NUFORC UFO Sighting 174730
Occurred: 2023-02-26 13:10 Local
Reported: 2023-02-27 10:33 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: san juan capistrano, CA, USA
Location details: directly over san clemente/san juan capistrano

Shape: Sphere


Colorless orb, flying relatively low at high speed in a straight line

My daughters and I were taking a break on our bike ride and looking at two red tail hawks circling high above. The object was traveling toward us in our eye line with the birds. At first I thought it was another bird, but soon realized it was going very very fast. It is difficult to determine our distance to the object, but I could clearly see it getting closer, passing us, then continuing on toward the ocean. It seemed rather small. It made no noise and it left no contrails.

It was flying well below low hanging clouds.

The object was completely black or colorless. My daughter said it looked like a flying bowling ball.

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170457
Occurred: 2022-03-22 19:32 Local
Reported: 2022-07-15 15:45 Pacific
Duration: 35 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Location details: (DMS) 33 29’ 35” N 117 39’ 55” W ; USPS Parking Lot, North side, facing south

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

Bright, spherical light observed in person and short video recording

My father and I saw the object in the sky while dropping off mail at the post office. The object was spectacularly bright in person. I used Sky Guide to see if it matched with any stars in the sky and it did not appear to match anything. I believe Sirius is the star visible at the beginning of the recording and the UAP is significantly brighter. I also used WolframAlpha and an air traffic app to check for any flights that would be visible overhead and none matched what we saw.

We witnessed a single anomaly in the night sky. It appeared spherical and would best be described as a ball of light. It was so bright that it reminded me of the magnesium fire starter I used when I would go camping. It was not accompanied by any identifying sound.

I recorded the object from the north end of the USPS parking lot while facing south (approximate (DMS) 33 29’ 35” N 117 39’ 55” W). I used my iPhone 12 Pro Max for the recording. The object was visible at the 0.5x, 1.0x, and 2.5x zoom levels available. The recording is short at just 35 seconds. Dad wanted to get home so that we could get a good nights rest for work the next day. At the end of the recording the object appears to move upward.

The luminosity of the object witnessed was so bright and the size was so much larger than the stars visible that it stood out as an anomaly.

The apparent sudden movement upwards at the end of the recording is also difficult to explain if it is not the result of high zoom and unsteady camera work.

We saw it on the drive over and it was still visible as we drove away. I am reporting the duration as 35 seconds because that is the duration of my recording. My best guess to how long we were able to witness the anomaly is 3-5 minutes. It became obscured by the vehicle frame and surrounding structures as we drove away.

On July 6,2022 at 2:57 PM a cop worker and I witnessed the computer at the station next to mine wake up its screen without anyone touching it and then begin to glitch. It looked more organized than any glitch I have ever seen. It reminded me of a spectrum analyzer display. I will include this footage with the hope you have a more mundane explanation for what caused the monitor (which was not in use though was not plugged in) to exhibit such behaviors. I am sharing this without sound because my go worker got a call and introduced himself.

















Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164969
Occurred: 2021-07-04 21:00 Local
Reported: 2021-10-14 18:33 Pacific
Duration: > 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Object stood still also moved all directions turning to fuzzy ball then back.

We were in our driveway watching a firework display from several blocks away. We saw this white object sitting still very high in the sky to the East. It would slowly move different directions sometimes turning into a larger fuzzy ball then back to its original shape. It didn’t have colors while moving but in the still photos you can see green on one side. In one photo I zoomed my phone for a still photo and there we’re 3 objects. Each one had the green although only one was visible to us while just watching. We watched this for an hour and went inside.

We are near a military base.

I am emailing videos. I would like to know if anyone else reported seeing this.

Please contact me to let me know. Thank you.



Posted 2021-10-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123716
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:01 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:32 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

Driving through neighborhood to find parking. Spotted greenish/blue/whitish light in the western sky. Nothing else around it. Originally thought it was a helicopter because of the brightness but it wasn't moving. Shining like a car headlight. Then defused. And slowly dimmed over 15 minutes until it finally disappeared. Confirmed sighting made by three people with two neighbors, and friend who lives further south. Friend reported that they saw the beginning of the light, they saw a white light with a defined circle around it very similar to a helicopter, then it changed into the green blue oval that we saw.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110868
Occurred: 2014-07-02 21:10 Local
Reported: 2014-07-03 08:37 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two red lights and two yellow light in a rectangle shape with and white strobe. This object was about 800 feet high. Flies absolutely silent, this object would almost stop then speed up and turned at almost 90 degree turns then slow again. The weirdest thing it has absolutely NO SOUND.

Posted 2014-07-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 105428
Occurred: 2013-12-17 07:30 Local
Reported: 2013-12-18 15:05 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

A jet black circle hovering over the hill moved up and down, disappeared behind the hill, and shot into the sky.

I was driving towards my high school with my father and my brother in the car. We turned into the road, and I saw a motionless, jet-black circle (It didn't look spherical, it was a plain, black circle) in the sky just above the hills that surround my school. It looked at first like a balloon, and did not pay much attention to it.

But as we were approaching the drive through, I thought again, and looked back at it. I asked my brother if he saw it, but he was not paying much attention because it was early. Neither did my father, because he was driving. I then naturally thought to myself, "Hey, could that be a UFO?".

We pulled up to the driveway, and I left the car, heading in between the buildings of my school that blocked the hills; I wanted to go and take a better look at it. My brother went to his locker. Looking between the buildings, I could still see it sitting motionless above the hill. It may have been a trick of the eye, but I think I saw it! make small motions, moving a little up, then down left and right. It still stayed in the general area, and it moved in these directions very slowly. I called my friend that had just arrived to school over to take a look. I told him that there was a UFO.

He walked over not really believing me, until he got between the buildings. His reaction: "Oh, yea... What is that?" He seemed pleasantly surprised. I then pulled my other friend who had just arrived then to see it as well.

We began talking about it, wondering what it was, and debating on whether it was a balloon or something else. I brought up the point that balloons are not complete spheres (plus it was a circle, not a sphere, it seriously looked two dimensional) And if it was a balloon, then how did it not reflect ANY light whatsoever? It was the blackest black I have ever seen in my life.

As we were talking, we noticed that it slowly started to descend behind the hill. As it disappeared, I turned my head to my friend in excitement, but then he pointed and said, "Whoa! !".

He told me that after I had turned my head, he saw a streak of black shoot up into the sky.

Posted 2013-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88478
Occurred: 2012-04-17 22:23 Local
Reported: 2012-04-17 22:31 Pacific
Duration: 3 weeks now
No of observers: 1

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Blinking red Blue/green and White lights low in the horizon far away and due west from san juan capistrano. Appears to move around 3wk

Have been observing a red white and green/blue blinking light in the sky due West low in the horizon bobbing around and doing little zig-zags for about 3 weeks now. Does not seem to be going anywhere though last night I stopped looking at it for 15 minutes and when I came back it was gone and appeared to have relocated north where it also sat in the sky until i went too sleep.






NUFORC Note:

Possible sighting of the star, Sirius?? PD


Posted 2012-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85842
Occurred: 2011-12-13 13:30 Local
Reported: 2011-12-13 15:16 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Orb


3 orbs over Orange County Ca

Well watching chemtrails and some cloud seeding we saw three silver orbs come out of the cloud and travel past us heading south.

They were moving straight across the sky and the wind was blowing pretty strong in the opposite direction.

Posted 2011-12-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67020
Occurred: 2008-11-15 19:30 Local
Reported: 2008-11-20 00:21 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

chevron shaped lights fly silently over San Juan Capistrano at high rate of speed

On the above date and time, I was standing in my backyard. As I looked into the sky, I noticed lights from an airliner traveling nortbound. Moments later at a much lower altitude (probably 5,000' or less), I observed a series of dim white lights in the shape of a chevron. The lights were proceeding in a northwest direction towards the ocean at a very high rate of speed. Initially, I thought it was a formation of fighter jets however as the object flew closer, I could see that the the lights were fixed and part of the object. I then thought that it might be a stealth fighter, however the object was completely silent.

I am a former police officer and currently own a private investigation firm. I have never been a UFO buff nor have I ever paid much attention to all of the books and shows about the subject, however I know what I saw and it certainly was not an airplane.

Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65691
Occurred: 2008-09-14 21:50 Local
Reported: 2008-09-15 20:31 Pacific
Duration: 5 miniutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Rapid moving white light seen flying beneath full moon, 9-14-2008, from San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, CA

Six of us were playing cards and were on a "smoke break" out on our street when I decided to take a picture of the full moon with my iphone. Looking in the camera screen I noticed a small white light dancing back and forth beneath the moon. It moved side to side, one moment on the left side of the moon, the next moment it moved across the sky to the other side of the moon. It was moving below the moon forming a U shape around the bottom of the moon. It's movements were rapid and jerky, kind of like how a fly moves.

We couldn't see this with our naked eyes but 3 of us did see it with the camera lens.

It was a very clear night and many stationary stars were visible.

The shape of this object was circular, it looked like a star that was moving very fast across the sky. I can't believe it was an aircraft as I've never seen anything of this earth move like that. It was very erratic in it's movements.

It was a bright white color, that of a star in the sky.

My Background: A lifelong belief and interest in ufos as my family and neighbors witnessed ufos over Westchester, Calif when I was very young..but old enough to remember the excitement. At that time, my father reported this sighting to ufo folks and they had an official meeting at our house that included people from Hughs Aircraft.

A long time listener of Art Bell and others, I have long been aware and interested in ufos in a serious and open minded way.

This is the first time I've ever witnessed anything like this or reported any such sighting.

I did email a ufo guy in Orange Co. here via his webby mufonoc -Mutual ufo Network OC

Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57324
Occurred: 2007-06-25 23:00 Local
Reported: 2007-06-26 11:07 Pacific
Duration: 20 secs
No of observers: 8

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

Gray Type A Alien form in metallic saucer with red glow and yellow beams.

The saucer glowed with a red mist. It had beams of light that were yellow. Me and my fellow ufo hunter saw a figure in the window of the saucer, but we never got to actually see the alien. In the time that we saw the figure, we discovered that it is a Gray Type A.




NUFORC Note:

Date corrected. PD


Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49215
Occurred: 2006-02-13 18:45 Local
Reported: 2006-02-20 09:45 Pacific
Duration: 45 sec


Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

While driving home to Carlsbad Ca on the 5 freeway I saw what looked like 6-8 weird blue lights almost the color of blue dimonds moving around over the eastern hills of San Juan Capistrano. What caught my eye was these lights looked like the they emitting light with out casting a shadow like the light was incased.

These lights where dimming, getting brighter, getting smaller, getting more distant then getting closer, then some diaspeared, and then three formed a triangle, soon after that they just disapeared!

I am baffled! These objects where obove the area of TRW behind San Clemente. I wonder if you had any other reports in that area?

Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 37238
Occurred: 2004-05-30 12:00 Local
Reported: 2004-05-30 14:49 Pacific
Duration: 30 mins.
No of observers: 1

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

sali a sacar basura fuera de mi hogar para depositarla en los contenedores y al regresar a la casa observe que en el cielo habian muchas volitas luminosas o blancas, algunas pegadas como si fueran atomos y de algunas se fueron separando mas volitas, llegando a contar como treinta o mas, notando que empezaron a formar como triangulos, descartando la posibiladad de que fueran globos ya que no se movian tipicamente como un globo y permanecieron algunas en la misma posicion,posteriormente alcanze a videograbar algunas y estando grabandolas se fueron desvaneciendo una por una, se hace notar que el clima era de aproximadamente 80 grados f.y el cielo era completamente azul, sin ninguna nube.,si gustan analizar el video lo pongo a su disposicion.. gracias

Posted 2004-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170140
Occurred: 1993-05-21 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-06-28 15:50 Pacific
Duration: Ten minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Location details: 5 freeway North at Ortega Hwy

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Driving on the freeway I came around a bend and saw a huge craft above me

The craft was enormous. It covered all the sky above me. It had glowing lights along the outside. I did not see the top. I pulled off the freeway, Pulled into the 24 hour gas station, that was closed. Whatever lol. I was the only one there to see it, and I watched it float slowly across San Juan Capistrano, over the hills toward the ocean. It was as big as three football fields, and was totally silent. I try to remember the color of the lights, but I really can’t. I think some were orange. Maybe they changed colors. It’s been so long, and I was always afraid that no one would believe me. Thank you for being here and for doing what you do

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68708
Occurred: 1987-07-15 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-02-17 04:35 Pacific
Duration: 3 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted other objects

Flat ribbon of yellow light cuts swath across nighttime sky, then explodes.

After 22 years, I am succumbing to the argument that certain sightings –seen in the sky – should be reported regardless of what we believe them to be, or not to be. My sighting was of an unexplainable, nighttime aerial phenomenon that took place in 1987, San Juan Capistrano, California.

I lived in a large house at the time, not far from the ocean, and while sitting in the living room facing a very large picture window that faced a sparsely lit, dark expanse of hills and custom homes, a streak of yellow light shot from somewhere overhead and angled downward, across the frame of view afforded by the window.

The “beam” of light was essentially a brilliant ribbon of considerable size, flat rather than vertical, utterly silent, that shot across the sky and ended with a sudden, but not particularly bright flash. Rather than the shower of sparks and arcing trails of debris that one would have expected from such a display, the event was more notable for its lack of detail or fancy after-effects.

The explosive spikes of light that radiated from the center of the explosion, if it was indeed an explosion at all, showed no signs of gravitational arcs, as if residual remnants were falling to earth. After viewing many modern videos of meteors, bolides, and returning space junk, the light event I witnessed bore no resemblance whatsoever to any of the aforementioned displays.

As an amateur astronomer, and a consummate skeptic, I have always believed the phenomenon I witnessed to be some type of high-altitude bolide, a midair, exploding meteor with its own unique characteristics separate from more typical meteors and meteorite strikes.

I further supposed that no two bolides should be identical in how they might appear to different observers, thus the lack on my part of any immediate need to report anything. Over the years, however, and especially recently, it has grown apparent that such a sighting as I experienced, should be recorded regardless of how unimportant I may believe it to be, or not to be.

One last description of the seeming physicality of this “object” as it streaked across a very dark sky, is the peculiar fact that, as said before, it possessed no detail. I mean this quite literally. The ribbon, as I call it, was entirely uniform in structure, in color, brightness and shape, with no irregularities as would be expected by a completely natural event. It was as if a stripe of solid yellow, similar to a painted highway lane marker, zoomed across my field of view, then came to an abrupt stop as it “popped” and faded into the darkness. It all happened very fast. The stripe also bore its own perspective, meaning I could tell that it was nearest when directly overhead, and that as it trailed off, grew narrow, like train tracks leading off into the distance. Thus the object traveled some distance further before terminating or destructing.

This was the strangest thing I have ever seen, and has never been repeated. For what it’s worth, please add this odd little anecdotal tale to the pile, where it can find some meaning, perhaps, for those who truly care about such things.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32799
Occurred: 1969-11-01 07:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-11-01 10:39 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


My brother saw a little man.

One morning in either late 1969 or early 1970, my six-year-old brother told me that he had seen a "little man" just outside his window. His bed was just under the window, which looked out onto the front doorstep area. I was eight at the time, and I pressed him for details, but all he could tell me was he had seen a "little man." The house we lived in at the time was at the very edge of a brand new housing development, very near the top of the hill. Just over the hill was nothing but rolling hills, rattlesnakes, jackrabbits, and a horse stable. This area would therefore have provided the perfect place to land undetected, and was within walking distance of our house. To the "little man," I am sure our neighborhood would have seemed like a new human colony which had just sprung up.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-11-08