NUFORC UFO Sighting 172436
Occurred: 2022-01-01 22:35 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-10-21 22:37 Pacific
Duration: Every night for past4 yea
No of observers: 100

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA
Location details: Everywhere

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Landed, Possible abduction, Missing Time, Animals reacted

They are here controlling people

Saw ships. Then started getting really bad head aches then started hearing them. Then seeing them then they came to my motel room and was communicating with me. Put visions in my head about my family and I that came true in less than a year. Orbs in my trailer around me a lot. Once a week or so. They can block people's vision and memory. I have lots more they won't leave me alone. I need help

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128800
Occurred: 2016-07-27 21:36 Local
Reported: 2016-07-27 22:30 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 7

Location: Mariposa County, CA, USA

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

Object was moving in the sky slowly...emitting a long tail, no sound. We watched for .30 seconds as it went over a mountain range and lost sight. Another 40 seconds later heard what sounded like a large boom. Object sphere appeared to break into 2 parts.



NUFORC Note:

Space debris. PD


Posted 2016-08-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114143
Occurred: 2014-10-02 03:00 Local
Reported: 2014-10-02 11:36 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Motionless bright twinkling red and green lights in the southeast horizon of the sky.

We live just outside of Yosemite National Park in a small rural town in the foothills. It was Thursday, October 2, 2014, between 2:30 am and 3 am. I was looking out of my bathroom window towards the southeast sky as I sometimes do to admire the night sky. First I noticed that the Big Dipper was very bright and then something right below it, near the horizon, I noticed a ball of colored lights twinkling. At first I thought it was an airplane but it didn't move. It just twinkled bright red and green lights. I knew couldn't be a star because all the stars are bright and white.

I went to the livingroom to get a pair of binoculars to go outside to view it from my patio. My husband was still sitting at his desk at his laptop as I told him what I was doing. He went outside with me to see if we could view it better. Sure enough, there it was...still shinning brightly with red and green lights, like a small ball just twinkling on the horizon looking southeast of our house. It never moved from the spot just below the Big Dipper and the rest of the stars. In other words...its position only moved with the earth's rotation.

Since my husband works nights and doesn't get home until approximately 12:40 am, I'm usually up waiting for him to get home. We don't head off to bed until some time after 1:30 am and 2:30 am. So we will probably look again for this bright twinkling ball of light tonight.

By the way, my husband called a friend who is a deputy sheriff on duty until 6 am. He acknowledged seeing the same ball of red and green lights in the sky in the same direction as we did.

I hope I've provided enough information that is needed to investigate this unusual sighting. Thank you.

Posted 2014-10-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106559
Occurred: 2014-01-21 19:30 Local
Reported: 2014-01-22 13:40 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Two mulicolored Ufo's over Madera, California

I live in Mariposa, and last night, Jan. 21 2014, I saw two lights in the direction of Madera. They looked like those stars that shine blue, red and white. The one on the left was higher than the one on the right. I ran into the house and grabbed my binoculars. The one on the right was higher in the sky, they were moving very slowly. I watched some more and the one on the left started heading south at a fast rate of speed. The other one was slowly lowering and then took off in the same direction, also very quickly.

I live on a mountain and this is one of many weird things I've seen in the sky, along with the commercial jets and other conventional aircraft.

Posted 2014-01-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78136
Occurred: 2010-10-04 23:54 Local
Reported: 2010-10-04 01:28 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

UNRECOGNIZED ORB taveling lights!! PLEASE TAKE A LOOK!

My camera would not capture it on site, but after i reviewed it, it shows the evidence of a round orb roaming quickly in an unorganized fashion. i caught it on film...once. but there was one other time i caught it on film and it was a little different. we decided to catch it on film because the lightening was happening every half a second rather than the normal time, it was strange to us, so once we caught it on tape we got suspicious of what we witnessed. I've seen things on documentaries and this seems some-what familiar to a few things I've seen so i thought maybe i should report it. this was EXTREMELY UNFAMILIAR AND EXCITING to me and my brother! maybe you can take a look at my footage!

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70802
Occurred: 2009-07-02 03:30 Local
Reported: 2009-07-02 04:55 Pacific
Duration: 8 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


At 3:30 AM a bright round object moved in a straight line across the northern sky, west to east, not far above the horizon.

My dog was making an unusual barking noise, so I went outside to find out why. I saw a bright round object, somewhat less than half the size of the full moon, traveling in what appeared to be a straight line from west to east in the northern sky not far above the horizon and parallel to it. It moved slowly compared to meteorites I've seen, and it left no trail. It did not blink, change size or color. There was no sound.



Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56162
Occurred: 2007-04-09 01:15 Local
Reported: 2007-04-09 17:27 Pacific
Duration: 30min
No of observers: 1

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Flash


BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 0115 AND 0145 I WAS STANDING ON MY FRONT DECK AT HOME. WHILE LOOKING AT THE STARS I NOTICED A FLASHING TYPE OF LIGHT APROX 50DEG IN THE WESTERN SKY. IT WAS THERE FOR APROX 30MIN FLASHING MOSTLY WHITE AND SOME RED COLORS. THE LIGHT/PULSE WERE APROX 10 SECONDS APART AND STABLE IN THE SKY. AS THE STARS IN THE SKY MOVED DUE TO EARTH ROTATION THE FLASH/PULSE REMAINED IN THE SAME LOCATION. SOME FLASHES WERE BRIGHTER THAN OTHERS UNTIL THEY CAME TO A STOP AT APROX 0145 THE FLASHES WERE NOT AS BRIGHT AS VENUS BUT BRIGHT ENOUGH TO NOTICE

Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 41052
Occurred: 2004-12-09 01:46 Local
Reported: 2004-12-09 18:58 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

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

Strange Lights over Mariposa California.

I was laying down in the living room; getting ready to go to sleep, when my brother came in and looked as though he was going check his e-mail on the computer. After a few minutes he walked back to his room;I thought he was sleep walking. After a few minutes he came back and sat down again; then he went outside. He came back in and went back to his room; again I thought he was sleepwalking. When he returned a third time, I asked him what he was doing. He told me to come outside to see something. When I got outside he pointed to a bright light that appeared to be hovering over the tree line about 4 miles away. He then flashe his flashlight at the light and the light moved away from the tree's and shot up the sky at about 40 degrees. I thought to myself; weird! He then pointed his flashlight at a second light and the same thing occured. What were these lights. I am a vet of the U.S. Army; worked as an Air Traffic Controller. I have never seen any aircraft that can do what these strange lights were doing. I went back into the house to get the cam, but could not locate a tape to record. I went back outside and my brother was in the back yard observing a different set of lights over the valley. We live in Mariposa CA just a few miles from Yosemite. The lights my brother was now observing appeared to get closer when he flashed them with his flashlight. I was spooked!!! I returned to the front of the house and observed the 1st lights. After a hour of observing the lights; I went on the internet to research any information of this occuring in this area. I found what I was looking for right away. The lights that are recorded on www.sonorasightings.com are the same lights we were observing. Sonora is just about 1 hour from here, aslo in the Sierra Mountains of California.



Posted 2004-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31221
Occurred: 2003-09-04 20:40 Local
Reported: 2003-09-04 22:28 Pacific
Duration: couple of seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

it appeared to be a meteror entering the earth's atmosphere and was large enough that it may not have completely burned prior to impact

I believe the object was a meteror, however, no current news reports substantiate that observational opinion. The object entered the atmosphere as a large ball of light (fire?) with a long tail that turned green as it moved rapidly across the horizon from west to east. It appeared to be in close proximity to northwestern usa. I don't believe the whole object burned-up before impact which I propose is somewhere within a couple hundred miles of 95338 (Mariposa,CA).



Posted 2003-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26095
Occurred: 2002-11-14 18:22 Local
Reported: 2002-11-14 21:40 Pacific
Duration: 10-20 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

FAST-MOVING BRILLIANT OVAL OBJECT SEEN IN YOSEMITE SKY.

At approximately 18:22, this writer was in the processing of walking on dirt pathway from main home to guest house in order to feed cat that lives in the guest house. Routine event of every evening was underway, when this writer made usual glance into above sky to determine weather conditions; (area is rurual). After walking a few feet, while looking into the sky, suddenly a white and yellow lit oval object came into view. It was approaching the NW sky from the NE area, at approximately 10,000 feet. The front of the oval was bright blue, shining like a mica type color would, in a reflective way. The object disappeared from sight as it made a gentle arc in the sky, but it did not disappear on the horizon level, but some distance above. The moon was almost full this evening, but paled in comparison to the brilliance of the unknown object. This writer quickly returned to the main home area in order to write down what had been seen, and then to obtain number for the reporting, and then to make the report, approximately 20 minutes after the event ended. This writer is a 62 year old licensed psychotherapist, a native of California, and has never witnessed any other event similar to the above described.



NUFORC Note:

We spoke at length with this witness, and we found her to be both credible, and exceptionally skilled as a witness. PD


Posted 2002-11-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 3977
Occurred: 1998-08-26 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1998-09-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Observed a light behind a tree that was bright white, then it took off and as it did, it turned brillaint green

I was walkng outside when I noticed a REALLY bright "star" behind a tree in our front yard... when I looked at it for a moment, it shot off and turned a briallant Blue-Green, it shot off towards the mountain and disapeared right before it got there. I believe that our Long/Latt is this 37W,120N (I THINK!) We are about 15 miles directly south-west of Yosemite Nat'l Park in California thanks.

Posted 1998-11-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62344
Occurred: 1976-06-30 00:00 Local
Reported: 2008-03-25 14:31 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Lake McClure, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object, Landed

At about midnight about 1976 at Hunter's Point, Lake McClure, California heard extreme water commotion and observed submersible

Posted 2008-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87708
Occurred: 1968-06-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-03-15 22:47 Pacific
Duration: 10 min.
No of observers: 4

Location: Mariposa, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


the red lights shined into the back of the car.. just like the police have.

i was 18 at the time and me and three friends were just leaving the town of mariposa after we just bought some beer and we were going to a party about 10miles out side of town...we got about 2miles out and going up this hill....and there were no other cars on the road....and it was dark..when all of a sudden ...these bright red lights shined threw the back window of the car...we turned to look at them..but they were so bright and close i couldnt see what was behind them...we thought for sure it was the local police and we were busted for being under age with beer..so the driver pulled over and stopped on the side of the road..and the red lights stopped behind us...so we sat there waiting for the police to come up to the car for about 5 mins...i was in the back seat and i told the other 3 guys that i,m going to get out and see what was going..so i did..when i got out and looked behind us..the red lights were not behind us...but on a hill a 100 feet up ..from our left side..and when they saw me they started moveing towards us...everybody got out and saw them to...when it got about 200 feet up and to the left..we saw that it was 5 red lights ..4 and 1 in middle about 30 feet apart from each going slow above the trees with no sound..in between the lights and around them it was black and i could see the stars...we couldnt see how they were connected together ..becaused they moved together...as we were looking at them they dimmed down from a bright red to a light pink..and went out or dissapeared....and then nothing but a black sky and stars. all 4 of us saw that...and we hadnt even started drinking yet..what ever it was we know it was real....




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-03-16