NUFORC UFO Sighting 180905
Occurred: 2024-03-21 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-03-23 02:19 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA
Location details: Between willows and orland northboundi5

Shape: Changing
Color: White
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 45
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Bright white light at first. Twin lights eventually with strobe on the left of them. White lights

Seemed to look like Venus to me at first. Continued driving up 5 from I think willows between Orland. As I approached the light, I could see it was 2 lights closely spaced with a strobe on the left. They were white lights. No green or red like you see with a plane? I couldn’t find a place to pull over to get a better look; once I past them I just kept going.

Posted 2024-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170963
Occurred: 2022-02-12 04:17 Local
Reported: 2022-08-06 13:02 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 9

Location: Orland, CA, USA
Location details: The corner of East and Walker

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Color, Missing Time, Marks found on body afterwards, Animals reacted

Reappearing serpent like creatures that bite

Me and my dog were asleep when one of these creatures bit my dog which woke me up. So I grabbed my hatchet and started defending myself from creatures, but my hatchet wouldn't even hurt them at all. Then the cops showed up and arrested me. When they put in the car. These creatures showed themselves to the cops. My dog proceeded to protect herself and the officers from these creatures. And the last thing I remember was these creatures were bitting me and the pain was so bad I past out. I know that the cops had chest cameras on. And would cover this up because their shady.

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154546
Occurred: 2020-03-26 21:00 Local
Reported: 2020-03-26 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Nine white lights cross the sky in succession

I was outside looking at the clear winter night sky, all the stars. Suddenly, I noticed a bright pinpoint of light moving across the sky, like a star that decided to move, only brighter.

They had no flashing lights like our aircraft. Their flight path was unusual because air traffic in this area is always north-south, and these were moving southwest to northeast and quickly. They appeared in the sky near Orion (from my point of view) and vanished once they were across the sky between the handle of the Big Dipper and the horizon.

As soon as the first one made it to that point, the next one came into view by Orion. They flew in succession like this, one after the other, until nine had passed by. This is the most I have seen during a sighting. Pretty amazing!

Posted 2020-05-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150860
Occurred: 2019-11-16 14:25 Local
Reported: 2019-11-18 16:57 Pacific
Duration: Photo
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


My husband and I were doing some rock hounding at Burris Creek and I had a strong urge to take some photos of the sun. I took about 25 shots and noticed in one frame a large bird and a craft of some sort. It is not visible in any of my other shots. Weather was gorgeous, 75, clear and breezy.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 138025
Occurred: 2017-11-28 01:00 Local
Reported: 2017-12-22 19:50 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Eight round balls of light if you look at the picture video one appears not to be lit up

What we saw was not the pictures showing. We saw what appeared to be clouds or some type of fog spinning in a circle. In pulsating in and out. With the picture shows in the video are eight lights in the sequential order, as if there entering the mortuary across the street from my house. We stood there and watch them for approximately 5 minutes walked underneath them to see if we could see beams of light coming from the top bottom or sides. We saw nothing like that they appeared to be individual lighted crafts of some type.

Posted 2018-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119240
Occurred: 2015-05-30 23:30 Local
Reported: 2015-05-30 23:35 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Bright light fades out.

As I walked outside, I thought I was seeing Venus in the western sky. As soon as I realized it couldn't be Venus, the light got brighter, much brighter, and then quickly faded out to nothing.




NUFORC Note:

Possible "flare up" of an Iridium satellite?? PD


Posted 2015-06-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112744
Occurred: 2014-08-23 21:20 Local
Reported: 2014-08-23 21:43 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

White light UFO spotted in Orland, CA.

My son and I were walking outside at 9:20pm and noticed a small, white light in the sky. It could have been mistaken for a star had it not been moving. It moved SE away from us at a slow, even pace for about 30 seconds. Then it moved a bit to the ENE and dimmed/faded into the darkness. It made no sound.

Posted 2014-08-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92883
Occurred: 2012-09-19 00:28 Local
Reported: 2012-09-19 01:06 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


Silent black triangular craft flew over my head and disappeared into the night sky.

I went outside half an hour ago to throw some garbage in the dumpster at our apartment complex. On the way, I stopped to look up at the stars when the stars were suddenly blocked from view by something black flying over my head in the sky. There were no lights on it whatsoever, and it flew silently - absolutely NO sound. My mind struggled to figure out what I was seeing. I was barely able to make out the triangular shape of it, and I wondered at first if it was a formation of geese. This craft flew SO smoothly and swiftly, gliding through the night air. It was right overhead and couldn't have been anymore than 50 ft. above the large fruitless mulberry trees nearby. I'm not good with measuring the sizes of things in my head, but this craft had to have been somewhere between 50 and 100 ft. across. I am still stunned by how black it was; I'm surprised I was able to see it at all. I don't know what to make of this. I am still in awe.

Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81495
Occurred: 2011-05-21 20:51 Local
Reported: 2011-05-23 12:41 Pacific
Duration: 15 mins
No of observers: 3

Location: Orland, ME, USA

Shape: Circle


I was driving home and saw two light objects low under clouds moving very slowly.

Then saw six others come out of the clouds not in any pattern. They were larger than any stars, three times the size approximately.

They were orangish and red and looked like light and were round in form. They moved very slowly and were headed East to West.

I called my daughter, she was driving ahead of me on the road, then pulled over with two other cars. I got out and went to talk with the people in front of me.

They did not know what they were either and we could hear nothing.

I was very scared.




NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with this witness, and we found her to be an exceptionally well-spoken person. We suspect that she is an quite capable, and credible, witness. PD


Posted 2011-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81128
Occurred: 2011-04-23 20:35 Local
Reported: 2011-05-04 22:06 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Yellow-white light hovers before speeding off into the night sky

I look at the sky every evening, and in this way, I'm more familiar with what should be in the sky and where. I went outside after supper and noticed a yellowish-white light at 37 degrees NE and just above the tree-line in the night sky. I stared at it for a long moment because I knew that the light had not been in the sky on previous nights. Then I realized that the light was moving ever so slowly towards the NE. I only took my eyes off of it long enough to look back behind me and call one of my sons to come out. When I turned my head back, I saw the light speed away towards the east faster than anything I've ever seen before.

Posted 2011-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80440
Occurred: 2011-03-11 01:30 Local
Reported: 2011-03-12 02:32 Pacific
Duration: 3+ min
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

A strange triangular craft was hover off the west side of i5 in n. Ca

I was driving south down i5 near orland ca and a dark triangular craft has floating off the west side of the hiway. It was silent. It had a large bright light at each point with a small weird flashing light in the middle, I've never seen anything like it.

Posted 2011-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79012
Occurred: 2010-11-21 22:40 Local
Reported: 2010-11-21 23:11 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Large bright yellow-orange light appeared for 3 minutes and then disappeared completely

When I went outside to have a cigarette, I noticed a bright yellow-orange light in the sky south of me. I estimate that it was anywhere from 5 to 10 miles away from me and just slightly above the line of trees about a half mile south of me. It was a very large, non-flashing light and appeared to be moving slowly in a northeast direction.

I ran inside for my binoculars and one of my sons (so there would be another witness to what I was seeing). As we watched, the light began traveling still slowly but more directly east. At that time, the light began to fade and then went out.

We continued to look for it, and we saw a faint glow of the light appear before it went out altogether.

Posted 2011-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76266
Occurred: 2010-07-04 23:00 Local
Reported: 2010-07-07 15:24 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object

Satellites that flash and then disappear and ones that change direction.

My husband and I live in a rural town 100 miles north of Sacramento. We like to stargaze and took our recliners out into the pasture where we could get a good view of the entire night sky. We had our radio. This was at 10pm sometime between 10 and midnight we saw three strange flashes. There were three incidences: two we both saw and one my husband alone saw.

The first one my husband alone saw. He said what he saw was an extremely bright flash of light, right between the two bottom stars of the big dipper. By time he said "oh wow!" and pointed, it had disappeared. It wasn't streaking like a meteor. He said it just got bright and disappeared.

A while later, maybe 20 minutes to a half hour later I was watching a satellite cross the sky. I pointed it out to my husband, "I see one!". It was directly in front of us. We both were watching it. As it crossed, it suddenly got extremely bright. So bright the light from it almost hurt my eyes the way high beams from an oncoming car would. It lasted no more than two seconds and them dimmed. After it dimmed you could no longer see the satellite at all. I thought maybe it had burned up in space. There wasn't an object to track across the sky any longer. I thought maybe because of the brightness I just couldn't see it anymore, but it was really gone! My husband said that was what he had seen earlier.

We saw a third one which wasn't nearly as bright as the first one I had witnessed. The third one happened the same way. Visually tracking a satellite across the sky, this one was further to our North (our right hand side, our chairs were facing West).

It brightened, then disappeared completely from the sky.

After hearing reports on the radio last night, July 6th, about others seeing something unusual, I was compelled to write. We sat out briefly last night and something unusual again.

At around 10:20 we saw the same thing again. While tracking a satellite across the sky we saw it brighten significantly and then disappear. This was not as bright as the first one I saw on July fourth.

Maybe 15 minutes later we both saw what looked like two satellites traveling North one behind the other quite close (I have NEVER seen that before). We watched as the one behind then gradually changed direction heading East as the first one continued North.

I am 52 years old. I don't drink and I have been watching satellites cross the night sky since my early twenties when a friend pointed them out to me while camping. I know the difference between a high flying plane and a satellite. I have watched hundreds of satellites cross the sky and I have NEVER EVER seen this kind of thing before. I have watched them disappear behind the Earth's shadow but nothing as strange as this.

Posted 2010-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77757
Occurred: 2009-03-17 21:00 Local
Reported: 2010-09-11 02:19 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Two lighted objects interact in night sky.

My son and I were outside in our driveway at approx. 9pm when I noticed some things in the night sky. One was a seemingly oval object with numerous multi-colored lights on it, all flashing quickly and sporadically and changing colors as they did. The second looked like a single red light. They were both slowly flying south away from us maybe 20-30 degrees above horizon.

I had my son run in the house to get my boyfriend and my other son to come out and see. As we all watched, they continued moving south and the red light flew towards the other multiple lighted object until it looked like they would collide. At that point, the red light object instantly became an oval object with numerous multi-colored, sporadically flashing lights just the same as the other. When that happened, it began flying eastward away from the first object as they both continued moving south.

We watched until they were out of view.

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 60380
Occurred: 2007-12-13 21:20 Local
Reported: 2007-12-13 22:16 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


Silent, Triangular shaped craft moving quickly with no lights or sound.

ADDENDUM – The craft was viewed approximately through 20°-25° of arc .

While sitting in our hot tub, my wife and I noticed that there was an abundance of shooting stars in the sky. We routinely look up at the sky as we chat, occasionally watching aircraft blink across the sky.

Tonight I noticed a dark triangular shaped craft sliding silently through the sky, traveling north to south. What caught my attention was the reflection of the minimal neighborhood lights reflecting off of it. I noticed it and immediately pointed it out to my wife who also saw it.

What was most interesting was that it appeared to be quite large, had no lights, and was moving quickly with no sound.



Posted 2008-01-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56627
Occurred: 2007-04-26 21:30 Local
Reported: 2007-05-12 00:52 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light


White, star-like light holds position in sky before moving slowly and then disappearing altogether.

It was Thursday night, around 9:30 p.m., and my fiancé and I went out to look at the night sky while I smoked a cigarette before going to bed. I looked up to see if I could identify some constellations I have become familiar with, and I thought I spotted the three white stars of Orion’s Belt just slightly west of directly above me. I debated whether it was Orion’s Belt or not, because I was pretty sure I had been seeing the Belt in another location in the sky on previous nights. While I wondered about it, my eyes drifted to another spot in the sky. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I could see that the middle of the three stars now appeared to be moving. I asked my fiancé if he was seeing what I was seeing, and he said he was. While we watched, the unblinking white light continued traveling west very slowly. I don’t believe it was an airplane because of the slow rate of speed which commenced from a stop and there were no standard flashing lights. I don’t believe it was a meteor, as I have never seen one move so slowly and only be visible in such a small area of the sky. As soon as both of our attention was focused back on the light, it traveled just a second or two longer, grew just a little brighter and then just disappeared. It ceased to be seen in the sky any longer. I don’t know what it was, but after debating over whether or not to report what we had seen, I finally decided to do so. I am Personal Assistant and Marketing Lead for my fiancé’s martial arts schools. He is, of course, owner/operator of the schools as well as a Department Manager for a North State Grocery company.



Posted 2007-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 61624
Occurred: 2006-04-09 16:35 Local
Reported: 2008-02-15 03:09 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 4

Location: Orland, CA, USA

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

ORBS watching over a launch of there own.

On 04/09/06 at approximately 16:35 hours 3 friends and I seen a double rainbow so I snapped seven pictures in less than a minute. I used the digital camera view screen to look at the rainbow and snap a few photos and then zoomed in and took a few more.

I later on downloaded the pictures at first we thought that rain drops were on the lens when the pictures were taken but as we looked at the next set of pictures we were lost for words and explanations. The pictures revealed orbs and a object that resembled something launching from ground level and heading skyward and the orbs seem to watch over this thing. The funny thing of all this is we never seen this with the naked eye it was captured with my digital camera.

I have shown the pictures to some friends and no one knows what it is, a friend of mine that was a sherriff for many years as a evidence man and investigator seen the photos and said you have something there I do not know what it is but you have something there.

I have saved the memory chip and place it in a safe place. I watched UFO HUNTERS and was told by friends to contact you and let you examine the eviedence.

I want to say that we never seen any thing till we looked at the photos.

SEEING IS BELIEVING these pictures are worth a thousand words and are better seen than told.

Posted 2008-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62188
Occurred: 2006-04-09 16:35 Local
Reported: 2008-03-14 08:09 Pacific
Duration: 1 MINUTE
No of observers: 4

Location: Orland, CA, USA

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

Orb's overlooking there launch of a craft.

I was observing a double Rainbow and snapped some quick photos using auto focus and not really looking in the LCD view finder. I snapped a few shots and then I zoomed in to get a closer photo of the Rainbow and colors. We did not see any thing at the time, until we downloaded the photo's we thought a first water spots but after a few photo's later we seen these orb's move across the photo's. The most bizzare thing is the object that is launching upward and by shear luck when I had zoomed in on the Rainbow I caught a close up of this object. The time lapse of these photo's a total of one minute or so for Seven photo's,I had made this report to you but never sent the photo's so this time I am sending them.

Thanks for your time. ((name deleted))




NUFORC Note:

One of two reports from same source. PD


Posted 2008-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48251
Occurred: 2005-12-10 23:50 Local
Reported: 2005-12-10 23:01 Pacific
Duration: 1.5++++
No of observers: 6

Location: Orland, CA, USA

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

bright multie,colors,flareing, and one light.

Multi colored light in the SW sky very bright, and visible by the naked eye. Colors change blue red orange yellow white purple green flareing on acasion and slight movement.




NUFORC Note:

Possible celestial body. Witness does not indicate duration of sighting. PD


Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29533
Occurred: 2003-06-30 04:28 Local
Reported: 2003-07-04 05:32 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

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

Rapidly moving bright white light

Noticed bright, white light moving rapidly from south to east, with no flashing to indicate it was ordinary aircraft. It moved quicker than an ordinary airplane would appear to at that altitude. I watched until I could no longer see it, approximately half a minute. Seconds afterward, I saw another dimmer light of the same description moving from east to north and it left a faint trail. It was only visible for approx. 5 seconds.



Posted 2003-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 28873
Occurred: 2003-05-21 04:35 Local
Reported: 2003-05-21 05:18 Pacific
Duration: one minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two bright white lights heading north

After seeing my boyfriend off to work, I went outside to check out the stars in the clear morning sky. I had taken a good look around in all directions when I noticed two very bright white lights on the eastern horizon that I hadn't noticed moments earlier. As I stood there trying to be sure that they hadn't been there moments before, I saw that they were moving north together at the same speed. I looked carefully at the lights, trying to see the flashing that would let me know they were typical aircraft. The lights did not flash at all. As I watched, the lights grew steadily brighter and then faded, as they moved, until they were no longer visible.



Posted 2003-05-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56628
Occurred: 2000-01-17 21:40 Local
Reported: 2007-05-12 02:04 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Small triangular object flying low to ground flashing green then gold light.

It was January 17, 2000 around 9:30-9:45 p.m. I was riding my bicycle next to my friend Dave who was walking as we headed to a friend’s home at the rear portion of the mobile home park we lived in at the time.

We were perhaps 100 feet away from our friend’s home when we both noticed a large, bright green light blinking on something that was moving through the air away from us. It couldn’t have been more than 50 feet above the ground as it moved slowly from our left (south) diagonally away from us toward our right (northwest). It was approximately two football fields away from us when we first saw it. All we could see was the extremely large, bright green light blinking on and off for 1 to 1 1/2 seconds at a time.

I realized that I wasn’t able to hear any sound coming from whatever it was, so I asked Dave, "Can you hear it? Can you hear it?!" To which he replied that he couldn’t hear anything from it either.

At that time, I ditched my bike and we both began running toward the object which had by then stopped flashing the green light and began flashing a gold light 10 to 15 feet forward from where the green one had been. The gold light was as large and as bright as the green one had been, and it was definitely more captivating.

Just as the two of us had reached a full-speed run, the object abruptly changed direction and began flying directly towards us. There was no curving turn like an airplane would have to make, no sweeping change like a glider, the object just stopped going away from us and began heading immediately toward us. I think even a helicopter wouldn’t have been able to change direction of flight as quick and immediate as the object did.

Then we were scared! We turned and ran back to our friend’s house. We pounded on the door for him to let us in, and he opened the door just as the object flew directly over our heads.

At that time, there were no longer any lights flashing, but we could hear a faint humming noise.

As the object flew over, all we could see was its black silhouette against the night sky. We both agreed that it was triangular in shape and small like an ultra-light.

We do not believe it was an ultra-light.

We honestly don’t know what it was, but it was the very first time any of us had seen what we believed to be a UFO.

Posted 2007-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9603
Occurred: 1999-09-01 21:40 Local
Reported: 1999-09-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 to 3 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Orland, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

We have a Dairy in Northern California just east of Interstate 5. I was out side feeding the cows and to the east on the horizon level I noticed a Fireball that seemed to have sparks coming out the back or side, I thought at first it was a explosion of a electrical Transformer and when my husband came out of the barn I asked hime if he say the explosion and he did not.. I have never seen anything like this before.

Red or Bright Burning Flash of light and sparks

Posted 1999-09-12