NUFORC UFO Sighting 187223
Occurred: 2025-01-26 05:58 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-01-26 11:22 Pacific
Duration: Unknown amount of time
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: In my apartment facing the window

Shape: Disk
Color: Silver, with lights
Estimated Size: Maybe small to medium box truck sized
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: In front of me, I am facing N/NE from inside my apartment
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: Maybe 100/200 ft away
Estimated Speed: Incredibly fast
Explanation: Dream - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Possible abduction, Missing Time

I dont think i was dreaming but i saw two saucers fly towards me from the sky with lights and then an alien appear in my apartment

I had such a weird experience last night and I am so confused.

Lately I have been jokingly testing the waters at night by having meditations where I think about and intentionally ask aliens to come pick me up. Not thinking it would actually happen, but more so “okay Greer, you say people can do this, lets just test it”. Last night, I woke up at 2am and couldn’t sleep so i go to the couch where I set floor pillows in front of my couch and lay to rest there. My couch isnt comfy so i have my floor pillows as a rest spot. At 5am I feel slightly tired so I close my eyes and felt this strange feeling so I kind of peek my eyes open and look out the window. The window is kind of far away from me. And i just hear the wind blowing and then i think in my mind “if there is an alien there, come down and show yourself”. Then all the sudden I see a saucer along with another saucer craft near it fly down incredibly fast, then stop suddenly hovering in the distance. They had lights in the center part of the saucer, it looked silver and shiny. The lights on the center perimeter part of the craft and seemed like they were cycling through different colors. It was red, green, white and blue little lights. I get so startled but I keep looking out the window in curiousness. I practice keeping my calm in stressful situations or even as a tool to have autonomy within dreaming so despite the unsettling sensation I also am incredibly curious to face this without turning away. Then all the sudden a classic alien(big head, large black eyes, greyish body, short slender but a but of a belly stature) just appears on the outside of my window with its face peering at me, then it somehow pops into the other side of the window standing above me on the top part of my couch. They looked like they were wearing a skin tight, slightly shiny black suit and were slightly translucent. I freeze immediately, I feel stunned. It felt like dream paralysis, but different in sensation. Like I was being prevented from moving not a ‘I cant move because i am scared’ situation. I try to yell out “what do you want?”, and then remember having the thought ‘This being probably is communicating through the mind anyway why are you speaking’. Despite that I keep repeating along with “are you taking me? Don’t go”. This being almost felt annoyed or confused or even surprised that I was able to get out words while being paralyzed. Immediately after that thought I feel myself sliding off my floor cushions not by my own accord and dragging across the floor towards the middle of the room. The whole time I am trying to yell out these questions barely able to get the words out and it is definitely a struggle but I kept persisting. I say then “where are we going?” and try to grab on to stuff not to keep me from sliding but to ground myself if I am awake or not. Usually when I lucid dream I look at my hands and touch things to let myself know I am dreaming. I feel like I am trying to push through some force to move my head and my arms and am unable to look at my hands but I just barely move enough to touch my coffee table and get this startled feeling of ‘you arent dreaming’. I then black out and have a memory of floating in a white light outside, headed into this saucer. I black out again when I reach the top circular shape which is so incredibly bright it feels like I blip into it, and then cut into being in a completely white space within the craft. There are several people and aliens sitting together around a long rounded table(think skinny bar type table the has a space in the center, that goes around the whole room in a roundish space. But the table is not perfectly circular, just curving around the room). Everything is shiny glossy white, the tables, chairs, the entire room, the clothes people are wearing is all white. It almost reminded me of how the spaceship looked in the movie “hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”. I am in the center of this room with everyone around me and I feel suspended in the air and barely able to speak or move. There is this old man with a beard and a mustache that looks strange(like bigger eyes) who is asking me questions that I cant recall but I remember answering. I remember being able to slightly look around but not able to move and barely able to project my voice with their questioning. My memory cuts off again and I felt immediately pulled back into my body back on the floor pillows just completely distraught. I feel paralyzed again for a moment and my arms are like weirdly on my stomach(like classic corpse pose) and I am on my back. I feel exhausted and that whole time laying there I try and replay what I experienced so I can remember the details before I fall asleep. It was almost frantically feeling like I need to recall this. I remember wanting to look at my phone to see the time but can’t, I was so confused about what time it was and how much time had passed. Eventually I do fall asleep and I dont dream the rest of the morning which is also unusual for me. The weirdest part about the cutting in an out of memories is that I am not recalling them back and the memory is being spotty, but its like the progression in that moment was spotty. Almost as if I was blipping to and from those points of what I remember.

I have no idea if this was a dream or not I am super disoriented from the whole thing, it felt so real. And I dont have dreams that start at the beginning of my sleep its always just before I wake up in points of the night. So it just felt disorienting. I also remember explicitly that I was struggling to sleep and was still awake when this occurred because i was listening to the wind. I have been hyper fixating on aliens lately more than my normal so this definitely could have been a dream. My dreams can be very vivid but also I lucid dream daily so generally I know without a doubt when it is a dream every time I am in a dream and especially post dream when I wake up. This was so unlike my dreams. I dont progress through dreams like that where it cuts in and cuts out of experiences. My dreaming is always naturally progressing like a movie and I generally remember that progression especially while in the dream. It is not until later that parts of the dream fade away and the fading away can usually be brought back when I focus on the progression of that dream. Dream or not, very weird experience that I wanted to speak on and needed someone to know that this experience occurred.

I have been reading a lot about psionic abilities, and have been keeping up with government disclosures as well as whistleblowers regarding aliens. Greer's documentaries about contacting aliens has been something I recently have been interested in, so I have been also having meditations at night almost jokingly calling out to aliens. I do it as a test because I think from a scientific standpoint methods being spoken about on anything should be explored, especially if something is unknown. So I have been doing this as a “okay Greer you claim this can happen, we have whistleblowers that claim this is a program that exists, lets actually test these claims”. I know all of this sounds so fringe, and I hope whoever is having to read this at least gets some enjoyment from it because its a totally fantastical sounding experience. I dont know how to explain it without sounding like a complete nut. That being said I am comfortable with knowing I had an unexplainable experience that I can’t tell if it was a dream or not, but I will say I always know when I am dreaming and when I am awake which is the most concerning part. That being said, I am assured in speaking about it from a place of “I don’t know what that was but it was incredibly strange and I need to tell someone about this”. I am also aware that my dreams are very sensitive to my reality so it could have very well been a dream based on leaning into all the information I am digesting out there right now. But this felt so different and I really needed to speak on it.

Posted 2025-01-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178441
Occurred: 2023-09-20 04:01 Local
Reported: 2023-09-22 20:10 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Oakland, ME, USA
Location details: Have a large field in the backyard, but it's further past.

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

Have seen one around 15 times and on the 20th I recorded two different ones

We have seen an object around 15 times, which hovers in a figure 8 and move closer and further for months. On the 20th of September at around 4 am, I took a video of it. And there was also to the right of it miles away I saw one blinking red and green. Of course you think plane but i took a video of this on a clear clear day, over a field. The first one moves alot and the second one disappears and moves. It's a need to watch.




Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178352
Occurred: 2023-09-14 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-09-16 09:13 Pacific
Duration: About 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, MD, USA
Location details: The sky behind my apartment

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Suddenly appearing bright light similar to that of a star.

It was late between 9:30 and 12:00, I went outside to smoke before going to bed, and I looked up into the night sky and it was completely pitch black, and suddenly the sky wasn't pitch black anymore there was a bright star hanging in the sky that wasn't there a moment ago. The light at first was a pale orange, like orange cream that turned into a brilliant white light, it hung there for a few moments and then started to strafe across the sky until it disappeared into the horizon, and it kept the same speed and it kept the same direction and it kept the same luminosity the entire time that it traveled across the sky, it didn't flicker it didn't blink it didn't do anything, it just moved across the sky in a straight line.




Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178126
Occurred: 2023-09-06 19:15 Local
Reported: 2023-09-07 10:26 Pacific
Duration: Several minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: Southeast to Southwest cloudless sky over East Oakland to South of San Francisco

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Left a trail

Oval/Cylinder shaped highly reflective object silently traveled not quite overhead SE to SW

Approximately at sunset 7:15-7:30 while leaving house to take evening walk my spouse and I noticed an oddly shaped object in the cloudless south east sky around 10-11 o'clock if 12 is overhead. Altitude appeared to be less than 10,000 feet. It's shape looked more oval than a cylinder and was highly reflective. Size was less than a 1/4 inch if between my outstretched fingers. It moved silently in a deliberate straight line past our house facing southeast to the southwest traveling maybe a few hundred knots if actually 5,000-10,000 feet in altitude. I ran into house to check flight radar phone app as it moved past however no recorded air traffic was in the vicinity. As it faded from view in the south east over either land south of San Francisco or the Pacific Ocean the now small dot reflected a golden bright light and appeared to leave a faint trail behind. My eyes are often looking up and I enjoy watching birds and tracking planes but this was the most out the ordinary thing I've seen. Thus my first ufo report.

Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 175020
Occurred: 2023-03-06 14:07 Local
Reported: 2023-03-16 08:58 Pacific
Duration: See belo
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: In western direction from home

Shape: Unknown
Explanation: Bird - Possible


It appears like a silver figure

I know that you do not want pictures, but the silver like colored image in my picture appears to be hidden or possibly hiding in the clouds. I was taking pictures of clouds from my back window which faces west toward the SF Bay direction and the figure appears to be using the clouds as cover—that is my guess. I attached a picture which is in the upper right hand size above the corner of the garage.




Posted 2023-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173035
Occurred: 2022-11-12 21:41 Local
Reported: 2022-11-16 20:00 Pacific
Duration: 3/5mins at a fast paste
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: Comin toward us n it passed right above us ,it cam out of no where

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Orange kinda redishlight in the sky coming out of no where

Me n my bf was outside having a smoke n j love lookin at the stars ,n we both seen a orange light right next to the moon ,and i told him look babe a ufo ,so i recorded it as we were videoing it i looked behind my bf and right when i turned to look up i seen a bright orange kinda redish light and i had told him look babe what is that n he looked were i was pointing at and saw the same light coming towards us n he asked were did that come from n i had said i dnt know it just came out of know where ,so we videoed it passin right over us n my daugthers apt thrn as it passed it go smaller n further waay then dissapeard n that was it .i seen 1 light turn into 5 lights back in 2017 right arount the cornner from were we were.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171369
Occurred: 2022-08-23 21:30 Local
Reported: 2022-08-24 15:32 Pacific
Duration: 1/2 second to 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: 37.79698362441433, -122.23649045969829

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Fast moving tic tac shaped craft flew over head illuminated only by city lights.

I was standing outside on 23/8/22 at approx (21:30) 9:30pm facing north north west looking in the direction of Cygnus when this fast cylinder shape came out of the north heading south illuminated only by the city lights with no sound. The size at arms length would have been an inch and I approximate it's speed to be around 1500 to 2000 mph as it covered my field of view in less than half a second if that. It was so fast that had I not have been looking in that direction it may as well as not to have happened. By far the fastest thing I have ever witnessed and am glad to have at least seen it.

I actively scan the night sky nightly for such things and have caught some on video and will continue to do so but this item flew by in a blink of an eye.
Keep looking up!

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170607
Occurred: 2022-07-22 22:25 Local
Reported: 2022-07-23 02:25 Pacific
Duration: Around 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 20

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: We were hanging out in the mountains on Pinehurst Rd. In the complete dark and seen it.

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Some friends and I were chilling in the mountains when we looked in the sky and saw a solid beam of lights. It seemed to be rotating.

Some buddies and I were chilling in the mountains and ending up looking at the sky. We saw a solid beam of light in the sky. It seemed to be rotating from left to right. It slowly came from behind the trees and moved to the right in the sky. After that for about 45 seconds and is absolutely freaking out it suddenly went away from us very quickly until we couldn’t see it anymore. It was large and moving very fast. It emitted a lot of light. There were also planes in the sky when it was seen and this was probably 20x the size. The pictures that we were able to take don’t nearly do justice to what we actually saw.




Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173967
Occurred: 2022-06-06 06:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-01-16 16:18 Pacific
Duration: sighting was maybe 2 secs
No of observers: 1

Location: oakland, CA, USA
Location details: downtown oakland ca

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

there was a small 2ft bird like creature or odd craft. flew past my mini 2 camera while in flight

A 2 FOOT FLYING CREATURE OR CRAFT FLEW PAST MY DJI MINI 2 WHILE FLYING OVER DOWNTOWN OAKLAND CA
I HAVE FOOTAGE OF 2 OF THEM. THE FIRST OBJECT THAT I SAW WAS FROM A DISTANCE, FLYING LOW AND SLOW.
THE SECOND FLEW DIRECTLY PAST THE CAMERA AT HIGH RATE OF SPEED, AND IT FLATTENED LIKE A SAUCER AS IT
JETTED PAST. OBJECT WAS WHITE, THE SIZE OF A SEAGUL BYT IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS WINGS THAT RESEMBLES
A HUMMINGBIRD. ALSO RESEMBLES UFO RODS, BUT NOT QUITE. TRUST ME YOU WANT TO SEE THIS

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174139
Occurred: 2022-06-06 06:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-01-26 13:54 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: Downtown

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Undocumented craft or animal

Strange object flew past my mini2 DJI done while flying/recording. Looked like a craft or strange creature. I have video of object moving fast that is very clear. And another flying very slow/low altitude. But shot is far away but you will totally agree that you’ve never seen anything like this. Resembles ufo rods but not quite.
Movements were unlike ufo rods. It was about 2-3 feet long. Looks like a flying fish with buzzing wings or heatwaves. This is a video of a video from my galaxy to make sure I have original. Original is on a 10 minute fight video













Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167107
Occurred: 2022-03-16 04:24 Local
Reported: 2022-03-16 16:45 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: Down Ashby ave by the water.

Shape:
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

Sitting by the water me and dog. Second day of visual sitting. One big mother ship with smaller ones coming out going into water

I've been sitting here for 2 days watching people walk out to the strange fog and walk back looking refreshed. Came back today and there it is the mother ship with smaller ones coming off it.







Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166665
Occurred: 2022-02-12 17:52 Local
Reported: 2022-02-13 15:14 Pacific
Duration: 6 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Location details: Approx. 1.5 miles up. No directional movement

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Looked up at the moon and noticed three small shapes in a triangle formation spinning.

The three objects spun while maintaining a triangular shape then shifted to an isosceles triangle. This lasted for approx. 30 to 45 seconds. Once in the new formation, they vanished.




Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166103
Occurred: 2022-01-05 00:10 Local
Reported: 2022-01-05 10:44 Pacific
Duration: lasted about 10 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: oakland, NJ, USA
Location details: walking dog on street. clear night, no clouds. temp approx. 20 degrees.

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 diamond craft moving slowly thru the sky

While walking my dog, I noticed a diamond shaped object in the sky. It could not have been more then a couple of thousand feet in the air.
As the object moved closer, I could see that the object had 2 diamond shapes. One in back of the other. The 2nd diamond shape was slightly elevated above the first. There were 2 separate objects. Going from a NW direction to an an easterly direction. The 2nd object trailed the first object by about 15 seconds.
The color of the lead diamond was bright white with three lights on the top (either side), and two lights on bottom (either side). Both craft were blinking.
The sighting lasted about 10 minutes, as where I was standing I have a clear view from my house to the mountains about about 3 miles away.

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164445
Occurred: 2021-08-26 15:35 Local
Reported: 2021-08-26 16:42 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

White round object around airplane level in the sky jumped around in zig-zag pattern like a mouse cursor, hovered, and disappeared.

I was walking along the Oakland harbor in the afternoon. The sky was deep blue with no clouds. As I was walking, I glanced up at the sky and noticed a round white shape in the sky. It could have been a sphere, an egg, or something along those lines. I did not see any features at all on it, although it was quite far away so it is possible that I just didn't see them if they existed.

It appeared to very high up--perhaps between 5,000 and 25,000 feet high.

When I first saw the object, it was hovering in one place. Then it started moving in an erratic zig-zag fashion. It instantly accelerated an moved at an angle, hovered for a second, then moved at another zig-zag type angle with insant-seeming acceleration, hovered again, and repeated this for perhaps half a dozen short jumps or so. It was generally moving in the direction of the bay/ocean.

I would not have thought much of this object at all had it not been for this strange jumpy movement. The best analogy I have for it is that it reminded me of someone moving a mouse cursor around a screen. It just kind of clumsily and quickly jumps to the new place on the screen where you point it. So while the hovering could be consistent with a quadcopter type drone or something, the sudden erratic jumpy behavior was just unlike anything I've ever seen before. There was no smoothness to it at all. Just: jump! Hover. Jump! Hover.

After the jumping behavior, it hovered in one spot for about 5-10 seconds. I was staring at it the whole time and had stopped walking at this point. While I was staring at it, it disappeared after the 5-10 seconds. For the entire rest of my walk I had my eyes up on the sky scanning for it but I never saw it again.

Within about five minutes, I noticed a helicopter flying around the city that had not been out before. It passed by me twice. The helicopter was much much lower than the UFO. I also saw a small low-flying white airplane pass through this area as well. It did not look like a passenger jet--it seemed much smaller. There is an airport several miles to the south (which is also the direction the UFO was), so the small airplane coming from that direction could just be a coincidence.

I did not have my phone on me because I don't like to take my phone out on walks.



Posted 2021-09-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163755
Occurred: 2021-06-18 01:20 Local
Reported: 2021-06-18 02:50 Pacific
Duration: 7 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


1:20 am Huge Orange Circular Craft over the SE skies of Oakland CA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwe1oNmQ2g TA DA

--what I saw the orange large craft -- this footage was taken by someone else in 2014 that saw the same thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwe1oNmQ2g

Posted 2021-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157494
Occurred: 2020-07-10 21:05 Local
Reported: 2020-07-10 22:20 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Possible UFO over SF Bay Area.

The object was clearly round, at a very high elevation but visible, it was black In color But a very unusual shade, it was Darker than anything I’ve ever seen before as unusual as that sounds. The object moved slowly initially moving south-East then slowly turned on a northern heading towards the San Francisco area. It seemed to stall in mid air a couple of times and proceed to an ominously slow movement. The object increased in speed, it began moving exponentially faster After about 5 minutes into its northern trajectory and was soon lost due to overcast conditions. The object did not have any lights nor did it emit any sounds in the 20 minutes We observed it. I have to emphasize the unusually dark black color of the object and it’s very unusual slow movement And acceleration. I’m not one to jump to conclusions and have never claimed to have seen a UFO. However, this was a very unusual occurrence. I am reporting this mostly to see if anyone else in the Oakland-SF area saw the same object.

Posted 2020-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156885
Occurred: 2020-06-02 21:45 Local
Reported: 2020-06-02 22:48 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, NE, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

White ball of light moving slowly through the sky and switched directions.

Around 9:45 pm my brother and I observed a round white ball moving west to east in the southern sky. The object moved at a fairly slow speed. The white light was constant, not blinking. After about 1 minute the white light turned and started moving in a southeasterly direction, when it turned to the southeast it began to wobble some. It still was moving at a slow speed until it disappeared. When the white ball "wobbled" we knew it was not a plane or satellite.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153841
Occurred: 2020-03-04 07:40 Local
Reported: 2020-03-04 20:06 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Lights in the night sky leaving in a straight line .

Star looking bright series of lights leaving from one area all together and disappearing into space. At the same time other star looking lights going in other directions alone .



Posted 2020-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149734
Occurred: 2019-10-08 00:00 Local
Reported: 2019-10-10 20:05 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects, Missing Time, Marks found on body afterwards

Appear to be a star moving as fast a stealth without noise. I pointed to the object an it slowed then disappeared.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149567
Occurred: 2019-10-05 23:30 Local
Reported: 2019-10-07 00:22 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

So it was the night of the 5th. I was getting ready to go to the store and I was looking at the sky cuz you was very clear that night and I just so happen to see a shooting star and I was wowed I've never seen a shooting star before I think I'm seeing things move but not anything that close-up I actually saw it fits out or whatever that close to me and then shortly after that I'm looking up and I see something that appears to be a star but it's moving across the sky like it was almost like a shooting star happen and then directly from the place where a phased out as I'm looking into something that appears to be like a star and going across the sky in about 2-3 minutes I watched it go all the way towards Emeryville and the sky was it passed under stars and it look just like a star but starts don't move that way so it's been kind of messing with me for a couple of days it's very playing over and over my head so I thought that I was just say something about it

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144650
Occurred: 2019-01-24 18:49 Local
Reported: 2019-01-24 20:45 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Two strange lights in the South Eastern sky in S.F. Oakland Bay Area.

Today 1/24/2019, at approximately (18:49) 6:49PM -8 GMT, I was outside observing the night sky as I often do, I noticed two bright objects that were out of place in the constellation Orion. They shimmered from orange to bright white. Orion was rising in the south eastern sky and these objects were flying in a wedge formation just below the feet of Orion. "There shouldn't be anything that bright there!" I thought to myself. The objects were more luminous then our brightest star Sirius I also thought which drew my attention to them in the first place. The lead object was even more so then the trailer. This viewing lasted approximately ten seconds. The first object slowly dimmed out of sight still high in the sky, I'd say 30 degrees from the horizon.

Then the other about one to two seconds later. The movement seems to give me an indication to altitude in my opinion. I view the night sky almost on a daily basis and have seen many things such as satellite's, meteors, high flying military and passenger aircraft. I cannot say what they were or were not.

I can only say THESE LIGHTS WERE VERY STRANGE INDEED! If anyone else in the San Francisco/Oakland California bay area happened be out at (18:49) 6:49PM observing the south eastern sky and saw this event please don't be afraid to speak up. I almost didn't want to say anything due to the stigma that go's with "U.F.O.'s however we all do need to know what's flying above our heads.

Special thanks for the encouraging words to and that you do for the truth, Peter Davenport

Posted 2019-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144634
Occurred: 2019-01-21 23:45 Local
Reported: 2019-01-23 10:37 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, TN, USA

Shape: Circle


It was an orange circle with a bright white light on the bottom interior. And was 30 to 50 feet in diameter.

It was north of my home and low with no sound.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2019-01-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144501
Occurred: 2019-01-07 20:40 Local
Reported: 2019-01-15 16:38 Pacific
Duration: 13 Mins
No of observers: 3

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Orb like shape changing light remaining at speed and altitude of plane 30 mins before landing

LOCATION: on a plane heading in Oakland CA, had to be 30 mins before landing.

.WITNESS: not only person who saw it, the person in front of me saw it and also took pictures.

SIGHTING: looked out the window because the person in front of me thought they saw something strange. There was an orb of light following the plane out of the right side a decent distance from the wing. It was level with the plane and we were still at an altitude that wHere no man-made object was build as well as being over unoccupied land. it stayed generally the same distance for the 13 minutes it remained with the plane and changed altitude and shape once or twice. we went through a few clouds and it followed, we went through one big cloud and it was gone.

THOUGHTS: thought it was strange and went quickly went through what it could be but nothing made sense. could not have been a star bc it was not at the right location. could not have been a building bc there was none and it remained at a high altitude and stayed with a plane going at least 300 mph. was not light from the plane because it was white and did not blink. It was not a mechanical light.

REACTION: thought it was cool and made me think of doc Australian skies. thinking of that as I watched it I made some notes and took a few pictures.

Posted 2019-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142152
Occurred: 2018-07-07 19:45 Local
Reported: 2018-07-08 14:43 Pacific
Duration: ~25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Viewed a star-like object higher than a plane would fly, flanked by 6 less-bright 'stars' of light traveling around it.

i was blowing bubbles with my son around 7:45 pm tonight and looked up and saw a light that appeared too high to be an airplane. i thought perhaps it was a planet as it was glowing brightly. I could tell it was moving, but quite slowly and could make out six less bright lights glowing around it.

They were traveling southeast all in tandem, though the six lesser lights seemed to move slightly as well, but all seemed to be traveling around the main star.

I called my partner to see it and he confirmed and saw it too. i cannot say for certain it was a ufo, but it certainly was unlike anything I've ever seen in the sky.

Posted 2018-07-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 139729
Occurred: 2018-05-04 21:15 Local
Reported: 2018-05-04 21:24 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Was it a UFO? Was it alien? I don't know but it was crazy weird.

This evening, we were watching stars, and planes flying overhead, from our deck. We then saw a bright orange light coming from the southwest direction. It was constant and not flashing; it did, however, have streaks or lines of light arcing from the top and bottom. It was very bright and seemed large given the distance and the amount of light. It did not fly in a straight path as several times it seemed to "wobble" side to side before continuing forward.

After approximately 15-20 seconds of this the light seemed to waiver back and forth then suddenly disappeared completely. We took photos and video but given that it was with a cell phone they are terrible quality.

Posted 2018-05-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134346
Occurred: 2017-05-27 21:04 Local
Reported: 2017-05-30 16:18 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

It glowed blue for 3 seconds, and dragged a line of light, and then disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2017-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134161
Occurred: 2017-05-27 21:04 Local
Reported: 2017-05-27 21:10 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

It glowed blue for 3 seconds and dragged a line of light and then disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2017-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144340
Occurred: 2016-12-29 21:10 Local
Reported: 2019-01-06 21:32 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

During flight Hawaiian Airlines from Honolulu flight #HA 48 Thursday Dec 29th object appeared during flight descent around 9:10 pm.

Of the right wing, a cylindrical light object rose quickly in diagonal direction above Oakland and surrounding city then hovered for 5 mins or more. It rose and moved in a projection that was unusual in how quickly it turned and ascended diagonally. It then hovered in one spot for over 5 minutes. Our plane turned into descent and we lost sight of it.

Posted 2019-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 130167
Occurred: 2016-09-24 19:30 Local
Reported: 2016-09-24 21:05 Pacific
Duration: don't know
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Flashing lights in triangle form above I-80 in Oakland.

Flashing lights in triangle form above I-80 in Oakland.

Posted 2016-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128518
Occurred: 2016-07-15 23:30 Local
Reported: 2016-07-15 20:54 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, NJ, USA

Shape: Orb


orange orb, silently crossed sky over Oakland, NJ, wsw to ene

I saw an orange light. high in the sky, it moved slowly acrossed the sky from wsw to ene it made no sound, it was bigger than any airplane light, and disappeared over the horizon of trees by my house

Posted 2016-07-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128962
Occurred: 2016-07-11 06:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-08-01 17:53 Pacific
Duration: Unsure
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Possible abduction, Missing Time

Woke up in a field that is impossible to get to.

Ok so. I fell asleep in my car on sycamore and west st in Oakland ca ... At around 10 pm . I awoke at 6 am roughly in a field up by grizzly peak which is a few miles away in a park I e never been too. I had no shoes or socks on my feet. I woke up laying on my back with my arms spred out to my sides . I was in a huge field full of tall weeds . There was no trail to where I was . My feet were clean along with the rest of me . Than I started to walk back . As I got up to the road I looked back to see a definite trail where I had walked only one. By the time I just got up to the road I was covered in burles and weeds (so I have no idea about how any of it happened but especially how I could have got to the middle of the field and be totally clean) by the time I walked back to my car a few hours later my feet were destroyed. I have NEVER SLEPT WALKED BEFORE and even if I did for some insane reason there's NO WAY I could have made it there without being cove! red in weeds and had bloody feet . This has bothered me so much lately I have no memory of anything but when I think about it my heart starts racing like ALOT so I have to sit down and recompose ... This is the strangest thing to ever happen to me.

When I got back to my car all my things were locked inside including my keys my shoes and socks were there as well even tho when I went to sleep they were on my feet ... If u have any idea what I should do about this PLEASE HELP ME I have lost a lot of sleep over this I'm scared to fall asleep now and I'm a 29 year old man .. Have you ever herd of something like this before ?? Also I had strange marks on my hand that r still visible.. Like a scar ... Sooo strange and very scary I just gotta find out how this happened it's destroying me .




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-08-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124710
Occurred: 2015-12-15 17:38 Local
Reported: 2015-12-15 17:53 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, KY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

15 min bright light that tried to break apart vanished when airplane approached and light has been seen multiple times.

Saw a stationary light to the south. Almost looked like it was trying to break into smaller lights. An airplane went into the same vicinity and when it got close the light just vanished and never came back. What we thought was a star just disappeared and I know stars don't do that. It never came back. We have been seeing a.strange light everyday at dusk.

Posted 2015-12-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123644
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:05 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:57 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Left a trail

Extreme light. Huge smoke trail behind object. Light suddenly vanished, as it hit upper atmosphere.




NUFORC Note:

News media report a test launch of an ICBM missile from the U. S. Navy USS Kentucky submarine. PD


Posted 2015-11-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123647
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:57 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

bright light that later appeared to be more like a rocket over the bay area with an enormous chem trail that was bell shaped

my husband saw a bright light with an enormous bell shaped chem trail in the sky. I saw the chem trail from east heading west towards the Pacific Ocean. Far above the vapor was a rocket like craft thousands of feet up. It went at a 45 degree angle towards the west above the bay area from the east heading west towards the pacific ocean. the bell shaped vapor was huge and smaller vapors were above it. when I saw it, I did not see the bright light. he thought it was a helicopter at first with a search light. But, when I looked, it clearly seemed more like a rocket going up into the atmosphere and he agreed with me at that point in time that that is what it looked like. We don't have a camera or iPhone to photograph it.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy ICBM launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117075
Occurred: 2015-01-30 13:00 Local
Reported: 2015-01-31 15:35 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Bright light small explosion or crack, then turned red and didappeared.

Bright light going straight down then turning red by the tail right before disappearing.

Viewed from Jack London square

Posted 2015-02-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116902
Occurred: 2015-01-08 07:15 Local
Reported: 2015-01-23 03:22 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Cigar shaped ufo seen falling to earth ion Oakland

it was 1/8/15 at 0715 hrs in the morning. I was having a cigarette scanning the sky looking in the eastern sky. I saw something at about 45 degree in the falling towards earth at a very sharp angle, like if it was the hands of a clock, it would be facing seven o clock. It was traveling incredibly slow. So slow, that I didn't know whether this was a contrail from an earlier plane or whether it was moving. I had to use the telephone wire as a reference marker to make sure it was moving.

Once I realized it wasn't a contrail, a plane flew near it, on its own trajectory, giving me an immediate reference to the movement of planes. As it started falling past the tree limbs it did something really funny. It seemed to have compressed, almost like an accordion into itself and seemed just hover in the sky. Watching this sent chills down my spine because it's movement was one I have never encountered in my life. It wasn't a meteor because the speed was too slow. Nothing could just fall from the sky at the rate it was falling. The velocity was just too slow.

And it wasn't a plane.

I took a video, buts it's poor in quality, but I did take a few photos that didn't turn out so badly. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in seeing them.




NUFORC Note:

E-address provided by witness is defective. PD


Posted 2015-01-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116448
Occurred: 2015-01-01 17:30 Local
Reported: 2015-01-02 15:44 Pacific
Duration: 2.5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


Saw what I thought to be a blimp in the sky. It actually reminded me if the H(L? ) helium blimp at first. I was facing the sith western sky when this happened.

It floated for a few seconds which made me think it was some sort of helicopter, with the sun reflecting a bright orange reflection off it.

When it started moving up down left and right with ease and fluidity, I knee it could not be eirg.

Posted 2015-01-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116558
Occurred: 2015-01-01 17:15 Local
Reported: 2015-01-08 00:40 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

Bright Orange sphere seen over Oakland, CA.

It was about 17:15 in the evening of January 1st, 2015. I was walking west down my street in Oakland, CA. The sun had just set behind the buildings in front of me but there was still a lot of light outside.

I noticed in the sky something that was bright orange, almost fire like. I thought it was a blimp, but it moved differently. Its movement was fluid, not jerky, and it seemed to move around in all directions with great ease. At one point It must have turned in an orbit, like a planet turns, because it seemed like the orange glow was a reflection of the sun off a silver looking sphere in the sky.

I took my phone out, took a picture, and then started recording it. I recorded for about two minutes until it dissapeared. The video goes blurry because the autofocus was on.

Initially when I saw the object, it seemed to hover at the hight of what planes fly at, but within two minutes it was so much higher.

Here is the link to the video: http://youtu.be/YIfWstTjGkQ




NUFORC Note:

We spoke with the woman who submitted the report, and she seemed to us to be quite eloquent and sober-minded. Because of the nature of her employment, we suspect that she is a very good witness. PD


Posted 2015-01-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115079
Occurred: 2014-11-02 01:30 Local
Reported: 2014-11-02 01:54 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Glowing flame like red object.

A Red Flame like glowing center area with red spikes running from front to back and side to side( x-like)shape with oval flame center. Traveling from north to south with one course correction over San Pablo Ave. area just north of downtown Oakland, CA. The object seemed to be at a mid to low altitude (it was in front of the background scattered clouds). The object seemed to make no sound.

Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114315
Occurred: 2014-10-07 20:20 Local
Reported: 2014-10-07 21:21 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two Objects Give Off a Bright Flash High in the Sky While Moving at Speed.

At precisely 20:20 hours, I looked up into the sky, and high in the night sky, I would say many miles up, I saw two objects of some sort, which were clearly distinguishable as being individual objects, simultaneously emit a pure white flash, and then move in tandem at speed in a N/w direction. I saw a single bright flash of light at a similar time and location about a month ago. ... I am 6o years old, with no time for games. ... These were not conventional aircraft.

Posted 2014-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112555
Occurred: 2014-08-15 20:50 Local
Reported: 2014-08-16 21:04 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saw a bright red light at a high elevation, moving slowly westward, then turn 90 degrees heading South and fade behind a tree line.

It moved and turned like no aircraft I've seen before.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110002
Occurred: 2014-06-06 01:05 Local
Reported: 2014-06-06 08:46 Pacific
Duration: 12 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Other


Two pulses of bright green light in western sky over Oakland, CA, late night Thursday (1:00 AM 6/6/14).

While walking in a westerly direction in Oakland, CA, just after 1 in the morning, the night of Thursday, June 5, 2014 (thus technically ~1:05 AM June 6, 2014) there was a very quick, very bright green flash of light in the sky , due west-to slightly west-northwest, apx. 30 degrees above horizon. It was followed about 10 seconds later by an identical band very bright green double flash of light.

There was a bank of clouds right at that spot in the sky rolling in as is common from the bay.

It looked very much like the intense lightning that illuminates from the inside of clouds in monsoon type storms (common in other areas, but rare in this part of California), but there was no sound whatsoever, during or any time after either double flash. There was no precipitation. I heard another person who was out on the street exclaim as I saw the second flash.

It also looked like the illumination of fireworks, but again, no sound at all, and just the two bright pulses of green light. It was impossible for me to tell if it was coming from the ground or from within or behind or above the bank of clouds. No movement, just the two pulses, separated by about 10 seconds. Then I was inside so wouldn't have seen any more if there were.

Posted 2014-06-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107354
Occurred: 2014-02-21 23:46 Local
Reported: 2014-02-22 01:17 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 7

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

Orange lights ORB silent and odd movement with VIDEO

I witnessed a very bright orange light appear into the sky. The light changed from bright to dark orange almost in a pulsating fashion. Its movement was silent and gracefulty made its way across the night sky at times slowing and moving faster. I was having a smoke on my balcony as i always do around this time of night.

As fast as I could I grabbed my smartphone to try and capture a video. its not the best video but its what i saw and its un-edited. This "ORB" was in the sky It was in the sky about 75 seconds (The ORB came from the direction of the Oakland Coliseum home of the A's & Raiders and came towards my place next Lake Merritt) before i was able to get my phone out and record the next 26 seconds on video, so in total it lasted about 1 minute 40 seconds.

I stopped to call my wife and tell her to come out and look but as soon as i dialed and looked back up it was gone. I waited outside for 15mins never to see it again. VERY STRANGE. Next about 30 mins or so later spoke to my neighbor whom said he and his wife and 4 kids saw the same thing.…

Posted 2014-02-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 105490
Occurred: 2013-12-22 01:00 Local
Reported: 2013-12-22 10:40 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Animals reacted

Triangular black object with red lights seen over Alameda

A very large, black triangular craft with red lights on its perimeter, was seen maneuvering west of my home at 13th Avenue and 20th street, in the direction of Alameda or the Bay. (Monitoring the weapons cache at the old Naval Air Station?) I estimate it was 1/2 mile above the ground and maybe 2 miles away. It had 3 sides, with red lights.

Last night was crystal clear, yet this object appeared blurry.

It made sharp and quick turns. My intuition leads me to believe "they" were looking for someone or something.

I continued to watch, covered in goose bumps, for approximately 2 minutes. Both of my dogs were frightened. The smaller dog wanted me to pick her up. My other dog wanted nothing more than to just go home. They have never shown fear to a vehicle, especially a vehicle in the sky.

It's ascent left me feeling it is not ours. As it took off skyward, it did so keeping the "hull" square to the ground, travelling virtually in a direct vertical line. Its color also changed to an orange color. This craft was completely silent.

Posted 2013-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104124
Occurred: 2013-11-04 19:00 Local
Reported: 2013-11-04 19:36 Pacific
Duration: 30+ minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: West Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

One brightly blinking light over Berkeley, CA

One bright blinking light over what appears to be Berkeley, CA (northeast of West Oakland, CA). Plane flew close below it, appears to be in our atmosphere. Blinks different bright colors, looks like pieces of bright neon glitter moving in brownian motion when viewed through binoculars, also shifted to cross at some points.

One craft, three witnesses (students), all used binoculars to confirm our uncertainty. Maybe a closer view from Lawrence Labs if someone has access to that location. Unfortunately, my camera cannot register the phenomena.

Posted 2013-11-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 103253
Occurred: 2013-10-14 19:15 Local
Reported: 2013-10-14 19:47 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Intense, stationary bright light in SF Bay Area sky.

I noticed an intensely bright light in the sky. It was so intense there was no flickering or change in intensity. It was completely stationary, absolutely no movement whatsoever.

I took pictures with my phone so not the best images but can share with interested individuals. In perfect altitudinal alignment was another light. Less intense and smaller. Its light twinkled with varying intensity. This second light was also stationary.

I can assure you that these lights were too high up in the sky to be beacons for aircraft.

It's possible that they were stars but every star I've ever looked at "twinkled" of flickered.

Posted 2013-10-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101882
Occurred: 2013-08-31 21:15 Local
Reported: 2013-09-03 11:49 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

On a clear night, a large, bright light appeared, dove rapidly, then rapidly ascened, and left.

We were home in the Montclair section of Oakland on a clear night when this very, very bright light came toward us from the Golden Gate Bridge direction (heading East). It stopped over the area around Grand Ave. and Highway #580.

After about 10 seconds it made a very swift dive south easterly and disappeared behind the hill area above the Mormon Temple. After a few seconds (about 5 seconds) it came back up at the same speed that it had used to descend. This speed is maybe 3 to 5 times faster than an airplane's speed. It hovered a few more seconds and then left. There was no noise what so ever. The light was the same color as the landing lights we seen on planes every night. It did not blink or shut off.

Posted 2013-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 100624
Occurred: 2013-07-29 17:00 Local
Reported: 2013-07-29 21:44 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar


White cigar shaped above Oakland airport

Around 5pm on Monday July 27th, 2013 I looked out my window and saw a very slow moving white cigar shaped object in the sky. I am in Oakland, close to Lake Merritt, the object was East of me, almost above Oakland airport, going North. It did not seem to glow or anything, it was simply white against the grey background of the clouds.

At first I thought it was an elongated blimp of some sort, as it seemed larger than a plane, but flying way too slow to be a plane. Then it sort of shrunk itself from end to end to the point of disappearing in a matter of 5 seconds, tops. The whole event lasted 20 to 30 seconds.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 100235
Occurred: 2013-07-14 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-07-16 18:17 Pacific
Duration: ~2-3 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Oakland, TN, USA

Shape: Orb


Orange / Red Orb in Oakland, TN traveling at constant speed and altitude on 07/14/13 appx. 21:00.

Approximately 21:00 on Sunday 07-14-2013 I along with others my neighborhood in Oakland, Tennessee, observed an orange/red orb traveling at a constant speed and altitude.

I noticed someone had shot off a few fireworks in the far distance. I saw a bright light between where the fireworks were being shot and where I was located.

At first we thought it was a firework. As we watched it, we noticed it was moving towards us. It seemed to be at a low altitude or either it was very big and gave that impression. It passed overhead and therefore I got a good view of it. The orb was circular like the sun and moon. It was very bright, but it did not cause me to squint to look at it as the sun does. It didn't have a tail, nor make any sound. It didn't have any other colors in it nor did it flicker like the ones you see on you tube videos.

After it passed over, I made a point to look at the rim to see if I saw anything emitting around it.

I did notice a little energy, I guess you can call it, but only when I looked hard at the rim after it passed. It was not a Chinese lantern as some may suggest.

I got a good look at it probably between 2 and 3 minutes, especially when it passed overhead. I know it was not what has been suggested it might have been to me. I had no funny feeling in my body as it passed over, just amazement.

That happened night before last and tonight I have a sore throat, gee I hope that orb didn't give me something! :o) I'm joking, but I'm also serious about that last statement!

If anyone has seen this orb or any other in Oakland, PLEASE report it to an online UFO reporting site. I'm sure all of us that have had the opportunity to see one of these orbs would love to see how many others in Oakland and across the country that have actually gotten to see one.

I'm wondering if it is a good or bad thing seeing one...I'm honestly having mixed feelings. What are they? Are they good, evil, just a ball of energy, a secret government! project or what?

Posted 2013-07-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 100293
Occurred: 2013-07-14 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-07-18 15:25 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Oakland, TN, USA

Shape: Orb


Brilliantly colored Orange/Red Circle travelling E to W in Oakland, TN on July 14, 2013

On July 14, 2013 approximately 21:00 (9:00pm), I observed along with others an orange/red orb. I was talking to my neighbor and glanced to the east. I noticed a big orange/red ball. I asked my neighbor what that was, and he said probably a firework, since someone was shooting off a few in the distance from where we were, and we could see them.

We kept watching silently. We noticed it was moving towards us. When it was passing, I told him that wasn’t normal. He said no it wasn’t. We both said we have never seen anything like it. It had no sound, nor a tail. I viewed it very well. It didn’t have a white glowing light nor an open place in the bottom like Chinese lanterns have.

I got an excellent view of the east, north, west and bottom of this object. IT HAD NO OPENINGS WHATSOEVER! Brilliant orange red color. I did focus on it’s rim after it passed by me to see if I saw anything emitting from the sides. I did see a little energy, one might call it.

My close up look revealed that it did not flicker like most you tube videos of orbs do. It was very bright, but didn’t hurt my eyes at the moment looking at it. I didn’t have to squint like looking at the sun makes one squint. It was a big ball traveling across the sky. It seemed to be intelligently controlled in my opinion.

I have not ideal what I saw, but I can tell you in my opinion what I believe it wasn’t due to the close up view I got of it. It has been suggested it was a Chinese lantern. I have looked at Chinese lanterns on you tube. There is no comparison to what I observed. There was no white light. It was perfectly round like the moon. I know it was not a falling star, nor a piece of space junk that fell from orbit. I witnessed a piece of Russian space junk falling and it looked like a plane on fire with a long tail.

This orb looked more like a ball of energy, perhaps one might say an orange round moon traveling. The color was not flickering. I didn’t see any white or black spots. The color seemed the same all over, just brilliantly colored.

I didn’t see a triangle or any other shape within or outside of it. I observed it long and close enough to honestly say in my opinion it wasn’t a Chinese lantern which skeptics want one to believe.

There is a place that makes flares on the east side of Oakland. I sometimes see them testing early in the morning off in the distance from our house. They fall down. I’ve seen enough of those to know it wasn’t a flare. Besides it was on a Sunday night, and I’m sure they were closed. They don’t travel at a constant speed and altitude either.

As the object traveled past, I didn’t feel any weird feelings within my body. I probably wouldn’t of noticed any weird feelings since I was so fixated on the object in question. Again, it had no openings on the east, north, west nor bottom of object. I could see it most clearly. If it landed on top of the house or in front of me, I could not have viewed it any better.

I called the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee this morning. The gentleman said the surface winds were out of the east at 10 mph. Speculating winds aloft were out of SE 500 feet and above. He said they didn’t keep a record of winds aloft, so he was going by what it has been lately with winds out of the east. I didn’t like hearing winds out of the east, because that doesn’t help me with my case as to what I actually viewed. The skeptics reading my report will suggest it was a Chinese lantern, which in my opinion clearly wasn’t. Before saying that I would say it was a ball of energy coming from the fireworks. I feel so strongly it wasn’t a Chinese lantern due to the great views I had of it on the east, north, west and bottom sides.

Whatever it was…. The color was very pretty. I don’t see Chinese lanterns having such a brilliant orange / red color. It wasn’t like it was lit up inside an object. The object was the light itself.

Everything I have written is my honest opinion. I will say the altitude of the object was perplexing to me. I can’t give you an altitude, but I can tell you it was big enough and close enough for me to see everything I needed to see.

Posted 2013-07-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95948
Occurred: 2013-01-13 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-01-14 01:22 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Blinking, stationary light.

Stationary blinking light in the sky, directly overhead. Blinked every 60 seconds. Went to get camera, and it was gone. Looked to be at least satellite altitude.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92997
Occurred: 2012-09-22 17:15 Local
Reported: 2012-09-22 20:47 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Strange brights lights above Oakland Zoo

Husband saw odd light flash into clear sky high above Oakland zoo. Appeared to be very high in the sky and remained in a relatively fixed position. At first it appeared to be a thin line of reflected light but changed to more of a pinpoint after several minutes. Wife also watched after the first two minutes and both of the couple watched the light hover high in the sky above Oakland for about 30 minutes. During that time it moved position only slightly - drifting roughly north west. Two other lights appeared and approached the first light during the time it was hovering and then gradually disappeared by apparently moving higher into the atmosphere out of sight of the couple.

Honestly, as wife did not see initial appearance of the light she was skeptical about the origin of the object in spite of the fact that it remained essentialy stationary high above the sky of the Oakland Zoo, suggesting theories of weather balloons, etc. as the origen of the light. However, after watching the object appear as a shiny stationary dot for approximately 30 minutes she was startled to see the light thin to a white line and then disappear in a bright flash. The entire event took place in a clear blue sky above a very active air space and normal planes with contrails passed far below these lights throughout the event. The sudden appearance and disappearance of the object as well as its apparent ability to remain stationary high in the sky was extremely unusual.

Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92845
Occurred: 2012-09-16 22:00 Local
Reported: 2012-09-17 10:02 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

Brilliant Orange Light Streaks Horizontally Across the Night Sky in Oakland, CA - Sept 16, 2012

Brilliant light appeared at stationary point in sky and began to streak across the night sky horizontally with great velocity. The light, as it acclerated, expanded turning bright orange then deep baby blue breaking up into smaller lights and disappearing.



Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90686
Occurred: 2012-07-08 21:03 Local
Reported: 2012-07-08 22:51 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

4 Orange lights seen over Oakland, CA - Interesting maneuvers and disappearance. First time sighting!

I was driving northwest on I-580 between Park blvd. and Lakeshore Ave. While exiting onto Lakeshore, I saw 4 very bright orange lights in the sky to the west, heading southeast toward me. My first reaction was that they were a string of planes on their way to land, which is a common sight in the bay area. They were below the cloud cover, which is relatively low (touches the hilltops), but I couldn’t see any sort of shape to them. A fourth that was hanging back abruptly caught up, bobbing ad looping as it went.

At this point I had run through all the options. Based on their speed, I am convinced they were “aircraft“, but they were making turns and altitude changes that appeared unearthly. They started to turn to the east rather quickly, at which point I couldn’t look anymore, considering I was driving. After finding a parking spot, I ran out of the car and looked up, only to find one craft slowly moving west to east. As it sat in the sky, I got a good look at it: Orange orb with yellow edges, no apparent solid shape. It was larger than Jupiter in the night sky, but definitely smaller than the moon. It jogged around for a second then seemed to go straight up, fading out through the cloud layers.

I saw two men talking where I had stopped, and when they separated I pulled one over to look at what I was seeing. He was somewhat interested, but figured it was a helicopter and walked back inside his home. Well, after what I saw, I can safely rule out helicopters, airplanes, or anything inanimate like "Chinese lanterns". These things were moving all over the place in their flight path, and were at times going faster than the F-18's that were flying over for the 4th of July. It was surreal to see the way they moved, it is difficult to put into words.

I never thought I would see something like this over my home town.

Posted 2012-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90130
Occurred: 2012-06-24 16:30 Local
Reported: 2012-06-26 16:56 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Dark undulating circular blob over Oakland

Driving up 880 freeway Saturday afternoon, I saw an indistinct blob in the sky, it was roughly oval shape, but seemed to have some sort of rippling effect. Object appeared to hover or move very slowly in distance. It did not appear to be a blimp (irregular shape, didn't reflect any sunlight). Traffic was moving slow, so there was some time to observe it, but I eventually lost it as it was somewhat low on horizon. I should note that there was an Giants-A's baseball game going on in Oakland at the time.



Posted 2012-07-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88491
Occurred: 2012-04-16 18:00 Local
Reported: 2012-04-18 18:30 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Floating flat disc seen in Oakland CA

Upon exiting a store, my husband noticed a dark colored object in the sky and pointed it out to me. This object was floating about two miles away and was relatively close to the earth in comparison to an airplane that was also flying near by. At first, I was convinced that it was a kite or something, but as it came nearer it became obvious that it wasn't a kite or balloon or anything that could float for so long on its own. We stood watching it in the parking lot of a Home Depot for about 5 minutes as it came directly above us. It was clearly a very, very flat surface and was actually moving quite slowly, as if being carried by the wind. Yet, the air was still and there was no strong wind whatsoever to propel it. It tettered back and forth from side to side, but for the most part, we could only see the bottom of the aircraft. We watched it until it was out of sight. It was still very light outside, yet no one else seemed to see it.

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86124
Occurred: 2011-12-17 20:00 Local
Reported: 2011-12-27 11:52 Pacific
Duration: 40 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

At least 3 lights seen moving/changing colors from Berkeley CA.

Looking toward San Mateo from a high level porch in the Berkeley hills, at least 3 lights were seen by 2 of us. At first, I thought it was wonderful to be seeing three planes at varying distances at just such an angle. Then they did not move and they were changing colors ( red, blue, yellow, orange, green if I remember correctly ). They began moving at sharp angles and sometimes seemed to come together.

"I saw three electric prisms, Goliath in size, perform a Voltron dance in the distant sky." This is what I wrote in my journal. It's not meant to sound poetic. It's just the clearest way of explaining what I saw.



Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84762
Occurred: 2011-10-22 19:30 Local
Reported: 2011-10-24 04:14 Pacific
Duration: 10 SEC
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

BLACK TRIANGLE CRAFT WITH LIGHT THAT WERE SQUARE

I WENT OUT ON THE BACK PORCH TO LET MY PUPPY OUT TO USE THE BATHROOM WITH MY GIRLS SON AND THE WEATHER WAS NICE NO WIND NOTHING CLEAR SKIES AND HE SAID I WISH I COULD BE ABLE TO GO SEE A STAR OR BE A STAR SOME THING TO THAT EFFECT. I SAID OH YEAH WHY IS THAT AND LOOKED UP AND WAS LIKE HMMM THAT'S AND CLEAN PRIVET JET, BUT THE WAY IT WAS BLACK AND TRIANGULAR SHAPED I WAS LIKE WAIT! WHAT KIND OF ENGINES ARE THOSE? IT WAS THREE LIGHTS SQUARED IN SHAPE IN THE FRONT AND THREE ON ONE SIDE IN THE BACK AND THREE ON THE OTHER GLOWING LIKE STREET LIGHT OR A DIM LAMP LIGHT IN A SQUARE SHAPE WITH A BLACK SQUARE SPACE IN THE MIDDLE LIKE A LID TO LET THE HEAT OUT. WHEN I SEEN IT I TRIPPED ON ALL THE LOGICAL EXPLANATION LIKE THAT MIGHT OF BEEN THE STEALTH BOMBER, OR AN FANCY AIR PLAIN, BUT THERE WAS NO SPEED OF LIGHT AFTER SOUND, NO JET ENGINE NOISE NOTHING, AND THIS THING WAS MOVING FAST IT WAS HIGH UP LIKE A JET PLANE TRAVELING LONG DISTANT GOING TOWARDS LOS ANGLES BUT ! BIG IN SIZE I EVEN SAID MAYBE IT WAS THE CONCORD PLANE.... IN THE BAY AREA NAWWWW!I SEARCH IT ON GOOGLE AND THE LAST TIME ONE WAS SEEN ON THE SAME DESCRIPTION OF LIGHT BUT SHAPE WAS IN JUNE.....



Posted 2011-10-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84684
Occurred: 2011-10-21 00:00 Local
Reported: 2011-10-21 18:21 Pacific
Duration: seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

well i was just outside looking at regular aircraft (live near airport) then i see 5-7 shiny flying spheres about 4000 ft in the air , it was at sunset so you could really see them shinning

Posted 2011-10-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80230
Occurred: 2011-02-26 00:10 Local
Reported: 2011-02-26 10:11 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

I was standing on my roof around midnight and saw a flying object no more than 3000 Ft in altitude travelling south silently and at a high rate of speed. It seemed to leave a wispy, narrow trail in its wake, but the trail wasn't a jet contrail. Craft was not illuminated and had no flashing lights.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-03-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79385
Occurred: 2010-12-26 04:45 Local
Reported: 2010-12-27 10:17 Pacific
Duration: 45 sec
No of observers: 6

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

Fireball in Oakland California

On Sunday December 26,2010 Me and my family had stoped on a stoplight When i seen a spherical fireball oject in the air for about 45 Seconds then suddently it moved into a cloud.I attemped to record the object but it wouldent apear in the Camera.

Posted 2011-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78535
Occurred: 2010-10-22 20:00 Local
Reported: 2010-10-23 19:12 Pacific
Duration: approx. 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Orange orb hovering over Bay Area. Another appears and approaches, and hovers then dissapears. .Moves upand down , dims in/out

Last night I saw a bright orange orb hovering in the sky. I was standing on my back porch which is 1 story off the ground. I live in the center-most area of my city (Oakland, Ca) and according to Google satellite my street is 400 ft elevated (I live on a hill). The orb looked as if it was roughly between 10 and 20 thousand feet off the ground,. I was standing on top of a chair, and with doing so it looked like it was in my direct line of sight, but way across town (I was facing NW). It seemed to be getting brighter then it would dim out then come back, and it was moving up and down very slowly, then it would stay it one spot. The size of it was small compared to the moon, but large compared to a star. I saw another orb appear that was not bright as the first, and it slowly drifted towards the first orb making its way directly on top of it. It then stayed then and got very bright, so bright that they almost looked like one. The second orb then dimmed out )but! still visible) about a minute later and drifted away in the same direction it was going and disappeared (it went in a straight line). I zoomed in with my camera and the shape of the object looks like a geometric Pac-man shape. The original orb stayed in the sky for about 20 minutes (that I saw of it that is) periodically dimming out then getting bright again. Eventually it drifted slowly away and disappeared.

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76705
Occurred: 2010-07-09 13:00 Local
Reported: 2010-07-21 19:55 Pacific
Duration: 15 MIN
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


OAKLAND UFO 7/9/2010 HAVE PIC

Report #1 As recorded from >52 yr. old female, yard maintenance worker, lives in Oakland and one other person see other report #2 "On 7/9/2010 between 1:00 & 1:30 PM in the Oakland hills on Grandview Dr in the hiller highland area Above the Claremont hotel (see map) I saw a long ,brown ,straight , u. f. o. moving over Oakland ca. Heading west towards the bay. By the time I got my camera out it was in front of the sun. it was climbing in altitude and slowly turning north. It was moving about as fast as a blimp but it was as big as two and a half commercial jets end to end. Or from my eye view about 2" long. it seem to be about 12000 feet up.

Report #2 Last Friday, July 9th at around 1pm, I witnessed an aircraft hovering in the sky for a few minutes while speaking with Evva. I thought it was hovering at a height much higher than consistent with commercial airliners landing or having just taken to the sky.

I was standing at 1390 Grand View Drive in Berkeley and it seemed like the aircraft was directly above us. The color of the aircraft was dark brown or black and shaped like a perfect cylinder, with neither any tapering at either end or anything resembling the wings of an airplane. The end of the aircraft looked like the color chrome, but that may have been the sunlight glinting off of it. Based on the altitude I estimate the aircraft was hovering at, it seemed like it's size was much larger than a commercial aircraft.

After a few minutes, the aircraft reoriented itself from an original position consistent with the hull of an airplane flying horizontally to one flying vertically, while still holding almost the exact same position in the sky. I then departed and did not see the aircraft any further.

Posted 2010-07-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78995
Occurred: 2010-05-07 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-11-21 00:16 Pacific
Duration: 5 sec.
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

First Friday Oakland, CA UFO sighting

Saw 5 orange lights in a rectangular pattern with one in the center. It was moving in a SE direction, very slowly and made no sound. Then it quickly took off and disappeared. It was only what seemed to be about 5 stories above us and about the size of a large car.

I normally would not report these sightings but my brother who was standing next to me saw the same exact thing as well as a few other people. We were in a crowded place for 1st Friday in Oakland and was amazed that with all these people only a handful of us saw this thing.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74936
Occurred: 2010-04-09 01:14 Local
Reported: 2010-04-09 01:50 Pacific
Duration: 4-6 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle of lights speeding accross the sky from Oakland, CA

I went outside for a smoke at around 1:10 AM this morning. I was looking at the stars facing southwest, when something caught my eye. I quickly looked over and in 1-2 seconds I saw 4 lights moving at an incredible speed past the roof of my house. I quickly ran around to the side of the house to see what it was.

For the next 2-4 seconds I clearly saw 3 lights forming a triangle speeding across the sky directly south. There was also a light right in the middle of all 3. There was a large distance between the lights, because at the speed they were moving, they stayed in perfect unison probably 5-6 miles apart from each other.

I'm not sure whether or not these were rim lights to some large craft, but it seems unlikely since the distance between them stayed in a perfect triangle. If this is the case, the craft must have been absolutely huge.

The speed of this object was approximately (and I'm guessing here) 10-15x faster than the airplanes I observed in the sky over the SF Bay Area during the minutes after the sighting. I can't stress enough that this thing was moving INCREDIBLY FAST! The night sky during the event was very hazy, with the lights from San Francisco making it hard to see the stars. I lost sight of the object in the haze traveling southward. The lights also appeared to be speeding up.

For the past year, I lived outside the city, and saw many shooting stars during the night and early morning. I am absolutely certain that these lights were not shooting stars. I hope this report is of use to someone.

Cheers -((name deleted))

Posted 2010-04-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74245
Occurred: 2010-01-30 19:00 Local
Reported: 2010-01-30 20:19 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 sec
No of observers: 3

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

Three transluscent, reddish-colored, orbs in a perfect triangular pattern fly overhead at a constant speed.

This day, January 30, 2010 at approximately 19:00 hours, I as well as two others were witness to a UFO flying overhead. At the base of the Oakland Hills, myself as well as three other friends, were on the outdoor deck of a penthouse on the fourth floor of an apartment building. Our focus was on the horizon just over the hills due to the reason that a friend mentioned that the moon rises so quickly at night over the hill. While we were waiting as we observed the glow of the moon thru the fog rolling over the hill, two of the three friends went into the house (the residents of the apartment.) I remained outside because at 25 years of age I had never witnessed the moonrise before. While the other and myself were anxiously waiting for the moon to peak over the hill he shouted, “ A UFO, a UFO!!!” I immediately looked to where he was pointing and I saw a triangle shaped object. It was three translucent reddish-colored orbs in a symmetrical “pyramid” shape. The top! of the triangle, the point, was at the head of the direction it was moving. It was moving at a higher rate of speed at an altitude higher than that of planes that regularly fly over the same area. Its rate of speed during the sighting never wavered. It remained at a constant speed throughout the sighting. At the time it was in our field of view, there was not one other plane or object in the sky. The only things in the sky in view were the stars. When he shouted, the male resident of the apartment raced out to the deck (back patio) and immediately saw the UFO. He was the only one who said he “heard” it. Myself as well as the other fellow who first observed the object did not hear anything. It was just “gliding” thru the sky. I have never seen anything like it.

It was funny or odd to me that several minutes after the sighting, as we were all in amazement of what we had just observed, I noticed the sky began to fill up with airplanes flying overhead. This was odd to me due to the fact that when the UFO was in the sky there were no other objects present except the sky and stars. Several seconds soon after the UFO traveled out of our field of view, is when planes began to fly in their respective patterns overhead.

Posted 2010-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73055
Occurred: 2009-10-28 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-10-28 22:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

Huge bright blue circles above Oakland for a few seconds, reappeared 1 mi south 2 sec. later then vanished. Definately not a plane.

It was about 1 AM and my girlfriend and I were sitting in my backyard in the Oakland hills looking at the view towards downtown Oakland. Out of nowhere a gigantic, extremely bright circular blue light appeared over the Piedmont cemetary. It was so bright and sudden that we both at the same time said "Whoah what is that!" It was easy to see the light there because the cemetary is one of the only areas in the cityscape that is completely black at night. At first i thought it could be cops in the cemetary shining lights or a helicopter, but after about 1 second it was obvious that it was neither. The light was huge, bright blue, circular, and had defined edges. It even lit up some of the trees directly around it. Then for a split second it looked like there could be two circles. This only lasted for about 3 seconds and just as fast as the huge light had appeared it disappeared. Then the weirdest part happened. About 1-2 seconds after the circle(s) disapp! eared, another blue circle (or possibly the same one) appeared at least one mile away to the south. This time it was merely a flash for about one second after which it disappeared for good. I cant stress how huge and bright blue this circle of light was, and how defined its shape was. Looking at the view it was about the size of one of the houses around it. I couldnt see any sort of craft, just the bright solid light light.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70505
Occurred: 2009-06-14 17:30 Local
Reported: 2009-06-14 18:48 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Strange light over Oakland during the day.

I took my daughters to the park and laid in the sun enjoying the cool breeze looking at the party cloudy sky when I saw what I believed to be a chem. trail. That’s what got me looking up in the first place. I then noticed a light traveling north. The color was orangish and seem to pulsate.

It was traveling in the opposite direction of the wind, though at different altitudes the wind could travel in another. I would say it was 15,000 to 20,000 feet high. The speed wasn’t very fast. I tried to get another park goer to see it but it went behind a passing cloud. The other party reported to me that he has noticed strange lights in the sky for the massed few months in the area as well.

Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70153
Occurred: 2009-05-17 09:57 Local
Reported: 2009-05-23 08:45 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Clear blue sky on Sunday morning. Very bright light at high altitude, probably about 6x brighter than Venus, but not larger than a very bright star, moving slightly faster than satellite pace. First spotted almost directly overhead, moved east at steady pace for 5 minutes, no exhaust trail or reflective variations in brightness.



Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69912
Occurred: 2009-05-02 18:35 Local
Reported: 2009-05-02 18:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

rectangular shaped object over Oakland, CA

I was walking on my boat dock in Alameda, CA when I saw a rectangular shaped object traveling over the City of Oakland, CA. The object was translucent with a haze around the edges. At first I thought it was a large piece of plastic floating in the air, but it maintained its shape and course. The object floated up and down changing altitude about 100-200 feet each way. The object started in the area of the Mormon Temple and disappeared for several seconds in low rain cloud before emerging and continuing west.

I lost sight of the object around the vicinity of the Bay Bridge. Approximate altitude was 1000 feet based on the height of the East Bay Hill in the background. It appeared to maintain its heading throughout the sighting. No lights or other reflections were observed.

This area is in the vicinity of the Oakland International Airport, but I did not see any other aircraft in the area.

Posted 2009-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68391
Occurred: 2009-02-01 19:38 Local
Reported: 2009-02-01 21:41 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

Oakland, CA bright silver white light traveling north west downward toward the San Francisco Bay

I am a 55 year old female college professor.

I was sitting in my living room watching T.V. in front of the northern facing picture window when out of nowhere a bright moving light traveling through the sky caught my eye. No one else in my home witnessed the event - could not get to the window fast enough.

The sighting lasted approximately 3-4 seconds. The object was a bright silver white light traveling northwest downward toward the San Francisco Bay.

1st thought it was a private aircraft but then the light (large brilliant silver white, maybe 12 ft. in diameter from my vantage point) shone so brilliantly then instantaneously disappeared. It seemed to be a light in and of itself. Not a light coming from a separate source. Approximate height from ground--100ft. and approximately ¼ - ½ mile away. Also thought it could have been a falling star but too low to the ground.

The date and time of this sighting is Feb. 1, 2009 7:38 p.m. PST. Clear night sky and a little over a quarter moon.

There were aircraft flying much higher and farther away in the sky (very probably approaching or departing S.F. International or Oakland International airports).




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67675
Occurred: 2008-12-24 00:30 Local
Reported: 2008-12-27 01:21 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Strange mirage disturbance flying through the sky at high speed over Oakland California.

I witnessed what looked like a ships wake in the sky It was transparent/mirage like in appearance, as if someone dragged a ball though the water by a string viewing it from beneath the waves. I only noticed it when it moved, seemed to have been there at a stand still as its movement drew my attention to it. The disturbance only lasted for a ½ second to 1 second traveling east to west at a very high rate of speed. There was no light emitted, just an area that wasn’t as dark as the surrounding sky.

For the last year or so I have noticed strange happenings in the areas night sky. From lights that can only be seen with a pair of binoculars coming head on towards each other at extreme altitude, (approx. 80,000ft.) only to have one disappear as they meet, to flashes of light that just appear and then disappear just as fast. These strange sightings have captured my attention that I keep watching nightly for them. Unfortunately they happen too fast to photograph and are too far away to zoom in on. I will try to anyway, someone needs to see these things. Glad to have a someone to report this to.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67285
Occurred: 2008-12-02 12:40 Local
Reported: 2008-12-02 20:09 Pacific
Duration: 5min
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, PA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

flying object hovered then began to glide across the sky without any noise

My friend Sanjeevi saw an unusual single white light hovering in the sky in south Oakland perhaps further south of it. We were standing on his front porch looking out smoking a cigarette looking at Oakland from his house. At first I thought it was a radio tower or a building that we had never saw. But the light remained motionless for a couple minutes.

Then it began to slowly rise and glide through the sky. Then it began to turn and come our way. At that time I thought it was a helicopter because the shape was elongated from the side view with a white light near the front and a red flashing light near the back of the object.

Then it made its way closer to use and I saw what appeared to be the underside of the rectangular oval object and there were two white lights in towards the middle of the object and four red lights symmetrically aligned on the edges of it.

The saucer at that point was no more than a couple hundred feet away from us and in the air gliding without making any noise what so ever.

We sprinted down the street to follow where it was going but the terrain eventually made it impossible to see where it was going.

Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69028
Occurred: 2008-11-13 18:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-03-02 12:40 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, IL, USA

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

large fireball with tail

I was going home from babysitting with my grand children. I have about a 20-30 minutes drive home. It was dark and cold, and the road I was driving on is near a park area. There have been many deer accidents on this road, so I always go cautiously especially after dark. While scanning the empty fields on both sides of the road, I noticed a fireball in the sky to my left. It was very large. Behind the ball of fire, was a tail. I believed it to be a meteorite, but had never seen one so large. A shooting star, it wasn't. I slowed down to about 20-30 miles an hour.

The road was dark, and no other travelers either way. I should have stopped the car, but knew there was no place to pull over. I watched the road and the fireball. The fields on the left had been harvested, so my view was clear. The fireball was going the same direction as I was, perpendicular to the road. I watched it for about 3-5 minutes. The fireball went behind some distant trees, then it was gone. I believed it to crash. There were also 3 blinking "strobe like white lights" ahead of the fireball, which I assumed to be on towers of some kind in the distance. The fireball crashed before these lights. I haven't been able to locate these strobe lights since. I looked for them, knowing they would be my reference point. A few weeks later I saw on the news that Canada had a meteor crash to the ground. From the video that they showed, it looked exactly like what I had seen...except mine was more red and orange. Also in the Canadian video, the ground and sky lit up on impact. My fireball did not make any light when it hit the ground. (assuming it hit the ground) If you have information on a meteor in my area, please let me know.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80528
Occurred: 2008-11-10 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-03-19 17:32 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, TN, USA

Shape: Fireball


Fireball outside my den window 2 witnesses

My wife (who was six months pregnant at the time) and I were sitting in our den watching television at around seven in the evening. Our tv is elevated and in a nook and is between two six foot by three foot windows. I was sitting on one couch and my wife in the loveseat, they are set up with one long couch directly facing the tv and the loveseat to the left along the wall.

Suddenly and without warning, I noticed a beach volley ball sized fireball right outside my window just hovering there...totally stunned, I stared at this object for a good fifteen seconds before it flew away at an extremely high rate of speed....by that I mean shot out of a cannon speed....basically it disappeared but I saw a glowing streak as it left....probably my eyes trying to catch up....very very bright flaming ball...I looked at my wife and asked her if she just saw something outside our window...I didn't tell her what I saw bc I wanted to make sure she wasn't being lead by my s! tory...we described exactly the same story....from two different angles in the room....

My house is in a new subdivision and I am on a corner lot...on one side I have a vacant lot and the other is a house but it was vacant as the owners were both doctors and were transferred...so basically I am saying that there is no reasonable explanation for this...it was literally ten feet from us and two feet outside our window! Our backyard is fenced and locked from the inside also...after my daughter was born we filmed on our phone an orb hovering over my daughters bed in back and forth patterns...definitely not random movement as would be expected with dust particles or something picked up by the night vision cameras...also it instantly disappeared when my wife cracked the door to see if she could see it with her own eyes....I have no idea what to think of these occurrences!




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66031
Occurred: 2008-10-02 22:46 Local
Reported: 2008-10-02 23:37 Pacific
Duration: seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

White light over San Francisco Bay observed from Downtown Oakland

While driving in the south direction of the 880/980 freeway (MacArthur Maze area), I noticed one bright white light in the sky. The light was southwest of my location, approximately 45 degrees from the horizon. The light moved down quickly and disappeared in less than a second. The light was lower than the fog cover. It moved much much faster than any other air traffic that was in the area. Other aircraft observed were a helicopter and planes landing/taking off from the Oakland Airport..



Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65596
Occurred: 2008-09-07 23:00 Local
Reported: 2008-09-08 03:57 Pacific
Duration: 1 Minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, ME, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Green flash.

The object was in the West heading North, fast. It started out a glowing green the stopped after about 40 seconds and started to blink red.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62657
Occurred: 2008-04-21 22:00 Local
Reported: 2008-04-23 00:33 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

I saw a helicopter-size and silent object with a belt of lights rotating around it hovering over a park at night.

I was walking on the sidewalk on the right side of the street heading west on 34th street from Telegraph Ave towards Martin Luther King Junior Blvd.

I was passing a small park and noticed flashes of light. I turned and saw a dark object as big as a helicopter hovering over the park. It was silent and less than a quarter of a mile up in the sky. There was this belt of tiny irregular-flashing lights that would move around this big, dark oval object.

The UFO started to go higher in the sky and it moved slowly back and forth like how you could swing a pendulum. It was now about half a mile in the sky and gradually started to move North-East towards Berkeley.

Never have I seen something like this before. It was shocking, and I want to know if anybody else saw it. I’m glad I found this website to share this sighting of a UFO which I always thought was as a funny thing until this past Monday night, it is now certainly no joke to me.

I am into astrology and astronomy, so I look into the sky a lot at night. The most amazing things I have seen are meteor showers, but now this is the top of the list.



Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57860
Occurred: 2007-07-27 12:30 Local
Reported: 2007-07-27 19:10 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


30 small round objects floating horizontally in circular formation

Driving North on I-580 near to the Oakland Zoo. My mom pointed out a weird bird formation in front of us. She thought it looked strange because they were all staying together almost in a circular form and we both thought that birds usually don't fly like that together. As we got closer, we thought it was balloons because of the way they moved up and down, but the strange thing was if they were balloons they didn't go up into the air. The stayed within the circular pattern and seemed to hover or float horizontally. Of course neither of us had a camera.

I verbally explained it to my dad and he said it may have been a bunch of balloons all tied together which is what it almost looked like...but what are the odds of 30 balloons staying together and not floating straight up into the air.

I am writing this because we were on the freeway and the "UFO" was very visible and not too high above us. Someone else had to see it!!

Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54762
Occurred: 2007-01-14 23:00 Local
Reported: 2007-01-15 16:25 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 sec.
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


I saw a fireball drop rapidly in the sky in front of me then obviously shoot away and disappear.

While exiting on Grand Ave. from 580E, I witnessed a silver fireball suddenly appear in the sky above and straight ahead of me, approx. 50-100 away. It fell very rapidly in a slight arc, then it plainly shot away, ahead of me, and disappeared. For that fraction of a second that it shot away, it became smaller in size before disappearing.

The fireball effect was impressive enough, but I wouldn't have thought it nearly so odd had I not seen that effect of an actual object traveling away from me.

I was coming home from my work as a veterinary nurse.

Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53848
Occurred: 2006-12-01 19:45 Local
Reported: 2006-12-06 20:19 Pacific
Duration: around 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

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

disk shaped figure with flashing lights in a pattern, at about 7:45pm on december 1st 2006, it hovered for about 5min then disapperared

it was already in the air when we noticed it, round and flat - like a big disc. couldn't see the color, maybe metal? maybe white? i don't know but it was flashing patterns of light. hard to explain.we were in traffic over the bay bridge...other people driving in cars next to us saw it and were freaking out. it was hovering...3 lights would flash, then 6, then it 3, then 6, then it would light up, then it went dark and shot accross faster than any plane i've ever seen. it hovered again, flashing the weird light patterns...it hovered for like 5 minutes or so and then it was gone.



Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 52511
Occurred: 2006-09-16 23:30 Local
Reported: 2006-09-17 15:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

u.f.o sightin in oakland california, object tries to drop lower to the ground

My friend and i were drving her boyfriend home {i was driving, she was in the passenger seat and he was behind her) in oakland california, not so far from 106th ave, when we stoped at a stop light. My friend, her boyfriend and i were talking previously about a movie they had just went and seen, just then, my friend looks up into the sky and ask's me "is that a plane?" i looked up into the sky and i saw a disk shape figure, and it had yellow/orange lights moving from left to right going at a medium speed. i thought to myself that could be a plane, but planes have lights that guide it to where its going. there was no light and there was no movement. it just stayed in one place. and i asked her "is that a u.f.o?" and she kept tellin me she dont know she dont know... so then i looked at it more, i stared at in staying in one place. and i seen the whole shape of it.. it was like a disk with an upside down U on it. i remember i kept staring at it even when the light turned green, i stayed. All of a sudden the shape started lowering, not like it was landing like a plane, because a plane goes to land in strait forward line, this object was hovering in one place with it circleing, and then it started dropping real slow. strait down. my friends boyfriend, in the back seat kept telling us we were lying, but he opened his door and stuck his head out of the car, and saw the u.f.o also. he seen how scared i was and he told me to drop him off where we were, and he got out the car, as i turned the corner out of the gas station, i looked to see if the object was there and it was gone. it dissapeared. i believe this was a u.f.o. I have seen show's about u.f.o's and i heard they only go on the other half of the united states.. and they go to farms... but this is oakland, CALIFORNIA... no farms... no open area, just the regular city. and also, there was no planes in the sky, tjere was no noise like a plane, and this object was really close to us... enough to see the exact shape of the object.



Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50525
Occurred: 2006-05-10 22:04 Local
Reported: 2006-05-10 22:14 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Flyby of strobing aircraft over bay area

Inconsitent strobing, strong, white light passing over bay area heading southbounds. Definitly not an aircraft of any type. Approximate altitude unknown; it was at high elevation.

Flyby took only 30 seconds. No noises heard.

Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49845
Occurred: 2006-03-15 17:30 Local
Reported: 2006-03-27 19:38 Pacific
Duration: 15 min.
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, NJ, USA

Shape: Triangle


Daylight sighting late afternoon on the "Ides of March"...from Route 208, Bergen County....

Travelling by car from Oakland, NJ to Fair Lawn, NJ on Route 208 South. (Actually So-East.) 208 runs from Oakland through Franklin Lakes then Wyckoff, Hawthorne, Glen Rock and Fair Lawn.

Through the front windshield I spotted an unusual object roughly triangular in shape ahead and to the left. It was daylight and the object was easily seen though quite small. I would guess it was maybe 1 to 2 miles high. There was a lot of rush hour traffic, especially in the opposite lane and I would guess it was seen by many others.

As I travelled through Wyckoff the object shifted more to my left due to my movement. The object did not appear to be moving but I could not detect its motion due to my own.

By the time I was in Hawthorne, still on 208, the object was off to my left, and it was closer to me. It somewhat resembled a tent with 2 'lines' hanging below it. I don't mean lines like a kite, but short lines dangling just below it.

I finally went passed it and had to turn my head up and back to the left to see it and it finally was too difficult to drive and look at the same time.

It was too high to be a kite, and resembled nothing I had ever seen in the sky before. It did not appear to be a hot-air baloon. That thought didn't even occur to me at the time.



Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55416
Occurred: 2005-08-12 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-02-22 21:37 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, ME, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Silent and Unknown

A friend and I were sitting near a lake at her campground when I noticed a bright light across the lake, it wasnt moving just sitting there. I asked her what it was and she just laughed and said a UFO. I laughed also but then the light disapeared,I asked her if she seen where it went and she said uhhh no then it reapeared again I panicked and got up and she told me to wait and watch it,It then started to move towards us over the lake I jumped up and just watched as it came closer, there was a very bright light that was very blinding ,there was no noise following it so we knew it wasnt a helicopter or anything. As it passed over us( which was right over the tree line) we began chasing under it ,As I was looking up the light was so bright but you could kind of make out little lights on the sides of it I was running under it but triped and fell over a rock ,while my friend was helping me up we both looked up and it was gone






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-02-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39943
Occurred: 2004-10-15 01:40 Local
Reported: 2004-10-25 15:41 Pacific
Duration: 12 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, NE, USA

Shape: Cone
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

A co-worker and I saw a cone shaped object hoover for awhile and with a glow to it then a little explosion happened and it was gone.

It was a clear night and we were on a freight train heading north. First I saw a cone shaped object shoot across the sky back and forth once. Then it stopped and stayed in one place with a glow to it.

Then all at once it looked like a small explosion and it was gone.

When this all was going on, the work radio went on the fritz and didn't work till it was gone.

Posted 2004-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39661
Occurred: 2004-10-06 20:30 Local
Reported: 2004-10-06 23:46 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 4 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

While on field trip with astronomy class, sighted noiseless craft flying at a very high rate of speed while performing erratic flight

Tonight at about 20:00 hrs PST, My girlfriend and I joined our astronomy class in a somewhat remote area of the Oakland hills for the purpose of conducting some stargazing using binoculars. At about 20:30 some of our classmates noticed what appeared at first like a satellite in the sky. My attention was drawn in the direction of the object and I began to observe the object through my binoculars thinking as well that we were looking at a satellite. It was travelling at a high rate of speed . At first it did not raise any suspicion because that is what one expects from a satellite. But very soon this changed due to the fact that it was tracing a somewhat erratic flightpath as it crossed the sky from about where sagitarius was at that time of the night (which was at a relatively low angle)up to the region in the sky where the constellation andromeda was located. I would say that it accomplished this in about 25 seconds max. A strobing light sometimes emitted from this object which appeared to be at such a distance that not even my 10*50mm binoculars could resolve some discernable shape. Additionally, the object emitted a greenish light. The object made no sound of any kind. Now as it reached andromeda, it suddenly made a tight turn and at that moment I noticed that a second object came into view. It appeared to be racing to meet the 1st object and as it gained on the first object, I noticed that they both began to decelerate at a very steady rate until both were flying at the same speed. Suddenly the first object began to rapidly accelerate and as this occured, the angular distance between the two increased and at that point I could only follow one of the objects. I continued following what I identify as the first object as it headed due north now when suddenly the second object closed in on the first as it came into my field of view in the binoculars. About 2 seconds passed when abruptly I noticed that a third object had now come into my field of view. The 3 then continued on this norhterly course together until they disappeared behind a hill and I could follow them no more.

Now I want to say a few things regarding this "potential" sighting. Firstlly, I have been fascinated with aircraft all of my life since I can remember being alive. I go to airshows several times a year and have seen many different types of military aircraft in action. Military aircraft are to my knowledge very noisy vehicles. The vehicles that I witnessed this night made absolutely no sound whatsoever. Secondly to bolster my 1st point, I would like to state that the objects accelerated rapidly at least twice that I can remember and not once was there any sound nor the appearance of the prominent flame that I could associate with that which is emitted when jet aircraft engage their afterburners in order to command the impresive rate of acceleration that these vehicles displayed. Thirdly, we live in the San Francisco Bay area. It is very active with air traffic given the two major airports which are located so close in proximity from one another (literally right across the bay from one another) The notion that the military would conduct such risky maneuvers in such an area of the sky that is already rife with civilian air traffic is in my opinion not viable unless one is willing to accept that the military does not take the issue of civilian air traffic safety seriously. If we are to then accept that maybe these objects were military jets flying well above the civilian air traffic corridor, let us say perhaps above 20,000 feet, then these jets would have had to fly at the speed of sound at the very least in order to cover the aforementioned area of the sky and they would have surely generated a sonic boom. But as I say, not a peep eminated from these vehicles. conversely, if they had been flying at a lower altitude which is the only other explanation that could explain the large sky coverage executed by these vehicles in short a short period of time, then surely, unless these are military jets with a sophisticated new propulsion technology, they would have definitely made a lot of noise.

I cannot definitely say that what I saw were craft from another world, but they sure did not behave in any way that I could attribute to modern military jet aircraft. If you have any feed back for me regarding this event i.e. any new propulsion technologies that you may have heard of, please drop me a line.



Posted 2004-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39135
Occurred: 2004-09-04 18:00 Local
Reported: 2004-09-06 08:49 Pacific
Duration: 10 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Hi, I am writing this for a friend who witnessed 6 red lights about 7pm over Oakland, CA on or about Sept 4th. The red lights changed postions and flew out of his sight.

He has one other witness, his partner.

I want to know if anyone one else witnessed this event.

Thank you

Posted 2004-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 35656
Occurred: 2004-03-17 21:30 Local
Reported: 2004-03-17 23:06 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was looking up at the stars as I and a couple of friends were walking to grab a bite to eat, when I noticed an object flying across the sky. I wasn't sure what I was looking at so I asked my friends, "what's that"? My one frined looked up and saw it too. It was triangular shaped flying object with 5 amber lights, (four of the lights were on what appeared to be the bottom and one light was on the top). The object was as dark as the night sky and it was moving fast without any sound. It eventually just disappered in the distance. I have never seen anything like it before in my life and neither has my frined. I ran home after dinner, went online and found this website.



Posted 2004-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 35048
Occurred: 2003-10-24 20:00 Local
Reported: 2004-02-13 13:19 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Clear night in Oakland and my family saw five UFOs over the house

I was sitting in my car in my drive way. Saw one light high in the sky directly over my house. I thought it could be a satellite until it excellerated and performed a sharp 180 degree u-turn at high speed. That is when I took notice to a group of five lights matching the movement one at a time. The lights seem to chase each other in an erractic dog-fight style manuver as they flew from north to south in direction. The first light would excellerate, turn immediately in the opposite direction and stop. Then the next light would perform the same manuevur and stop in a formation type pattern. I thought the formation looked a lot like the big-dipper. I thought I haven't seen anything excellerate, make an 180 degree turn and stop. At that point, I ran inside and yelled for the family to come outside and view the UFOs. My wife saw the lights and remarked that they were UFOs, because she couldn't tell what it was. My daughter (10 yrs old) yelled we are being invaded and she sat down on the ground in fear. Later she asked me if they were trying to tell us something because of the formation they kept returning to. My two young boys just watched and never really said anything about it. I told my friends about it. Later, my cousin told me he saw a news report about a person who saw the same thing, but he was in Las Vegas. That's an idea of how high up they were.



Posted 2004-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32434
Occurred: 2003-10-18 21:30 Local
Reported: 2003-10-19 12:32 Pacific
Duration: 15 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Orb


Distant bright sphere, cruising...

I was standing outside at a house party in Oakland. I was having a conversation and smoking a cigarette with a friend of mine (tip of the hat to Jeff Rense). While talking, I saw in the sky and clearly noted what, appeared to be a distant orb.

At first I thought it was the landing lights or 'approach' lights for an airplane, as Oakland and San Francisco are often filled with commercial air traffic. Upon closer inspection though, I noticed that the apparent distance and stable quality - and indeed the color (a pale white-blue that I wouldn't associate with the operating illumination system of a commercial aircraft) - of the light didn't appear to be sourced from a plane.

My next assumption was that is was a satellite, due to the uncharacteristically clear and beautiful weather we have been having in the San Francisco Bay Area this year, you can catch one or two satellites a week zooming by in orbit reflecting the light of the sun, if you care to look.

However, this object, although probably most similar in appearance to an orbiting satellite, was of too great a size and brightness to be even the largest of low orbit satellites. This thing would have had to have been huge to produce an illumination of that magnitude at orbital distance.

It's smooth and extremely regular emission of light, at a very consistent brightness, and it's dead straight trajectory from roughly West to East - at an apparently level path from my vantage point there on the ground, and almost its ponderous quality of movement quickly disqualified any description of a "shooting star" or meteor that I've ever heard.

It had a roughly similar size and slightly diminished brightness compared to the current appearance of the now closely approached planet Mars in the night sky. NOTE: I would like to plainly iterate that this object was indeed NOT the planet Mars itself, to dispel any ideas of mistaken identification.

Perhaps the most notable thing about this light was that after about 15 seconds of very consistent traverse, it slowly, and extremely evenly, faded to black without any apparent change in velocity. I've never seen anything like it before...



Posted 2003-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31108
Occurred: 2003-08-31 21:50 Local
Reported: 2003-09-01 18:10 Pacific
Duration: 4 sec.
No of observers: 5

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


three trianglular objects moving silently across entire sky before turning

Three Triangular, dimly lit objects in a triangular grouping crossed the sky, then apeared to change angle and continue. Object(s) moved very fast, traveled in a straight line and made no sound.



NUFORC Note:

Possible sighting of "NOSS" satellites. PD


Posted 2003-09-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29672
Occurred: 2003-07-09 20:30 Local
Reported: 2003-07-11 09:33 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 5 min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

july 9 2003- glowing pink object hovering above san francisco bay

at about 830 pm wednesday evening i was dropping my friend off at home when i saw this glowing pink egg shaped thing hovering over the san francisco bay. i suppose it could have been the setting sun but i dont think so. anyway so my friend starts to get out of the car (she lives on the street above me and has a clear view above the treeline of the north side of the bay Richmond to the right and Marin to the left)as i'm saying goodbye i see this thing out of the corner of my eye. so i look more closely and cant believe my eyes. i didnt know what to think so i yell for my friend to come look. i ask her what she sees or if she has any idea what it is and she doesnt know either. i am convinced almost immediately that its a ufo and say so, knowing that her skepticism will produce the most reasonable explanation possible. her reponse was " i guess its a plane or something, i dont know". well we live in between two major airports. its not likely that we wouldnt recognize an airplane. basically it was oval or egg shaped and was hovering vertically in the sky. what was so bizarre was its closeness to the earth` in broad daylight. it seemed t o be pretty big; compared to what i cant say. however considering that my distance from it appeared to be only a few miles, 10 at most, and the distance between me and the other side of the bay isnt any more than 30 on the highway id have to say it was pretty large. from my viewpoit it was about two inches in height tapering at each end just slightly and then rounding out in the middle. just like an egg. although i remember thinking of it as an orb initially. it was glowing or luminescing in pink and white. and the colors sort of kept flowing into each other blending and separating simultaneously. kind of like fire or waves or a gas cloud. very beautiful. i watched it for a few minutes to see what it would do but it never moved. it wasnt even hovering it was completely motionless except for its outer visual display. but that didnt even seem to be att! ached to the object but more of field around it. anyway it just hung there in middair surrounded by this swirling light. i started to drive home to get my boyfriend so he could see it. i literally live 30 seconds from friends house down the street around the corner and back up. an elongated u-turn. so im looking at this thing until i hit the down turn and then i floored the gas squealed around the corner and into my driveway. i yell for my guy and honk he jumps into the car we drive back up the hill and around the corner to the same spot and it s gone. were talking` 2 minutes max. this whole episode didnt last more than five minutes but it was pretty intense. i have never seen anything like this in my life. but after reading the story i just wrote im starting to think that i was watching the sun set and somehow processed it as a ufo. few more details and im done. 1. it was still daylight at the timebut just late enough to make the object really stand out. 2. it was hovering directly in front of the surrounding hills of marin and richmond not above or behind. 3.ive seen hundreds of glowing pink sunsets over the water but none of them were shaped like upright eggs nor did they swirl and blend visibly and they all eventually sank into the horizon as i watched. 4. the person who was with me is not given to flights of fancy knows what the sun looks like and probably does not believe in ufos and she couldnt figure out what it was. 5. we are both fairly normal levelheaded types with at least one foot firmly grounded in reality; we werent on drugs; she had just come home from work and i had just finished having dinner and there it was. i didnt seeit fly sideways or anything and i didnt see it come or go. it just wasnt and then it was and then it wasnt poof.



NUFORC Note:

The only possibility we can imagine is that the witnesses were looking at the contrail behind a high-flying jet, but that is only a guess. We do not know what it was they saw. PD


Posted 2003-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29117
Occurred: 2003-06-07 19:53 Local
Reported: 2003-06-09 14:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Landed

Large, gray cylindrical object at or near Oakland Airport

I was driving north on Interstate 880 just before the Oakland Coliseum and Arena , in the vicinity of the Oakland International Airport. Off to the left, about a mile or two away over some low buildings, I saw what looked like a large, gray, cylindrical shaped object with no wings and no lights that looked like it possibly could have been descending into the airport, going down behind the freeway sound wall after several seconds of observation. I thought maybe it was a blimp that possibly had been flying over the nearby arena, but I called both the Oakland Airport and the Coliseum/Arena today on Monday - and both people I spoke with stated that there were no blimps in the area at that time that they are aware of. The time was definitely 7:53 PM PDT, as I looked at my dashboard car clock and noted the time on purpose. It was just about sunset, and there were some scattered "marine layer" clouds in the area, but these were much higher than the object that I observed. I saw no other traditonal aircraft in the vicinity. I would estimate the object was at an altitude of several hundred to a thousand feet when I saw it and then it descended fairly quickly out of sight toward to the ground at a seemingly sharper angle than a plane would have. Anyone else driving north at that time on 880 would have been able to possibly see it also, so there may be more witnesses out there as traffic on the freeway was fairly busy. This object apparently landed or went down very close to the ground, and it was much too large to have been one of those advertising mini blimp balloons on a string. I didn't even try to listen for a sound because the object was too distant, and any sound it made would have been obliterated by all the engine noises on the freeway.



Posted 2003-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 28734
Occurred: 2003-02-23 00:00 Local
Reported: 2003-05-11 00:00 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape:


Here is the info I tried to submit on your site- I got a fatal error.

Bright green light heading to earth at about 45 deg angle Northeast of Oakland Airport, appearing to come down just to the east of the Oakland hills. The object moved very fast and I saw no light/explosion from impact. I thought it was a plane crashing at first but it was a distinct, very bright green light that left no trail/flames/debris. We flew over the area about 1 hr later and saw no signs of impact.
This appears very similar to the light that some folks saw in Napa in December of 2001 (in your database).
I'm a professional and was very clear when I saw the light. I was heading to the Oakland airport for an early flight. This light was in the opposite direction of the airport and was definitely not a plane.



NUFORC Note:

Time and date of event are unknown. The witness anonymously submitted the above text, but provided no details as to time and date. The party has not responded to our queries via e-mail, although the report appears to us to be serious minded in nature. PD


Posted 2003-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25446
Occurred: 2002-10-01 03:00 Local
Reported: 2002-10-07 16:22 Pacific
Duration: 07:00
No of observers: 5

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Landed

lights moving in the sky 7 landing in Oakland over coliseum & airport

blinking light emitting red/purple/gree/white at different times. At first it was one then I saw another one that was bright white at first begin to move and change colors. This has been occuring every night since that original night moving into the 7th night. The first night when we were watching it, my cell phone rang at 5:00am when I answered it, a very loud beeping noise came out of it. On Friday 10/04/02 we actually saw the lights come all the way down & land and this time there was about 20 moving throughout the sky and about 10 that landed.

It was actually pretty frightening, becauause we had been studying them & their movement, seeing them land was a bit too close for comfort.

An interesting thing is that we saw them land inside the Oakland Coliseum & the Oakland airport.

Posted 2002-10-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 21558
Occurred: 2002-01-16 19:30 Local
Reported: 2002-01-26 20:10 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Stationary, bright white light blinking smaller, colored lights in eastern sky.

Very bright light in eastern sky, not in line with the planets, which were very visible that night, but to the north of them. The object was stationary during the 20 minutes I was walking home. Light was much larger than any of the planets and was predominately bright white. It also appeared to be blinking smaller, colored lights: orange, blue, yellow, in a regular, rhythmic pattern. Appeared to be high altitude, much higher than aircraft going to and from Oakland and SFO, and also much brighter than lights coming from these aircraft.



NUFORC Note:

We suspect the witness may have been looking at Jupiter, which is very bright currently, and would be in the eastern sky at the time indicated. PD


Posted 2002-01-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 20563
Occurred: 2001-11-25 20:40 Local
Reported: 2001-11-25 20:53 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Fast moving Green light over Oakland, CA

I noticed a green light similar to a green traffic light moving quickly in a straight line accross the sky from south to north, and it passed through some clouds and then dissappeared. I witnessed for approx. 5-10 seconds.



NUFORC Note:

We spoke with this witness at length, and found him to be an exceptionally good witness. Please see other reports from California for this date and time. Object may have been a meteor, but we are uncertain, given the other reports we received from other parts of the U. S., Canada, and Brazil for this date. PD


Posted 2001-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17666
Occurred: 2001-05-14 18:00 Local
Reported: 2001-05-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: Basketball court
No of observers: 2

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Electrical or magnetic effects

This was definetly a real saucer I saw.

I was playing basketball with one of my friends, no one was there but the two of us, and while I was dribbling the ball, I shot it, and suddenly I saw three objects, flying in a formation. My first thought was that somebody was playing a hoax. But as the objects came closer, I saw that the objects kind of were bigger than I thought and they were made of metal and as my friend and I pointed to them and looked at them, they suddenly vanished, leaving barely a trail.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17537
Occurred: 2001-05-06 21:09 Local
Reported: 2001-05-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Dim, fast-moving, rapidly-changing formation startles Bay Area satellite observer.

At 9:09 p.m. PDT May 6, 2001 during late twilight, I was standing on the roof of my apartment building concentrating on an area of the sky just south of the constellation Leo awaiting the appearance of a satellite (Cosmos 1943 Rocket, U.S. Spacecom number 19120), which was scheduled to (and did) appear in this area at 9:11 p.m. (Observation of low Earth orbit satellites is an occasional pasttime of mine; I use a satellite tracking program to predict visible satellite passes.) About 5-degrees south of the star Regulus (or at about 207-degrees true, 55-degrees elevation), my attention was diverted by a dim formation of what I think was five points of white (or starlight-like) light moving east to west. I estimate the brightness of each light to be about magnitude 3.0, only slightly brighter than the dimmest stars visible in our local sky at the time. Apparent size of the formation was approximately 1/2-degree, or the size of the full moon. The shape of the formation was initially diamond-shaped but did not remain constant -- the distances between the lights changed rapidly and the overall shape changed to more of a square or trapezoidal shape. There seemed to be a fifth light which may have been ziz-zagging behind the other four. As I stepped out from behind the wall I was using to block nearby streetlights, the lights quickly pulled into line with each other, and distictly resembled a V-formation as viewed from behind and slightly below (i.e. a nearly-horizontal "V"). The formation faded in the southwest sky (about 240-degrees true) at an elevation of about 30 degrees, appearing to recede into the distance. The formation covered about 30 degrees of the sky in about ten seconds and traversed an arc, the formation's bearing smoothly shifing from west to southwest. (I consulted sky maps after the fact for azimuth/elevation estimates.) The dimness of the objects, combined with their speed and my own perplexity while observing them, make exact recollection of their maneuvers imprecise. During the observation! , I was preoccupied with comprehending what I was seeing. My first thought was high-altitude aircraft or missiles, but the lights' maneuverability ruled that out. About midway through the observation, I thought that the lights took on a slightly ruddy color, and I considered the fact that I was seeing a formation of birds reflecting the orange sodium vapor streetights of the city. I tried to make out flapping wings or some type of form but could not -- to move that quickly across the sky and relative to one another, birds would have to be fairly low and, given the brightness of the sky (residual twilight, urban light pollution and full moon), I should have been able to make out silhouettes. I am a radio broadcast engineer by trade with a lifelong interest in science and astronomy. I have seen many things in the sky (yes, I've even seen the insect-eating UFOs in Excalibur's spotlight in Vegas), but nothing I could not identify. I don't know what I saw tonight, but that may be due to the short observation time and faintness of the objects. I am submitting this report in the event that it corroborates other reports.



NUFORC Note:

I believe we spoke briefly with this witness. We found him to be highly credible, as his written report seems to suggest, as well. PD


Posted 2001-08-05