NUFORC UFO Sighting 186468
Occurred: 2025-01-02 17:00 Local
Reported: 2025-01-06 01:44 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pinole, CA, USA
Location details: Middle of bay/water where tanker ships go thru

Shape: Oval
Color: Florescent green
Estimated Size: Half the size of a tanker ship
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: To the left of me
Angle of Elevation: 5
Closest Distance: 5 miles
Estimated Speed: Faster than anything we have
Explanation: Drone - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Extremely fast green oval light flew by then stopped on a dime hovered then flashed by and disappeared

It was just almost dark outside but I could see clearly a green light flying just above the water. It zipped to the left and came to a complete stop . Like it was hovering with no movement. After 30 seconds it took off to the left. Stopped again and hovered and just disappeared. After a couple minutes I saw a grey trail high in the sky. I thought it was from a plane but it didnt break up and go away. The whole thing move to the right very slowly and never disapated.

Posted 2025-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181601
Occurred: 2024-05-22 21:07 Local
Reported: 2024-05-22 21:32 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Pinole, CA, USA
Location details: In front of my house in the street facing east at about a 40° angle

Shape: Orb
Color: Whitish light
Estimated Size: ?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: East
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: With in two miles
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

It was two lights one above the other. Very close in proximity. Bigger one on bottom. With a haze like ora around them. Static

Two static lights. Not blinking . With haze like ora around them the it was at about 40° angle as I was looking in an east . Then it didn't move just gone .that's it

Posted 2024-05-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154610
Occurred: 2020-03-22 16:00 Local
Reported: 2020-03-29 08:46 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pinole, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Saw 3 round/oval black objects floating horizontally over the I-80 in northern CA

Sunday, March 22, 2020 around 4PM Pacific Time My daughter (22 years old) and I (44 years old) were driving west on Appian Way in Pinole, CA. We came to the intersection of Appian Way and Fitzgerald Dr. and stopped at the stoplight. There's a Wingstop and Wendy's restaurant kiddie corner to where we were stopped at the light.

Above the restaurant building there were 3 large round/oval blackish/grayish balloon looking things. My daughter asks me, "Are those balloons?" They were really large and looked like mylar balloons, but way too large for regular mylar balloons. They were going kind of slow, somewhat floating like balloons, but did not go up. They floated/flew horizontally across the freeway.

As we watched them, it seemed the sun was reflecting off of them, but it was a turquoise color. So it kind of had this black/gray color and sometimes turquoise. My daughter described them as looking turquoise.

Two of them in the front were closer together and one trailing behind. As we were still stopped at the light, they seemed to fly/float over the freeway going in a northwest direction. The light turned green and the entrance to the freeway was really close. We continued watching them and then I saw blue and red lights going off and on like an aircraft.

It definitely was not an airplane or a helicopter. When I saw the lights I kind of freaked out, because it dawned on me that it wasn't any kind of aircraft I had ever seen before. I'm a navy brat and my father was a P3-Orion pilot. I was also married to a man in the navy and I've lived on Navy bases, Marine Corps bases and Air Force bases. I've seen a lot of aircraft in my life, but this was something completely new.

As I got on the ramp to the freeway to go north, I urged my daughter to take a video or a picture of the UFOs, but she was in the passenger seat and the UFOs were on my left side at that point. She couldn't even see them then. I got off at the next exit which wasn't even a minute away and turned around to go south to try to spot them. We couldn't see them at all. It's like they just disappeared.

I'm so disappointed we couldn't get a picture or a video, but it all happened so fast and I was driving. I've followed UFO stories since I was a little girl, but I have never personally witnessed anything like this until now. I'm not ruling out some kind of military surveillance or experiential aircraft or drone. I know that I've never seen anything like it and it didn't look like any drone I've seen.

Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144916
Occurred: 2019-02-16 14:57 Local
Reported: 2019-02-17 08:29 Pacific
Duration: Caught in photo


Location: Pinole, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


Three objects in trianglar pattern moving in unison.

Did not see it in person. I only caught in photo. Three separate objects appear in a triangular pattern. They are blurry though the photo is clear. When I replay the photo on bounce the objects move in unison.

Objects appear to be black or dark in color. This size appears to be the size of a small aircraft. If they were birds you would see their wings in movement while the photo moves Just as you see the car on the road moving.




NUFORC Note:

Smudges on windshield that photo was taken through. Not alien spacecraft, we believe. PD


Posted 2019-02-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104739
Occurred: 2013-11-23 18:30 Local
Reported: 2013-11-24 10:51 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour


Location: Pinole, CA, USA

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

I saw what I thought was a star but moving fast from horizon south to north, object zig zgged, looped, changed directions erratically suddenly stopped hoovered, change direction very fast, object had blinking light on it, never seen anything move like that

Posted 2013-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81775
Occurred: 2011-06-14 21:15 Local
Reported: 2011-06-14 21:43 Pacific
Duration: 16 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Pinole, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Silent sphere overhead becomes stationary in sky

On 06/14/11 at 9:15 pm, I went outside and glanced up at the sky. There was a very bright sphere coming over the hill from the south. It moved at a medium pace as it continued north. As it flew overhead it was obvious that it was flying at a lower altitude than most planes.

I went and got my wife to come outside and see the light. She came outside and watched as it passed overhead. We both noticed it was silent. Absolutely silent.

Also, the light faced us during the entire pass above.

It continued north on steady course veering sharply to the left 2 times.

At what I estimate to be 10 degrees above the horizon it became stationary in the sky.

The light then pulsed several times.

It sat motionless for more than 10 minutes before I came inside to report.

It is still in the sky now at 9:40 pm.

Posted 2011-06-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55935
Occurred: 2007-03-25 00:00 Local
Reported: 2007-03-26 13:53 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pinole, CA, USA

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

Bright orange object that was really bright in itself, but did not cast any glow.

Newspapers don't have any info. This was really strange. The light stayed solid for about 3 or 4 minutes, then began to dim. Once it had almost disappeared, there was a bright white light, and then it was gone.



Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29402
Occurred: 2003-06-25 16:21 Local
Reported: 2003-06-25 17:37 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Pinole, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

3 black circles flying in a triangle formation toward the North in the middle of the afternoon.

Clear blue sky. 3 black circles or balls flying in a triangle formation toward the North at a constant rate of speed. It was hard to tell if they were small and low or large and high. My instinct tells me they were large and very high up. They moved faster than an airplane but not so fast as to not be able to see them clearly. There was no glint or glimmer that you would see from an airplane and there was very clearly blue sky between the circles or balls. They made no sound. There was nobody around to witness this.



Posted 2003-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 28760
Occurred: 2003-05-10 22:10 Local
Reported: 2003-05-12 18:41 Pacific
Duration: 2220
No of observers: 2

Location: Pinole, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

bright red light moving slowly eastward

How would we get info on an object moving in the sky over the SF Bay Area on Saturday Night at about 2200 hours moving from [estimated] magnetic 270degrees towards 90degrees. It moved very slowly while overhead and appeared to hover, although that could be its appearance as it moved directly away from us.

The feature was a large bright red light. It approached from the west and moved slowly over head. When it got farther east it appeared to hover, then move slightly north and then quickly move away and disappear. It diminished like a fading red star. IT was significantly larger to the human eye than Jupiter appeared that night and while it was directly overhead, the red light was about the size of [an airliner at about 4000 feet altitude]. It was not possible to estimate the altitude of the object. It was just smaller than the size of the moon that evening (about 1/2 full size moon). The only discernable shape was the round red light.

Unlike an airplane or helicopter to which you can tell a light is attached.

We noticed that it made no sound. There was no other sound or moving aircraft in the sky at the time. There was no other air traffic in the sky until about 2230 hrs. It seems to us that the airspace was cleared in preparation for this object. We would like to find out what it was.

I have done a cursory review of the Vandenburg AFB website to review any possible launch schedules, but saw nothing that matched.

Where is the best place to look, or the best people to ask?

Posted 2003-05-13