NUFORC UFO Sighting 175441
Occurred: 2023-04-20 22:17 Local
Reported: 2023-04-21 15:21 Pacific
Duration: 15 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Geronimo, CA, USA
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Shape: Circle


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Posted 2023-05-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 175439
Occurred: 2023-04-20 22:16 Local
Reported: 2023-04-21 14:59 Pacific
Duration: fifteen minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Geronimo, CA, USA
Location details: San Geronimo is approximately twenty eight miles east of Point Reyes.

Shape: Circle
Explanation: Planet/Star - Possible
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

A circular flashy object that changed colors

I observed the object for fifteen minutes. It hovered in the same spot most of the time, but it briefly went further away a couple of times but then quickly came back to the original observed spot. During the fifteen minutes I saw a small red dot fly towards it, but I couldn't get that object seen on my smartphone.










Posted 2023-05-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174026
Occurred: 2023-01-19 22:04 Local
Reported: 2023-01-19 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Point Reyes, CA, USA
Location details: About 1000 feet up in the sky. South facing.

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 orange hovering lights moving in a straight line then to a triangular patter. Shinning bright orange.

3 bright orange lights moving above night sky in a straigh line but then took on a triangular shape. After about 3 minutes one by one the lights would move around rkeach ither then quickly dim out tnen disappear completely.




Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163091
Occurred: 2021-05-07 21:12 Local
Reported: 2021-05-07 21:52 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Marin, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Series of lights 50+ viewed on same trajectory,

A constant line of star like forms, moving on a single trajectory slowly along Marin headlands west to east at first in front of us. A few minutes elapsed then they returned flying from the same direction but more north westerly to the south easterly direction and this time more overhead. The lights were spaced at different intervals, some seemed to be catching up and varying ever so slightly in speed, some were flying closer together, some more spaced out.



Posted 2021-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153784
Occurred: 2020-01-23 21:00 Local
Reported: 2020-03-03 15:08 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Marin County, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Stationary groups of glowing lights seen at treetop level

A formation of 9 to 10 yellow gold lights were hovering right on the treeline and even right in the middle of the trees for a solid 15 minutes. Several houses were right up on this hillside on Mt. Tamalpais foothills where these objects were moving about in the trees. These objects were starlike and glowing and nobody in this neighborhood or in these houses is noticing this activity going on.Finally these lights departed one by one after about 15 minutes. I walked to a different location about 20 minutes later and witnessed 4 or 5 oblong stationary objects slightly toward the southeast that were more of a purple orangish greenish color. These objects were very low on the horizon just above treetop level. I watched these tall cylinder type objects for several minutes. This was the fifth Thursday night sighting in a row starting on the night after Christmas 12-26-19. There has been a lot of activity going on around here with virtually nobody paying attention especially with this drought in California.

Posted 2020-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149436
Occurred: 2019-10-02 22:00 Local
Reported: 2019-10-03 13:40 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Marin County, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Glowing lights in formation just south of San Quentin

I witnessed 10 or 11 spherical glowing objects in formation swarming and hovering near the top of Ring Mtn. -Corte Madera. I very quickly ran up to 2 firemen emergency responders to ask them to quote "take a quick glance at what is going on over here". They flat out refused to take 5 steps over to the side to look at what I was trying to show them. They were handling some kind of a medical emergency, but it would have been really nice to have them witness this because this was highlight of the whole night.

Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 148424
Occurred: 2019-08-01 22:30 Local
Reported: 2019-08-22 14:31 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Marin County, CA, USA

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

7 stationary brightly lit objects seen over hillside homes

7 brightly lit yellowish gold and aqua bluish green lights were seen hovering between 2 hillside homes near the foothills of Mt. Tamalpais. The lights made no sound and were all within a 100 yard space in between these two homes. I was standing about 3 blocks away from this activity. The lights went out one by one. 3 of the lights were slanted in a 7 to 2 o:clock position with one of the 3 lights in the middle. Other lights appearing in pairs slanted in a 11 o:clock to 5 o'clock position were also seen after this sighting but in a different location out near the Ring Mountain Open Preserve hiking trails near the Bay.

Posted 2019-08-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143802
Occurred: 2018-10-24 22:30 Local
Reported: 2018-11-16 16:12 Pacific
Duration: 90 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Marin County, CA, USA

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

Multiple formations of bright glowing spheres seen near Mt. Tamalpais.

It started out as a large orange light hovering over the Bay near the Corte Madera marsh area. After this pulsating light hovered for several minutes, it just shut off, like somebody flipping a switch. For the next hour or more there were multiple star like spherical objects appearing out of nowhere, in groups of up to 7 to 8 objects. There was a group of 5 orangish brown plasma looking objects at treetop level in between 2 hillside homes. A group of 4 objects in a perfect square or box formation was seen with a fifth object on the right. Triangular formations were seen multiple times and a perfect diamond formation with 4 lights was also seen with 2 lights in the middle in a 12 o'clock-6 o'clock position.

I stopped a person walking down the street to get his opinion on what we were seeing. He saw about 15 to 20 of these plasma looking hovering lights in the roughly 10 minutes of observation. He commented on how there would be another light appearing roughly every 15 to 30 seconds and that these lights swarmed around each other in groups. I believe these objects are the same "tic tac" lights as were involved in the Navy Nimitz encounter and I have seen these lights constantly almost every night up until the fires started on 11-08. There were unbelievable sightings on 11-02 and on 11-03 of these star like objects again. This night of 10-24 had never ending orb like spheres appearing for over an hour. I estimate there were at least 60 or 70 of these transparent yellow orange white objects seen.

Posted 2018-11-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142112
Occurred: 2018-07-05 22:00 Local
Reported: 2018-07-06 12:17 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Marin County, CA, USA

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

Multiple bright gold yellow orange lights seen in groups at treetop level. Slow moving and stationary lights seen in groups of up to 5 or 6 at a time coming from Mt. Tamalpais area and swarming around this area. Lights seem to appear about 15 to 30 seconds apart and follow each other in an evenly spaced flight formation. This same activity also happened on 6-28 and 6-29 with these glowing spheres of light following each other about 15 seconds apart for about 45 minutes.

Posted 2018-07-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 138931
Occurred: 2018-02-22 18:10 Local
Reported: 2018-02-24 14:10 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

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

Close up sighting of 2 yellow orb like objects in almost broad daylight conditions

This sighting happened in broad daylight blue skies. Two huge yellow gold objects were hovering side by side about 30 feet away from each other. The sighting was already in progress when I arrived. I watched these 2 huge star like objects for about 7 to 10 minutes until one of them "turned off" and the other continued to hover. The other object started to strobe and slowly move to the west. These objects looked semi-transparent and looked more like floating sheets than any kind of structured object.

I have seen so much orb and UFO activity in this month of February that it would take several reports to even talk about it. The multi-colored orange and blue and yellowish green lights were seen on 2-08,2-09 and 2-15 for long extended periods of time hovering at tree top level in horizontal lines and V shaped formations.

A second sighting on this 2-22 night occured at approximately 9 P.M. over this Christmas Tree Hill area of Corte Madera with V formatio! ns and 2 bright gold objects side by side for several minutes just like the 6 P.M. sighting.

Posted 2018-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136054
Occurred: 2017-08-30 22:00 Local
Reported: 2017-09-06 15:49 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

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

Cluster of 8 objects is witnessed by 3 people.

I was seeing multiple formations of swarming darting objects that were sometimes hovering and then would disperse like a swarm of bees.

I took a walk closer to this activity when I ran into 2 other people that were also watching the lights. The 3 of us then witnessed a tight group of 7 to 8 objects at pretty close range.

These were the yellow-white foo fighter type lights as seen in clusters frequently around this area.

After this night within 24 hours we have this record shattering heat wave in San Francisco on 9-01 and 9-02 etc.

Posted 2017-09-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 133932
Occurred: 2017-04-25 22:27 Local
Reported: 2017-05-02 01:31 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Nicassio, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

I was driving a long open road in the country farm land. Without coming into sight from my peripheral, approximately 100 yards in front of me, and approximately 35-40 yards directly above the road, a bright orb with the consistency of a flame appeared. It had a dark green outer ring and light green/white center.

It floated for only a moment, before it moved across the road into a neighboring ranch and disappeared. Its movement was quick and smooth, like a falling basketball dropping from the top of its arc.

Posted 2017-05-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132102
Occurred: 2017-01-06 19:00 Local
Reported: 2017-01-09 12:00 Pacific
Duration: 25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Cluster of bright yellow gold lights in formation seen hovering over Marin County

I come walking down the street and turn the corner and immediately notice approximately a dozen bright yellow lights hovering about a half mile to a mile to the east of me. These lights are all at eye level and are hovering in a large group over the city of San Anselmo centered around the Red Hill area. Behind this group there is a V or triangular shaped formation of 3 lights that look just as if they came out of a welder's torch or a soldering gun.I walked over to talk to a woman that was looking through the trunk of her car and said do you see what is going on over here. She joined me for about 15 minutes as we observed this group of brightly lit objects. She was very concerned and totally amazed at what she was seeing and had never seen anything like this before. There were two large objects about 200 yards apart with approximately 7 to 10 objects in between these 2 large objects. It looked like these objects were swarming in between these 2 large brightly lit objects like bees swarming around a hive. All of these lights looked the same except they varied in brightness. These objects looked like they wanted to be seen and were totally cluttering up this small area with no attempt to cloak themselves or become dimmer. This concerned neighbor and I were looking at this object on the far left of this formation for 10 to 15 minutes and could not make out any specific shape to it, except to say that it had streams of light coming of it, and that it looked like an oblong "lava lamp".

Finally this object on the left began to strobe or blink and started heading southwest toward Mt. Tamalpais area with all the other objects following.

My neighbor said this was going to be bothering her and she was going to be thinking about this all night long and was going to be upset if this was not talked about on the news.I told her I witnessed a crazy amount of activity the night before but the activity was farther away and out over the bay near San Rafael.

Posted 2017-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124058
Occurred: 2015-11-11 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-14 08:11 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Fireball moving across Marin sky.

I just got out of my car at my brother's house which is at the top of a hill in a residential area. My brother confirmed that I was facing North. I saw a white fireball move very quickly across the sky. It appeared to travel directly East to West. I can't say how high up it was, but it was definitely lower that a commercial airplane.

Observer Background: I'm 60 years old and the mother of an adult daughter. I live in San Rafael, CA. I work as an accountant at an independent school.




NUFORC Note:

Meteor?? PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 122233
Occurred: 2015-09-24 08:00 Local
Reported: 2015-09-24 14:25 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes


Location: Marin County, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Light reflection off cloaked cylinder shape.

Driving from Northern Marin County South on the 101 into San Francisco located in the SE skyline was a prism rainbow in the shape of a squat cylinder, the rainbow effect with a center point radiating outward in a disk. There was no object to be seen, only the reflection of the light off an object of that shape in the sky. It remained visible throughout the drive, lasting 45 minutes to 1 hour without movement.

Posted 2015-09-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114955
Occurred: 2014-10-17 20:45 Local
Reported: 2014-10-18 15:38 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

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

Multiple yellow gold orange lights seen by 3 witnesses

I am filing this report because I met 2 other witnesses and engaged in a conversation with them as we witnessed multiple yellow gold orange lights in various locations in a cluster or group hovering or floating about in the night sky. These "lights" would hover at treetop or hilltop level in the southeastern sky coming up and then dipping below the treelines basically coming out of nowhere. There would be 2 or 3 lights and then there would be 6 to 10 objects a few seconds later in various locations. I saw a string of 7 objects line up in a row at one point. This is the second time I've had 2 other witnesses with me lately observing this activity. The other time was on 9-30-14, same 2 witnesses same activity and same mysterious yellow gold lights. I am baffled as to why there are not more reports or other people noticing this although 2 reports were filed on the night of 11-10-12 that are quite interesting in this same area. These sightings are occur! ing up to several miles away which also include San Rafael, Ross, Larkspur etc. I will add that the 3 of us met while out walking the dog and agreed that we were witnessing something unusual.

Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114516
Occurred: 2014-10-10 20:50 Local
Reported: 2014-10-13 17:32 Pacific
Duration: 50 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

18 luminous objects seen in a one minute sighting

I was on top of one of the foothills of Mt. Tamalpais from 7:40 until 8:30 P.M. When I reached the top of this hill, I witnessed several bright yellow gold objects-the color of "fire burning in your fireplace hovering" above one of the hillsides to the southeast lighting up super bright then dimming down changing in shape and size looking somewhat triangular or diamond shaped.

Ten minutes later, at 7:50 P.M., in as long as it takes to count from 1 to 18 I counted 18 lights-objects literally swarming through this entire area. This is the most objects I've ever seen all at once and they were hovering at treetop level, hovering above nearby hills, suspended over the S.F. Bay off in the distance, crisscrossing each others' paths, and nearly colliding into each other and hovering and approaching other objects to make triangular and rectangular formations in the sky etc.

I don't think you can blame the Blue Angels for this because not one of these objects was making a sound.

For a couple of minutes it looked like a total invasion until it thinned out a bit. I was wondering what would happen if an actual plane came through the area when all of a sudden at about 8:05 P.M. a plane came through from the northwest heading right through all this activity. The plane was flying about twice as high up as all these other objects and flew over a cluster of about 6 to 8 of these lights and 3 of these lights were forming a triangular shape above one of these hills near the water between San Quentin and Corte Madera area. I had binoculars and you could see the whole plane and hear it. In the 50 minutes of continuous sightings of these other silent objects I could not identify any specific shape except somewhat disc or oblong teardrop shape maybe diamond or triangular. I did see a couple of strobing red disc like objects but 90 percent of these objects look the same -bright yellowish gold orangish lights.

Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108848
Occurred: 2014-04-20 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-04-22 14:35 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

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

Large orange Carlos Diaz type craft seen along with clusters of other glowing objects

I don't think my report went through the other day so anyway I was able to see a giant object appear through a pair of 10-50 binoculars in what looked to me as some kind of bending light beam technology.

I was on top of a mountain near Mt. Tamalpais when I saw two huge rectangular shaped lights coming tpwards me with some kind of invisible object in between. These two lights merged into one giant light which materialized into a giant upside down funnel looking cone which next took on the shape of a domed disc which kept getting thicker on the sides and more rounded while I watched it. It started drifting toward a nearby hill and turned into what I would have to say is the identical Carlos Diaz plasma type craft seen in Mexico.

This object next took on the shape of an oval turtle shell looking object, kind of lumpy and rigid looking before finally turning into a long glowing orange object that looked like a croissant that you would get at a bakery. It was a blinding fluorescent orange and slightly bent at the end and seemed to drift right into this hillside or go behind it and never reappear again. Meanwhile I was seeing clusters of these orange lights appearing over this hillside for a solid two hours that just seemed to come out od nowhere all taking on an orangish glow.

Much of these objects just looked like four pointed stars and were consistantly appearing in pairs and clusters.




NUFORC Note:

We are unclear as to whether this is a serious report. Witness indicates that the event took place on a date that is a week in the future. We have amended the date, believing that he may have meant to type "20," instead of "29." PD


Posted 2014-04-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 105458
Occurred: 2013-12-19 19:30 Local
Reported: 2013-12-19 20:17 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Bright Orange light moving away, then returned and disappeared.



Posted 2013-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102643
Occurred: 2013-09-25 13:40 Local
Reported: 2013-09-26 02:58 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds


Location: Marin/San Rafael, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Disk/Saucer shaped object hovering near Marin County in California for a few seconds and vanished @ 1340hrs on 9/25/13.

On 9/25/13,approx. 1340 hrs, I was driving southbound 101 from Novato heading towards San Rafeal and I noticed a off white silver oval and saucer metallic small shape object on the right side of the sky thru my front windshield window. I thought the object was an airplane at first but it suddenly enlarge 7x to 10x its original size in a second or two as I drove on Southbound on HWY 101. It was clear to me the object was not an airplane because the top portion was oval shaped like a cap and the lower part was shaped like a saucer/disk. As it hovered for a few seconds, the air around the object slowly began to move and enlarge like as if you were staring at the road infront of you on a hot day driving thru a dessert road. After hovering for those few seconds it suddenly vanished. There was not other aircraft near the incident before and after the object dissapeared.

Posted 2013-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108430
Occurred: 2013-07-04 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-04-07 15:58 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Changed Colo

07-04-13 Luminous object seen at close range for 10 minutes in hills of Marin County

I was walking up a steep hill near one of the foothills of Mt. Tamalpais when a mysterious black object came from behind one of the hills and came to a dead stop and continued to hover to the right of me approximately 100 yards away. This object made absolutely no sound and from where I was at on this hill was eye level with me and below treetop level. I stood there and watched it for a solid 10 minutes as it changed colors from green to red to a yellowish orange. It was mostly dimmed down and black for a few minutes but then started glowing like a lit up Christmas tree as I continued to observe it. It was oblong, taller than it was wide and took on the shape of a bell or lampshade with a brim on the bottom much like a hat. Finally after 10 minutes it turned a solid white color like a lit up lightbulb and lifted up and took off to the east at a fairly high rate of speed. There was a couple of people walking their dog down the hill from me that I tried to get! their attention to witness this but I did not want to yell and wake up the neighbors and I don't think they even noticed this object even though they were almost right under it. It was dimmed down so low that I really could not see much detail except that it was definitely oblong and seemed to be pointed at the top and slightly curved on the sides and like I said to myself this looks like a lit up Christmas tree glowing like the object itself was luminous. The colors were kind of blended together like they were coming off a hot grill on a black glass like surface. Although I have seen many of these luminous objects at quite some distance away through the binoculars, this is the first time I was able to see something this close up. I always see them to the east of San Rafael over the Bay and consider it a hot spot for sightings as well as Tiburon at a place called Blackies Pasture which is another hot spot.

Posted 2014-04-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 94545
Occurred: 2012-11-10 21:30 Local
Reported: 2012-11-16 22:01 Pacific
Duration: ~10 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Red/orange noiseless lights in formation at low altitude.

I was closing my bedroom window when I noticed a very bright red/orange light coming over Mount. Tamapais (from a westerly direction). It was too low to be a plane, so I ran outside to the front yard, and looked up the street towards the mountain.

There I saw at least 5 more of the same craft, slowly hovering, moving East, over the valley where we live. More appeared over the course of the next 5 minutes. They were in formation, moving towards us, like they would land soon in the street in front of us.

My neighbors were also outside observing the lights. They were noiseless, moved always in formation, and in the next 5 minutes, seemed to move South, and disappear.

My husband used binoculars, and said they looked "diamond" in shape, said it was hard to define the shape. Very bright, deep, orange/red.

Posted 2012-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 94326
Occurred: 2012-11-10 21:15 Local
Reported: 2012-11-10 22:59 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 4

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

Unexplainable 30 reddish lights in sky in varying formation over San Anselmo, CA.

Citizen reported to the police department that she observed approximately 30 red lights in the sky varying in formation. She took photos on her iPhone from her bedroom.

Posted 2012-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81900
Occurred: 2011-06-23 21:00 Local
Reported: 2011-06-23 22:37 Pacific
Duration: 5-8 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Geronimo, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large flying balloon-shaped object: top portion appeared solid, bottom portion appeared to be the color of a high heat flame.

The object caught my eye because of its brightness against the backdrop of forested hills to the North-West of my home.

It rose up quickly, and I was very surprised once I realized it was within the Valley, not beyond the ridges that surround it. I wondered where such a thing could originate in this Valley.

It was very bright, like it was on fire on the bottom. The fiery light did not appear to be flames burning out of control, but clearly contained within some sort of consruct.

It resembled a balloon from my vantage point. The top appeared dark and solid and emitted no light, the bottom appeared as bright as a very high heat fire.

It ascended in an eventual wide arc, yet climbed up until it appeared to either flicker out, or disappear completely. Either way, it was no longer visible after that.

Not too long after, what appeared to be normal commercial aircraft flew in the usual pattern overhead as though bound for area airports. They were easy to identify because of the typical lights. I wondered if they had seen anything out of the ordinary too.

I think my neighbors may have seen it too.

Posted 2011-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167547
Occurred: 2009-08-20 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-04-20 11:53 Pacific
Duration: 15-30 sec.
No of observers: 1

Location: Road above Stinson beach, CA, USA
Location details: Singletrack trail that goes from Fairfax-Bolinas road to Stinson beach

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Shimmering cloud/swarm

I was biking down from Fairfax-Bolinas road when I saw a cloud of what I would best describe as nano-singularities. It was a dark but shimmering cloud that was moving parallel to the singletrack but on course to merge with the trail. Maybe traveling 5 mph, floating almost like fog. These dots seemed to absorb and emit an equal amount of light; it was perplexing to look at, but if I had to choose a color it would be an ultraviolet purple glow. I did a J-turn and got out of there because it was unlike anything I'd ever seen.

Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65153
Occurred: 2008-08-09 23:00 Local
Reported: 2008-08-10 20:06 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 6

Location: Olema, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Olema, Ca. UFO sighting

A group of 6 people camping at Olema RV Resort and Campground saw a triangle shaped object (1) cruise over head at approx. 11:00 pm Saturday night.

It had a single white light at each corner & a red light in the center. It made no sound & was flying south toward San Francisco.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We would like to correspond with the source of the report, or any of the other witnesses, in order to inquire whether the red light, alluded to above, was blinking, or solid. PD


Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55246
Occurred: 2007-02-06 22:50 Local
Reported: 2007-02-11 09:15 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Point Reyes, CA, USA

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

A shiny, bright silvery oval surrounded by pink light rose into the sky.

A little before 11pm I was awakened by my daughter yelling out to me to look at the sky.

I looked up and out my skylight and saw pink sky with a large moonsized silvery, bright oval shaped object.

I immediately ran downstairs. My daughter and I went outside. The pink sky and the bright oval were nowhere to be seen.

My daughter, who was awake, reports seeing pink sky and a silvery oval object rising up from the distant trees and up into the sky above our home.

My daughter is 14, has never seen or been interested in UFOs previous to this incident. I am a 57 year old nurse. I have never seen a UFO before this incident. Neither my daughter nor I have ever experienced hallucinations

Posted 2007-02-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47305
Occurred: 2005-10-30 18:30 Local
Reported: 2005-10-30 21:09 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Marin, CA, USA

Shape: Light


strange green lights over Marin then they disappeared

It looked as though the lights were very far away, high in the sky and then in a half a second they were too close.

We saw green lights, some fat some thin all about the same time. Then they disappeared.

Posted 2005-11-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 43915
Occurred: 2005-05-11 21:55 Local
Reported: 2005-05-11 22:06 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright as a distant star but moving across the whole sky on a "path."

I noticed an object in the sky that looked like a distant star. It was moving very slowly across the whole sky. Moving way too fast to be a plane/missle/helicopter.

I thought for a moment that it might be a shooting star but it was too constant in its movement to be anything natural. Please tell me that someone else noticed this.



NUFORC Note:

Possible satellite? ISS was not visible from this location on May 11, 2005. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33270
Occurred: 2003-11-20 18:00 Local
Reported: 2003-11-20 18:59 Pacific
Duration: 5 - 10 minutes
No of observers: 10

Location: Marin, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Landed

Bright, yellow UFO crashes in California.

I am reporting this incident after hearing it on the News at 11/20/03. The craft was reported as being 5 feet long and 10 feet wide. It was bright yellow, and it was glowing. Witnesses said that it kept falling in altitude, until it finally hit the ground somewhere in Marin County, California, USA. The craft wasn't blinking, like an aircraft, but solid. I have been unable to find anything on the news, or news websites. Officials are reported investigating this incident, but don't know what it is. That is all the information I know.



Posted 2003-11-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22348
Occurred: 2002-03-21 20:26 Local
Reported: 2002-03-26 14:23 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 3

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

"V" pattern over hill came towards me, zig-zagged slowly and then "flew" away very quickly

I was looking over our local hill ,Bald Hill (a.k.a Mt.Baldy)and saw a "V" pattern coming towards me. I was at my house, very close to elementary school Wade Thomas on Ross Ave. It then slowed down, very quickly zig-zagged a couple of times. Then at the same speed they traveled at while zig-zagging, It flew over my head away and disappeared instantly. The lights were a whitins blue, medium in intensitly, a slight bit larger than a star, perspectivly.

Posted 2002-04-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 19675
Occurred: 2001-09-28 05:45 Local
Reported: 2001-09-28 11:39 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds


Location: Marin County, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Moving object changes brightness and intensity

Between the constellation of Orion and Triangulum what first appeared to be a sattelite miving in a southern direction, suddenly intensified greatly in brightness as if falling, then returned to normal brightenss continuing its southern direction at same speed. The intensity reached at the height of event was equal to full moon brightness.



NUFORC Note:

We suspect the sighting may have been caused by the "flare" of an Iridium satellite. PD


Posted 2001-10-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17661
Occurred: 2001-05-14 23:10 Local
Reported: 2001-05-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 min
No of observers: 1

Location: San Anselmo, CA, USA

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

isosceles shaped object with blue and white headlights perceived within aura of colored lights

i was walking home at 11:10 at night. there were no other people on the street. i looked up and saw a bright bright light in the sky. i at first thought it was attached to something such as a apole, but it was independent. then i thought it might be an airplane but it was moving very slowly. as i looked at it i perceived a flat irregular triangular shape. it seemed to be surrounded by a halo. as i stared at it i saw blue and white lights like headlights and heard sounds like plane but it did not move like a plane. it was still there ten minutes later when having almost reached home it was still there. it was no longer in the sky when i checke one hour later.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9520
Occurred: 1999-09-01 21:30 Local
Reported: 1999-09-02 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 7 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Marinwood (northern part of San Rafael), CA, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Standing on the back deck of my friend's house, facing east, we observed 3 objects to the north/northeast moving in a perfectly straight, horizontal direction, to the east/southeast. They were not airplanes. They had no flashing lights. They were a white, cloudy color--round/oval in shape, with long comet-like tails. They were close to each other and moving in perfect unison. We observed their movement for approximately 7 seconds, before they "disappeared into thin air!"

I am an amateur astronomer who has stargazed in the past from this location (the back deck of my best friends house in Marin Country). She lives on a hill with a fabulous view all the way to the East Bay. We went out to the deck around 9:15 p.m. after I commented on "what a beautiful and clear night it was!" My friend turned out the patio lights and indoor lights near the deck so we could better observe the stars. It took about 15 minutes before my eyes adjusted to the darkness. I was standing, facing east when something caught my eye up in the sky to the northeast. I saw what looked like 3 moving clouds--I stared very closely and quickly observed that these WERE NOT CLOUDS. They were moving objects that I could not identify or had ever seen before in my life. I turned to my friend and asked her "do you see what I see over there?" She looked where I pointed in the sky and immediately replied "YES YES--I see them too!" We could NOT believe our eyes! Thank God we were together when we observed these objects! We watched in silence until they disappeared from view. Then we took turns describing to each other what we had just seen, and found that our sightings had been identical. We both saw 3 white, cloudy, round/oval shaped objects with long, comet-type tails. We both remarked at their "exact synchronized movement" travleling in the same direction. My friend and I are "best friends" and we both are psychic people, especially with each other. We thought it was incredible that this was our first ever UFO sighting, andthat we had been together when we witnessed it! We continued to scan the sky for several minutes but did not see them again. I did see airplanes in the area both before and after the sighting. I'm certain that the time was around 9:30 p.m. because when we went indoors to check the time, it was 9:35 p.m. On my drive home to Sonoma, I listened to Art Bell's "Coast to Coast" Radio show. By coincidence (or synchronicity?), he had Peter Davenport on the air! They had received several calls from people on the west coast reporting mysterious sightings. One caller was from Novato, CA -- which is just a few minutes/miles from where my friend lives! I called the show and was surprised that I got on the air--where I gave Art a summary of my sighting! I would like to emphasize that I stargaze almost every night--from different locations. I know a star from a planet from a meteor, comet, etc. I am also very familiar with the flight paths of aircraft in these locations. THIS WAS NO AIRPLANE! THERE WERE NO FLASHING LIGHTS! NO SOUND! Their "tails" were long and came to a point. A "tadpole" is the closest description I can give you of its overall shape.

Posted 1999-09-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22476
Occurred: 1982-05-18 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-04-09 13:14 Pacific
Duration: 20 t0 30 secs
No of observers: 3

Location: Marin, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

high speed objects over the ocean North of San Francisco

I was on a feild trip with my fifth grade class at a place called Fort Ross North of San Francisco. Two of my freinds and I observed 2 disc shaped objects ping ponging around the sky above the pacific ocean. Upon first sight of the objects I thought they were shooting stars, because of the shear rate of speed. But as soon as they started bouncing around, foward, reverse, left, right we new we were veiwing something none of us had ever seen before. While in flight they seemed to make hard angle turns as if from one point to another in any direction. I guesed they may have been as far as 100 miles out to sea at times.

And maybe up to 6000 feet elevation all the way down to 500 feet in as little as a secound. They cleared a set of coastal mountains that looked to be quite far away to the left of our horizon but then were instantaniously back centered over our feild of vision. I guesed the experience lasted close to 20 to 30 secounds because my freinds and I had time to look at one another and ask each other if we were all seeing the same thing, which was confirmed. At the time of the sighting I had a sense of feeling priveleged to be seeing what we were seeing. My other freind shared a similiar feeling. The kid stsnding to the right of me was terrified and refused to go camping the following weekend with his family. The discs did have some sort of running lights, they circled the disc none seemed to stay a consistent color changing from red,green,yellow,white, and maybe blue every couple of secounds. This event took place 20 years ago but is still crystal clear in my memory. We were all in 5th grade not to young and not to old, we all new what we had seen. I know I saw a UFO that night to this day. Years later I ran into my Freind Jeff with whom I veiwed the UFO with. I just had to bring the incident back up, it had been 16 years since I had even seen him, he recalled the experience just as I had remembered it. My guese is the ufos were either silver or a silver white it was dark but I could see the running lights reflecting off the craft. They didn't appear to be to big maybe the width of a 10 person leer jet. The ufos were silent from where we stood....

20 years ago, but it doesn’t



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-04-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82956
Occurred: 1978-07-15 17:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-08-05 18:35 Pacific
Duration: approx. 1/2hr+
No of observers: 3

Location: Pointe Reyes, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


5 Gold Sun like Round Objects appear, do manuvers, then one comes and hovers over the vessel i am in...

Summer of 1978. My captain and I were commercial fishing for salmon off California coast. The wind came up real bad and we ran the vessel to an anchorage of near Pointe Reyes. California. North of San Francisco. A small anchorage it was. As a deckhand, I began to do my work icing the fish. There was another vessel in the same area. It had not called to us, as we left our marine radio on. It was late afternoon. But still light. before dusk. It has been some time but I will try to tell as i remember. As I was looking out of the fish hold, I noticed a large bright Golden Light as it came over the Pointe of Land north of the anchorage. The Light was round. It stopped above the Land. Then 4 more arrived. One at a time, lining up and hovering. A straight line. They were not way up in the sky, but say, like a Seattle space needle distance, (maybe almost a couple). Somewhere during this I yelled to the Captain to come out of the vessel cabin. They , my captain, stood near, as by then I was out of the fish hold and on deck. The Round Sun-like Lights did what looked like manuvers. They lined up, and did different formations, changing from one to another. They all did this in close distence to one another. Such as a cross, a long line, maybe a sort of pyrimid. They did this for a while. It seemed to be all for us watching. This kind of dance in the low sky. As time went on, one Round Sun-like Light came to our vessel. It hovered above directly. As I looked up, all I could see was the same form we had seen from a distence. It did not hurt my eyes. I saw no craft. It hovered low, but the Glow from it did not surround the vessel. I looked for a long time up. Finally, I looked around, and noticed my Captain was gone! I ran yelling their name to the cabin of the vessel. I found them below deck. On their bunk, with a book in their hands, looking down. I said "What are you doing in here? They are still ou! tside! " My Captain notified me, they could not deal with ! it, and they were not going back out. I left them, and returned to the deck. The Light Ship as I will call it. Was still there. I stood there more time, with it overhead.

Finally it lifted up in the sky, and returned to the other 4 that had been hovering in a straight line. Once again, different directional manuvers were done, then all took off together. Very fast in a northerly direction.

When they left, a voice came over the radio, we had left on the whole time. We had not called anyone during this. the voice was a young crewman from the only other vessel nearby. He said. "Did you see That!?"

I responded to his call, but then my Captain came up, from the bunks below deck. I do not remember right now the further talk, but it was brief.

I still had work to do to ice the fish. It was now getting dusk, though not dark. There were no clouds during this time. My Captain did not want to speak of this much. The Coast Guard was called, and was asked of anything going on that day/afternoon. No. No flares. Nothing reported by them. We did not report to them our sighting. The strange Lights left, and next day so did we. Once in port. We drove out and questioned the locals in the area. Not much to say, but they had seen strange lights off and on they said. I do not remember the other vessels name. I do not feel I should say mine, at this time, nor my Captains name. I can say this, one year later in Oregon, south of Bandon, I saw what I think were the same 5 Light Ships. They appeared just before dusk just off the beach, as I was looking from the land out to sea. I was praying for guidence, as i had some decisions to make. The 5 Round Sun-like objects, lined up in front of me over the ocean. Then just flew off very fast. It seemed to just let me know they were there. I ended up living for a time in that area. there is more, more sightings. i have entered a few others. ! The other sightings were different craft. Not just a Light.! I ente red of the sighting of the Phoenix Triangle craft.

I will end this now. if I can remember more, I will add it. It has been some time. I do not tell people. very few know of this.

thank, for letting me share this. maybe, that young man from the other vessel will, or has told his side of what happened. He did say, that he had not wakened his Captain, who had a bad heart, and was sleeping. So he had been a crew like me.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2011-08-07