NUFORC UFO Sighting 187811
Occurred: 2025-02-17 21:00 Local
Reported: 2025-02-19 12:02 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Pilot

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA
Location details: see above

Shape: Light
Color: white
Estimated Size: tiny white dots
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: 270
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: unknown
Estimated Speed: fast, not sure, but not like a streak.
Explanation: Starlink (Racetrack) - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

High up in the western sky is where we saw 4-5 tiny lights moving around, coming and going. Brite, then dim, then disappear.

High up in the western sky is where we saw 4-5 tiny lights (dots) moving around, coming and going. Brite, then dim, then they would disappear. Moved around in all directions. Sometimes in a triangle. Video will better explain. My self and other pilot on our corporate jet saw and recorded what we saw. FL 43,000, speed mach .90. Been flying for 40 years, corporate for 23 years. Other pilot flying for 15 years. Neither one of us have seen anything like this!




Posted 2025-02-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 179839
Occurred: 2024-01-01 00:10 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-01-01 01:10 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Color: Orange
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Northwest
Angle of Elevation: 35
Closest Distance: Unknown
Estimated Speed: 20mph
Characteristics: Lights on object

8-10 orange fireball-like lights in the western California sky shortly after midnight.

While outside in our backyard, I saw several (8-10) orange fireball-like lights in the sky. They were in a disorganized line flying from the northwest to the southeast. They would appear from the northwest, slowly fly southeast, and then disappear when they reached a certain point in the sky. I've seen starlink, and this was completely different. One of the lights close to the end of the row of lights seemed to slightly speed up in comparison to the others as it made its way southeast with the group. After the lights disappeared, they didn't reappear again.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178122
Occurred: 2023-09-07 06:04 Local
Reported: 2023-09-07 06:27 Pacific
Duration: less than two minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA
Location details: In the sky, directly overhead

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Light in the sky moved zig zag pattern

It was early morning and very dark. The light in the sky was first observed as it moved from the western sky and was moving east. It looked like it could be a plane as it was about the right height. It looked like it could be a star as it was a single light. It glowed the same color as a star would. There were no additional lights associated with the object.

The object moved faster than the planes we typically see pass overhead and it moved in a zig zag pattern as well as moving in a straight path from west to east. The zig zag movement did not appear to be overly broad as it deviated from a straight line of flight, but the motion was noticeable enough to attract our attention. The zig zags did not appear to be a part of a standard pattern. The object flew in a straight line for a matter of seconds, would zig right, zig left, return to original flight path heading east...a second or so later the object would again move in a random pattern left and right and then return to the original flight path. It continued flying east until it flew out of sight.


Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176652
Occurred: 2023-07-04 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-07-09 02:33 Pacific
Duration: 12 to 15 minutes
No of observers: 9

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA
Location details: We were setting off fireworks in our front yard across from Ridgeway Park.

Shape: Star
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

Three ‘dull-like stars moving slowly to form a triangle, then 22 more appeared.

Our 14 yo boy spotted the 3 starlike dull stars moving slowly between the Big Dipper and the “W” in the sky. He pointed them out to the three adults and we watched them for several minutes as they formed a triangle. After that, I (g’mother), saw another coming in from the area of the Big Dipper. Then the 14 yo yelled, “another!” There was a ‘lighter’ area of the darkness of the sky, not actually a shape, just a somewhat lighter spot where it looked like the objects were coming from. There were 3 adults, 4 teens and 2 children who watched 11 objects come from the ‘dull’ spot. 15 objects in all as they formed a straight line and headed past the ‘W.’ I have looked at all the photos of ‘Starlink,’ and these were none of them.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 175454
Occurred: 2022-10-28 15:07 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-04-22 16:25 Pacific
Duration: 2-3minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA
Location details: 1155 Franklin Ave.

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Landed

My friend said she saw a plane next thing our heads were being swooped by a pill shaped thing that took off down street.

Swooped behind trees. Later that night a small blinking round red light we both watched above where we saw that go down. It blinked and slowly faded and was gone right above where we saw what happen earlier. It was pill shaped red blue and yellow and had three round red lights underneath it . No windows but must have had one to see us

Posted 2023-05-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173803
Occurred: 2022-10-27 15:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-01-08 20:57 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes maybe
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA
Location details: Corner of Franklin st. Right by highschool

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

It zoomed right over us, was totally silent multicolored pillshaped and it took off up into air did an odd twist then disappeared behind.

It zoomed right over us was totally silent multi-colored small pill shape.
It zoomed over our head no sound right down the street veered up did. Wierdo twisty thing then went down below some tree lines. Later that night, right above where it went down we both again saw a blinking light that just blinked never moved and slowly faded until it disappeared.
It had like yellow wings and was blue a yellow on body. Three lights underneath it. No windows on sides anyway and like I said it made absolutely no sound whatsoever. And this was in the early afternoon yet none was around but my friend and I.

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157781
Occurred: 2019-12-05 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-07-21 09:23 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes approximately
No of observers: 1

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams

I have 3 photos of a disk shaped thing in the sky. It has lights all around it. It happened it a rural area about 20 minutes from Red Bluff. The disk shaped objects went down low to the ground and back up and the cirlced in the air and the. Flew off across the sky to the left.

Posted 2020-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149060
Occurred: 2019-09-21 12:35 Local
Reported: 2019-09-23 10:16 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


Observed oval shaped object in the sky.

Was driving in hogsback road looking for locations to do some night photography. Stopped at a location to take a test shot with my phone... the object appeared or caught my eye as I was shooting the picture... went back to my jeep to get my camera with telephoto lens, keeping my eye on it the entire time, about 20 seconds opened door and grabbed my camera taking my eyes off for approx 10 seconds when I turned around it was gone. There was no sound coming from it, it was approximately 1/4-1/2 mile from me. It appeared to be between 10-20 feet across and shiny...

Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 121865
Occurred: 2015-09-08 21:00 Local
Reported: 2015-09-10 19:25 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Cone


Bright white glow, held still then just dimmed out.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to provide little contact information. PD


Posted 2015-09-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113463
Occurred: 2014-09-12 06:00 Local
Reported: 2014-09-12 06:37 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

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

Orange fireball emitting smoke with bright white light, while hovering and spinning.

I was outside smoking, when I noticed a orange light floating north closer to town. It suddenly stopped in mid air, the orange faded to white, and became very bright.

It looked like it started spinning while releasing some kind of mist or smoke. I think it was spinning because the bright white light kept highlighting the smoke/mist.

While still letting off the must it started moving west. Then its lights went out, smoke stopped and it was gone.

This happened right before dawn and I was able to watch few a few seconds till I couldn't see it anymore.

I tried to get video but happened too fast.

I've never seen anything like this, and it did blow my mind. There was no sound either just a strange fireball looking light.

Posted 2014-09-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89149
Occurred: 2012-05-22 10:30 Local
Reported: 2012-05-23 10:31 Pacific
Duration: 2-1/2 -3 MIN


Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object

THE OBJECT WAS A ROUNDED DIAMOND SHAPE WITH MULTIPLE RED AND WHITE LIGHTS BLINKING, UP TO 15 TO 30 OF THEM- IT FLOATED ACROSS THE SKY WEST TO EAST AND BY THE TIME MY HUSBAND CAME OUT IT WAS ALMOST OUT OF VIEW AND THE BACK SIDE I GUESS ONLY A FEW WHITE LIGHTS BLINKED OFF IN DISTANCE. IT WAS NOT A PLANE, I THOUGHT MAYBE AN AIR BALLON WITH LIGHTS ONIT. IT WAS THE WRONG SHAPE FOR A BLIMP. IT MADE NO SOUND AT ALL. IT MAY HAVE BEEN FARTHER AWAY THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS.



Posted 2012-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81209
Occurred: 2011-05-11 03:35 Local
Reported: 2011-05-11 04:52 Pacific
Duration: 10 - 15 SECONDS
No of observers: 1

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

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

Two Orange Orbs/UFO flying by Red Bluff, CA.

I am working graveyard shift this morning, and I clocked out for lunch Approx 03:15 am. I did my daily walk around work, and I found a nice quite & dark place to lay on the pavement so that I may gaze at the stars. Well it was pretty hazy/cloudy up in the sky, with clouds rolling in from the West. These were the type of Clouds that are very ripply, the ones that have been reported as Haarp Generated. Although it was some what cloudy I could still se stars.

After awhile of gazing, all of a sudden two dim orange objects drifted over my head, going from North to South. They looked to be in the clouds or above them because they were pretty blurry. They were probably about 300 feet apart. (It’s hard to tell being on the ground but that would be my guess) They were both traveling at the very same speed, which was faster than your normal airplane or jet. They had no blinking lights and no noise. One of the Orbs seemed to be rocking back and forth coming closer to the other and then back away. They did not take off super fast and disappear like most UFO sightings, they just kept on drifting by at a steady speed until I could no longer see them.

Posted 2011-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77600
Occurred: 2010-09-03 22:00 Local
Reported: 2010-09-03 22:43 Pacific
Duration: 5 Mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

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

I was driving down highway 36 towards Fortuna out of the Red Bluff city limits and we saw some three bright lights to the right of my car as we were driving. As I kept driving intially I discounted it as maybe stray car light behind us from a distance. I checked the mirror to look for a car behind me and saw nothing. I looked over again and I saw something with three bright lights follwing my car and I got scared because what ever it was followed us up to the subdivision I live. What ever it was kept up its speed with my car and seemed to float with no sound coming from it. I was getting really worried because we thought it was coming after us. As soon as it approached where all the house are it took off out of sight. This is the second time I have seen weird activity in this area.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75747
Occurred: 2010-06-10 21:30 Local
Reported: 2010-06-11 11:44 Pacific
Duration: 2 Hours
No of observers: 6

Location: Red Bluff - Dribble Creek Subdivision, CA, USA

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

aNEAR HIGHWAY 36 Red Bluff, California (Dribble Creek Subdivision) I saw a bright round light sitting in one spot for a least one hour in the sky about 3 or 4 miles away at about 2 miles up in the sky and I thought it w as a star but it wasn't. I tried to focus and get a better look but the light was so bright and powerful it hurt my eyes to look at. I couldn't focus on this object as hard I tried. I was outside of my house and I called 6 other family members to oberserve it and they all agreed it wasn't a star but a unknown object. I stayed outside to observe the object to see if it would move or change but it didn't move at all and I tried to take a picture of it but it was too far away to capture a good picture of it. I have a picture of the light but it is small. As I stood out observing the object other people came out of their houses and I could hear people talking about the object in the sky. I also called a family member driving towards the house! and they could also see it. The object slowly started to move down and it seemed to get closer. As it seemed to get closer maybe within 2 miles it looked like it was pulsating light coming from it. I started to worry and I went into my house. When I went into my house I heard airplanes and helicopters flying by my house which is uncharacteristic of this time of night or even flying in my are. An hour later I went out to see what it was and it was gone. I would say this is the most eerie thing I have observed in the night sky in my life.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-06-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64905
Occurred: 2008-07-31 23:45 Local
Reported: 2008-07-31 23:58 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Light In The Sky

On July 31, 2008 at 11:45 pm Pacific time, I was sitting on my back porch and noticed a large ball of light light orange in color something about half the size of a full moon in the sky. It appeared to be floating around a small area and they suddenly faded away. There was not any blinking lights or noise from the object while it was in the sky or after it faded away. We live in Northern CA. in the Redding, Red Bluff area out in the country.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54255
Occurred: 2006-12-31 18:52 Local
Reported: 2007-01-01 07:16 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 4 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Regular appearence of straight traveling lights

Hello, These lights have been coming around here for years on end, but for the last few years the lights have been coming over much lower then usual. In this past week of December 26th, 2006, at 6:52 PM and December 31, 2006 at 6:52 PM same time again, these Golden ball lights with no sound with no other lights came over My area at about 5 miles out at about 5,000 feet from a west to east direction over the North part of the City of Red Bluff, California. These lights came over while aircraft traffic was in the area at the same time. I know these aircraft seen these lights and the light on December 31, 2006, because one aircraft on the December 31, 2006 at 6:52 PM made a turn towards the light,I am sure it was to see the Golden ball of light better. The aircraft was a signal prop engine aircraft, civilian because I could hear that it was a ,possible Cesna Type aircraft. The aircraft was at the same altituded and a half a mile if not close from the object. The golden ball light was biger then the aircraft's lights brcause if the aircraft had gone into the light or passed behind it You would not see the aircrafts lights at all. I and two witnesses watched it as it went over the City of Red Bluff, California the light just went out in front of our eyes.

Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53313
Occurred: 2006-11-08 13:00 Local
Reported: 2006-11-09 02:50 Pacific
Duration: 10 mins
No of observers: 0

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


AS i was going to work i saw a slow moviing triangular shaped object in the sky.

It made no sound . Others must have seen it . This was daytime over a city of around 12000 .




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47375
Occurred: 2005-09-24 19:35 Local
Reported: 2005-11-02 12:31 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Other


Flash lighting entire skyline

Wife and I were driving eastbound on State highway 36 about 15 miles east of Red Bluff, Ca. when we saw a flash that lit up the entire eastern skyline.

We could see Mt Lassen and Turner Mt. in silhouette by the event that lasted for approx. 3 seconds with a slight strobe effect.

Sky conditions were clear and cloudless.

Posted 2005-11-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 35682
Occurred: 2004-03-18 18:32 Local
Reported: 2004-03-18 19:25 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

Triangular, possible aura, definately morphed shape.

My doubting husband called me out to the patio.....6:32pm.........he was looking to the northwest., asked me "What is That?" I said a cloud piece, but as I looked, it was triangular, although to me it seemed somewhat transparent, with a solid black speck on the left of it. We both saw it change shape and disappear.

No time to grab camera. Hopefully someone saw it for a longer period than we did. It was very far off and low in the sky from our perspective.



Posted 2004-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17004
Occurred: 2000-08-03 23:30 Local
Reported: 2001-03-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


cylindrical shape,looked like the alein space craft from the startrek movie IV:the voyage home,minus the floating ball beneth it.

cylindrical shape,grey,no lights or sounds,rough texture,it looked just like the alien space craft in the star trek movie IV : the voyage home, minus the floating ball beneth it, it was levitating motionless over a open field,it was about 3 tenth's of a mile away,I was able to judge its distance by help of the lights from the walmart distribution center reflecting off the bottom of it,I had a friend with me outside my house when i saw it,and just when i pointed and said "whats that?" it shot off directly west at a high velocity,it looked like it flew sideways and didnt rotate before it moved,the friend that was with me didnt see it(she was looking in the wrong direction.)

Posted 2001-04-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13313
Occurred: 2000-07-07 21:22 Local
Reported: 2000-07-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

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



We were driving south on Interstate 5 when we witnessed it. Other cars were pulling off the road also, to observe.

At first it looked like a comet with a long bright white tail, then the tail increased in length and even more it widened at to at least 20 times the original size. The "head" then moved forward and let out a second burst of tail in front of the first. Then the "head" seemed to explode and disappear. The tails remained visible for a long time (many minutes)after. As the tails faded they were replaced by a flourescent aqua blue glow. There were 4 in our car; one retired firefighter, one hospital department director, two college students. One person stopped alongside us was an seismic activity researcher, we didn't get his name but his license plate was from Oregon "((license deleted))".

NUFORC Note:

Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD


Posted 2000-07-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 5434
Occurred: 1999-01-30 23:30 Local
Reported: 1999-01-31 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 18
No of observers: 3

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

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

as they flew over in a triangular formation, a white thing struck the lead craft, and scattered them.

Posted 1999-02-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 30318
Occurred: 1981-06-15 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-07-23 18:18 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes+/-
No of observers: 2

Location: Red Bluff, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Left a trail

unknown lights flying across sky

I'm not sure exactly what time it was. It was night time and i was going out to feed the animals when i saw a pair of lights in the south east heading towards the north west. at first i thought it was a pair of lights on the wingtips of a low flying airplane so i didn't pay much attention to them. but then it accured to me that i couldn't hear any sound of an engine so i looked at them again and noticed that there was nothing in between the two lights. i then thought that it might be a pair of satilites moving in the same direction. since i lived in the country, i had an excillent view of the night sky without any street lights or lights from buildings to obstruct my view. as i took a harder look at the lights, i noticed that they left a trail, like a jet plane would leave, trailing behind them, but there were only two lights and i could plainly see three trails. i called out to my brother to come and have a look, but he wasn't able to come outside, but my mother did and she saw them too. i don't know what they were, but i don't understand how two lights can leave three trails. As i was looking s.e. one light was slightly on my right, the other on my left. both moving at the same speed and in the same direction. the two lights left thin trails behind them as they moved across the sky. to the left of the light on my left, i could plainly see a third trail, a wider trail, but there was nothing there to cause it. Another time i saw something was when i was out driving truck cross country. my trainer was in the bunk sleeping and i was driving the night shift. just as i crossed the state line from california into arizona, i saw a ball of light streak across the sky in front of me and appear to crash into the hills. the ball of light was green. the first thing i did was turn on my c.b. radio and listened to see if anyone else had seen it. no one mentioned anything about it on the radio. my first thought was that maybe i had seen it and no one else did or maybe it was my ima! gination. then i figured it might have been a meteorite falling to earth. the green glow could have been cause by copper deposits in the meteor burning as it went through our atmosphere.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-08-01