NUFORC UFO Sighting 123560
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:03 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 20:17 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Ozena, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Fireball burst leaving a blue trail of matter.

A yellow ball of light was moving across the sky followed by a blue stream trail. Then the ball stopped and seemed to dissipate into a large spherical matter of bright white light and then turned to blue. The blue matter stayed in the sky for 2-3 minutes and then it turned white. The fireball disappeared and then reappeared over the horizon but it was less bright and in the distance. Then it appeared to go straight up and showed another burst of light, then disappeared again.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70249
Occurred: 2009-05-27 22:00 Local
Reported: 2009-05-28 21:14 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

We were laying in our sleeping bags looking at the stars. A bright light started flying along the ridge of the mountain above us. Then it turned red, flew along a bit more and then went out completely, disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2213
Occurred: 1997-05-10 22:45 Local
Reported: 1997-05-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5min.
No of observers: 4

Location: Los Padres National Forest (Ventura Co.), CA, USA

Shape: Other


Summary : Observed two objects. One with flashing multi-colored lights, the second, somewhat bell-shaped with two white-yellow lights. They hovered above us and appeared to be observing us.

On May 10, 1997 we were camping in a remote part of Los Padres National Forest. Our party consisted of myself, my wife ((Three names deleted)). Our location was a campsite known as Thorn Meadows, approximately 20 miles west of the small town of Lake of the Woods, in Ventura county. The elevation there is approximately 4000 ft., the winds were calm, the sky was clear, the stars were bright. A crescent moon was descending. We had camped at this site on two other occasions and although it is very remote, this was the first time we had not seen any other people in the area all day.At approximately 10:45 PM, we were finishing cleaning up after dinner. We had a fire burning. ((Name deleted)), pointing to the northeastern sky, said something to effect of, "Hey, what is that thing? I’ve been watching it for a while and I can’t figure out what it is." I looked in the direction he was pointing and I saw a flashing light, at approximately 50 degrees. At first I thought it was someone walking down the hill with a flashlight because of the erratic way it was flashing. I then realised that this could not be because there was no hill in that direction. After watching it for approx. 30 seconds, I realised two things: one, the flashing light it was emitting was rapidly changing color; two, it was moving in an unpredictable, erratic manner that could not possibly have been an airplane or helicopter. It was moving in a way that seemed to indicate it was searching for something. At that instant, I realised immediately it was not an ordinary aircraft. The object then changed dire!ction and came directly at us in a straight line moving at a high rate of speed which I could not quantify. The object then stopped in plain view, at roughly the same angle to the horizon. I found this very disturbing. Then ((Name deleted)) said, "Look, there’s another one." I turned my head and saw to the southeast, at approximately 30 degrees, another object that had, to me, appeared out of nowhere and was now hovering almost directly above us. This object was different from the other, it had two bright, white-yellow lights and seemed vaguely bell-shaped. Both objects were completely silent and up there you can hear a plane from miles away. I had the distinct but inexplicable sense that they were looking at us. I could not estimate the size or altitude of the objects, but the second object had a similar appearance to a helicopter hovering at maybe 1500 ft. In other words, it was clearly visible.I was quite frightened but ((Name deleted))was absolutely terror-stricken. She was completely resolute that we needed to leave immediately. Seeing the second object sitting up above us was all I needed to make up my mind to go. In seconds we gathered up the dogs, extinguished the fire and got in the truck and I drove as fast as I could down the dirt road. At one point, my wife saw the first object off to the right of our vehicle and believes it was following us. I did not see it and so cannot verify. Later I realised that we were in a classic abduction scenario and I’m glad we left, although I wonder if I would have had it not been for my wife’s urging. I also realise that if they really wanted us, we wouldn’t have had a chance. We spent the night in a motel room in town and went back early in the morning to gather up our things.Let me give you some background here for a frame of reference. I am a skeptical person by nature. In my youth I heard the stories of UFOs and thought, "Well, that could be, but I’ll believe it when I see it." Then, a number of years ago I read Communion which led to my reading a few other books on the subject. Then I realised what was really going on. However, I am most certainly not one of those people that goes around trying to spot UFOs, in fact the opposite is true. After reading Communion, I hoped to never see one of those things. I have spent a lot of time looking at the night sky and have never, until now, seen anything that was completely inexplicable. I am convinced that there is no way these objects that we witnessed could have been some experimental aircraft. The way they accelerated, stopped, changed direction, I don’t believe that a human would be able to withstand the g forces that would have been generated.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 21100
Occurred: 1952-06-15 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-01-06 15:02 Pacific
Duration: 10Minutes


Location: Piedra Blanka (Los Padres National Forest), CA, USA

Shape: Cigar


I was camping with my school at Piedra Blanka in Los Padres National Forest. We all slept in sleeping bags jus out under the stars. No tent.

I woke up sometime durring the night and saw 6 cigar shaped something going acctoss the sky very high up.

I hadn't heard anything about ufo's at that time. I thought they were much to high for any air plane we had at that time as well as much to fast I was only 12 years old at that time.

Since then, Ihave seen a ufo one more time.They were plane colored UFO 1952



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 58458
Occurred: 1951-06-06 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-08-30 00:36 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Mount Pinos (beyond ski area parking), CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

2 ufos seen over mt pinos, people in sleeping bags gone in morning, airline pilots on ground see objects also

An earlier sighting in the early 50’s more than likely 1951 my family went camping on mt pinos in the los padres national forest. They would go out on the road past the ski parking area where only a few hunters and campers went. There would usually be only 6 to 8 campsites occupied.

They got there after 10 pm and noticed 40-50 people out in sleeping bags without tents. This is at 8600 feet so it gets cold. Mom told me they set up their tent and went to sleep. My brother 3 or 4 at the time slept in the car with my mom’s aunt (grantee).

About 2 am my mom told me she heard a lot of people walking around and thought "that’s a lot of people going to the bathroom" in the morning the tented normal campers were there but all the people in sleeping bags were gone. She ask her aunt how she had slept.

Her aunt responded that she felt really safe last night as there were 2 helicopters hovering overhead for several hours and they were shining lights down. They also had multicolored lights showing and made no noise.

Several days later my dad who worked in Hollywood was eating lunch and 2 airline pilots who knew him ask him if he had gone camping on Mount Pinos on Saturday night. They had some acres in alfalfa up near Quail Lake and were out irrigating that night.

They had seen 2 UFO’s fly in from the east and then a few hours later fly back out to the east. These were army air corps bomber pilots that were now working for a major airline and could not ask anybody in the industry or they would have their pilot tickets pulled.

Posted 2007-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26487
Occurred: 1950-07-15 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-12-08 10:24 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA, USA

Shape: Formation


Is'nt it fun how the Gov. tries to block things

I was camping with my school in Las Padres National Forest. It was at night, not sure of the time. I was in my sleeping bag looking up at the sky. A formation flew over. It was really high and going very fast. I didn't think at that time we had any thing that could fly that high or that fast. It was not shooting stars. I had seen them a lot and knew the difference.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-12-23