NUFORC UFO Sighting 175458
Occurred: 2023-03-26 14:08 Local
Reported: 2023-04-22 21:21 Pacific
Duration: approximately 4-5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA
Location details: Traveling eastbound in front of 953 Avenida Ladera, San Dimas, CA, with car convertible open.

Shape: Rectangle


As bright as evening Venus near waxing crescent moon, high in afternoon sky.

On March 26, 2023, I was traveling eastbound up a hill on Avenida Ladera in San Dimas, CA, just after 2:00 pm. The day was a clear, cloudless day. I was in a convertible with the top down so I could easily see high in the sky. I notice the waxing crescent moon and a very bright object that was as bright as Venus usually is in the evening sky. I knew I should not see a star or planet that brightly at that time of day so I pulled over to observe it. At first, the object appeared to be still but I realized it was moving slowly. It appeared as a single bright object but appeared to be a reflection rather than lights. I thought it might be a satellite but still was not sure. It was moving much slower than any satellite I have observed before, especially the ISS. I pulled out my phone to take some pictures of the object. I also took a picture of a passing jet, the moon, and tree as I was getting use to the setting on my phone camera. I zoomed in as far as the camera would allow me, stable my phone against the car, and took a picture. I then zoomed in on the object in the photo. The object appeared to be a rectangular object with a very bright reflection or light on it. I saw no appendages like solar panels or balloon. As I continued to observe the object it eventually lost brilliance and faded away, much like a satellite disappears into the darkness of the sky except it just disappeared. The object appeared to be travelling toward the west or west-southwest direction. My total observation time was approximately 4 minutes. The phone camera used was on a Samsung S23 Ultra with settings present in the meta-data of each picture. In one of the photos the object is about 1130 position relative to the moon. Another photo the object is at the 0930 position relative to the moon.







Posted 2023-05-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174263
Occurred: 2022-04-26 04:47 Local
Reported: 2023-02-02 21:18 Pacific
Duration: Like 5 min
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA
Location details: By freeway 57 s and 210 e

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saw 2 bright sphere , 1 disappeared 1 change shape like a banana shape small then big very low for 5 min it disappeared faded Light

I have a video

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150333
Occurred: 2019-11-02 01:00 Local
Reported: 2019-11-02 21:51 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Animals reacted

Quick extremely bright flash of flight followed by a light trail that dissapeared within seconds, silent.

While my roommate and I were sitting outside talking there was spontaneously an extremely bright flash of light that lit up the entire night sky lasting a quick second, followed by a white/purple/blue tail of light that quickly disappeared within 3 seconds. It was completely silent, made no noise at all. The dog next door started barking for a short while. Can’t find any information about it online, at all.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136904
Occurred: 2017-10-21 19:20 Local
Reported: 2017-10-21 19:52 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 6

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

2 different sightings of 2 bright descending bright orange light sources. That when descending they changed directions. Somewhere over San Dimas/Pomona/La Verne area.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2017-11-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136446
Occurred: 2017-08-20 21:35 Local
Reported: 2017-09-29 15:32 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Inconsistent rapid flashing light, at the perceptual distance of a star. Some flashes like a flash bulb (very bright) moving NW to SE then slows to single pulsing light at about 15-20 sec intervals, extremely bright for its perceived distance. Slowly kept the 15-20 sec pulses till light weakened.

Posted 2017-10-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134689
Occurred: 2017-06-21 04:05 Local
Reported: 2017-06-21 05:04 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Possible abduction

Super big object covered in bright white lights, and extremely slow moving

Massive cigar shaped object. Very slow moving with lots of bright lights The color of the lights were the color and brightness of white LED's. Was up in the north eastern sky. Very slow moving.

Posted 2017-06-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 130784
Occurred: 2016-10-22 20:00 Local
Reported: 2016-10-22 23:10 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted

Two lights that looked like sparklers, appeared over San Dimas, CA. Then fizzled/faded out of sight.

Posted 2016-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123170
Occurred: 2015-10-20 20:00 Local
Reported: 2015-10-26 19:48 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

V shape formation of orbs flying low and silently over our roof

On Tuesday 10-20-2015 between 8:00 pm and 8:15 pm I saw a V formation of lights from our back yard in San Dimas. I was looking up towards the North / East direction at stars when I saw the V formation with 5 to 7 lights and it appeared to be only a couple hundred feet above the roof.

This V formation of lights was going in an East to West direction. It made no sound passing over our roof. The lights seemed to be like bright white orbs but at the same time kind of transparent. I jumped out of my chair and tried to follow it but it disappeared within 5 seconds. I had goose bumps and all my arm hair was standing up which my wife saw when I ran in and told her about my experience.

Posted 2015-10-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87460
Occurred: 2012-03-02 13:45 Local
Reported: 2012-03-03 15:25 Pacific
Duration: 1:20
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Strange cirles appeared and dissappeard in plain daylight... Unexplainable...

On March 2nd, at around 1:40 PM... I took my grandson to our backyard... and I noticed a group of white circles in the Northern section by the hills. The circles appeared in large numbers...could estimate around 20 to maybe 30... the formation was not uniform, as when you see docs flying all together... they appreared for a few seconds...then disappear... they moved very slowly...and at times you could only see 1 or 2... Because of the distance and their altitude...I ruled out the possibility of being birds... I took video with my phone camera....which it has an escellent resolution 1080P...HD....the video clearly shows when they appear...and dissappear...I would like a professional opinion...I will email you a short video...and you can see for yourself....and determine what could possibly be.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2012-03-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73564
Occurred: 2009-12-02 18:30 Local
Reported: 2009-12-02 20:56 Pacific
Duration: 10 min or less
No of observers: 10

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Object of animated lights off 210 free in California.

I'm not sure what it was I saw tonight. I'd like to know. I was driving home - on the 210 Freeway headed East. It was 6:30pm so it was dark. Off to the right front I noticed far out a series of orange/yellow lights in the darkness. I thought perhaps it was a fire, on a mountain... but I realized there is no mountain in that area.

At this point I just kept glancing at it, and noticed it started to become an oval of lights. Then the thing moved... slowly to sit over the freeway. At one point it started to move down the freeway (headed West.) The lights I could see now. The lights were rotating and they looked like the animated lights on a blimp.

This is what I thought it might be, but it was kinda low... and the thing that was really odd, the rotating lights were on the bottom of whatever this was. Since it was dark, I could see no body to the thign, just the animated lights, that were moving in a direction. Let me try and describe.

On the bottom of this thing, it looked like 5 lights in a row, and this row of lights, would turn off and the next row on... so forth. so it looked like a panel of five lights animating.

There was no sound... and the traffic was reacting to it. traffic slowed, etc. I did take video off my iphone... but the iphone uses such a wide aspect that it only appears as a small set of dots... and i'm shaking the phone a lot as i'm driving...



Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69014
Occurred: 2009-01-18 18:50 Local
Reported: 2009-03-01 14:28 Pacific
Duration: 10 min
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Oval object, stationary at first, moved north to west at rapid speed after visual sighting. Craft not recognizable.

At approx. 18:45 hours (1.5 hours after sunset) on January 18, 2009, I observed a "fuzzy, bright" object in the northwestern evening sky. It caught my attention because it was stationary, but wasn't of a shape I recognized. It was not a helicopter or other familiar aircraft. The object was fixed in the west-northwest sky, at approx. 60-65 degrees above the horizon. The weather was clear, warm, and no other flying objects, aircraft, or stellar phenomena were visible in that part of the sky.

I used binoculars (10x50) to get a closer look, and was startled to see a grayish-gold oval with small red & green lights, one on each side of the object, plus a white "headlight" - small relative to the object's size. It seemed to be oval, but it also had an oval "ring" or projection at the bottom. The "skin" seemed to have large (relative to the overall size) markings or texture. I figured the sunlight from over the horizon must be reflecting off this thing, so its elevation above ground must have been quite high to catch sunlight this late. I could not venture a guess as to the object's actual dimensions, due to the lack of background reference points.

I thought it was an aircraft - this due to the fact that aircraft typically display a red light on the left wing, and a green one on the right.

I retrieved my digital camera, zoomed into the area where the object was located, and took three photos in succession. I had to guess at the location, because the object was too small to be seen in the viewfinder. When I tried looking at the display, I thought I had taken photos of black sky, as I could not make out anything. It wasn't until I downloaded some other photos from the camera this weekend that I saw the two good images from that evening on my computer screen.

As I checked the pictures I had taken in the camera's viewfinder, I noticed the object start to move. It moved from its initial location to out of sight (into the western horizon) in less than five seconds. It flew roughly parallel to the San Gabriel Mountains, visible to me as the northwestern horizon from my back yard.

The entire viewing and photocapture, plus the object's disappearance, spanned less than 10 minutes.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55616
Occurred: 2007-03-09 19:30 Local
Reported: 2007-03-09 20:16 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Orange Red light traveling from west to east very slowly, then went straight up

I was sitting on my patio this evening, which faces the North. I watched a large orange-red oval shaped object traveling very slowly from west to east. It was bright and very noticeable. It did not have any strobe lights did not blink at all and had no noise. After watching it for approximately 10 minutes, it went straight up into the sky and disappeared. I contacted the local sheriff's department, and spoke with a deputy. He said he would step outside and look, however he stated we do not make reports to the FAA or anywhere else. I then contacted the Ontario International Airport which is within 20 minutes of my home, east of my home town. After seeing this object I noticed a jet taking off from Ontario, as some jets travel over my City on there way to the Burbank Airport or elsewhere. I spoke with a gentleman, an air traffic controller in the Ontario Tower. He said the pilot had not reported anything to him, however the pilot may have reported it down the line. I have two pilots in my family, I have flown in both small planes and jets. This is not something I could identify.



Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57064
Occurred: 2007-03-09 00:00 Local
Reported: 2007-06-13 21:11 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes


Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Orange round or oval light, traveling slowly, no noise, no blinking lights, then disappeared.

I actually reported this sighting in March 2007, so please don't enter it again as a new sighting. Since that time I have viewed other reports on your logs, to look for sightings within my area of Southern California.

The same description of the craft I saw in March, has also been reported over Rancho Cucamonga,CA on April 7, and May 19, and again in June according to your log.

Also one month after my reporting, the same description of the craft over a Riverside County City in California. Do you look at your logs from month to month to compare data? Just wondering.

San Dimas is only 15 minutes west of Rancho Cucamonga, CA and 30 minutes west of Riverside. Another sighting of same description on your log for Covina, CA, on 5/10 which is 10 minutes west of my home. In all reports the craft was orange, no blinking lights, no sound, and traveled slowly then just disappeard. The gentleman's report from Rancho Cucamonga in June, describes the very same, and near the Ontario International Airport. I reported my sighting to the Air Traffic Controller at Ontario when I reported my sighting which was on 3/9/07 on that same evening.

I know that you are based in the Northwest, and probably not aware that these sightings are in a close proximity in miles. Is there anyway of knowing if this is some kind of AirForce craft or other government craft that has now made at least three to four appearances in this general area?

The gentleman from Rancho Cucamonga has reported seeing it twice on two separate occasions.

Can the UFO Reporting Center look into this? I would appreciate it if you could give me some further information if you have it. Thanks

Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51798
Occurred: 2006-07-09 18:00 Local
Reported: 2006-07-30 00:00 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Circle of 5 lights that appeard doing the day

Circle of 5 lights that appeared doing the day light of the day. I was outside swimming in my pool with of my friends at about 18:00 and I just happen to look up in the sky. And what I had first thought to be a bird or a plain wasn’t. It was a light that looked like a star. As I continue to look I noticed their were 5 of them that formed a circle. It surprised me because it was still very light outside and not dark enough for stars to be shining. I told my other two friends to look however only was able to focus and see what I was seeing. These lights appeared to be far from earth and would fade in and out of our sight as the clouds moved in the view of them. But each time we gain sight of them their location would be slightly different.

We were able to see this circle for about 1/2 hour and could have continued but because my other friend was not able to witness what we were seeing she became bored with us so we decided to stop and continue with our swimming. But later that night about 21:00 I alone went outside to see if they where still there, but there wasn’t no sight of them or any stars that matched the deception of what I saw earlier.



Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22402
Occurred: 2002-03-31 18:31 Local
Reported: 2002-03-31 23:03 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

UFO over Lake

I did not observe the sighting at the time but rather when reviewing the images later that night. I am not sure what is on the image but it looks like it needs closer attention.

Posted 2002-04-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 19025
Occurred: 2001-08-05 16:30 Local
Reported: 2001-08-17 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Cylinder shaped object at high altitude

I was in my backyard around 4:30 pm when I noticed to the NE a white cylinder-shaped object at high altitude traveling at high speed in a SSE direction. This object did not compare to the familiar shape of a jet, i.e. there were no wings, no tapered fuselage, etc. I already had my camcorder outside with me on the patio table because I had planned on video taping my kids so I took the opportunity to fire it up and film the object. The entire footage lasts about 3 minutes as the object finally moved out of viewing range in the distance toward the SE. I studied the footage and it was clear that this object was cylinder shaped with a notable shadow on its bottom and possible dome-like structure. The footage is currently under study by several well-known UFO investigators, and the early results are encouraging.

Posted 2001-08-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18134
Occurred: 2001-06-21 23:35 Local
Reported: 2001-06-22 00:00 Pacific
Duration: one minute
No of observers: 1

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond


Two Bright UFO's over the San Gabriel Mountains on June 21, 2001

I saw two extremely bright lights traveling westbound over the San Gabriel Mountains. It appears both objects were independent of each other but traveling together, like two flies following each other. The objects radiated a bright white light like a shiny star but more intense and closer to the earth. The light intensity changed, possibly flickering but remained very bright. The lights would disappear and re-appear a split second later in a totally new location similar to fire flies but moved at high-rate of speed. At times the light kind of just bounced. Being late night, I was only able to see the bright light and nothing else. Please contact me via e-mail.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17274
Occurred: 2001-01-31 08:00 Local
Reported: 2001-04-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Dimas, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Unusual objects videotaped over San Dimas, Ca

I know this is kind of late reporting it, but because my sightings involved video footage that had been under study for nearly 2 months, I wanted to wait until the results of the analysis, which has been released. Here is my story: On the morning of January 31, 2001, as I was about to leave for work, something caught my attention in the sky that didn't look like anything that I was familiar with. As I observed for a few moments I realized it was definitely nothing conventional, so I ran back in the house, grabbed my Sony camcorder, and took an amazing video of several strange objects. There were two actual sightings that morning. The first sighting was of a single object that appeared circular with a highly reflective surface or blinking light, and possible rotation. Estimated altitude was above 10,000 feet. The object was in motion from west to east most of the time and blinking or reflecting sunlight at intervals, but did stop momentarily at one point, changed direction in a slow pace, hovered for several minutes, and then changed direction once again gaining altitude where it eventually disappeared behind a cloud. The second sighting occurred about 10 minutes after the first sighting ended. This sighting was of two different looking objects moving in tandem from north to south at a slow pace and appeared to have originated in the same general area of the sky where I lost sight of the first object. These objects appeared higher in altitude, possibly 20,000 feet or higher. The two objects were different in color from each other. Leading object was white with gray accents and some noteable structure, and the trailing object appeared black in color with a tinge of white reflection. At one point the leading object moves up and over the top of the trailing object and takes a position just behind it. After about 5 minutes I lose sight of them in the glare of the morning sun. After reviewing the tape I decided that it needed further study, so I sent a copy to Tom King for his expert opinion. His findings including stills and downloadable video clips of my footage can be accessed from his Skynet web site at www.ufovideo.com Later I sent a copy to Chris Miller of www.ufofootage.com. He was able to generate some great enhanced stills and video clips from the raw footage. One interesting characteristic of the first object that Chris discovered was a powerful light source emitting from the object. Only by slowing the footage down and viewing it frame by frame can you see a distinct blue to red color pattern of this light. I recently received a letter from Jeff Sainio of MUFON with results of his analysis of my video. His findings were inconclusive as he was unable to determine in any capacity what the objects are or are not. My story as well Chris Miller's comments and pictures on it can be viewed at: http://home1.gte.net/res0cs5f/ufo-1/ufo-1.htm



NUFORC Note:

NUFORC rarely allows either names or URL addresses to appear in this portion of a report on our website, but we will make an exception in this case. Dr. Jeff Sainio, Ph.D. (Physics), State Director for the Mutual UFO Network for Wisconsin, is as skilled photo analyst, and we know that Tom King has considerable experience with UFO's and video footage of UFO's. We have had less exposure to the work of Chris Miller, but his website does have an analysis of the footage alluded to in this report, and it appears to be carefully prepared. PD


Posted 2001-04-28