NUFORC UFO Sighting 189629
Occurred: 2025-05-14 23:00 Local
Reported: 2025-05-15 05:35 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA
Location details: In residential area

Shape: Oval
Color: Burnt orange or red
Estimated Size: 10 ft
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Sw
Angle of Elevation: 71
Closest Distance: 200 ft
Estimated Speed: 50 mph
Explanation: Chinese Lantern - Probable


Going out for a late walk, looked up, saw the first one got camera and got video of numbers 2, 4 and five

Going out to take the dog for a walk, looked up and saw a bright orange red colored orb going from Southwest to Northeast moving along quickly. Said to my wife what is that as I was reaching for my phone to take video. Flew overhead lost sight of it as it went over my residence went on the other side of my residence, caught side of it again if flickered some after a minute or so, and then disappeared. The same thing happened with the others that were seen.




Posted 2025-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 183236
Occurred: 2024-09-28 11:48 Local
Reported: 2024-09-28 12:12 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Color: Silver to white
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 15,000 to 20,000


There were eight items in the sky in a pattern

There were eight circular looking objects in the sky. They seem to be in some sort of a pattern. There were five that looked like the pattern on a dice. They seem to move very quickly, and we only noticed them when there was an airplane in the sky. They looked almost like skydivers, but never fell from the sky. They remained the same altitude, but quickly moved a few times before they disappeared.

In the attached photo, you can see eight little dots. If you zoom in on the photo, it’s hard to see with the resolution taken from my phone, but it appears to be a white circular object.




Posted 2024-10-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172039
Occurred: 2022-09-21 19:31 Local
Reported: 2022-09-24 13:53 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA
Location details: Near i-15 and Deer Springs Rd

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Two red lights in formation, roughly 400 feet apart, moving south close to horizon

Cell phone video of 2 minutes (linked) and another of 15 seconds duration. UAP appears to move in back of hill, 3.5 miles distant.

https://youtu.be/BPiYquh7RU0

Similar UAP seen in July, no video, this one rotated and moved erratically.

Posted 2022-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166062
Occurred: 2022-01-08 18:35 Local
Reported: 2022-01-08 19:54 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA
Location details: Over south Santa Fe ave

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object

A red orb shaped object that slowly went black

We saw a bright red orb in the Skye , it slowly went black without any streaking like a flair . After the red orb went black I saw what looked like a black flash behind a cloud .... also there was no sound coming from the orb

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164684
Occurred: 2021-09-07 22:41 Local
Reported: 2021-09-18 22:35 Pacific
Duration: <3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

Chevron shaped UFO San Marcos, CA

UFO sighting 9/7/21 at 10:41 pm. Over San Marcos, CA area. Moving in a westerly direction northwest of where I was located. My girlfriend and I were out on our balcony just enjoying the night air and looking at the stars and planets like we do from time to time. I noticed one that appeared to be brighter than usual. I mistook it for the star Arcturus if I remember correctly and tried to “prove it” to my girlfriend using the Star Chart app on my phone. She interrupted and told me it was moving. I also noticed it moving. There were no flashing lights and it was moving way to slow to be a plane. There was no noise that we could hear like with the planes that come into our area. I snapped a quick pic and we ran outside into the street to try and get a better look as the UFO was moving behind our neighboring building. By the time we got down to the street we could not see it anymore. After looking at the pic there wasn’t much to see until I zoomed in on the point! of light and it revealed more than I’d seen before in any other pictures of the night sky I have taken. Ive since taken pictures of planes in the area with landing lights on and they look nothing like this picture.



Posted 2021-10-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166933
Occurred: 2021-07-18 22:00 Local
Reported: 2022-03-01 13:32 Pacific
Duration: 4-6 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA
Location details: 5th floor balcony of apartment complex

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

A long flickering shape went across the sky slowly and as it got out of view other lights started to appear closer than the original

An unidentified tube shape going East to West was seen slowly crossing the horizon, the object didn’t look solid, instead looked like stretched out light. As the object started to get farther away and harder to see we saw lots of smaller lights start to flash on and off in the direction of the original shape but much closer. These secondary lights didn’t last long yet it was easy to identify the lights were either in formation or outlining one larger object.
-Did not get video or photo of first object, only started to record when other lights appeared closer




Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 161448
Occurred: 2020-11-21 19:37 Local
Reported: 2021-01-04 07:47 Pacific
Duration: 60-120 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

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

About 12 colored lights floating in a group overhead, some purple, green, and yellow/white just within the cloud line

I was out walking at night and I was on a semi busy street in the neighborhood, there were a few people by their car at an apartment across the street. Suddenly, either something caught my eye or I had the urge to look up, and about 12 (from what I counted) round lights were hovering above, heading from south to north/north west, going decently slow but fast enough to fly into the cloud line with a minute or so to where they were not visible. It was light overcast and they were hovering just within or above the clouds, to where you could clearly see the lights but through a light haze. I remember there were a few purple, green, and I believe the rest were yellow/white?? I took a photo and the front leading lights appear to be two purple lights. I was the only person who saw and almost yelled out to the people across the street but I felt like it was for me to see if no one else saw it on their own, and I was just in awe staring at them feeling lucky to see s! uch an anomaly.



Posted 2021-01-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156299
Occurred: 2020-04-26 23:45 Local
Reported: 2020-05-06 08:17 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle


Turned off the lights outside to look at the stars and my boyfriend and I saw a strange boomerang shaped craft with what can only be described as a triangle that was barely reflecting from the moon. It was absolutely silent coming from the SW and it had no lights. The whole thing was cloaked in what looked like a white hue where it was bending light. At first I thought it was a fast moving cloud but I quickly realized it was something else. It wasn't an aircraft I've ever seen and with no lights and no sound we were completely stumped. It went in a straight movement but then it came back into our sight part and it did an interesting pattern like a falling leaf doing a loop d loop

Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152971
Occurred: 2020-01-30 19:15 Local
Reported: 2020-01-30 18:44 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Four lights in a single line in the eastern sky. Lights were Low on the horizon. Lights were traviling slowly to the north. Then disappears.



Posted 2020-01-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152718
Occurred: 2020-01-07 05:51 Local
Reported: 2020-01-18 17:37 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Formation


1/7/2020 San Marcos, Tx witnessed for 1 minute a long trail of lights moving southward w/o a sound, posted on facebook.

1/7/2020 @5:51am while leaving for work, I noticed in the sky moving southward i saw a trail of bright lights moving together. There wasn't any sound and after a minute, the lights disappeared at the same time. I posted a question of facebook whether anyone else had seen these lights. So far no explanation from anyone.

Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 161427
Occurred: 2020-01-01 00:03 Local
Reported: 2021-01-03 07:57 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 8

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Blue Orb Sighting "video recording" on 2 different iPhones at different times moving around the Moon.

On Friday, December 31, 2020 ((sic. January 1st, 2021)) just after midnight at 12:03 AM we were outside on a neighbors patio celebrating New Years Eve. We were admiring how bright the moon was that evening. After looking up for a minute or so I noticed a bright Blue Orb moving rapidly in different directions around the moon and pulled out my iPhone since it was so strange and there was no visible light coming from the ground to the Orb. My wife also pulled out her iPhone to record at different times. The ORB moved very quickly in the sky and was visible (as it appeared close to the Moon) both with and without cloud cover which was moving rapidly across the Moon. We have recording on 2 iPhones of this weird event. On my wife’s recording the size of the Blue Orb appears smaller and then larger. The Blue Orb appeared, disappeared and re-appeared on several occasions and moved very rapidly.

We sent our video to several folks who noticed the same things we did.

I’ve never reported any UFO sightings in the past and believe this was not a natural phenomenon or some type of laser pointing / sourced event. One of the individuals we sent this to indicated they watched an NBC report from the same day in Hawaii about Blue Orgs. When we heard this we decided to file a report.

We have these videos.

We live in the Hill Country of Texas and this event was witnessed by 6 to 8 people.

Posted 2021-01-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154036
Occurred: 2019-02-24 17:36 Local
Reported: 2020-03-07 01:31 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

black mass hovering/circling slowly in sky with white lights &white aura.

We noticed a bunch of black objects in the sky. one up close and 3 or 4 more in the distance, the ones in the distance proceeded to go off and up into the distance/sky and disappear. the one larger one got closer to where we were and it looked as though it was like a person standing and squatting....but in like a aircraft shape ,reminded us of like a man with a cape or a demeanor from Harry potter, but not because it was all black with white lights on it and it gave off a white aura/force field looking glow around it.and it just spun in circles "opening and closing" .I'm assuming it was quite large from the side I was seeing it and where it was in the sky. and it slowly as it spun moved counter clockwise. it was in the southern area of my yard and when it finally started going outward into the distance it had moved to the eastern side of my yard. the other ones that started with it never returned nor did we see this again. and my friend was recording on his phone also and his phone would go blurry when mine would, also even thru binoculars it would at times appear blurry when it would cause the blur on the phones also there was an occasional red light.

Posted 2020-05-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 133534
Occurred: 2017-04-10 19:00 Local
Reported: 2017-04-11 00:16 Pacific
Duration: <5 seconds
No of observers: 10

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Sudden Green/Blue Flash over entire sky with source in the west toward the coast in Oceanside-Carlsbad

I was standing outside discussing a car accident with my neighbor. Many neighbors were outside. I was facing west, the sun had just set, and the sky lit up green/blue for a few seconds. With the source over by the coast in what looked to be the Carlsbad and Oceanside Area. Was over very suddenly.




NUFORC Note:

Possible green meteor, we wonder? We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. PD


Posted 2017-04-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131347
Occurred: 2016-11-19 20:00 Local
Reported: 2016-11-19 20:56 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Group of 10 -15 small circular lights in San Marcos.

I was sitting in the courtyard of my building lit by a few lights on a small walkway on a cloudy night around 8pm when I saw a number of small perfectly circular lights flying thru the clouds above the buildings where I live, opposite the mountains in San Marcos, CA. There were almost 10 to 15 of them. There were 3 or 4 of them coming together at a central point at a time, then spreading out in all different directions, and then came back together again to the center. Sometimes only 2 or 3 came together, sometimes 5 or more did. They flew around quickly; very fast, for over 30 minutes. Then they just started flying around in circles individually and not coming together anymore.

Posted 2016-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 129918
Occurred: 2016-09-14 03:05 Local
Reported: 2016-09-14 02:28 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Formation


Formation of bright round lights.

What I witnessed was a very low flying formation of large circular lights in a straight horizontal line, each equidistant from each other. I think there were 6 lights. Much larger and brighter than an airplanes standard running lights. The craft or objects probably no more than 300 feet above the ground.

I think 2 of the lights were red the rest were white. One of the red lights was blinking. It went right over my apartment. Flying very low. I saw it from my room looking out the window.

I am very interested if anyone else saw this. I could hear it moving through the air but didn't sound like a jet engine or propeller. Something different. Very peculiar. Flying low and relatively silent. I've seen lots of airplanes in the night sky and this was something very different.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD


Posted 2016-09-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116120
Occurred: 2014-11-01 01:20 Local
Reported: 2014-12-20 14:41 Pacific
Duration: ~30 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Chevron


Chevron shaped object with rounded ends and internal glow flies over Texas city

I really do not know any better way to describe what my friends and I saw that night. It was a chevron shaped craft, looked to be about 50+ meters in size, had no lights on it nor did it make any sound. It was just a bit lighter than the night time sky. While having no lights, it appeared to have a faint glow moving about the craft as it flew over the city at a fairly quick speed. The glow from inside was a blueish color. The easiest way to describe the glow is to imagine the reflection of sunlight off water. Here is a picture to give you an idea

http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Word%20of%20the%20Day/WOD_images/water_reflection.jpg -

Imagine a solid black object with a faint blue glow moving about it like this pattern.

The duration of this event lasted about 30 seconds, from the point I noticed this craft, till the point it moved out of view.

Posted 2014-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114734
Occurred: 2014-10-27 03:00 Local
Reported: 2014-10-27 09:08 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

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

Black Triangle glides through San Marcos, Texas.

This morning around 3 am, two friends and I saw a group of 3 lights in triangular form. The lights were not pulsating or strobing, just white lights. The inside of the triangle appeared to be a slightly different tint than the night sky. We were in The Village on Telluride Complex in San Marcos, Texas. The Black Triangle glided across the sky, about the same speed as a plane, until it was out of our sight. Definitely a believer.

Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112903
Occurred: 2014-08-25 22:28 Local
Reported: 2014-08-25 23:35 Pacific
Duration: 40-60 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos/Vista, CA, USA

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

I went to pick my roommate up from the Sprinter train station. First day of school. He didn’t know that the sprinter didn’t run that late at night.

He told me he saw two circular lights hovering around the P, on top of the Palomar hill. One light would get brighter (bigger), while this happened the other got less bright(smaller).

The lights were a yellow (goldish) color.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-08-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112834
Occurred: 2014-08-22 20:15 Local
Reported: 2014-08-24 15:44 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Hovering and Accelerating Multi-colored Light.

While relaxing in a Jacuzzi, I spotted a bluish circular light with subtle orange/greenish/reddish colors moving straight down a hillside (Emerald Heights near Indian Rock: also known as “Bear and Cub”). It looked very strange to be a car or helicopter since I see them all the time along that hillside.

Then the light moved in a horizontal direction left, hovered there for a while and then right. It would pick up speed as it accelerated and then smoothly come to a stop each time it changed course.

Then I thought that maybe somebody had a sophisticated laser device having some fun. But then the light moved vertical again going above the hillside in to open air.

The light did not dissipate in luminance or outline, which I thought was too strange to be a laser since the sky probably couldn’t create a perfect solid backdrop.

It continued this type of acceleration and directional pattern for about ten minutes, when I decided to go get a video camera.

By the time ! I got back (three minutes later or so), the object disappeared as I was setting up the camera (proper lighting).

This is no hoax!

Posted 2014-08-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111471
Occurred: 2014-07-12 21:12 Local
Reported: 2014-07-12 19:32 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

A very low, fast moving (like jet..no noise) light parallel to horizon.. split to two and went out. Between Wimberley and San Marcos, Tx.

Fast moving light. First thought jet very low very fast and close, maybe a mile. Maybe two. East west parallel to horizon. We were facing north. Kids saw, pointed..we both clearly saw it. Fast. Split to two lights..went out. Went 100% parallel to horizon. Not down.

Posted 2014-07-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111411
Occurred: 2014-07-11 06:10 Local
Reported: 2014-07-11 08:44 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object

Black red striped organic shape shifting craft

Hello, I'd like to share what I saw today for science. I live in an apartment where cars are subject to tow so I always need to get up early in the morning to move my car. I got up and walk to my car to move it which is about 300 feet from my apartment.

As I was getting in to my car I happened to look up and saw a black object in the sky. I am used to seeing helicopters and military aircraft in the area since this is north san diego. But I knew right away something was different about this object. It was far away enough that it just looked like a baloon. Luckily enough I had my binoculors in my car which they said 10 x 30 on them.

As I observed the craft it had an irregular flight pattern.. (going up and down left and right). As I focused in with my binoculors I could tell right away what it was. There first thing I noticed every now and then on it was it had what appeared to be a set up lights on what appeared to be fins on the craft.

As I observed it spin, it appeared to be shape shifting and spinning its mass as it was moving with some lights visible. Once I saw that I started to get excited and look for any other person in the area to point out what I was seeing. I kept an eye on it as I was moving, I found to construction workers talking in their trucks and walked up and pointed to what I was looking at. They thought it was a balloon but with my binoculors I could see what it really was..

As all this was going on it was drifting south east and gaining altitude. I did get a view of the craft when it was not shape shifting and it was diamond/teardrop in shape and had an organic appearance with fins in the middle with low light lights on it. The surface had a vein like appearance of something like a vegetable with black and dark red in a striped like organic way. I may have seen a windscreen but it was too far too tell. After seeing that I ran back to my apartment to get my camera and try and get a view shots through my binoc! ulors but by the time I came back out it had already been lost! in to t he clouds.

I have a broad knowledge of all kinds of aircraft and balloons and can say this was not like anything I have every seen in my entire life and has changed my perception about life as I know it. I have attached a sketch and a video of the area of its flight. Sadly I could not get any hard evidence of it.

Posted 2014-07-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110986
Occurred: 2014-07-04 21:05 Local
Reported: 2014-07-04 22:39 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object

Green and Red Lights hovering, zig-zagging above San Marcos, California July 4, 2104

My boyfriend and I saw two aircraft of some sort with red and green lights. The green lights were blinking but the red were steady. We could not see the actual aircraft, just the lights. We were at Bradley Park in San Marcos, CA with many other people, for the 4th of July fireworks show. Everyone was watching the sky in front of us (they were shooting the fireworks off slightly to the south) and there were two sets of these lights above us and to the right (west) and left (east) of us. They seemed to be cruising along normally and then changed directions. They changed directions,zig zagging randomly, and hovered seemingly perfectly still for a long time. The moon was about half and it was bright. At one point they both were hovering, and then the one to our right moved, I couldn't see due to some smoke in the sky, and then when the smoke cleared it was gone from sight. Since it was only smoky for a few quick seconds, it seemed odd to me that the lights were gone from my sight completely. Then the one to our right started moving away from us, toward the west.

It could have been some type of military aircraft since there is Navy and Marines here. But the movements were not like anything I've ever seen in person or in movies; it captured my attention and I watched the lights instead of watching the fireworks show.

Posted 2014-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109117
Occurred: 2014-04-30 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-05-02 22:32 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

Orange fireball in southwest sky.

I was a passenger in a car looking towards the southwest sky about 9:45 pm.

At first I thought it was a shooting star but then realized it was more of a fireball with an orange glow.

Shot across the sky west to east.

Posted 2014-05-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106618
Occurred: 2014-01-24 19:23 Local
Reported: 2014-01-24 20:14 Pacific
Duration: 12 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

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

I was heading toward downtown from my house on the southwest side of town. I was heading east northeast depending on the direction of the road (ranch road 12) heading toward town. I saw the object out of the corner of my eye on this road. I turned onto the main road through town (Hopkins) and was heading toward downtown. After the road straightened out (I was looking toward the north, north east) I got a look at the object it had four lights all had a brightness comparable to a car's head light although were more like those found on an old Jeep. (Like a flood light.) The objects lights where in this pattern O-O-O-O although rounded. The object did not have any of the running lights commonly found on an aircraft . The object also seemed to have more mass behind the lights, as if the some of the light coming off of the four lights, showed the out line of the craft. It appeared to be round. Its shape could be compared to a mentos candy chew with four lights on the front. Its course was crossing mine, it appeared to be coming from the east, northeast headed west, southwest.

After I got to my destination (a friend's house) I lost sight of the object.

It appeared to be lower than commercial aircraft although not as low as many other aircraft that fly in the area like hospital helicopters. Commercial aircraft are often at altitude when they pass over either from San Antonio or Austin. There are other atypical aircraft that sometimes fly over the area most of them are private planes headed towards the city's municipal airport. Its on the northeast side of town. Most aircraft that land there head west to east. Other aircraft that fly around the area are antique world war two era. But these can be heard as most are propeller driven. And usually do not come around until the city holds the air show at the Airport. The show is usually in late spring. But the planes can be heard flying at various times. The object in question had no audible sound. And it did not follow any known flight paths of any other aircraft typically seen in the area.

I will supply a picture and map in a few days. It will be sent to the address below and mey take longer to get there. However I will send a copy of the the above text and needed info.

Posted 2014-01-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101784
Occurred: 2013-09-01 03:10 Local
Reported: 2013-09-01 01:47 Pacific
Duration: few seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright light falling with gravity.

One bright light, shaped like an upside down chevron, falling quickly with gravity then disappearing. Lasted about 2 seconds. Further down the road, there were two subtle flashes of light, but on the other side of the road the initial light was on, and closer to the earth than the first bright light.

Posted 2013-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101288
Occurred: 2013-08-17 21:24 Local
Reported: 2013-08-17 21:56 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Light


three glowing lights, leaving and returning

Walking at night, saw 3 orange glowing lights hovering in the sky. One of them moved away and was gone; another went out and then came back. So then there were two.

Then they both went out, and then came back, one big and one small. Then they both went out, and didn't come back.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 100492
Occurred: 2013-07-26 21:30 Local
Reported: 2013-07-26 01:21 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Light


the fact i have seen this thing drop something...which does worry me

we first noticed a round red light kind of flashing dimly coming from the San Marcos area where we see planes fly on their route, but this one was coming toward us slowly then stopped .. it started to pulse slowly and dimly while two others where below it.

An airplane flew over the first one before we saw the other two. then what looked like the first one dropped something bright straight down very fast then slowly dimmed out or faded out, as one by one the other two flashed dimly and faded.

This isn't the first time we have seen this but its the first time we seen more then one. I watch the sky at night allot not long but to see and I always find something odd.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 100010
Occurred: 2013-07-10 23:30 Local
Reported: 2013-07-10 23:46 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

UFO sighting above San Marcos, CA

Three triangle shaped spheres. Gold flashing lights. Each sphere would randomly appear and disappear. At times, all 3 would show and at times all would disappear. Returning randomly. After watching for 15 minutes, we heard a hovering sound directly above us but saw nothing. Came inside right away.

Posted 2013-07-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88311
Occurred: 2012-04-09 12:05 Local
Reported: 2012-04-10 01:40 Pacific
Duration: 15:00
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

bright orange object

While driving home from the post office I noticed a bright orange stationary light in the sky to the left of me over I would estimate be Carlsbad,Ca. I pulled over to watch the orange light as it flickered like a candle and was very bright and did not move at all. Then it slowly faded out until it was not visable( not too sure but I thought I saw it shoot straight up with tremendous speed after it went dark). After that I get in the car and drive back home and call my fiance and tell her. She then tells me she sees the same light over oceanside, ca about 15 to 20 miles north of where I saw the object. I rush home and see the object again reappear and disappear several times. One strange thing did happen and it was that after it disappeared one time it reappeared right after it disappeared for a few seconds then was gone again. Whatever it was would like to know( I would count flares out because of no smoke trail and how it "re-appeared" after disappearing ! right away).

Posted 2012-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80298
Occurred: 2011-03-02 22:00 Local
Reported: 2011-03-02 22:32 Pacific
Duration: a few seconds each
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 Large objects seen fliying overhead while studying for astronomy class - lights, sounds

At around 9:45pm I went outside to look at the stars to study for my astronomy class. As I'm looking into the sky I saw objects flying in the sky (it was obvious because they would cover up the stars as they passed by). All of the objects seemed to be close in proximity to where I was. Also, they all had tiny dim lights all over them and wear flying pretty slowly, almost like they were gliding. Also, there was a soft "swooping"/ "gliding" sound as the passed over head. The only thing that varied between them was their shape (or at least I was uncertain of their shapes, which lead me to believe they may differ).

The first sighting I wanted to dismiss because it was (or what I saw of it) was a crescent shape, therefore I wanted to label it as a bird or something. I took another look and noticed there were dim lights all over the object - ruling out it being a bird.

A few minutes later I spotted another object. This one was kind of in the shape of a plane or a chevron (its hard to tell because these objects were dark so some parts of them blended in with the night sky). I knew it could not have been a plane because the object was way to close and there aren't any airports near by for a plane to be flying that low. This object like the last had the unusual lights all over it as well.

The third and final spotting of these objects I wasn't able to make clear of because it started to concern me. I did notice the lights and also the speed remained the same. The first two objects were flying from south to north and the last one i have forgotten.

I am certain that what I saw was UFO's because I have never seen anything like this in my life. I even phoned my father, who was a pilot for many years in the military and he could not think of any aircraft that fit my descriptions.

Posted 2011-03-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74909
Occurred: 2010-04-06 20:57 Local
Reported: 2010-04-06 23:27 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Out of this world looking craft !

What we saw tonight was unlike anything we have ever seen before in our life. My mother was upstairs when she summoned me to come up and look at something. I went upstairs and she pointed out at the window. I was startled at what I saw. It looked like a huge craft with 5 or 6 bright lights in an oval shape and made out of individual boxes. It was hovering or moving very slowly to the West near Washingtonia Dr and Cocos lane in San Marcos. I knew instantly that this was something very strange indeed! I ran downstairs to grab my camera and ran outside but it was gone. My mother said it left just a few seconds after I went downstairs. I have seen a variety of craft but never anything like this. I'm a pilot and know what conventional aircraft look like and this was nothing in any way conventional! It look like something completely out of this world and I so wish I could have snapped a picture of it or maybe someone in San Marcos or north San Diego county saw i! t too hopefully.



Posted 2010-04-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 72480
Occurred: 2009-09-20 02:00 Local
Reported: 2009-09-20 10:41 Pacific
Duration: 60 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle


Boomerang shaped object seen in the night skies over San Marcos, Texas.

Large object about half mile away in the sky. About 1000 ft off the ground. We witnessed the object slowly hover away from us towards the moon. It was only illuminated by the moons light, had the moon not been out it could not have been seen. It was probably goin around 30 mph. It eminated no light or sound. It was observed from an upstairs porch by two of three people. The person who did not witness did not have her glasses. It was an opaque metallic gray color. The object itself looked like a massive boomerang with a wide wing span. After about 30-45 seconds of slowly hovering over the city it either dissipated into the clouds or disappeared altogether and it was gone.



Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71325
Occurred: 2009-07-24 22:00 Local
Reported: 2009-07-26 08:06 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 - 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 lighted silent craft flys slowly over university

While walking at night from my house to my friend’s nearby apartment, my friend and I witnessed an unidentified flying object. I was looking at the stars, identifying constellations, when I turned to look at the sky in the southeast, over the top of a building I saw a flying object enter my field of vision. The UFO flew completely, eerily silent, at a low altitude probably around a few hundred feet, and at an unusually slow and constant pace. The object was dark with three large bright white lights in a triangular configuration on its underside, one toward the front, two in the back. It was somewhat difficult to make out the exact shape due to its angle, and the prominence of it’s lights although it appeared to be flat and triangular, with each white light close to each tip. The size appeared to be around that of a large helicopter. There was one faint, small flashing light towards the front on the side of the object which seemed to emit multiple colors of w! hich I remember green, white/yellow, and blue. The object flew over us westward toward the university campus and was visible for around one and a half, possibly two minutes. My friend who was about 30 feet in front of me and who witnessed it for around 30 seconds saw the same object.



Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70679
Occurred: 2009-06-24 05:00 Local
Reported: 2009-06-24 04:25 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangular low flying, slow traveling, low-toned dark object with steady green and red lights.

5:00 AM my friend and I were studying when we first heard what sounded like a helicopter, but soon realized as it came closer it became a low deep-toned motor sound; and was not loud enough to be a helicopter.

It came through the trees and we saw green at red lights first as it flew low, maybe 20 feet over a two story house, and traveled slow. The craft had no visible markings and its' pencil dark color was hard to see against the dark sky. Steady green and red lights were at the front and at the rear.

It's hard to recall if the lights were on the outer triangular points at the back because of the shock of the strange object moving so close over our heads. It had no yellow or white lights at all, not even headlights. Also, no airports are around for about 80 miles.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70351
Occurred: 2009-06-01 23:30 Local
Reported: 2009-06-03 17:08 Pacific
Duration: 2 min.
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle?

Monday 11:30 P.M. San Marcos,Tx Couldn't sleep and was out on tha back deck having a smoke.Heard a jet plane sound,but quite loud and low pitched,like a passenger jet throttling down to land,but at a steady low tone.No airports around anywhere close,I'm in the Hill Country,and it was coming right over the house.I got up to look,and a group of 3 lights,2 to the side like on wing tips,one in the rear,and one just in front of the two,that was strobing. It was about 1000-1500 ft., up, and the size of a passenger plane.It was only travelling at about 80 -100 mph.I could not see the shape of the craft,but all the lights were white with no red or green ones.It was travelling in a south west direction and no airports for at least 80 miles in that direction.I watched it till it was out of sight,about 2 mins.

Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68354
Occurred: 2009-01-30 20:04 Local
Reported: 2009-01-30 19:15 Pacific
Duration: 25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

object flew over me, in triangle shape with red/orange/white lights erratically moving.

I had just got off of work. The sky was bright due to the parking lot and didn't have many stars. All you could see was the crescent moon to my right and a bright star below it. I looked up momentarily and something caught my attention. It was a unique red star, it didn't look like the red of a plane. It looked more like mars but even brighter. It went right under the moon and moved towards the north. I thought it's gotta be a plane at first but as I kept watching it, I saw no flashing lights. Planes always fly over from the north and so as I was watching it a plane flew by and the object started following it. It was moving very slowly and would move subtly up and down as it went in a northern direction. Then it went more towards the west, and sort of stopped in one spot (turning into odd shapes of lights) and started coming back towards me. This is when it got weird, Instead of being one bright red light I saw 2. Then it was coming even closer, and I saw 2 red lights and an almost orange light. It was not flashing. It then turned it's shape or did something and had 3 red lights (sort of orange hue) in the shape of a triangle. It then flew slowly right over my head. I could actually see the outline of the object. It appeared to almost change shape before my eyes, but I made out a triangle. It flew over me and then went back towards the east, almost did an oval shape. At this point I was convinced this was not a plane or a helicopter. It started moving back towards the north. I was standing outside of my car with my lights on so I flashed my lights at it. It then actually came back towards me after doing this. I yelled at a co-worker to come look at it. It was changing from white to red erratically. Not flashing, just changing. Like possibly rotating or changing its shape. When I flashed my lights at it, it was pretty far away and once I yelled at the co-worker to come look it started coming back towards me, this time lower and even more over my head. After it went over our heads, it had 2 bright light wh! ites on the back. We could see the shape of it. It was triangle but had other things on it. He thought it looked like a satellite but agreed it was way too low. It then went back towards the north and I stopped watching it. We see planes fly over everyday since there is an airport close by, but this was beyond bizarre.




NUFORC Note:

Student report. PD


Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67268
Occurred: 2008-12-01 06:00 Local
Reported: 2008-12-01 18:44 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours
No of observers: 0

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

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

They are still there if you have someone to take action now, this is in San Marcos, CA California. Two light objects near where the moon is at, they disappeared for 10 min then came back same spot and are still there. The time is now 6:43 p.m Pacific Time






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59827
Occurred: 2007-11-13 20:30 Local
Reported: 2007-11-13 20:59 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

we are seeing a 5 light formation in a cross pattern for many minutes with little red lights erratically flying around the right side

Looking East from San Marcos Formation of steady lights in straight line appearace.

2 larger lights on each side and equadistant from the center 3 lights that are in a vertical line of alignment.

So it appears as a cross of lights.

There is no apparent motion and they remain steady.

They are low on the horizon, about a 1-2 oclock position.

There appears to be erratic red lights from the right light in the horizontal plane.

The lights are visible to the naked eye with a brightness about the same as a medium star.

They are near the eliptic but are definately not of the normal formation of star cluster appearance.



Posted 2007-11-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49979
Occurred: 2006-04-05 22:25 Local
Reported: 2006-04-05 20:50 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Flying triangle in sky over San Marcos

I looked up thinking that I was seeing a plane, but it was unmistakably a triangle because I caught a glimpse of its full shape in the moon's glow. I had white lights on all three corners and a single red light near the rear. I made no sound and was flying rather low and slow. It was also moving with the FLAT SIDE of the triangle forward V so the top portion of the V was leading, not the point. I just stopped dead in the parking lot and watched it disappear over the horizon going south. Two other people were in the parking lot, but didn't acknowledge that anything unusual was in the sky. I know this wasn't a plan because one flew by a few moments later and the light configuration was different, it made a sound, and followed a normal (for this area) flight pattern across the sky.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 46751
Occurred: 2005-10-02 09:15 Local
Reported: 2005-10-03 06:49 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 hours
No of observers: 23

Location: San marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Very bright light was seen over South direction. The light appeared very bright for 30 minutes, then started to dim but then would get even brighter.

Looked a little like thew North star bt 10 times brighter. When looking thru telescope, I seen a diamond shape, red collor, almost like fire, with a red glowing aoura around it, circle shaped.

The movement of the object was very fast as I had to move the telescope 6 different times in the 1.5 hors it was lit. It finally disappeared, in one instance, bright as could be, the next gone!

Posted 2005-10-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55719
Occurred: 2005-03-15 15:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-03-14 14:58 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Rectangle


two interrelated objects larger rectangle and rotating cube on one end changes shape, speed direction gas filled

Subject: a couple of first hand incidents plus a family information exchange First hand incident number 1 Spring 2005 husband and I were riding our bicycles on the access road of Interstate 35 between Wonder World Drive and McCarty Lane (we lived on McCarty Lane at the time) outside of San Marcos, Texas. It was approximately early afternoon and the wind was really blowing very hard. We were approaching Auto Outlet (a car dealership). It was common practice for the car dealership to have balloons (this month I seem to recall single purple and yellow helium filled balloons) tied to the front posts and lot lighting fixtures. Due to the velocity of the wind the balloons were straining against their ties and leaning towards the Auto Outlet buildings and away from I-35 in the direction of the wind. I was right at the northernmost corner of the Auto Outlet property and my husband was approximately 4 bike lengths ahead of me (he is a faster stronger rider in a hard wind or just about anytime). We were on the western side of I -35 on this access road.

We were on our way home from a pleasant ride that day.

The Auto Outlet property has a bill board, or it did then, on the McCarty side of the lot where south bond drivers on I-35 can read about their car dealership. This bill board is about a standard large bill board size that businesses pay for ad space so highway driver's can read the signs.

My husband and I look above the roof line of the Auto Outlet buildings and observed a very strange sight.

There was a rectangular, 3 D object floating slowly straight up above the buildings. Next to that object was a 3 dimensional square cube object. This object changed over time in appearance and navigational mode so I'll do my best to try to explain what I observed. The larger object was the rectangular object. From what I observed the side closest to me, the bottom, the back end and the front end were a purple grey type of material that had no seam lines. The object appeared to be filled with gas and the fabric covering the shell without seam lines did not undulate but kept a rigid straight line appearance on all edges and sides that I could observe while lifting slowly up at first. On the end closest to the billboard side of the building there was a short distance to the cube, and there were no connecting ropes, guy lines etc. The cube was rotating on a 360 degree pattern, always remaining at the same end of the rectangle. The cube rotated that 360 degrees at a faster rotation rate than the lift rate of the two objects together. The cube straight up lift rate was the same as the purple grey rectangle. The cube appeared to have a purple bottom and alternating purple grey on one side, red on line side and yellow on one side and black on one side of the cube accounting for a 4 sided cube. The cube like the rectangle had no seam lines, appeared to be of some kind of fabric, without seams, and kept the edges and sides perfectly straight and rigid there was no undulation in the fabric like a cloth baloon would be expected to have. Also surprising there was no visible frame structure such as internal piping retaining the outer edges of either the cube or the rectangle.

As the objects continued to slowly rise, I noticed as did my husband, that if these objects were filled with a bouyant gas, it sure did not move away from I-35 as the Auto Outlet yellow and purple lot balloons did. The objects did not respond to the very gusy wind that day in terms of speed and direction. The objects were going straight up slowly as though no wind were present at all!! It was so gusty it was hard to ride the bikes sideways to the wind. The winds slowed our speed. It took a lot more effort to pedal against this kind of wind and move.

It was very surprising to my husband and myself that no one on I-35 tried to pull over on the shoulder and stop and look at these two objects. It was as though they did not see the objects as unusual or they had no frame of reference with which to relate to the objects.

The objects did not make any sound at all as they moved.

After the objects got above the height of the "along the access road power lines", they changed configuration. The purple grey rectangle shifted somehow as on an invisible axis and moved from horizontal view to an up-ended view and as it did so the cube moved with it, still rotating as it did so in relationship to the very same end of the rectangle. The cube ended up above the straight ended up rectangle and continued its rotation at all times. Remember please, there were no guys, no ropes, no attachments between the cube, the space between and the end of the rectangle.

Once up-ended in a vertical arrangement, the purple grey fabric of the rectangle began to undulate like a catepillar's segmented body trying to move up a leave blowing in the wind. Pockets of gas started to undulate upwards inside the rectangle towards the top end of the object. As more gas was moving upwards, gas from below leaving the lower portion, caused the object to lose the rigid rectangular shape from the original lift, sinking in in that region and narrowing the formerly rectangular lower end section. The top section closest to the cube was rounded now and the fabric was bulging out from the increased gas pockets inside. The overall structure looked like it was climbing up not just floating up. All this while the cube kept its perfect cube shape and continued rotating without attachment on the same end of the other object it always stayed in configuration with.

This continued until the object was quite small and as high up as the air space normally traveled by a stunt plane pre-jet. At that height, it appeared to resume the shape originally seen during the lift and turned the cube end west ward. Originally the cube end was facing the south. With the cube facing west I could only see the bottom of the purple rectangle and the back end of the original purple grey rectangular larger object. At this point, the objects took off at a vastly increased speed, while not as fast as a jet air plane it was noticeably faster than any derrigle I have ever observed. The rate was possibly faster than a private beechcraft plane going approximately 120 miles an hour or more. My brother owns one and I have flown as a passenger in his plane before.

I have never seen anything move like this before, constructed like this before, change shape like this before, and my husband and I do not believe the objects were man made.

We do believe it was some kind of surveying unit or probe for close observation of the environment. Something like a mobile environmental collector.

The area is close to the Balcones fault line, the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, Canyon Lake area. So there are geographic anomalies close by. San Marcos River is entirely spring fed from the Aquifer.

Close in calendar time, we read an article about the US Government considering budgeting funds for high flying spy derribles. However, this was before that project was funded because the news story stated lobbying was going on to obtain support for a bill in Congress to fund the spy derrigibles. Such spy derrigibles were to be extremely high altitude units.

The objects we saw flew close to the ground and in normal air space. They simply moved as nothing else ever observed and were constructed in a unique way out of unique materials.

It would appear from when we first saw the rectangular 3 D with rotating cube on one end that it had just lifted up from the lot behind the Auto Outlet and we had arrived at the frontage access road just as the slowly rising object topped over the top of the buildings. We did not take pictures. I do not know if my husband would consent to talking about this to anyone for fear of derision. I want to protect my anonymity because I am a licensed state professional.

Second first hand account My husband and I were driving into Austin Texas on I-35 and observed two grey apparently gas filled tubular shapes, the length of a standard pick up truck undulating in movement floating very close to the ground but never touching the ground, down I-35 next to a concrete divider wall (units for use while road construction is in progress), between Onion Creek and Town Lake. We both were amazed. The objects paced our vehicle perfectly, we were going about 65 mph because traffic was heavey in broad day light. The objects were directly in front of us and over to the driver's side closest to the concrete divider. Then we watched in total amazement as one object went straight throught the concrete divider having turned with the movement of an eel towards the concrete divider it had been traveling next to. The other object undulated sideways and up and over the top of the concrete divider unit and down the other side. Both left our view at that point. We both agreed they did not appear man made, had no seams. These two units were grey gas filled like tubes that undulated like eels and/or worms, were longer than a man is tall, and seemed to make decisional changes in direction and speed. They also appeared translucent, which the tow objects described in first hand account were definately not translucent at any time that we observed. It was almost as if the grey tubes were life forms. No eyes, no mouths, etc. The skin on these two objects did not look like any kind of fabric but rather like a membrane. The closest thing I can think of is imagine a picture of a cell under a microscope without the internal elements and cilia.

We did not take pictures. No camera on hand at the time. I am not sure that my husband would agree to talk to anyone and I am a licensed state professional.

Family related experience My California Aunt and Uncle (Uncle is now deceased) had a home on private land that adjoined the Tahoe National Forest. This couple owns more than one home. They had a hill top home with a sliding glass door and outside deck overlooking a forested valley towards Tahoe National Forest. They get so many grazing acre rights inside the forest for having land adjoining the forest. This is why they located there or so my mother has told me. One night they were both sleeping with the curtains open where they could see out through their sliding glass doors as they feel asleep. At the same moment they awoke to see a blinding white light fill their bedroom and the space outside the sliding glass door. As if mesmerized they felt drawn to go outside on the deck to try to discern the shape of the object and make out what it was. The object they told me later was huge and appeared to be round due to the light. They never could see the defined edges of the object because the brightness of the light never diminished enough to make out the actual edges. The object made no sound and drifted or floated towards the valley floor below them. After a while it appeared to land and the lights went out. When the lights went out, because they were out in the country there were no surrounding lights to reveal the ship. In the morning they got up determined to attempt to travel to a road closest to where the ship landed and to hike on foot to try to find the landing sight and see if the ship was still there. They wanted to know what was going on where the ship had landed. When they got approximately where they would have to pull over on the shoulder of the road and hike to the site, they saw a man that looked exactly normal from a distance. They drove right up to him, stopped and got out to speak to him. The man was dress in a white shirt, white pants, white belt, white socks, white shoes, all in white. His hair was soft and his face was unlined. The man was normal height and had black hair, black eyes with undiscernable pupils from the color portion of the eyes, fair skin like a caucasian and normal looking features. However the air there felt charged and something about this man did not feel right to my aunt and uncle. At this time my aunt and uncle were in their mid fifties. The man appeared no older than his thirties. He was lean and fit. They asked this man if he had seen the bright light in the sky last night and if he was there looking for what had landed. They asked him where his car was. The man was in the middle of no where so to speak and there were no other people around, no animals in view, no bicycles in view, no motorized vehicles of any kind save my aunt and uncles car. They asked him if he needed assistance or a ride somewhere.

The man at first listened to their questions but said nothing. When my aunt and uncle fell silent and stopped asking questions the man looked at them like he really meant business and told them that it would be in their best interest not to try to find the landing site, not to hike in the woods that day, not to stay in the area and that they should leave the area immediately. They left feeling not at all comfortable with the situation. Having driving less than a car length away my uncle said he stopped the car to look back towards the man to see if he had failed to observe anything else important. The man had simply disappeared from view. There was a distance of at least 100 feet or more between the road and the tree line of the forest and nothing man made or geologic for the man to hide behind. The man had simply disappeared from view. They said they never saw anything like this before or after this experience. They told me they were certain the ship was a UFO and the man was not a human born on this planet.

My aunt and uncle did not give me permission to release this information but they told it to me first hand. They did not take any pictures.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 43186
Occurred: 2005-02-24 13:30 Local
Reported: 2005-03-26 15:47 Pacific
Duration: 5 mins.
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Left a trail

Balls of Fire

I was with my cousin, walkin outside when we heard the sound of a glass breaking. We turned our heads the left and saw what appeared to be two circles of fire in the sky. We were in a shock because we did not know what had just happened. The UFO's did a circle in the sky then one of them streaked across the sky left a trail of smoke and disappeared. The other one hovered for about 5 seconds and streaked the other way left a trail of smoke and disappeared.



NUFORC Note:

Witness, a student, elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2005-04-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 41227
Occurred: 2004-12-21 06:30 Local
Reported: 2004-12-22 04:31 Pacific
Duration: 20 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos (Escondido, Rancho Bernardo), CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

enormous size blue ufo followed over 3 cities

started out on a ride to pick up a friend when i saw a blue glowing UFO with white strobe on top hovering over apart of the city in background at which i made my gf pull over and we watched for a min as it went further behind a mountain. a few moments later i said "lets go try to get close to it babe see if we cant get a good picture " at that point she said i dont want to be close to a ufo . but i convinced her to get onto the free way which we got onto and did not see this object we got off on a part of the city where it had a freeway overpass which i ended up seeing the object further down the freeway over the hill almost at the 78 freeway and 15 freeway merge at that time i found the disposable camera we always keep in the car we merged onto the 15 where it was going over a hill crossing the 15 south freeway slowing down cars before you hit the north county fair mall when object stopped moving accross free way and went back over near the hill at that point i tried taking a picture of it in distance which i am developing pictures tomorrow we tried to follow the craft for about 15-20 minutes then it disapeared behind some mountains in rancho bernado by the del dios highway behind some very dark black mountains... the object headed east from what apeared lake san marcos area and moved from that location almost over the cement companys area and then over del dios high school area then south towards mira mar over mountains me and my girlfriend do not know what to think of this instance because sightings in this area have been occuring more often and we believe people have the right to know.... thanks

Posted 2005-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40780
Occurred: 2004-11-25 23:30 Local
Reported: 2004-11-26 01:29 Pacific
Duration: 2 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos & Escondido, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

SMALL ORANGE LIGHT - flew low over Hwy 78 and then South along I-15 (nearly overhead) with seemingly no visible craft attacted to it.

I was returning home from a Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's family house. That friend was driving while I rode in the passenger seat, looking out the window and just checking out the passing landscape while we talked.

We were northbound on Interstate 15 at about 11:30pm. Just before we headed up the hill towards the city of Escondido, California, I spotted an orange light in the sky above the mountains. The reason it caught my eye is becaiuse the night sky was cloudy and the clouds were actually fairly low. So, I knew this light had to be very close to the ground. I looked at the horizon and quickly tried to determine whether or not what I was seeing was actually on a mountain or hillside on the horizon. As cloudy as it was, the light pollution was bright enough to darken the horizon and I could tell that this light was indeed in the sky.

Next, I tried to see if it was moving. At first, I couldn't tell because it was so far away. It could have been stationary, but after a few moments, not only could I tell that it was moving, I could tell that it was flying to the East. It appeared to be over State Highway 78.

The light seemed to slow and get brighter. It seemed to pick up speed, but I knew it may have been flying at the same speed, just now it seemed faster because it was actually coming our way. So, for this report, I wouldn't say it changed speed. I think it stayed pretty constant. As it got closer, I peered out the passenger window, as it was now off to the right side of the highway we were on.

I noted something strange. The light wasn't flying back West. I would have expected that if it were a plane coming in to land at a local airport. I live in this area and I know that there's a flight path leading back towards Palomar Airport. Planes sometimes circle over this area a take a Southwest bound approach towards the airport in Carlsbad, California. If a plane was making it's approach, the light should have cut back to the left and soon I should have spotted other lights. I should have seen a red or a green light, maybe a flashing light. I didn't. All I saw was a single orange light.

The light flew directly South along the I-15 now, just off to the Eastern side of the highway. I watched it first out the right side of the windshield, and then out the passenger window. It wasn't over the highway, but close enough to it that it was about to pass us directly overhead in a few moments.

My next thought was that this must be a police helicopter. I'm used to seeing a single red or a blue light, but not just a single orange one, so I tried to peer up at it as it passed overhead to see if I could make out a dark shadow of the craft's shape.

It was also as it approached that I was able to tell that it was flying really low and at a good rate of speed. I compared it to the traffic coming at us in the opposing lanes, all the traffic traveling southbound along the I-15 on the other side of the center divide. The light seemed to be moving just as fast, if not just a tick faster. So, I'd say somewhere bewteen 60-90mph.

It passed right by us and almost directly overhead. It passed a few blocks East of our position on the highway. With the low clouds and enough light pollution from the city of Escondido to make the clouds almost glow, I should have been able to make out a vague shadow of a craft attached to that light. We were definitely close enough now.

I could not. The light wasn't that bright, but even as low as the light was... that's all that appeared to be there. It was just a single orange ball of light up in the air.

I looked back over my shoulder as we passed the local ice arena. I couldn't believe what I just saw. I should have been able to see the shape of something, but all that I could see was a single orange light. I can't explain how I was able to tell that it was low, other than this. There's just something about the way you look at an object in the sky and if the background behind moves fast, then you know it's close. If it moves as slow or seems to hang with the background, it might be that far away. This light was moving by us, but there was enough of a contrast between it and the low clouds above it that I could tell it was fairly low.

My guess... I would say this was just 3 to 4 times above tree top level.

I don't know where it was going, but we were getting onto the 78 at this point and I no longer saw it behind us as the landscape soon obscured my line of sight with the light. I wonder how many other people may have seen it. I wonder if it had sound. I was traveling in a vehicle on the highway, so I have no way of knowing. The trouble is it really didn't stand out too much. The light wasn't very bright. It was about as bright as you'd expect for a normal navigation light on a plane.

Probably the only reason I saw it was because I try to be more observant of these things now. I've already had a couple of UFO sightings before. This wasn't the most specatular, but the fact that this was just a single light, with no apparent craft attached to it, was strange enough for me to post this here tonight.



Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40998
Occurred: 2004-11-25 23:15 Local
Reported: 2004-12-06 18:30 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Orange Light over Highway 78

I was alone outside on my deck looking up at the sky and east towards Escondido. I live directly under the flight path for Palomar Airport and I'm accustomed to seeing aircraft flying overhead as they make their approached. I looked up in the distance and I saw one little light in the distance. It was bright orange and appeared to be stationary or moving very slowly over highway 78. I was very puzzled what this could be? A plane or helicopter would have distinctive flashing lights, but this was just one orange light all by itself and no aircraft attached to it! After a minute the light seemed to drop in heighth and disappeared from my view heading in a southeast direction. I dont know if I saw a UFO, but it definitely was out of the ordinary and now I'm going to look at the night skies a lot more and keep my camera handy!

Posted 2004-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80666
Occurred: 2004-06-30 11:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-03-28 22:50 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute or so
No of observers: 2

Location: San Elijo Hills (near it, on a hill top), CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Interesting .. morning view of a small cloud like sphere.. close up over hot coffee.

Sphere composed of "cloud material" on a clear sunny blue sky morning. I had sighted it moving a fixed path at a small airplane, and close proximity. (moved through a valley in between our hilltop home and a couple other hills.) I had pointed it out to my roommate and he had witnessed it also. It did not waiver and kept a steady slow speed through the valley into the distance then disappeared.

Similar to the transparent sphere on your home page from a 2011 sighting of 2 people but more white than dark.

Friend was reading a book on opening ones self to "seeing" other worldly phenomenon. I had no idea of what he was reading until I had pointed out the ufo to him.. : ) He was on the page of how to prepare/clear your mind to accept these experiences.

All I needed was a cup of coffee on a nice summer day with a great view of the valley/ ocean...and a day off work..

Sorry for the late report. Had no idea of this site till today.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-04-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 37137
Occurred: 2004-04-17 20:30 Local
Reported: 2004-05-23 21:29 Pacific
Duration: 8 secs
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

Approx 5mph-900mph in 2 secs

I noticed the oval object as I left a near gas station next to my apartment. The object was close, did not have flashing lights but seemed to glow and had a 3 pointed design on the side. Moved very slow no sound and it seemed like it was watching me, as I pointed at it to tell my friend to look, it took off towards the distance at an impossible rate. There were two airplanes in the distance that were close to the airport which is about 40 or so miles away. It took the object about 2 secs to get from were I was to the airport and disappeared after it paassed under the airplanes.



Posted 2004-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34867
Occurred: 2004-02-04 16:20 Local
Reported: 2004-02-04 15:16 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 6

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Teardrop


Saw huge object less than 500 feet from ground started to emerge from overcast of clouds

We were smoking cigarettes on the back porch. One of us stood up and we all noticed it and turned. The sky is overcast. It was enormous. It made the entire block seem darker with its shadow. No lights or colors to it. Just a big black shadow. It seemed to be hovering slowly down to earth and then it flew up so fast it practically dissapeared. It had rounded edges but wasnt a saucer. It seemed to change shape but some of us disagree and think that it was rotating.



Posted 2004-02-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31248
Occurred: 2003-09-05 23:45 Local
Reported: 2003-09-06 01:28 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

I was leaving my friends house after swiming in the pool and I had one friend with me and it was about 1145 at night and i was fallowing my friend out of his neighbor hood when i looked to the east and saw this orange light to the east. The reasion I stoped and looked was becaue about 6 months ago I saw a light the exzact shape and color that was flying close to my house and acting very strage. I was watching this object and it just seemed to be moving around in maybe a circular pattern would be the best way to describe it but really no set path and then I saw it appear to drop stuff. The object its self is a bright orange ball. If you took like one of the lamps off a police chopper in the front but had a orange tint to it thats what this looks like and makes no sound. It was too high to be a chopper because my estemations it was at over 30,000 feet for over 5 min so it couldnt be a chopper because the air is too thin to run the engines that high. But it appeared to drop objects from the circle, the best way to describe it was it looked like slag (the hot pieces of metal that come off from welding) was falling off of it. It did that about 3 times then it dissapeared for about 30 sec to a minute then it came back droped another piece of slag then it dissapeared for good.



NUFORC Note:

We assume the witness means a date of September 5th, not 6th. We have amended the date above. We believe that the witnesses may have been observing Mars. PD


Posted 2003-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31025
Occurred: 2003-08-23 23:00 Local
Reported: 2003-08-30 09:56 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

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

Moving lights with very bright colors moving from horizon to horizon.

At approximately 10:50 PM I saw a faint blue hazy object in a westerly direction. I thought it was unusual and continued to watch and realized that it was moving in my direction. I watched the object continuously for about 15 minutes only leaving twice. Once to get my wife and the once to get binocculars. As it got nearer, the object appeared brighter (no doubt because of its proximity) and also other colors were evident. I waited too long to look at it with binocculars but when I did was suprised at the richness of the color. The "front" was a deep blue approaching violet. The center was a brilliant green and the back was a deep red. It was difficult to perceive any definite shape. There appeared to be at least a dozen lights within the colors but didn't appear to be the source of the color. It's important to note that the colors I saw didn't look like a reflection off of any kind of fusalage but rather appeared as a glow like one would observe from neon. The object made no noise, didn't change direction, speed or altitude. The lights didn't change in intensity nor did they blink. I am posting this after having read another post from my town around the same time. I think they entered the time wrong, however. http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/030/S30886.html Also, because of the time of the sighting and the direction it was going, I think the sighting of an object in Mt Laguan at 12:10 that morning may somehow be related. http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/030/S30871.html I do have a posting on the internet for the next morning at an independent source so it can be verified that I reported this before reading the the other sightings in the area.



Posted 2003-09-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 30886
Occurred: 2003-08-23 21:10 Local
Reported: 2003-08-24 20:49 Pacific
Duration: about 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

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

Bright green in formation --others smaller following.

It started out as 6 bright green lights in a round shape coming over the house from the Northwest heading toward the Southeast. As they were passing, at least a couple dozen more, but higher up and smaller came over and split off in different directions. The original ones kept going and finally disappeared from sight. But we could still see some of the others. We concentrated on a grouping of 5. They were pretty high, but we could still see the green color. They stopped and moved toward each other. Then they seperated and seemed to follow each other. Then they disappeared. Their speed was faster than an airplane, and on the right direction for a satelite.



NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with this witness, and we found her to be exceptionally lucid and objective about the sighting she and her husband experienced. We suspect they are highly credible witnesses. Also, we received another telephoned message of a sighting from the San Diego area, close to San Marcos, for the same night, but the witness failed to leave her telephone number, so we were unable to return the call. PD


Posted 2003-08-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25848
Occurred: 2002-10-15 14:00 Local
Reported: 2002-10-29 12:07 Pacific
Duration: momentary
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I was able to capture an UFO using still photography

Enjoying a day off from work, I hiked high into the hills above San Marcos, CA to take some informal Nature Photography. From a hilltop of approx 1300 ft alt. I observed to the east, a contrail that was an inturruped stream of "Puffs", I am an aircraft fan, and having seen the same contrail in preceeding weeks, photographed with my disposable camera, what I deduced was an experimental aircrafts trail. When the photographs were developed, I was suprised to see what appeared to be a winged flying pole. It did not appear to be connected to the contrail I had observed. I showed the photo to some at my workplace on 10/29. They told me the same object had been seen on a news story on local channell 8 news on 10/28. It appears to be an identical object.

Posted 2002-11-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25092
Occurred: 2002-09-16 04:15 Local
Reported: 2002-09-16 06:18 Pacific
Duration: 1 1/2hrs at least
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Captured on film 9/16/02 Southern California Sky

My friend called me outside after a flash of light in the sky caught his attention. Reluctantly I followed and I will describe it as a circular light that at times changes colors to red or green and it jumps from a spec of light to a very big flash of light and when it does enlarge for those brief moments there is a lot of detail that is visible. It almost seems translucent. My friend and I both had video camera's on hand which is strange in itself as we don't go around with camera's typically. My point is that we have never reported a sighting before and never went looking for this to happen but look forward to someone telling us what this is on our film.

One more detail to add is that when we both were looking in our viewfinders recording it...at times you would think we were zooming in and out when we were not. That is how much it would enlarge then shrink.

Posted 2002-09-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 24844
Occurred: 2002-09-03 02:00 Local
Reported: 2002-09-04 09:10 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

DANCING BRIGHT LIGHT SEEN TWICE WITHIN 2 WEEKS

ABOUT ONE WEEK AGO I WENT TO A FAMILY REUNION IN GLENROSE TX, IT WAS AT A CAMPGROUND SO THAT AT NIGHT THE SKY WAS CLEAR. I WAS OUTSIDE ABOUT 11:00 PM LOOKING AT THE STARS AND NOTICED A BRIGHT WHITE STAR THAT WAS MOVING. I FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A PLANE BUT IT WAS MOVING VERY ERADDICALLY ALMOST LIKE IT WAS DANCING, ALSO THE LIGHT APPEARED TO PULSATE MORE INTENSLY EVERY TIME IT MADE A DRASTIC CHANGE IN ALTITUDE. I CALLED SEVERAL OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS TO WATCH IT AND WAS ALSO ABLE TO RECORD THE EVENT. THE FUNNY THING IS THAT LAST NIGHT I WAS AGAIN OUTSIDE LOOKING AT THE STARS WHERE I CURRENTLY LIVE IN SAN MARCOS TX AND SAW THE SAME THING. I WOKE MY GIRLFRIEND UP WHO CAME OUTSIDE AND WITNESSED THE SAME THING. I DONT THINK THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A SATELLITE OR ANY OTHER MAN MADE OBJECT LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF ITS ALTITUDE,PULSING LIGHT AND DRASTIC MOVEMENTS. I HAVE ALWAYS HAD ONLY MINIMAL INTEREST IN UFOS BUT THESE TWO SIGHTINGS HAVE DEFINITELY HEIGHTENED MY AWARENESS OF THEIR EXISTENCE



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain anonymous. PD


Posted 2002-09-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51173
Occurred: 2001-07-20 23:00 Local
Reported: 2006-06-30 09:41 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was a cylinder that had 3 bright spotlights and moved too slowly and quietly to be a helicopter!

While driving home after spending the evening with my wife I noticed a very bright spotlight in my rearview mirror. We live in a remote , wooded area outside of town without street lights.We were on the last road to the house ,heading downhill when I noticed the bright light was above the tree line. I mentioned it to my wife at which point she suggested we pull into the drive and watch it.I pulled into our drive,still 100yds. from the house , and turned the vehicle and headlights off. The brightlight continued in a straight course directly toward us. By this time I'm thinking it has to be a helicopter. Oddly though we noticed as it got ever so closer there was no apparent noise. Just as the object flew directly over our heads many things were evident. It was not a helicopter,it appeared to be moving much too slowly. It not only had a huge bright spotlight on the front,but also one pointing directly downward at the ground as well as one pointing directly to the rear for a total of 3 spotlights.The spotights were increadibly bright! The craft was metallic gray/silver with protruding structures underneath like pipe work. It was cylindrical in shape with no obvious front or rear other than the direction it was flying. It was approximately 20-25 ft in length and 10 ft wide. It was moving from the South to North toward the Greater Austin area. It seemed to be traveling no more than 15mph. It moved so slowly it is hard to believe it could stay in the sky.The only noise I could hear was when it was directly overhead.The noise was a faint metallic clanking or moving of metal parts.It did not have blades or wings! It was no more than 30 ft above us just clearing the trees. The light was so bright we couldn't make outfine details of the craft. We watched it slowly cruise overhead and continue across the front of our property through the woods. The rear spotlight,just as bright as the others,was so bright that you could see the light penetrating through the trees until it was over the horizon. I remember the date so easily because my daughter was born the next day.



Posted 2006-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 5363
Occurred: 1999-01-18 02:00 Local
Reported: 1999-01-18 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour & 15 min
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted beams

I awoke suddenly at 2:00a.m. & looked out into the sky and saw what I thought to be a very bright falling star. It disappeard, & thought nothing of it. I looked out side again & there it was. What I though was the wind blowing the trees making it appear & disappear. Looked more like a light blinking off and on. There was no wind. I looked away & it was gone. I looked out side again & there was a bright light in a different place. I watched it & realized it was "hovering" and the light around it seemed to be circling it, as in movement, very high & moving a little, & asked my boyfriend to look. He also saw it moving. I watched it as is slowly moved out of sight.

The object was very far away & was very hard to tell what shape it was. There was a light that looked to be circling the out side of it, because it wasn't completely lit on what looked to be the top & bottom of it. It also seem to have a main light that circled it. It moved in up & down & side to side & hovering motions. The light would be very dim at times & very bright at others. It gradually, slowly moved in a wesward direction, on the same plane of travel.

Posted 1999-02-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 4593
Occurred: 1998-08-12 21:09 Local
Reported: 1998-10-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: about 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Marcos, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Friend and I were driving down the highway...moderate traffic. I noticed the aircraft first, it was hoovering over the freeway about 300-400 feet.. It was not so much a circle, but it had a solid line of red lights on the back of it. It had 4 bright white lights in the front with one brighter then the other 3. We pulled off at the next exit and came back around, by this time it was heading south pretty fast. The time it took for us to catch up to it, it was already gone. No moutain ranges so we would have seen it flying away but it was gone in less then 4 seconds. I don't know what we saw butt it couldn't have been military because Camp Pendelton was about 15 minutes North of us. The object went South, down the coast.

Posted 1998-11-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14903
Occurred: 1996-06-01 17:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2000-11-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

A Silver object, no sound, moving from North to South. It changed, glowed bright white and then just seemed to vanish.

I had been home from work about an hour or so, when I went on the back deck of my 2 story apartment. I saw a silver round object moving over the treeline rather slowly. I called for my wife to come see it, but she was in the bathroom. It was travelling from a North to South direction. I was close enough to see it had no "wings" or blinking lights as on an airplane. I heard no sound. Just saw it move slowly, the it changed to glow a very bright white, and I could not see its silver color anymore. It was coming from left to right and it flashed, and then was out of there. I could not track it with my eyes. It glowed bright, bright white and then it was gone.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2000-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86025
Occurred: 1991-09-27 01:00 Local
Reported: 2011-12-23 21:38 Pacific
Duration: 6-8 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle


Giant V-Shaped Craft

On the morning just sometime after 1:00 am, September 27, 1991. In San Marcos, Texas I was stargazing. The sky was very clear, although there was no moon out that night, the stars could be seen clearly. I turned my attention on a star within the Southwestern part of the nigh sky, at this moment, The star seemed to just "go out, like a light". I couldn't believe what had just happened, and immediately this captured my full attention. just then, I began to notice the other stars to left of the star that seemed to have just disappeared a moment ago, also began to go out one by one from my line of sight. I began to strain my eyes to better adjust them with the darkness of the night sky. There were some street lights nearby, but they were behind me at the time, and did not have interference. As I stood there watching the stars seem to continue going out like lights one at a time, I took notice of a large black silhouette in the sky, all I could make of it that m! oment was just a giant black mass, shape still unclear. The unknown object was traveling South, then it began to tilt, and turned towards the south, southwest, now, moving away from me, at the time it tilted to the right, I then noticed it's shape. It was a giant "V" shaped u.f.o. It had no lights, no sound. It was just a black Silhouette, V-shaped craft. My guess would say it was about 300 yards long, and about 1-2 hundred yards wide. A huge craft! I was truly shocked, and amazed. I thought to myself it was larger than entire football stadium. It drifted silently a few hundred feet above the trees, totally silent, A capitol class cruiser. I don't know why, but this thought just came to mind; "A capitol class cruiser" . That night in particular, there was a new home improvement store opening on the opposite side of the highway from where I was when I encountered the sighting. At that time, there were two searchlights used as an attraction for the new building. To me, the c! raft seemed to be heading over the highway, as if to be attrac! ted to t he traffic on the road. But the way it suddenly pitched to the right, away from the highway, it now seemed to me as if it was trying to avoid the searchlights which were still in operation. I know what I had seen that night. And I know it was not man -made, and it was not from this world. I have spoken to only a few people about this incident. And it has been years since I have mentioned this to anyone since then.

Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44613
Occurred: 1986-07-20 03:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-06-28 07:15 Pacific
Duration: 10 min
No of observers: 1

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Was looking at all kinds of sites that came up on the Yahoo web site. It talked about how people are looking at UFO sites. It reminded me of a something I saw in 86.

A friend an I were by San Marcos TX. fishing at a place called 5 mile dam.

I was really early id say about 2-4 am. The dam has a huge cliff on one side of the river. While fishing at the furthest part away from the dam, I saw a large square box, I could see everything on it as it hovered over the top of the water, it was huge, blk and gray. I could see lots of detail. at first I thought it was a weird aircraft that we were testing or something like that, no noise. I would guess it was the size of a foot ball field or just a bit smaller. It went over me and then went up over the cliff. This is weird because after reading some of your stuff a person in Texas saw the same type of thing. I was wondering if it was the same one.

I will never forget this. Haven't told to many people thinking they though I may be crazy. but it happened.






NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32734
Occurred: 1965-12-10 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-10-28 20:47 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 40

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

What happened on that buss in 1965, in Texas

Bus of Gary Job Corps trainees going to Houston for Christmas Hollidays; We were all excited about the "V" formation of Bright Lights comeing over the north horizon toward us, I was concerned about everyone shifting the weight of the bus, because we were all on the left side of the Bus looking out the window. We watched the lights go over the bus very high and fast, and as I looked around the bus, sudenly I realized that everyone was sitting in their seats, like nothing happened; I asked people if they saw that, but they just sat there with a blank look on their face, and would not talk for the rest of the trip to Houston.



NUFORC Note:

Date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 36144
Occurred: 1949-10-10 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-04-10 05:53 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: San Marcos, TX, USA

Shape: Cylinder


This event took place in early fall around 1949-50. It occurred after a Boy Scout meeting in the Baptist Church. The Baptist Church sits on a knoll with the parking lot below. The Church is a square building that rises about 100 feet above the floor of the parking lot and faces due South. There is a sidewalk in the middle of the parking lot that leads up a broad set of stairs to the front of the Church.

In Texas in the early Fall the days can be warm and then it cools down pretty good in the evening. After the Scout meeting my friends and I went outside and laid down of the sidewalk looking up into the clear star filled sky. Since the sidewalk holds its heat it provided warmth and permitted us to talk, look at the sky and be warm at the same time. We were talking about the sky and the stars and then one of us noticed a V formation moving from the top of the Church due South. There was no sound and our immediate reaction was that it was geese flying south for the winter. The formations kept coming at irregular intervals when suddenly one of us realized that the formation was moving across the sky at a rather fast pace and for it to be geese we would have heard them honking if they were low enough to be picking up the lights from the city. San Marcos in the late forties was a sleeply little college town and we didn't have a lot of city lights in those days. The Baptist Church was about two blocks from the city center. Another observation was that if they were high enough for us not to hear them then they were moving at a tremendous speed because they were clearing the sky from the Church front to the horizon in about 10-15 seconds. We had some pretty smart boys in that group who grew up to be doctors and lawyers, and scientist and we quickly concluded that what we were seeing was not geese, ducks, or airplanes. We had seen plenty of airplanes with the airbase in town and with the big bases in San Antonio. These were not airplanes. The formations were usually v shaped and sometimes there would be an outrider apart from the formation. They would enter our field of view from different tracks always coming from ourhead over the Church heading due south. Puzzled by the whole thing we went across the street from the Church and knocked on Mr ((name #1 deleted)) door and asked him to come out and see what he thought. Mr. ((name #1 deleted)) owned a grocery store in the neighborhood and we all knew him. He agreed to walk across the street and take a look. As usually happens the formations seemed to stop. Just as Mr. ((name #1 deleted)) started to leave a formation came over and we pointed it out. He studied it and another one that came over and then exclaimed - " I think those are what they call Cosmic Rays". We really didn't know much about cosmic rays and since the objects were luminous the "ray" idea seem plausible so we just said --Oh. We went back and casually watched the formations for a while and when they started to become less frequent we all went home.

Years later when we were much wiser we realized that what we saw that night was not cosmic rays. The ojects as I remember them were cylindrical and luminous. There was no blinking and the objects maintained even spacing and did not wander around like geese and ducks in formation. The light seemed to be reflected but since there really wasn't that much light to cast a reflection it is hard to say where the light was coming from. If they were low enough to pick up the lights of the town then the objects must have been very small and would give the appearance of geese/ducks in size at the lower altitude. Since there was absolutely no sound and the formation did not act like birds, my memory want to say that they were probably larger objects at a much higher altitude and were emitting their own light. Whatever altitude they were at they were moving very fast, even by todays standards of flight. To be at high altitude and move as fast as they were in clearing the night sky from Church to horizon would put them in the SR-71 catagory and we never had too many of those during their era. I don't even think an SR-71 going flat out at altitude could have cleared the sky as fast as these objects.

I am a retired Air Force General Officer. I am not a pilot but I have been around airplanes and high tech all my life and I cannot account for what we saw on that cool fall night in Texas. I would say that the IQ level in the group of boys there that night was in the top five percent and as I said earlier they all grew up to be very accomplished professionals. We were young but we weren't stupid.

I happened to hear Peter Davenport on the radio talking about not getting enough reports especially from the late forties and early fifties and decided to make my contribution. I would be interested in knowing what you folks make of it.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-04-27