NUFORC UFO Sighting 179565
Occurred: 2023-04-16 03:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-11-30 20:52 Pacific
Duration: I would say 5 Mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Mendota, IL, USA
Location details: Flat land

Shape: Light
Color: yellowish light
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Heading North on I-39
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: drove toward the light until right under.
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Missing Time

Bright light shining down on highway in front of me in the dead of night darkness

As I was heading North on I-39 on my way home from picking up my daughter from Nashville TN. This is a trip i have made numerous times and was very familiar with. I had set up check points along the way to determine how much more time I had left but something was strange that night, just ahead of us in the path of travel was a very bright light. At first, I thought I was just making better time than I thought because it would have been the next overpass in which all the exits have Street lighting, but as I go closer and closer, I noticed where I was and it's no way that its overpass lighting. At that time, I looked to my daughter and asked her if she sees the same light and her response was "yea Dad, I see it. What is it?" My response was I have no clue. So, I kept moving towards it. As we got directly under the light, which was still bright, I tried to look up out the windshield to see what it was. I couldn't see nothing but the light but as soon as I passed thru and looked in the review the light was gone. Not knowing what it was or what had happened I just told Arial something that wouldn't scare her so I brushed it off like must have been a helicopter or something searching for something. I also couldn't believe what I witnessed. So, the next day I pulled out my laptop and began to look into if anyone else had reported anything around that area. Nothing came up but I noticed a dad and his daughters had experienced something similar in WI. I looked at the video the dad had posted and noticed it was something very close to what we and experience. I kind of freaked me out so I decided to keep it to myself because I don't want to come off as crazy or have people thinking such about me, but even before that experience I have seen strange things but nothing to that extreme. Even up to today it seems like I know or can predict things that has not happened yet. My dreams are more vivid with some predicting something that will happen the next day. It's like if I remember something about a dream I had, as I move around the next day something will relate to the dream. I'm at the point that I feel I want to talk to someone about it but really don't know who or how to explain without someone being Judgmental so, this is me reaching out and letting my experience out.

Posted 2023-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170834
Occurred: 2022-07-29 22:45 Local
Reported: 2022-07-30 15:57 Pacific
Duration: 2 mins
No of observers: 20

Location: Mendota, CA, USA
Location details: Crossed Interstate 5 fwy heading westbound

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 large, linear, bright white lights approx 600' - 1000' feet in width.

I was traveling northbound on Interstate 5 @ 85 mph in the fast lane. Lights came into view approimately 300' off the ground as they crossed in front of my vehicle. approximately 300' - 600' ahead of me. The lights were traveling westbound, stopped in the open fields west of the freeway, hovered for several minutes, and ascended vertically into the clouds. The cloud ceiling was 14,000 ft. in elevation at the time. The lights could be seen illuminating from within the clouds with the same intensity as you would see from the moon with the exception the moon would have backlit the clouds this light was internal.

The fwy was moderately busy at the time of the sighting. All of the motorists on the freeway behind me either stopped, slowed or pulled over. The vehicles traveling northbound behind me had a better vantage point than I did since the lights were almost directly overhead of my vehicle when they came into my view.

The event took place about 1/4 mile south of the Shields Ave exit in the outskirts, west of the city of Mendota. There was a yellow motorhome that had pulled over at the shields exit and persons were standing outside. I'm not sure if they stopped due to the sighting or maybe had vehicle trouble. There is currently one other online report from another motorist who was apparently behind me and describes the event in greater detail. There were multiple eyewitnesses although I did not speak w/ any. I would suspect that one of the vehicles behind me may have dash cam or phone footage of the incident.


Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170819
Occurred: 2022-07-29 22:45 Local
Reported: 2022-07-31 10:36 Pacific
Duration: 3 MINUTES
No of observers: 20

Location: Mendota, CA, USA
Location details: UFO traveling westbound came into view as it crossed Interstate 5. Approx. 300' in elevation

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 large, linear, bright white lights approx 600' - 1000' feet in width.

I was traveling northbound on Interstate 5 @ 85 mph in the fast lane. Lights came into view approimately 300' off the ground as they crossed in front of my vehicle. approximately 300' - 600' ahead of me. The lights were traveling westbound, stopped in the open fields west of the freeway, hovered for several minutes, and ascended vertically into the clouds. The cloud ceiling was 14,000 ft. in elevation at the time. The lights could be seen illuminating from within the clouds with the same intensity as you would see from the moon with the exception the moon would have backlit the clouds this light was internal.

The fwy was moderately busy at the time of the sighting. All of the motorists on the freeway behind me either stopped, slowed or pulled over. The vehicles traveling northbound behind me had a better vantage point than I did since the lights were almost directly overhead of my vehicle when they came into my view.

The event took place about 1/4 mile south of the Shields Ave exit in the outskirts, west of the city of Mendota. There was a yellow motorhome that had pulled over at the shields exit and persons were standing outside. I'm not sure if they stopped due to the sighting or maybe had vehicle trouble. There is currently one other online report from another motorist who was apparently behind me and describes the event in greater detail. There were multiple eyewitnesses although I did not speak w/ any. I would suspect that one of the vehicles behind me may have dash cam or phone footage of the incident.


Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 148795
Occurred: 2019-09-09 21:30 Local
Reported: 2019-09-09 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Mendota, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle air craft seen over highway.

Driving south on 50. toward the west a boomerang like triangle flew over the highway. Three lights flashed and pulsed, shifting from very bright to barely visible. Sometimes all three would flash, occasionally only one or the other. The aircraft was close to the ground and moved incredibly fast in a strange curved flight pattern.

Posted 2019-09-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66679
Occurred: 2008-10-31 01:30 Local
Reported: 2008-11-03 10:42 Pacific
Duration: about 5 hours
No of observers: 5

Location: Mendota, VA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Ok me and my family was sitting around watching T.V. we had the door open because we all are smokers. I have a big family so I was sitting in a chair near the door.

Out of the comer of my eye I thought I seen a police chopper. So I didn’t think anything of it. Well about 15 min. later it was still there. So I looked at my dad and said look at this police chopper it looks like it ‘s over my neighbor’s house, well my whole family goes out on the porch and dad said that’s not a chopper that’s a star and I said dad it’s flashing red and blue how is it a star?

He’s then went a got his field goggles and was looking at and said it was a star that he didn’t know what it was. We all looked, from my point of view in the field goggles it looked like plasma energy with 2 flashing lights in the colors of red blue gold and green. I went in and got my camera and recorded a 3 min and 14 sec. video of this thing. I don’t know what to with the video or who to tell so I looked up your site on the internet and give it a shot so please let me know somehow Thank you for your time




NUFORC Note:

Probably a sighting of Sirius, I suspect. PD


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65240
Occurred: 2008-08-13 21:15 Local
Reported: 2008-08-15 17:08 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Mendota, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Landed

three bright beams of light near highway, swooping and hovering, searching ground

Account 1:It was around 9:15 PM on Wednesday when my mother and I were driving along I-5 towards Pacheco Pass. We were in the left lane and there were other cars and trucks around us. I noticed that this object with 3 beams of lights looked like it was coming towards the highway and I thought that it might be a plane in trouble, needed to land on the highway. Instead it stopped coming closer to the highway and was about 50 yards away, hovering in the middle of nowhere. After it hovered I thought it might be a truck stopped on an overpass but we couldn’t see any hill or anything because it was dark. Then it started to swoop downwards and closer to the highway again, I realized that it was in fact NOT a truck on an overpass and that there wasn’t even a hill there, it had been stopped, hovering for about 10 seconds and it looked like it’s light was searching for something. It appeared to be 20 feet across and had three round, white lights evenly spread about searching only on the ground. We were traveling in the car around 80-90 mph and witnessed it go into an orchard where it appeared to hover between trees with its lights shining out towards the highway. When we passed it, it was still in the grove and we didn’t see it fly away. In total we saw it for about 2 minutes before we passed it on the highway. I could not actually see a body of an aircraft or whatever it was, I could only make out three distinct lights.

Account 2:My daughter (age 19) and I (age 54) were driving north on Interstate 5 near the farming district in Ca. last Wednesday evening when we saw 3 bright highlights, ahead of us, but off to the side of the highway. The lights were bright and blinding and we wondered if a plane was trying to make an emergency landing on the highway. But that didn’t make sense since I’ve never seen 3 lights placed so closely together on a plane. As we continued driving I thought it might be a tractor intending to cross an overpass since the lights were a bit higher than the horizon. Suddenly the lights stopped moving and just hovered in one place, then it flew towards the highway and then counter clockwise away from the interstate. It headed north in an open area as if it were going to land on a runway but it didn’t. The lights illuminated a field which I thought had grass on it. I think I saw a small red light on the right side of the wings, I’m not sure if I really saw a wing though, I’m assuming it’s a wing. The lights were so bright I never could see what the lights were attached to but there did go across in a fairly straight line horizontal to the ground. As we drove by the highlights were about 100yds or one football length away from our speeding car and hovered over an orchard of trees. I couldn’t tell if it landed on the ground or just hovered about the tree line next to the highway. Nor could I identify the shape of what supported the three bright highlights .



Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44824
Occurred: 2005-07-04 00:30 Local
Reported: 2005-07-07 13:36 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Mendota (near), CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

My husband and I were travelling (by van) towards Fresno, CA. We were on Panoche Rd. approaching 33. The kids were asleep in the back seats. It was past midnight. My husband was driving and I had just opened my eyes after nodding off a little. There were vegetable fields / farms on both sides of the road. That was when I noticed what looked like small planes flying around the fields, taking off and landing.

I asked my husband which airport it was and he said that there was no airport there. He said he has been seeing those lighted things flying around the fields for a while. He thought that they were lighted windmills.

When I looked carefully, I realized that they were free flying aircrafts. They all had amber lights underneath and very bright white search light like head lights turned on / off frequently. We assumed that someone was practicing night flying.

But it didn't fly like regular planes or helicopters. 3 of them were V shaped and flying one behind another with perfect sync. The most peculiar thing was that it appeared to be landing but taking off almost immediately with great speed.

We never stopped as we were still thinking that the night sky and the distant lights were playing a trick on our eyes. After 5 minutes or so, we saw them again. My husband said that they are all over the fields, flying round and round for a while. This time I asked him to stop and he just refused because he thought I was overreacting to something that could be ordinary. (We are both elec. engineers and believe there is an explanation for everything!) 5 more minutes later we saw them again, this time we saw colored lights. My husband says that he saw green lights right away when he spotted them. We never saw them again that night.

I am really confused becuase they behaved like fighter jets in miniature doing manouvers but at the same time like a flock of birds circling and settling down and circling again1

Posted 2005-07-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85733
Occurred: 1966-06-30 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-12-07 11:10 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes or more
No of observers: 2

Location: Mendota, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Landed

Disc shaped in 1966. Stopped my parents' car.

My parents were driving home from my grandparents really late. They were the only ones on the road. Disc-shaped object landed on the road in front of them.

My dad moved forward a bit to go closer and my Mom started freaking out. Dad looked at her and she at him, & they both looked back at object. It was there for a split second longer, and then gone.

Both parents say this event happened. Dad will draw pictures for our entertianment. Disc shape, lights all the way around etc.

Took up the size of 2 Lanes ..




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to provide no contact information; indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2011-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 187034
Occurred: 1963-01-01 15:33 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-01-21 07:31 Pacific
Duration: all day
No of observers: 2

Location: Mendota, CA, USA
Location details: Ranch

Shape: Disk
Color: Silver gray
Estimated Size: n/a didn't ask
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: n/a
Angle of Elevation: 41
Closest Distance: n/a didn't ask mom just said it was there
Estimated Speed: not moving
Characteristics: Possible abduction, Missing Time, Marks found on body afterwards

Mom and Father witness saucer

Mother stated saw disc ufo hovering above her while hanging clothes me my brother were 3 and 4 years old. Mom stats rushed us into the house then stated told our dad he said your crazy . Following day when my dad came home from work mom went out side pointed at ufo then what is that dad told mom get in side. They both have told these moments to both of us.

For me I've had two encounters.

Around the same time frame, I was sitting on top of our couch watching my mom and someone else looking for me running back and forth mom stating he
is here somewhere find him. To this day my mom will not tell me how long did she lose me for.

Second time Around 2008 I was Kerokaning near my fathers work Friday night midnight said by to my father see you am work part time with him weekends
Drove off on to the freeway next thing I woke up on railroad tracks am. Did not have jacket or my keys. I was in disbolief of what happenned. So I figured to back track toward the train track deli where I could last remember to go towards I walked about three miles then saw my car on the opposite side of the on coming traffic pointed towards on coming traffic. With all my windows down keys in the ignition got in just wanted to get home when I got home roommate came outside to greet me yelling at me where have you been everybody is looking for you your bosses came by she stated your going to get fired you didn't go to work today are you going tomorrow ? I was speechless it was Monday afternoon. Went to work still dazed boss quietly asked if I was ok I said I think so. She stated if I needed more time off due to over lapse of time on the books told me I could take a few months off ? I've never took time off work not even a vacation in 15 years. I was always first one there last one to leave. That's why all the drama due to I lost three days of unaccountability of time. Also I've had surgery under my arm pits due to stress and my MD had to get another opinion of what was in my arm pits they both looked like unbelievable sight he said just close him up and tell him to use antibiotic soap for now on entire body I was half under anesthesia but was able to see and hear their conversation. I had a sliver like object in the palm of my left hand I had asked a MD what is that he said there was nothing there but I could see it and it would hurt when touched or bumped I know deep in my heart I was taken twice. I've told my brother and mom this about a year ago I could not held it in no longer knowing what my mom and dad experience my brother told me not to say anything to anyone. Since what's been happening with all sighting and other abduction cases. I had to release my story.

P.s I had found a book of ufo sightings different areas of course mine Mendota Ca in 1963 I also printed out total sighting in multiple areas on record.

Posted 2025-01-28