NUFORC UFO Sighting 149212
Occurred: 2019-09-25 21:00 Local
Reported: 2019-09-26 10:32 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Tres Pinos, CA, USA

Shape: Light


I saw a bright, speeding light, south to north, instantly turn 90 degrees east with no change in velocity.



Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149201
Occurred: 2019-09-25 21:00 Local
Reported: 2019-09-25 21:55 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Tres Pinos, CA, USA

Shape: Orb


I saw what I thought a satellite in a polar orbit very bright, traveled 30 degrees and instantly turned 90 to the east and into the earth shadow.

Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54808
Occurred: 2007-01-16 23:00 Local
Reported: 2007-01-18 00:40 Pacific
Duration: about 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Paincines (Pinnacle Rocks in Pinnacles National Monument), CA, USA

Shape: Light


slow-moving star traveling and suddenly descending downwards

Total darkness and total silence and no moon. The sky was completely clear; no fog. I began looking at the stars about 30 minutes after having come down from North Chalone Peak. I was looking in a northwest direction as I walked along Chalone Peak Trail. I was about 3.3 miles away from the Bear Gulch Visitor Center when I stopped to see the moving "star". I'm really skeptical about martians or people from other planets but this was very strange.

Then I observed what I never imagined I'd ever see. Too strange and kind of eerie. The way it moved was unlike anything that humans have made. A "star" barely visible and twinkling just like a very distant star--moved sideways, stopped for a few seconds...slowly moved in another direction...stopped. It seemed like a little bug with no particular direction or course. It happened several times and it seemed to have a life of its own rather than a manned craft.

Then it moved suddenly downward at an incredible speed; kind of like a slow-moving shooting star but without a trail or sudden brightness. It slowly went up a little and stopped. It continued on a very slow-moving course. I'm sure it continued to travel but I began walking and it was impossible to see if it was moving.

I've seen satellites in California and Canada smaller than stars move quickly in a north > south or east > west direction but this was somthing else. No plane, satellite or anything created by humans can do that. I don't if I want to see that again.

Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54812
Occurred: 2007-01-16 21:00 Local
Reported: 2007-01-18 03:11 Pacific
Duration: at least 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Paincines (Pinnacle Rocks in Pinnacles National Monument), CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Landed

These incidents occurred on the same night as the other incident that I posted about before in which a UFO star-like object moved in space/the sky. This area of our hike was also the most silent and darkest. A report that was submitted on 11/30/06 mentions that "SETI wanted to put their Scientific Instruments near the Pinnacle National Monument area" and that "their was reports of local boys in the Pinnacles area that even reported seeing UFOS". Indeed Pinnacles seems to be a hotspot for this kind of activity. My brother and I saw the same lights that he and others saw two years ago. The first set of lights were observed around 8 PM as we traveled toward the top of North Chalone Peak. We were on Chalone Peak Trail looking eastwards and down towards a large uninhabited canyon. My brother had told me about strange lights in that same area and I wanted to see them for myself. I tried to convince myself that I was just seeing something natural but after several minutes, I saw one of the lights kind of float and move southwards in a very slow but deliberate manner. The blue light seemed to move just like the star-like light I had observed much later in the sky. This blue light on the canyon would stop and then move again after several seconds. About two other lights appeared later but up further towards the south. As we walked further, about two lights also appeared below us but in a southwest location between Jackass Canyon and Divide Canyon. Incidentally, about 2,000 Native Americans were slaughtered and buried below that area. This is where we observed one of the lights also float in the canyon except that this particular light seemed to very slowly travel in a parallel direction toward the trail that we were on. We then continued our ascent to the top. After about 40 minutes, we then began to travel back on the trail to head back home. We again saw the same light continue to travel and float but we then continued on our journey. It started to rain a few minutes after we ! began ou r descent.

After it had been lightly raining for a few minutes and we were making our way on Chalone Peak Trail toward the bottom of the mountain about 10 minutes before Bear Gulch, we saw a normal-looking white light--the kind emitted by a light bulb--in the distance. We took the wrong trail near Bear Gulch Cave when we noticed the light directly below us in the northwest at the bottom of a canyon. I thought it was a light from the national park's employees' living quarters. After a few minutes, my brother commented on how the light seemed to be a guide for us since we had trouble finding our way back. The most surprising incident occured when we were nearing our way towards the end of the trail. This is when I saw that same light traveling passed us in the opposite direction, through a canyon that was to the left of the trail we were on. The light seemed to be about 70 feet directly across us to the left and at the same height of our heads. I only noticed it slightly but my brother asked me if I had seen the light to which I answered, yes. I quickly thought it was another hiker but realized that we were the only ones on the mountain, plus it was around 11:30 PM. Why would a hiker be traveling up the canyon where there are no trails on that canyon at that time? It was too late and it was raining. I later learned that the light didn't just pass us as I thought. My brother saw that same light floating and then disappearing in an instant. He didn't tell me that then because he said that I might have gotten scared. I then realized that the employees' living quarters was far away from the canyon where we had seen the light. I never felt any fear but I don't think I will ever travel there at night unless I do it with a group of people. I hate to think what would have happened if we had come into contact with any of those lights.



Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54810
Occurred: 2005-06-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-01-18 01:49 Pacific
Duration: at least 15 minutes


Location: Paincines (Pinnacle Rocks in Pinnacles National Monument), CA, USA

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

My brother had told me several times that he, my father, a cousin and uncle saw a strange light in the canyons doing wierd stuff in late spring or early summer of 2005.

My cousin and uncle also spoke to me about this and they actually saw more detail than anyone else in the group. They reported that a light actually morphed and gradually changed into beautiful colors. My uncle said that the object seemed to open up as if it had a mouth.

During another incident at around that same time but on another day, my brother and cousin observed two blue lights for several minutes in the same vicinity that the strange light was observed in. They quickly left after the lights seemed to be slowly encroaching upon them; my brother said he became frightened after seeing those lights seemingly coming towards them.

It's interesting to note that everyone became frightened after seeing the lights. The way the lights moved was not anything vehicular or human.

Furthermore, nobody lives in those canyons because this is a nationally protected monument.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31944
Occurred: 2003-09-29 20:00 Local
Reported: 2003-09-29 20:58 Pacific
Duration: 5-7 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Tres Pinos, CA, USA

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

Bright sustained slower moving streak across the northwestern sky in Central California Monterey Bay Area

This was a very bright slow moving streak moving southward across the sky...much longer in duration and slower moving than a "shooting star"...it flashed brightly just before it dissapeared. It seemed to have an orange yellow tail with a bright white center. Both my wife and I saw it through the widow of our car. We had just been prompting our children to look at the moon as it was very clear in the sky tonight and the area we were in was very dark...the stars and moon were very visible. The streak started just in front of us and tailed downward. We both commented on how strange it was to see a streak last so long and move so slowly....either a very large meteor and very high? we immediately commented on the incident in India

Posted 2003-10-07