NUFORC UFO Sighting 174947
Occurred: 2023-03-09 07:35 Local
Reported: 2023-03-09 12:01 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Marina, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


Black flat object flying towards the coast at a slow speed.

Witnessed a black unknown object flying low headed towards the coast.

Posted 2023-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150533
Occurred: 2019-11-11 17:45 Local
Reported: 2019-11-11 20:12 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Marina, CA, USA

Shape: Other


There was a line of lights connecting to dots moving in formation into what seemed to be a worm hole and disappeared. Phones couldn't capture the image though it was pretty bright. Seen from Marina Fort Ford beach left of monterey city light. Was dark already. We were taking a night walk and just before they appeared I stopped because I thought I heard something. We were alone.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95794
Occurred: 2012-12-30 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-01-03 23:38 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Marina, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Seem to be flashing multiple colors, hovering and moving in an odd manner. There was no noise coming from that direction and seem to be lower then what a plane would fly.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69389
Occurred: 2009-03-25 22:00 Local
Reported: 2009-03-26 00:04 Pacific
Duration: 15 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Marina, CA, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Electrical or magnetic effects

Look like two jets chasing two other things and extra help came along to help in the chase.

In Marina, Ca. tonight at about 9:45pm most of the city lights whent out.

I gone out side to get my flash light out of my truck and noticed that the skys were very clear and off to the south east shys i was whatching 3 ( Jets )? in a triangle formation headed west traveling to the north-west area at a high rate of speed.the jets? lights were flashing red/blue/white colors the two jets? were side by side and that the third one was up front about 3 time the langht of the two Jets? wigth.

What was even strange is that the 3 Jets? turn around and whent south then there were 4 Jets? the fourth one was up with the front jet. it was some fancy turns chasing the front two. All 4 items where around the monterey air port area then again they turn around headed back north in this weard chasing action and one of the front jet turn in a odd ( go around type ) then it was gone in a flash. the other three Jets. keep on going nouth. Around 10pm then there was two more Jets comming from the south going north and about 10:10pm another jet came from the east side going in the same direction. This was VERY weard for this area. The big dipper to the smaller one in the skys where faceing from my view was south to west at about 1 a clock angle. Trided to film it but dont think its going to show anything but me talking...WOW!

Posted 2009-04-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63226
Occurred: 2008-05-13 13:00 Local
Reported: 2008-05-17 10:47 Pacific
Duration: one minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Marina, CA, USA

Shape: Other


A single object moving slowly across the sky at low altitude.

Last Tuesday, May 13, 2008, at approximately 1:00 pm., I was photographing cell towers from my car window at the Wal-Mart parking lot in Marina, California, when I noticed an object hovering low in the sky in the left background then moving slowly to the right. By the time I parked and got out of the car the object was gone. I remained in the area for at least another twenty minutes taking additional photographs but the unidentified object never reappeared. When I got home and checked the images on my camera I saw that the unidentified flying object was visible on my first shot from the car window. That photograph along with an enlargement of the area will be submitted for your review. I am not a UFO advocate and have no idea what this object was.



Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 3132
Occurred: 1998-06-18 23:44 Local
Reported: 1998-02-14 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Marina, CA, USA

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

I witnessed a teardrop shaped object hurling across the night sky.... the event lasted for only a minute or so... it was strange... very unusual

I witnessed a teardrop shaped object hurling across the night sky.... the event lasted for only a minute or so... it was strange... very unusual

Posted 1998-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50565
Occurred: 1987-08-15 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-05-14 20:59 Pacific
Duration: 30m+
No of observers: 1

Location: Marina, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Looked like an asteroid--maybe a near miss?

I am resubmitting this revised item. I originally submitted it two or three years ago and it was apparently not received as it did not appear in the database.

I was riding my motorcycle on my way home from work one night on SR1 in August 1987 and as I left Castroville I kept seeing flashes of orange and green lights out of the corner of my eye. I assumed that they were just reflections from street and other lights nearby in my face shield.

The flashes kept occurring and were random. Then it occurred to me that they were all coming from the same point in the sky. I looked up and saw what appeared to be occasional small flames of orange and brilliant green coming from a small, dark spot in the sky.

I exited the freeway and stopped to get a better look.

I saw a small, dark object in the sky, darker than the sky, to the south and at approximately a 40degree azimuth. The object did not seem to move but I could see what appeared to be sheets of orange and green flame occasionally going from the near end back toward the farthest end.

I took out my binoculars and looked for the object, finding it once another sheet of flame crossed it and saw what appeared to be a dark, rounded rock with a large depression on the side and small pockmarks or craters on it.

The rock was oriented with it's small part toward me and pointing a bit more West and downward, and the much larger part pointing away from me. It reminded me of some of kind of potato.

The rock was much darker than the night sky, even though there were few stars in that area of the sky at the time. Even so, there seemed to be some light illuminating the side I could see as well as the near end, that I assumed was light reflecting off the Earth or from some lights on the ground.

As I watched through the binoculars, sheets of orange and green flame would be emitted or produced from the near end and would spread along the length of the object briefly.

I stood and watched the object until I was falling asleep. It was perhaps just an half hour.

I did not see the object move from where it was. I thought the object had moved but it was the stars that had moved.

I mentioned the sighting in sci.astro about two years later. Someone posted a followup (which I never saw until 2006) saying that I saw a rocket from Vandenberg but there is no rocket that looks like a rock. I also mentioned in the post that it appeared to move a few degrees but I was wrong: it did not appear to move relative to horizon or any landmark that I could see but it did move relative to the stars, or rather, the stars moved behind the object.

I followed up the sighting with inquiries to local news and to the FAA and got no response at all.

I believe what I saw was an asteroid near-miss. The object was probably at the edge of the atmosphere, which would account for the occasional sheet of flame, and was moving at the same speed and roughly in the same direction as the Earth, which made it appear to be relatively motionless and which kept it from hitting the ground or water.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. One of three seemingly high-quality sighting reports from same source. PD


Posted 2006-05-15