four of us agreed that we had never seen anything like it.

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84364
Occurred: 2011-10-05 20:45 Local
Reported: 2011-10-06 09:04 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

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

Red lighted UFO flying over Ortega Mountains, Lake Elsinore side

Circular shape craft. All bright red on top with white lighted bottom. When clouds illuminated craft, you could see a faint circle of white light around the outside middle of craft. It's flying alongside the top of the Ortega Mountains-(Lake Elsinore side), then suddenly flew upwards and in reverse, came to a stop, flew toward San Diego again and then suddenly started to travel straight down at an angle towards the bottom of the mountains, rapidly.

Then all of a sudden it appeared "in the crevice" of the mountain going upward, turned left, went over to the left at the top and then straight back down the next "crevice" toward the bottom of the mountain again and repeated it for the last crevice and never arose again. No sound what so ever. It was not an airplane, that much we know.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83935
Occurred: 2011-09-14 20:30 Local
Reported: 2011-09-15 13:45 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

Fireball seen over Lake Elsinore, CA

I submitted a report earlier today re: radio traffic of a possible sighting. I have been searching the web all morning and have found a video of the object:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjErKUeJ6cs&feature=player_embedded#t=82s

The object in this video does not look like a meteor to me, it lasts too long.

Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83930
Occurred: 2011-09-14 20:30 Local
Reported: 2011-09-15 10:57 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail, Landed

Monitored radio report of crashed object on fire, "meteors"

On the evening of 09/14/2011 I was sitting on my deck, watching the sky. I was also listening to a scanner radio, as I had seen a USAF C-17 from March ARB circling overhead and was trying to pick up radio comms from March field.

About 2030 hours I heard a dispatcher from the Riverside County Sheriff's Dept. calling their helicopter to investigate a report of a downed aircraft in the Lake Elsinore area. The dispatcher told the pilot that a motorist on the freeway had seen an orange object, apparently on fire and leaving a trail of fire, pass over their vehicle and crash behind a ridge, where it was now starting a brush fire, as the sky was starting to glow orange. A ground unit was also sent to check the area. The pilot acknowledged and reported a 7 minute ETA.

On arrival, the pilot checked the area and reported to dispatch that he could not locate any object or fire. He added that he had used FLIR as well, and that he was not NVG equipped, and requested furt! her information. The dispatcher advised that there was a helicopter reported overdue from Hawthorne airport, but no other information. She added that dispatch was receiving numerous reports of “meteors” in the same area as the alleged crash. The pilot and ground unit both reported that they could find no signs of a crash or fire and cleared the call.

I am reporting this in case you receive any reports from the Lake Elsinore area for this time frame. I did not observe any meteor s while I was watching the sky that evening, and I was facing south towards the area of the reports. The sky was fairly clear with a few high clouds. There was thunderstorm activity to the northeast over the desert areas.

Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79574
Occurred: 2011-01-06 21:40 Local
Reported: 2011-01-06 22:00 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams

Three craft arranged in triangle formation that hovered and then dissappeared.

Three disks hovering in the same spot for about 2 minutes; each disk had some sort of tail; the disks formed a triangle that was not perpendicular to the ground but was at an angle with the upper craft at the top; the craft at the bottom looked as if it where searching for something; the crafts dissapeared upward, just before going upward they released some small stream of discharge; the top crafts light dissapeared first and then the bottom two dissapeared immediatley afterward. There was no sound except low buzz/rumble.



NUFORC Note:

Suspected parachute jumpers. PD


Posted 2011-01-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77009
Occurred: 2010-08-02 06:00 Local
Reported: 2010-08-05 19:11 Pacific
Duration: 2 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar


Lake Elsinore sighting 8/2/10 0600

I was driving up the Ortega Hwy going home from working the night shift. I usually got off at 6:30, but this day I got off at 5:30 which allowed me to see the sunrise.

Well as I got over the peak of the mountain I decided to pull over and take several pictures of the sunrise. It wasn't until the next day that I noticed in 2 of the pictures that there was an object in roughly the same area of the sky, but these pictures were not sequential. Lets say I took 10 pictures, the object was in pictures 5 and 9.

I noticed the object in the 2nd picture (picture 9), and it got me curious to see if it was in any others.

Of the 5 pictures 4 were of the same area of the sky, and there was no trace of the object in the middle pictures.




NUFORC Note:

Source of the report forwarded two photos of a sunrise sky. There is a very small, blurry, light-colored object, approximately 1/4 or 1/3 (est.) the diameter of the rising sun. It could be a clump of cloud, an aircraft, we believe. If it is a genuine UFO, we cannot confirm that fact, based on the information provided by the witness. PD


Posted 2010-08-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75692
Occurred: 2010-06-06 11:15 Local
Reported: 2010-06-06 15:23 Pacific
Duration: 45 min
No of observers: 4

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Two clusters of oval, metallic-sided objects were seen flying high above Lake Elsinore.

At first glance I thought it was a transparent parachute with silver spots, a flock of birds or balloons all in the air seemingly joined together at a high altitude, but when they moved some of the "shapes" (about 30 or so) darted around more randomly than others. Then as if turning sideways, they would suddenly disappear, then appear again in a random group. There were at least two separate "clusters" of shapes with at least one metallic side on each shape, just hovering and moving almost in a circular motion, not far from each other.

We watched them for about a half hour with some other curious onlookers and nobody could tell what they were...the two clusters eventually joined in a line above us and went south east of us. After a few minutes of watching these objects and evaluating their movements, it was obvious that they were not birds, balloons, kites or parachutes.




NUFORC Note:

Wife's report. Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB, on this date, but the launch occurred at 15:25 hrs., June 06, 2010. PD


Posted 2010-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75693
Occurred: 2010-06-06 11:15 Local
Reported: 2010-06-06 16:07 Pacific
Duration: 30 to 40 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

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

these oval and flat objects moved in an incredibly fast and were a transparent and metallic in color disappearing and reappearing.

Well after my first glance i really didn't know what to make of it, my wife and i were driving on the 15 fwy going south near lake Elsinore, then when i took a closer look i had to actually pull over to the shoulder off the fwy stopped my vehicle and was amazed of what we were looking at, i was looking at the horizon of the mountains and comparing it with the objects i was seeing.

What we saw were at least 50 to 100 oval metallic and sometimes flat shaped and even transparent in nature looking objects move up down from side to side in clusters sometimes they would separate into two large clusters, one of the objects even took off straight up from the others like a missile then straight down and back with the others. These objects would change direction in such a matter so quickly that from my experience as a retired fireman and who's been around aircraft for over 30 years, there is nothing you can compare with the speed of which these things would move from one area to another. They would at times disappear and reappear while changing in color from a shinny metallic to a dark color. then after approximately 30 to 40 minutes they started moving toward an east/south direction over the 15 fwy and out of our view in a cluster like formation and extremely fast.




NUFORC Note:

Husband's report. We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded and objective in his reporting of the objects. Witness is a former public employee, who had a considerable amount of responsibility. We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD


Posted 2010-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75343
Occurred: 2010-04-25 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-05-08 15:32 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 5

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

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

disk flew up very fast

i was out side in pol i lok up i see a disk with flashing lights and it zooms off stright up in a matter of secends






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75181
Occurred: 2010-04-24 21:00 Local
Reported: 2010-04-24 23:01 Pacific
Duration: 4-5 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Disk light object with rotating white lights along bottom disappears after 5 min.

At approximately 9:00pm PT I was driving north in Lake Elsinore California. It was a clear night sky many stars were visible. My 6 year old son was riding passenger and I was on my phone with a friend. She heard everything I’m about to recount.

What I saw was at approx. 350 degrees in the north sky and at about a 45 degree angle. At first I thought it was a blimp because the size was about that along with the shape, longer body with a shorter height; like one of the super large Goodyear blimps you see at sporting events. Then I realized it wasn’t moving at all and my visibility got better to where I could tell the height wasn’t much at all.

Along the bottom it had white lights that were circling it. The reason I know the lights were moving and not a blinking sequence is because there was a small obvious break in the lights. At the top it appeared to have two smaller lights one red and one white.

I decided to keep driving and try to get a closer look to figure out what exactly I was seeing. As I approached the bottom lights turned off and all I could see vaguely were the top lights. It still seemed a distance away at that point. I made a turn on a side street to continue trying to get closer and after passing a tree I could no longer see anything there, no red light nothing at all. It seemed to have disappeared after about a 4 minute show. I kept asking my son if he was seeing what I was seeing and he was. There was no doubt in either of our minds we were seeing something very unusual in our night sky.

Posted 2010-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 61630
Occurred: 2008-01-31 12:05 Local
Reported: 2008-02-15 16:21 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


Spinning round object over Lake Elsinore

This event occurred as my self and two other witnesses were proceeding to our cars in the company parking lot of our place of work, which is located at the edge of the local airport’s runway. Upon looking up, I noticed what looked like a perfectly round white balloon travelling in a perfect straight line in a westerly direction. This caught my attention as I knew balloons don’t usually travel through the sky this way.

As I mentioned to my co-workers to look up at what I thought was a balloon, the object was continuing in the straight line but was slowing to a complete stop, at about 15 degrees from directly above us, towards the north. We agreed that the object was being too stable for a balloon that was at that high altitude. At this time, my co-workers mentioned that the object was actually spinning in an elliptical fashion, like an egg being spun on counter, with a slight wobble.

After pausing at the spot for about 15 to 20 seconds, it proceeded to slowly rise at a very steep angle until it was out of sight.

We scoured the Net the following week for any indication of other people seeing what we saw, or if it was any other explainable phenomenon, natural or otherwise, but did not see any reports.

Posted 2008-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 61430
Occurred: 2008-01-31 12:05 Local
Reported: 2008-02-05 13:04 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


White oval object in the skies above Lake Elsinore.

We walked out of the office to go to lunch and just happen to glance up in the sky. The reason for this is because there is a municipal airport runway behind our building that is used for sky jumping. So as we where looking for jumpers we saw an object that the first witness thought was a balloon. The object was moving horizontal in a westerly direction, too fast and straight for a balloon, then slowed down to a complete stop where the other two witnesses noticed that it was spinning (this is how we could see the shape was oval because it looked like and egg spinning on the counter). Then it just slowly ascended into the sky where it vanished from view.

We waited for a few days to see if it would be reported, but have not read or seen any thing in the local news or online.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2008-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 52438
Occurred: 2006-09-11 00:30 Local
Reported: 2006-09-11 02:38 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

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

Bright,maybe burning, object traveling extremely fast exlodes over Lake Elsinore

I was driving southbound on the I-15, just past Lake Street on the north side of Lake Elsinore. A very bright and very fast moving object in they sky to my forward-left caught my eye and I watched it for maybe one whole second when it exploded.

My first thought was that I might have just seen the Shuttle Atlantis burning up and exploding.

It was like a ship on fire, burning light of white and a little yellow in a kind of corona around a central mass that was traveling at tremendous speed and then it exploded in the air in a conical fashion. About the time the debris cone got to three times the diameter of the original object the 'fire' went out and nothing of it was visible in the dark.

I can estimate the speed at around 3600 mph because for the second (if that) that I saw the object it traveled the length of a hill/mountain top that is somewhat like a mesa in shape and is a mile in length. However, the object appeared to be about 5 miles beyond the 'mesa' and from my perspective about 5 degrees above the mesa and in slight declination... for reference my distance from the mesa was about a mile.

The freeway is pretty much going south-east where I was at, so I guess the object was traveling south, but I can't be sure becuase the 15 fwy changes direction alot.

I'm sure the media would have already have the story out if the shuttle exploded, so it wasn't that. Other possibilities would include a meteor, but I would guess that a meteor that big would cause some major damage, and not be at such a slight declination at such a low altitude.

It left a briefly glowing trail and I heard no sounds.



Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53776
Occurred: 2006-09-10 21:00 Local
Reported: 2006-12-03 13:04 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Floating light suddenly moves slowly then speeds off into space!

I was taking my girl friend home. It was somewhere between 9:00pm- 9:05pm and I can tell you right now what i saw was real.

I hadn't been drinking nor was a I tired so nothing was able to mess with my mind and make me see things that weren't there!

So my girl goes inside her house and I look ahead and start my car. I look up in the sky because i noticed a light.

Now at first i was thinking to myself, "wow, that star is pretty close to be looking that big and so up clear."

Then i noticed it was moving very slowly, and all of a sudden it sped off so fast that if I was to blink I would have not seen it fly off into space like it did.

I doubt our military or any other military has a plane or any flying craft that can just float and looks so still, move slowy then speed off so fast into space like that!




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50048
Occurred: 2006-02-01 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-04-09 00:35 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Grouped Lights / No noise / No body

First off, some background on myself. I own my CNC machining business. Have been a race engine builder for years. Worked with GM for years. Studied astronomy, physics and engineering. Very down to earth person. I don't look for phenomena, but have always had a major interest in the natural world. I quest for knowledge in all my endeavors. I not easily swayed, I seek facts and details.

I could go further, but that being said, here's my event.

February 2006; I was driving home late at night, ~12:00 a.m. from my shop. My girlfriend was with me at this time. We were heading north on I-15. Just passed California Oaks off ramp, we both noticed a very bright light hovering just above the horizon about NW, 10:30 from our position. It was very strange in that there was no traffic in our direction. No lights ahead and one set of lights very far behind us. Very unusual for the busy I-15. We commented on the brightness of the lights. Like they were pointed right at us. They were brighter than any aircraft lights I've ever seen. But there were 3 together but distinctly separate. We thought it may be a helicopter. It moved ever so slightly towards us, maintaining it's altitude. We continued to comment on the strangeness. As we approached Bundy Canyon, the object seemed to start to draw a bead on us. Again there was oddly no other traffic in our direction, but a sporadic car passing on the opposite side heading south.

As we passed Bundy the object was now even with us and within a 1/4 mile to the direct West of us and falling slightly behind us, say to the 8:00 position. It's altitude was maybe 200'. It then turned and maintained running parallel to our direction exactly off at 9:00. It maintained that distance for ~ 1/4 mile, then moved in to us. It continued to fly directly over the truck. I become very uneasy and speed up to around 100 mph, because I felt like it may hit us. It flew directly above us for maybe a 1/2 mile and then started to veer off to the East and disengaged slowly. I could not see it off the passenger side except for just a couple of glimpses. My girlfriend continued to eye it. She said it then shot off to the East at an extremely high rate of speed. Faster than a jet she said.

Strange facts: NO noise. This object made NO noise, even flying about 100' above us.

Three aircraft type landing lights up front and two of the same type lights in the assumed "Rear" of the object.

NO traditional navigation lights or strobes.

And the most amazing aspect of all is that there was no visible body. We could not make out any physical type of structure to the object. NO wings, NO fuselage, NO body. Just lights and void between the lights. Even as the object came over head, we could not see any type of body. The object did appear to be circular only becuase of the way the lights were positioned.

I figured you may like to add this sighting to what ever compilation you may have.

You may contact me anytime if you would like to ask any further questions.

Thank you




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48624
Occurred: 2006-01-04 22:30 Local
Reported: 2006-01-06 14:06 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

Large semi transparent green flash, with what looked like a very long brown rod protruding from it on the top. Low over the mountains.



Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29081
Occurred: 2002-05-06 09:00 Local
Reported: 2003-06-06 15:11 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

I saw lights in the sky, after a while they disapeared into the dark stary sky.

My father and I were driving to pick up his friend from my grandmothers house. My grandmother lives on a mountain. So we were driving and I looked out my fathers window. Then I saw 8 lights blinking in a circle. I told my father to look and he saw them also. Then we checked back in about 1 minute and they were splitting up. I kept my eye on them but after a while they just disapeared into the dark stary sky.



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2003-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 19765
Occurred: 2001-10-07 23:30 Local
Reported: 2001-10-08 00:24 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

UFO sighting from the Ortega Mountains, dim red turned to bright light moving towards us.

My girlfriend and I were up in the Ortega Mountains to sky watch when we notice a dim red star. We drive to a more remote location to scrutinize it better. To our astonishment, this "red star" starts moving slowly, from all sides. A few minutes later, it starts doing fast turns and circles in the sky. It eventually fades to the point where it was easy to lose sight of. Then, in another area of the sky, the light reappears and shifts from left to right slowly before disappearing. Seconds later, the light, possibly the same craft- but with a different appearance and white color, reappears in a closer mountain range. It is moving towards us now and the light becomes brighter from whatever this thing is! Out of extreme fear, we get in the car and drive as fast as we can down the mountain, risking a serious car accident. As I look back at this object, while driving erratically, I could see that this object was close enough for me to see three white lights. We must've escaped quick enough because by the time we got on the main road, that's leads down the mountain, the object was out of sight.

This all happened about an hour ago and I'm still in shock.

Posted 2001-10-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 11940
Occurred: 2000-02-09 21:03 Local
Reported: 2000-02-10 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 sec.
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

I was watching TV, started receiving interference, I went out for a cigarette I looked up to a sky covered with clouds when I saw

While watching tv the picture began to show alot of static and snow, there were no appliances on and since I have cable I rarely if ever have experienced this.I went out for a smoke, looked up at the cloud cover to the south in my 11:00 position a blueish-white light flickered on in a stationary position, it then began to move extremely fast slowed down than accelerated out of sight.It was about the size of jupiter and seemed to pulse as it stutter jumped from east to the west.It seemed like every dog in a one block area was barking like crazy.

Posted 2000-02-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 11460
Occurred: 1999-12-25 19:30 Local
Reported: 1999-12-25 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

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

orange light moving west to east, then made sharp turn to the south then broke up into 5 orange lights, faded to the south

At 19:30 hrs we observed an orange donut shaped light moving slowly west to east stopping at times at a very high altitude (higher than commercial air traffic) maybe around 50,000 ft. when the object was approx. due north of us it made a very very sharp right turn and started heading south. the object appeared to be speeding and then slowing down to almost a complete stop at times. The object was not traveling in an exact straight line because at times it seemed to be slightly moving from side to side but continued to move in a southerly direction. I had time to get my binoculars and on closer inspection of the object when it was almost directly overhead of us I could see a dark triangular body (because of the stars behind it) around the orange colored donut shaped light. I could also see a dark triangle in the center of the orange light. I estimate the object to have been maybe 1,000 ft across from tip to tip. As the object continued south the orange light became brighter and seemed to display brighter flashes now and then, almost like the afterburners on a fighter jet. After a few bright flashes another object looking very similar seemed to appear in front of the original object, and it happened very fast. You could also see a rope like outline connecting the two objects. Then a third, fourth, and fith object appeared out in front of the last in a similar fashion. At this point we had been watching the objects for about 10 minutes and they were near the southern horizon below the Orion constellation when they faded quite rapidly. Neither me nor my friend have ever seen anything like this. We live in southern california 75 miles south-east of Los Angeles, and this object when it first appeared to us it was in the north-west maybe over the L.A. basin at a very high altitude, then when it was almost directly north of us, maybe over Antelope Valley - Big Bear, it made a sharp turn to the south and came right over us and kept on a southerly course towards Mexico's airspace.

Posted 2000-01-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 7889
Occurred: 1999-05-02 15:30 Local
Reported: 1999-05-26 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 50-60 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Other


The craft was boomerang shaped and was witnessed by the four people in my party, on a sunny afternoon.

We (two adults & two children) were pulling up in our car at the local grocery store when we saw a large (dc-10 size), completely matte black, boomerang shaped object in the sky. It was about 1/4mile away and about 500ft in altitude. We observed it through open windows in our car. The weather was clear and sunny and we watched it fly over several local hills for a little less than a minute until it passed behind a larger hill and we could no longer see it. It was coming from the south and headed toward the north and was moving slowly (about 90mph-although it was hard to gauge accurate speed), and it was completely silent. We heard no noise whatsoever, which is what surprised us the most. Being as that it was so low we thought we should be able to hear it. Our backgrounds: I work in the computer industry and the other adult witness works in construction metals salesmanagement. We are both in our mid-30's. We are making no claim that this was any type of extraterrestrial craft, only that it was unidentifiable, flying and an object.

Posted 1999-06-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25574
Occurred: 1986-07-15 11:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-10-14 15:32 Pacific
Duration: 5min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

craft sighted over elsinore with multi-lights and no sound

first I heard a winding sound.when I looked up in the sky at the bottom of a craft thatwas round and had markings and lights and things I wasn't familiar with.It made no sound and moved forward in a short zig zag motion.The craft had one continous light all the way around it that changed colors.First blue then green then red then amber.It moved sharply to the left and slowly towards the hills,hovered for a minute and then quickly dashed up and out of sight.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-10-15