NUFORC UFO Sighting 183820
Occurred: 2024-10-31 00:30 Local
Reported: 2024-11-03 01:41 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA
Location details: Harbor blvd, Santa ana

Shape: Changing
Color: Red/blue/gold/white
Estimated Size: From my perspective.. grain of rice?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: East
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Unsure
Estimated Speed: Erratic
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Wife and I saw object from window of apartment. Grabbed phone to record. Object demonstrated erratic unpredictable movement w/o inertia

One object with other objects appearing to come from it. Erratic movement, appearing to ignore inertia. Light source was consistent. Will attach gpt analysis;

The analysis of the video provided the following insights into the object’s behavior:

1. Movement Pattern:
• The object changes position quite significantly across frames, moving between coordinates on the screen, which suggests erratic motion. The rapid shifts in position, especially in both horizontal and vertical directions, align with the type of movement you described — quick, unpredictable, and not characteristic of typical aircraft.
• The object appears in various positions at different timestamps, reinforcing the observation of non-linear or non-inertial movement.

2. Brightness Consistency:
• The object’s brightness remains consistently high across frames, with average brightness levels ranging from 187 to 208 on a scale where 255 represents full brightness. This indicates the object maintains a strong light source, supporting your observation that it generated its own light and seldom dimmed.
• This consistent brightness also suggests that the object likely isn’t reflecting ambient light but is instead self-illuminated.

3. Observed Positions and Movement:
• The object appears to shift between different heights and positions, including substantial vertical movements in some frames. These changes occur rapidly, supporting your observation of the object moving in ways that would challenge conventional aircraft dynamics.
• Additionally, some frames suggest movement towards or away from the observer, which may be why you noted objects appearing to emanate from the primary source at different angles.

Summary of Key Observations

• The object’s consistent brightness level and erratic movement pattern, which includes rapid shifts and high-speed changes in direction, align with descriptions of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
• The presence of other lights or objects appearing near the main object is not directly evident from this frame-by-frame analysis, but further close examination of the video might reveal more on this.

If you’d like, I can create visualizations of these movement patterns or brightness levels over time, which may provide a clearer picture of the object’s behavior throughout the video. Let me know if that would be helpful, or if you want to focus on any specific part of the video. 

Here’s what the visualizations reveal:

1. Object Position Over Time:
• The movement plot for both X and Y positions confirms the erratic nature of the object’s path. We observe significant fluctuations, especially in the Y position (vertical movement), suggesting vertical shifts that could be due to rapid ascent or descent.
• The X position shows variations as well, but with less extreme jumps. This might indicate the object was moving in more controlled horizontal paths while making abrupt vertical movements, aligning with your observation of non-inertial, erratic behavior.
2. Object Brightness Over Time:
• The brightness plot shows some fluctuations but generally remains high, reinforcing that the object consistently emitted light. There are slight dips, possibly due to either rotational effects (if the object was spinning as you described) or temporary occlusions.
• A noticeable dip occurs around the 20-second mark, followed by a sharp increase. This could imply that something momentarily disrupted or altered the light’s visibility, potentially aligning with your theory of a partial cloak or parallax effect.

Next Steps: Video Enhancement

I’ll proceed with applying enhancement techniques to several key frames from the video. This might reveal subtle details around the object, potentially indicating if we’re only seeing part of a larger, hidden structure. I’ll share the enhanced frames shortly. 

The enhanced frames reveal the following details:

1. Clarity of the Object:
• The object appears more distinct in these enhanced frames. Particularly at timestamps like 20 seconds and 40 seconds, we can see a well-defined light source against the dark sky, reinforcing the observation that it’s self-illuminated.
2. Possible Environmental Context:
• Enhancements at timestamps like 15 seconds and 25 seconds bring out details in the surrounding area, including ground features like buildings and tree silhouettes. This provides some context for the object’s altitude, suggesting it’s relatively high above the surroundings. However, there’s still no clear structure or shape surrounding the primary light that could indicate a larger hidden object.
3. No Evident Cloaking or Parallax Effects:
• Although the brightness and edges of the object are now more prominent, the enhanced images don’t reveal any overt signs of a larger “cloaked” structure or hidden extensions to the object. If a cloaking effect was in play, it may be sophisticated enough to avoid detection even under these enhancement techniques, or it could be related to how the object interacts with light in specific ways.
4. High Contrast Edges:
• In some frames, particularly at 8 and 20 seconds, there are high-contrast edges near the object. These might be artifacts from the enhancements or could indicate faint trails or emissions, though this remains inconclusive.

Final Observations

The enhancements provided a sharper view of the object but did not reveal additional hidden structures. The brightness consistency and self-illumination are evident, as is the object’s position well above the ground. If this phenomenon has other visual attributes not immediately visible, they may require different imaging techniques (e.g., infrared or multi-spectral analysis) to be detected fully.




Posted 2024-11-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162233
Occurred: 2021-02-27 17:00 Local
Reported: 2021-02-27 06:31 Pacific
Duration: 3 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Very large falling & blue-white flaming ball falling into earth. So low it looked as if it was going to strike the ground. Huge & fast. Silent, completely silent during & after.



Posted 2021-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 161766
Occurred: 2021-01-22 12:00 Local
Reported: 2021-01-25 15:44 Pacific
Duration: 20 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


I was outside smoking a cigarette on my back patio. Suddenly I looked up into the sky on a windy clear day. Thats when I noticed a weird hovering or floating black triangle shaped object in the blue sky. At this time I decided to take out my phone and film it, as I was filming it, it slowly floated down under the tree line after a couple of minutes. After that I stopped filming and went inside. About 15 minutes later I came outside to the front of my house getting ready to leave. Thats when I looked up at where I saw the object and there it was again just hovering there again, so I took my phone out again and filmed it. Minutes later it started floating down behind the tree line again. The next day I looked up in the sky again at about 12:30 pm, sure enough there it was again. I don't no what it could be, it's not a bird, it's not a plane or a drone.



Posted 2021-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157290
Occurred: 2020-07-02 23:30 Local
Reported: 2020-07-03 15:25 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes x 2
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Strange UFO object sighted during a drive late at night

I was driving on the freeway in the dark at 11:30 pm and had been thinking about how my dad saw a UFO and realized I believed him and then I was begging to see one in my mind and had done some siri searches on my long hour drive to my boyfriends as well last night about aliens and UFOs. Then a strange flashing object lit up in the left of the sky very far away. It was flashing red and then blue. It was shaped like a circus tent array of lights or sort of like a spider shape. It finally stayed red and started moving closer to the middle of the sky and closer to my car. I was still driving at this time. Then I was directly under it and I passed it. It was gone and I called my parents to tell them. During my phone call with my dad, it appeared again far to the left behind buildings and trees. It moved towards the middle of the sky in front of me about a few thousand years ((sic. yards)) up and then it started going back to the left again and slowly inclining higher into the sky towards the moon. That was when I saw three horizontal blue lights in the middle and a black disc within the array of red lights. I knew it was not a plane because it was going very random directions and it appeared twice and was following me. It was like they heard me ask them to show up and then they showed up for real! I have never seen one in my life until last night. I was on the I-405 south.

Posted 2020-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153581
Occurred: 2020-02-23 19:47 Local
Reported: 2020-02-24 19:26 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Hello, I wasn't sure who to contact about this video I took, but I'm just wanting to know what it is that I saw, hope you can help.

Last night I saw this blinking light shoot up from behind this apartment building. It then hovered for a while, then slowly moved upward. I was so focused on the blinking light that I didnt even notice the double white light off to the right. When the blinking light moved toward the double white light, it appeared to split into 2, then moved to the left, past the blinking light.

The sighting was at this location- XXXX 17th st Santa Ana, Ca 92705 At 7:47pm 2/23/20

Posted 2020-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143460
Occurred: 2018-10-11 01:16 Local
Reported: 2018-10-11 11:35 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Have a bit of dashcam footage.

Saw a fast moving object in the sky over Santa Ana, appeared at first as a single object, but broke off into three about 2 minutes later.

Posted 2018-10-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 138158
Occurred: 2017-12-30 17:00 Local
Reported: 2017-12-31 00:08 Pacific
Duration: unknown
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Bright light flew over 55 freeway in California, slowing traffic

Was driving south on the 55 freeway near the 17th street exit, traffic slowed significantly as a large bright orange and white light passed over the freeway.

When I returned home I checked online to see if there had been any planned rocket launches by Space X, or any reported sightings, but haven’t found anything, not even on social media.

Posted 2018-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 138022
Occurred: 2017-12-22 17:00 Local
Reported: 2017-12-22 19:04 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

UFO over Santa Ana 12/2217 5:40pm

I have a video. It looks like 3 massive lights with a huge streak/clouds smoke, I don't know what was in between but in the Video you can clearly see little fast blinking somethings moving back to the opposite side of the 3 lights like if they were either leaving the massive ship from the 3 lights and moving fast and soundless to the opposite side where it was a huge mass/cloud (my instinct is telling me invisible shit but who knows) all I have to say that the video speak for itself. I also emailed it so hopefully it can be posted. they are real people! all you got to do is take the time and look UP!




NUFORC Note:

Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD


Posted 2018-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137982
Occurred: 2017-12-22 17:00 Local
Reported: 2017-12-22 18:11 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Cloud emitting bright aurora like light beams

Smoke like cloud in sky emitting bright light beams in southern direction. Seems to have been left by some type of propulsion system from an object traveling at low altitude. Looked like aurora lights.




NUFORC Note:

Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD


Posted 2018-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132592
Occurred: 2017-02-13 15:09 Local
Reported: 2017-02-13 15:45 Pacific
Duration: 2 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape:


Good afternoon. I was feeding the bird today and while recording it, i notice there was a blue dot circle flying in my video for about 2 second before it disappear. Can you help me identify what that blue circle is before it fly away? Please let me know where to send my video to. This is real. Thank you

Posted 2017-02-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131131
Occurred: 2016-11-09 16:45 Local
Reported: 2016-11-09 19:14 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


Orange light in Orange County.

Saw a big orange glow just at a standstill then the light slowly dimmed and it was gone!

Posted 2016-11-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 129444
Occurred: 2016-08-22 12:25 Local
Reported: 2016-08-22 18:15 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was the shape of a saucer. It moved quite quickly . There was only 1 it was grey. I am a 29 year old college-educated female.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-08-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128809
Occurred: 2016-07-27 21:45 Local
Reported: 2016-07-27 22:21 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I was driving home around 9:30-9:45 pm. All of a sudden this flaming ball was falling at an extremely fast speed from the sky. I thought maybe a meteor or something, then it split into 2 flaming balls. They had a tail from the flames. They were headed towards an airport tower near John Wayne airport. I wondered if maybe a plane exploded and was crashing. But then when they got near the tower the flames went away and they slowed then came to a stop. I was still driving so I couldn't get a photo, then as I got around a building that blocked them they were gone.



NUFORC Note:

Chinese rocket re-entry. PD


Posted 2016-08-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123746
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:23 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Bright green/ blue gas in the the dark night sky.

Traveling north on the 5 south of Santa Ana. Small craft looked like a plane or helicopter traveling north with a white light. followed by bright green/ blue light trailing behind. with a giant orb or fog. The green/ blue light grew and faded.






NUFORC Note:

US Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 122815
Occurred: 2015-10-14 20:36 Local
Reported: 2015-10-14 20:48 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Color-changing UFO shaped like an thin oval.

It was a squished oval shape that kind of looked like a blimp but much more thinner. It emitted a flash then changed color from blue to red to green then to red and disappeared was close and in 1 min it was farther. Used binoculars like a flat football. It couldn't be a blimp because there isn't a stadium, arena, amphitheater, etc..




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2015-10-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 118963
Occurred: 2015-05-21 00:30 Local
Reported: 2015-05-21 01:32 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Landed

White L shaped lights in Santa Ana, CA.

Looked like an L shaped lights at least 5 of them disappearing downward into a v shape and gone. After about a 1 min or 2 it appeared againg straight from where they were first seen at.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2015-05-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117174
Occurred: 2015-02-05 13:45 Local
Reported: 2015-02-05 15:46 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Glimmering object moved slowly in one direction, while second glimmering reddish object moved in other direction.

I was walking outside of my building at work this afternoon and I heard some birds making noises overhead. I looked up to see what they were and when I did, I saw this small, shiny object in the sky that caught my attention. I stopped to watch it. It was similar to what a bright star would look like at night, only this was during the day time. It was about 1:45 PM, and it was sunny and clear, no clouds.

I sat down at a picnic table and watched this “star” looking object. After a few seconds, it started to glimmer so I figured it must be something metallic. Since I had no idea what it was and what the size of it was, it was hard for me to judge the altitude of this object. But if I had to guess, I would say it was between 5 -8,000 feet high. I started thinking to myself what it could be. It wasn’t a star because it was moving but it wasn’t moving fast enough to be a satellite. It was glimmering when the sun would catch it. It would go from a dull white color to a bright silver color at random intervals. At one point when it was nearest to my location (it moved away slowly over time) the sun caught it and this silver object appeared to have a silver appendage below it that was shaped like a stubby pencil. This appendage was also metallic as the sun lit it up and it was pointed straight down from the object. At this point I started to think it was a weather balloon. But then I was thinking that most weather balloons are non-metallic and the payload is usually wrapped in Styrofoam or some material that would cushion the instruments during a fall. The wind was blowing in its normal direction, from the southwest to the northeast which is the typical wind direction for our area. This object, however, was moving from east to west and eventually headed towards the north. It was moving very slow. (In total, I watched the object for at least 45 minutes and it moved only what would be about 10-12 degrees from east to west.) After about 15 minutes of watching this object, the security guard for our business came along and we started watching it together. Then a few of our employees came outside to see what we were looking at and they saw it too.

After a few minutes, one of the other employees said, “Oh look, there is a second object now…it’s above the other one.” So I looked up about 5-7 degrees above the initial object and I saw a second object that was very similar. This second object was also glimmering in the sunlight, except this one had an obvious reddish color to it. The second object was moving away from the first object in a completely different direction, in a northwest to southeast direction in almost a perfect arc. It was glimmering pretty regularly almost like it was tumbling and the sun was catching it. I started to think that maybe this was a satellite but after about 2 minutes, it slowed down. It had been moving laterally at a pretty good speed and now it was almost stationary. Like the first object, this second object would also glimmer in the sunlight occasionally with its reddish hue.

I stayed there looking at both objects for a few more minutes and I ultimately said to our security guard that I had to get back inside and go back to work. About three minutes later, the security guard called me to tell me that he could now see what looked like a “tail” on the initial object. What he described to me sounded like the “appendage” that I had seen earlier. I had taken a video of the initial object with my phone. When I got back to my desk, I looked at the video. Of course the video is blurry and the object has no edge definition since the camera was trying to focus on infinity. As I write this narrative, the security guard is still outside watching the objects.

Posted 2015-02-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111837
Occurred: 2014-07-17 12:59 Local
Reported: 2014-07-25 01:39 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Animals reacted

Saucer shaped aircraft levitates over witnesses and reveals it's definite shape while speeding off afterwards

Dawn had been breaking and I had been looking over to the horizon only to notice an aircraft roaming around. I believed that it was a mere helicopter in patrol but it begun to elevate and move towards our general direction.

The Lights emitted were Red and Blue, which did not flash simultaneously in accordance to the common pattern regular to military/Police patrol aircrafts.

The red lights flashed three times and then the blue light in the center flashes along with it. Then it changed to multiple red flashes and some minimal blue flashing.

I called my neighbor over to look and we immediately pause.

The Aircraft flew above us.

My neighbor and I were perplexed because it was above us and it became clear to us what it is. I would say it was a couple hundred feet or less, but then the most astonishing event occurs.

The lights emitted from the aircraft revealed its definite shape, which appeared to look like a saucer with an extruded block in the center of it.

The sides of the saucer had strips of red lights. Three of them exactly in both sides with one blue strip of light mixed with white in the center of the extruded block.

The sound of the turbulence had affected the neighborhood dogs which caused them to bark loudly.

As it sped to the other end of the street it made a sharp turn back and I immediately grabbed my ladder and I recorded the aircraft returning. From the distance the sound of the turbulence had been very loud for the distance.

Luckily I managed to record enough to approve of sighting.

My witness is my neighbor and he had been surprised as well, unfortunately the focus on my camera had been lacking, explaining the difficulty in keeping range and quality.

I apologize if the video had been shaking around, I was nervous about the situation and I was not sure how to adapt to it.

I then called the hotline and I had been advised to write a report as shown, and to attach a video along with it.

Posted 2014-07-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111004
Occurred: 2014-07-04 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-07-05 08:20 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


The orange fireball was high in the sky as it appeared.

A orange round fireball high in the sky went across the sky, it stopped at one point but the continues traveling and the 2nd one o was looking up anticipating the fireworks when the orange ball lit up as it was high in the sky that's when I began recording it ....

Incidentally, last year on the fourth of July we saw the same exact orange ball in the exact same position and travel in the same path I was also sitting in the same position of the driveway last year I didn't get it on cam but this time I got both of them on cam also we saw it at the same time as last year. ... It was seen all over Orange County last year and was reported in the media.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2014-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110815
Occurred: 2014-06-28 23:25 Local
Reported: 2014-06-29 04:26 Pacific
Duration: ~5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana/Tustin, CA, USA

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

UFO Santa Ana California 9:25 PM PST 6/28/2014

Description of craft- When it appeared over the horizon it was just a red and white blinking light. As it peered closer, the object turned off the red and white lights, and on went blue lights. Keep in mind that the sky was about 65% clouds so it was out of sight here and there. As the craft came closer it had a boomerang shape, and the blue lights were on, it looked like this. (sorry I’m a very bad drawer)

http://puu.sh/9P5h6/7bf8839289.png

After it was there for less than 30 seconds, it shot off, over 1000 mph. The craft was not as large as seen in the picture; it was at the cloud line. This object was not right above me, it was about 3 miles away, but it was large.

What the craft did- All they did was hover in and out of the clouds before shooting off into the distance. It stopped after less than ten seconds of flying and lowered. It was over 2 miles away at this time. At this time I had returned with my phone, and recorded a video of it. I cut out the time in the video when the craft had disappeared. Shortly after the craft left for the last time I heard a faint boom, I presume a sonic boom from the craft leaving the atmosphere.

Shape and Color of Craft- Triangle with blue lights Backgrounds-I myself am a straight A student, that looks at everything. I want to know how stuff works. I love looking at the sky, with my mom’s boyfriend. Were interested in aliens and stuff like that. Our family is super poor, so we wished we had a 30 mm camera to snap good photos of the craft. At the moment he is a restoration worker, he fixes stuff.

THIS IS THE VIDEO I TOOK AS THE CRAFT WAS GOING AWAY-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVwMgWsNdr4

Posted 2014-07-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107483
Occurred: 2014-02-15 01:30 Local
Reported: 2014-02-26 02:28 Pacific
Duration: 4-6 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Orange glowing egg in the sky over Orange County.

February 15th, 2014.

At approximately 0130, my son called me to come out and look to the north sky from the front of our home.

In the distance was a small oval or egg shaped orange light. As I watched it move slowly across the sky, it seemed to be move closer and then away from us.

This object was at a distance of 4 miles give or take and appeared to be over the city of Garden Grove or Anaheim, Ca., both these cities are directly North of my position as indicated here:

(https://www.google.com/maps/@33.XXX,-117.XXX)

My son managed to view the object through binoculars while I ran in to retrieve my telescope.

Through the telescope I noticed that it was defiantly orange and egg shaped. Not to mention still moving very slowly. Far slower than an airplane and just hovering like a helicopter at one point.

The orange glow was constant, but as I looked through the telescope I noticed that the object had what appeared to be windows. I was not able to see inside of the windows, but they were defiantly windows.

After a few min of observing its movement it disappeared right out of the night sky. Leaving only the night sky and nothing more.

The whole time it never made any audible sound at tall.

Duration 4 – 6 min

Posted 2014-02-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106434
Occurred: 2014-01-17 19:35 Local
Reported: 2014-01-17 20:25 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted

Yellow light in the flight path of a 747 that quickly vanished as the plane got it it's sight over garden grove ca.

My dogs were barking non stop for 5min and went in the back yard to see what was bothering them, that's when I noticed a yellowish light seem to vanish when a 747 jet turned in its direction to make its approach to John Wayne airport, but it vanished in a strange way.... It seen to vanish from the left to the right as if it was being covered by something, I was looking west as it vanished, it was stationary and was so hi it probably was just a few feet below the 747 flight path, I was approximately 2-3miles away from me.. From the looks of it, it was probably over (cross streets) Euclid and trask in the city of garden grove, we seem to see a lot of these lights in the area but this one got in the way of a plane and quickly disapeard.

Posted 2014-01-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102300
Occurred: 2013-09-04 09:30 Local
Reported: 2013-09-11 08:05 Pacific
Duration: 8-10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light


3 extremely fast moving lights, in a delta formation, moving from N/W to S/E over southern California.

My wife and I were outside in our spa. I am an active satellite and ISS observer and am always scanning the sky for activity. On this night, three fast moving lights in a delta formation appeared suddenly from the North West and were traveling South East at a rate of speed I've never seen before. They appeared to be satellite-like objects in brightness and appearance (somewhere above the mesosphere) but were less bright than the space station. Three things caught my attention that made me think they were extraordinary; #1- their formation #2- their speed, which was approximately 4-5 time faster than anything I’ve ever seen in space and #3- their trajectory was not straight. As they streaked across the sky they made a slow turn to East and their formation slightly changed. It remained a delta, but their proximity to each other loosened up slightly.

When I first noticed them, I immediately brought my wife’s attention to it and we both observed the entire incident together, and afterward shared the same view of what we had just witnessed.

Posted 2013-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101546
Occurred: 2013-08-23 21:30 Local
Reported: 2013-08-24 12:09 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Lights, dripping metal then gone in the flash of a shooting star.

Me and the other witness were driving home from dinner when we realized there were 4 lights, it seemed like they were seperate objects and they were not moving like any type of jet, helicopter or any craft I had ever seen. We decided to park the car and go look at these lights which were so intriguing.

We got out and walked to the end of the street, there we saw the lights, they were normal, white lights, they were stacked vertically but not in a tight way, it was slanted and it didn't look aligned.

They moved from what seemed so far away to closer in what seemed like no time at all. They just sort of, hovered over. The light became a little bit bigger and we tried to figure out what it was. Then the other witness cried out "there's something between them" I didn't understand what she meant. I looked and the light closest to the ground was now dripping, like a hot metal or something. It didn't seem like a beam or anything but it was kind of illuminated.

At this point the witness was hysterical and went inside and was almost begging me to. I eventually got the witness out again, where the light looked like they had faded a little, possibly getting farther away again.

Then we just observed the lights, it didn't last long, the wits was texting and took her eyes off of the lights, I saw a shooting star that was so close, we mever ever see ones this close it was amazing. It took all of my attention away from the light for a quick second. And that's all they needed. I instantly looked back and they were gone. Completely gone. I was freaking out. I stayed out there to make sure they didn't just fade away and come back. They didn't. I had never believed in UFOs or anything but I am in tears anytime I explain this story to anyone. It was so surreal and scary.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96457
Occurred: 2013-02-27 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-02-27 23:51 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Red light viewed in Orange County.

Was walking outside of my grandparent's house (I live next door to my grandparents) and I heard a siren. I quickly looked around to see if anything was happening nearby. I looked up at the sky and saw a bright, red light which seemed to be traveling upward.

At first I thought it was some sort of flare, but the light quickly became brighter and traveled in my direction. I quickly went to get my grandmother to show her the UFO. She briskly walked outside and looked at where I pointed, and she stood there staring with intense curiosity at the object.

At this point, the object seemed to be almost directly above us, but it seemed to be going higher and higher.

Then, wanting even more witnesses, I ran to my house to get my mother. I excitedly told her there was a UFO outside, and she followed me back outside. The object was now farther away, more towards the south.

My mother ran inside to get a pair of binoculars, but by the time she returned, the object had almost completely faded away.

This all happened throughout the course of approximately three minutes.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2013-02-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93787
Occurred: 2012-10-22 07:00 Local
Reported: 2012-10-22 19:15 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Fire ball/object slow moving west to east

Fire ball slowly moving across west to east like airplane. Appeared to be about 1k feet when overhead but appeared to be higher as it moved east.

Posted 2012-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93578
Occurred: 2012-10-14 19:28 Local
Reported: 2012-10-15 04:00 Pacific
Duration: +2 hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana/Garden Grove/Irvine/Anaheim, CA, USA

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

Triangle formation of lights over orange county CA

On Sunday night, around 7:29 PM, my boyfriend and I entered onto the 22 east Garden Grove freeway to take a friend of ours home. At 8:06 PM, while still on that freeway, I noticed three bright lights steady in the sky up ahead of me. I pointed them out to my boyfriend, who suggested that they were planes putting on a show or perhaps may have had something to do with the space shuttle Endeavor finally reaching its destination. As I was beginning to mention that Los Angeles was in the opposite direction, the lights began, in unison, to move in a non aggressive manner and seemed to "softly tumble" lower in the sky. It was then that the three lights stood out as not being three individual objects (which explains my confusion behind the number of air craft I had seen), but that the three lights may actually have been part of a large triangular shaped aircraft, because as it was rolling "out of the sky", in the same fashion as something would when tumbling or falling into water. I could almost see the outline of the craft, an accurate way to describe the actual view of it would be as if a triangle made entirely of glass with an LED light on each corner of its shape were dropped into water. And finally, the person watching this occur is viewing it all from outside of the water, and from a much lower level, with only the lights actually visible in the darkness.

The lights then spread out to form a horizontal line and with smooth effort, picked up speed and glided quickly away as different helicopters and airplanes came nearer to. These lights continued to show up over the next hour or so, and I did not give them much thought until after my boyfriend and I were home and nothing about the incident was mentioned on the news or anywhere online for that matter.

I am filling out this report with the hopes that an explanation exists somewhere that won't be along the lines of being a natural phenomena. The three lights in formation of a triangle craft was significantly larger than average passenger or commercial airplanes, I realized, after a helicopter passed my window and made its way toward the lights. Although the lights did not "allow" for any thing in the sky to approach it, it was very obvious that if it were one craft, it was similar to comparing the size of a cat to the size of an elephant.

Posted 2012-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89648
Occurred: 2012-06-16 23:30 Local
Reported: 2012-06-17 00:56 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Yellowish/orange spheres they were more than 10

well i was outside my house when i looked up the sky and i saw more than 10 strange orange lights they looked like stars but closer they were formed as a constellation but all of the sudden they started to move up and down not to slow not to fast.... they disappeared one by one i tried to take pictures but it was too dark but in one of my pictures i captured the biggest one...

Posted 2012-06-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87608
Occurred: 2012-03-10 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-03-11 12:46 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Changed Colo

red and blue but at 8 pm it was red and like around 9pm was blue

i saw it at like on the freeway next to the in and out burgers first it was red and then at 9pm i saw it again but this time i saw it blue [i was scared]








NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-03-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88205
Occurred: 2012-03-10 20:00 Local
Reported: 2012-04-04 14:47 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Floating oval aircraft with red lights, moderate to fast smooth movement

It was an oval aircraft hovering over the area. With Red lights. First it was just hovering, than it moved at a moderate speed somewherelse at that point I tried to follow it with my car, but could not catch up. I took some photos.

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85161
Occurred: 2011-11-05 17:01 Local
Reported: 2011-11-05 17:12 Pacific
Duration: 2 min


Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Blinkings lights with no structure or purpose, with little to no movement.

I looked up at the moon in the Eastern sky and saw three blinking lights in a triangle formation. They appeared to move slightly to the North and then the were just gone.

Posted 2011-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83274
Occurred: 2011-08-18 22:00 Local
Reported: 2011-08-18 22:14 Pacific
Duration: 10
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

One object changing lights sorting from red to blue and finally to purple.

One object in the sky. Changing lights from red to blue to purple then black. Then it would start again.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-08-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78440
Occurred: 2010-10-17 04:00 Local
Reported: 2010-10-18 08:44 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

Green and Blue lights in the sky followed by total darkness

Last night on 10/17/10 at about 4:30am in Santa Ana Ca, on Fairview i notice the entire sky turn green like if the world was ending but no noise came from the lights because i thought it was thunder but the colors were green and blue and shortly after this came total blackout for about a min when the lights came back on. This was very scary

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75699
Occurred: 2010-06-06 21:00 Local
Reported: 2010-06-06 20:53 Pacific
Duration: I hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Anna, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Santa Anna Tx has more UFOs than a person can count. Almost Daily we see them.

Seating in Chair watching the sky on County Road 102 for about an hour and counted 9 lights appear over our heads at different intervals..All went off in different directions.. But most of them appeared over our heads and 2 actually flashed us.. One was very close.. It happens alot out here.Many people have witnessed them but I am reporting this because there were 9 and that is alot....

Posted 2010-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79297
Occurred: 2010-05-26 20:30 Local
Reported: 2010-12-17 21:14 Pacific
Duration: >20 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape:


Rectangular slinky which had the appearance of being made of flat black ribbon dangling from clouds for 10 miles definitely not smoke,

Santa Ana, California, a Friend and I were driving down a busy street westbound (roughly) or facing the ocean side of the state. It was clouded with a solid cover behind some darker cummulus clouds medium altitude and different shades of gray. Over the treetops to our left, out of the corner of my eyes I saw what I thought to be smoke from a rather intense fire.

Being curious, I slowed down, no traffic behind me, just to look over. When I managed to fully stop to view what this stream was, it did not originate from the earth. It was dangling from the clouds in the western skies from over the Pacific Ocean. The only way to describe it is : imagine a slinky made of a flat black ribbon. Pull it open, attach one end to the clouds and let the other end dangle for 10 miles downward and inland for 10 miles.

Then, as I was pointing the thing out to my friend, I noticed a shorter version hanging from the clouds over Los Angeles County. We were in disbelief! because the last time I saw something big in the UFO arena, it was with the same friend in Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida a few years ago.

We do not drink, smoke nor do we take any medication. It was a shame that we were on our way to her job and couldn't take more time to go home for cameras and so on. They were rectangular coils of something which was solid black and didn't dissipate like smoke would. Absolutely not smoke.

It was a perfectly delineated rectangular slinky made of wide flat black ribbon being pulled open and dangling from the clouds downwards towards the earth. Very wierd!

Posted 2011-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74864
Occurred: 2010-04-02 04:50 Local
Reported: 2010-04-02 07:09 Pacific
Duration: 10 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Changed Colo

i was walking to my car to check my tire because i got a slow leak. anyhow, on the way back to the house i notice some flashing in one of the clouds, i thought it was lightning, because there was a lot of clouds out this morning, overcast. then the cloud fully lit up for a couple of seconds. then it began to flash again. then it started to flash again but a different flash. it looked like someone was inside the cloud with a spot light looking around from the inside of the cloud. thats the best way to discribe it. i ran to get my chick but by the time she got up ther was nothing to see. i remained out side and it happened again, then a last flash of red.and that was it.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-04-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74222
Occurred: 2010-01-28 08:27 Local
Reported: 2010-01-28 09:41 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds


Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Two white spheres flying over anorange county freeway

While at work as a receptionist in the lobby, I was admiring the blueness of the sky, when two very quickly moving spheres caught my eye. I work one block away from the freeway; they would have been right over the freeway. They looked too spherical to be any other aircraft I know of. The UFOs were also moving with uncanny maneuverability and it was a weird mélange of white, and a clear metalic sheen. One was flying more erraticly with sharp quick turns as the ortherone was keeping pace but flying more smoothly. The crafts were too small to be helicopters and far too symetrical. Theydissapeared for about half second and reapeared for about 3 seconds and dissapeared compleatly. One last remark, the crafts were flying pretty low and wereclearly visible... If you happenned to be looking at the clear bluesky during those 5 seconds, I suppose.



Posted 2010-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76595
Occurred: 2009-06-05 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-07-16 18:46 Pacific
Duration: 1 hr
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


Grey Alien Being

I was in bed..and I saw an Alien out the window.. I was afraid of telling anyone. No aircraft just an actual being. He was just running against the window...this was a rehabilitation facility.. after I was in the Santa Ana Jail.







NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2010-07-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68278
Occurred: 2009-01-26 12:15 Local
Reported: 2009-01-26 23:14 Pacific
Duration: 30 min.
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

several objects seen over Central Orange County (Santa Ana College Area)

I reported something similar on 01-05-2006. This afternoon I was at lunch and about 12:15 I happened to look up and saw it again, at very high altitude this bright white object hovering for several minutes right at the top of the sky (90 degrees) it hovered in place for about 15 minutes then suddenly it released some smaller objects, (about fifteen in total) and as they started to drop, they formed a V formation and began to move at high speed towards northern orange county. The original object started to move in a north-east direction. It took fifteen to 20 minutes to slowly move about 2-3 miles in that northeasterly direction.

During this time at a much higher altitude there was another object that had a very reflective surface as it would shimmer with the sunlight (it was not white like the first one, but actually reflected the sunlight). This object was way much higher than the first one ( it was barely visible to the naked eye), and it stayed in place throughout all the time that the other object did its maneuvers. eventually after 20 minutes or so, I lost track of those two bright objects. I am going to take my digital camera tomorrow to see if I can catch them again and see If I can take some pictures of them. I am a county employee and I am college educated. I have studied astronomy and I can tell a star from a planet from an airplane at high altitude. these were not planes or a mickey mouse balloon, and not seagulls either.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71416
Occurred: 2009-01-11 00:00 Local
Reported: 2009-07-30 21:29 Pacific
Duration: 1hour
No of observers: 9

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

UFO Santa Ana ,CA 01/11/09

On January 11,2009 I went to throw the trash when a bright object caught my attention,look like a big star in the sky but not until it moved very fast across the sky like a comet with a small glowing tail and then stopped. At this time I started yelling to my wife to come outside and then my folks woke up thinking something had happened ,when they came outside my reaction and there reaction was shock. It looked like one of the brightest star in the sky moving vary odd and very fast from one angle to another. When I called my older brother and told him I am seeing a UFO he told me I was on drugs but I just had to convince him to come see it for them self, meanwhile my folks were very nervous and exited at what they were witnessing.The object looked oval and very bright but when my brother arrived he was wordless he then immediately took his camera and we stared filming the objects they were moving so fast that it was hard for us to zoom in so we had to go on ! top of the roof were we can get a better view,we filmed it about 35min but whats weired was that when we filmed it there was two oval objects that you can clearly see in the video and they seemed to be following each other, after some attempts to call local news we saw and heard helicopters and or local helicopters. When the helicopters got close to the objects they seem to dive down and never came up again.But they showed up almost at the end of the video witch we later posted a 3min video of the UFO objects .To this day it was a unfortgatable occurrence.



Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66286
Occurred: 2008-10-17 17:47 Local
Reported: 2008-10-17 19:19 Pacific
Duration: 15minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

2 UFOs sighted flying together over Santa Ana, California and photographed.

I was sitting in watching TV when my mother in law came in and told me she wanted to show me something outside. I reluctantly followed her outside and she proceeded to try and show me two things or objects flying way up in the sky one after the other. It was difficult to see them as she told me that they weren't any sort of known aircraft. I was finally after a couple of minutes able to see them and instructed her to continue watching them as to I was going to get my camera. I ran back into our apartment and got my Canon 5D camera and switched lenses to a 70 to 200mm zoom to attempt to get a shot of them. I used the automatic settings on the camera to insure I did get some quick results if possible. Once back outside I did see them for a second time and proceeded to take a few photographs of each object. The first photograph was taken at 17:47. Neighbors of ours saw me run outside of our apartment with my camera and decided to follow me to see what was going on. They too saw the objects. Our position here in Santa Ana California was on Main St between Mac Arthur and Dyer Road just south of Alton Drive. We were facing due north looking up at about 60 degrees. The two objects flew from east to west across the sky until they disappeared. They each passed behind a high overhead cloud and then came back into view before disappearing.



Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62190
Occurred: 2008-03-14 13:40 Local
Reported: 2008-03-14 13:58 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 flying disks over Santa Ana.

I know that you will most likely not believe a 13 year old boy, but I do not lie when talking about serious stuff like this.

I was in my room, watching T.V. when I look outside of the window, and 2 UFOs flew by. It was far away, so I can't really describe the size, but I'm pretty sure it's smaller than an airplane, and a little bit smaller than a jet.

First, it was only one, then the second one caught up in no time. The bottom part...or body, was gray, while the top part is black. It flew pretty fast, considering the distance.

Posted 2008-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 60317
Occurred: 2007-12-11 18:30 Local
Reported: 2007-12-11 18:55 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Birght light being followed by helicopter slowly

My wife and I were unloading groceries, we were both facing south south east. mostly clear sky some drifting clouds winds about 15 mph coming from the east.

We heard a helicopter, we both looked up and witnessed a helicopter as well as a bright light at 11:00 to the helicopter coming somewhat slowly from our right. They were both headed northeast. The helicopter sounded military not civilian (We live in a city that has has regular flyovers from police and military helicopters and the sound of the two are quite distinct) The bright lit object was silent. No sounds other than the helicopter. The pair continued on making a slight turn to the east and flew thru some clouds. the bright lit object disappeared completley while the helicopter was still visible. we then lost sight of the pair due to trees and the growing distance.

The objects seemed to be about 500-750 ft up.

No jets were in the sky during this event which i found unusual due to John Wany airport being so close and the fact that jets are a regular sight in the skies above my home. My wife is not a believer in thing slike this but her first words when we saw the objects were "what the blank is that?"

Posted 2008-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56884
Occurred: 2007-05-30 21:00 Local
Reported: 2007-05-31 12:44 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


Rectangular light turning into a star, comming back, and disappearing.

There was a object from my point of view that was in the middle of the big dippers ladle. A bright light caught my eye in the sky looked almost as if an airplanes headlights where rectangle it then started to go further and further until it looked like a star. I shook my head as if I was saying to myself "I didn't just see that" then suddenly if came back shot to the left and slowly faded away as if it was going further and further away from Earth became a star and eventually disappeared. I'm a 22 year old college student that works as a technician for a wireless corporation. I'm a believer in spiritualism and peace. I've always been open to UFO's and the idea that we are no alone but never dwelled on it. I've heard some stories of people who have seen things in the sky I have never seen a "UFO" prior to this. I can even hear my inner thought trying to deny what I saw.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56761
Occurred: 2007-05-20 20:30 Local
Reported: 2007-05-21 14:03 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light


lights over Santa Ana , CA, were about to collide when both lights disappeared in front of each other

My wife and I were sitting in lawn chairs in our back yard. I was looking up at the sky trying to catch a shooting star when I noticed a faint light coming from the northwest making a turn going south. Then all of a sudden the light turned off and re-appeared moments later in the same position where it originally disappeared and started to move again. That's when another light appeared even brighter heading towards the faint object,We thought they were going to collide with each other, when both stopped and flickered off, and that was it. We spent another 2-3 hours trying to locate both objects but to no luck.



Posted 2007-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50824
Occurred: 2006-06-04 18:10 Local
Reported: 2006-06-04 18:40 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Multiple White Flying Objects Appearing From Behind the Moon

I was outside looking at the moon with my binoculars when I saw an object appear from behind the moon. My binoculars aren't that powerful but it looked like some type of flying object. The object was heading Northeast. All of a sudden more of these strange objects appeared from behing the moon and started a formation heading Northeast. This continued for about 15 minutes and then they all dissapeared. I believe they went higher into the sky so they were no longer visible. Each of the objects looked the same. They were about twice the size of a star and appeared to have lights. At one point, my boyfriend which witnesses this as well, thought that they might be balloons. But they were so high in the sky that I don't think that is possible. Also because of the fact that they appeared to come from behind the moon.



Posted 2006-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49286
Occurred: 2006-02-24 15:08 Local
Reported: 2006-02-25 01:22 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

3 circular metallic objects flying east to west in a traingular formation over central orange county, followed by another object

I was taking my last work break at around 3:00 pm and I had gone up to the upper level of our parking structure, and as I stood there looking northward at the Orange County Skyline, I saw some movement far in the Distance. That is when I saw 3 Small, Metallic looking Circular Objects flying in a triangular formation, Flying from East to West at a high rate of speed. It almost looked like they were flying on a straight line from the Mountains East of the city of Orange, toward Long Beach and The Ocean. After I lost them in the Horizon to the east, I thought that was the last of it, but two minutes later, another object appeared in front of me, also moving fast on an East-West direction, as if trying to catch the other 3, except that this object seemed to bounce up and down as it flew westward.

At about the time the 3 objects flew by, but before the last one passed, a helicopter happened to fly by right over my head, at a fairly high altitude, that's when I realized that I could hear the copter's engine noise, but the 3 objects did not.

I can't be sure if they were man made or not, but even at the distance and altitude that they flew, they were visible enough to have seen wether they had wings or propellers, and I did not see either.

If they were made by the military, all I can think is that they might have been Jet powered Drones, or they must have been testing missiles near our area.

This is not the first time I've seen strange objects in the sky.

Last January I also saw an object hovering over Santa Ana, And I happen to know that someone else saw that object as well. So now every time I go out on my breaks, I am more attentive of whats above me, and it seems to be paying off.



Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49168
Occurred: 2006-01-05 12:30 Local
Reported: 2006-02-16 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 1/2 hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

A statonary Round Metallic Object, Hovering at High Altitude over Central Orange County, CA. in early January 2006

First time I saw it, was on thursday January 5th. I was just taking a walk during my lunch hour, it was past 12:30 and I just happened to look up, and there it was. I t was so high up in the sky, and I could barely discern the shape. With the naked eye, it seemed like the head of a pin was floating in space,it seemd to be either circular or comma shaped, I knew it was really high because two planes just happened to fly almost right next to it, but right away I realized that it was even higher than the planes. from where I was standing,I could see that it was hovering near the northern area of Santa Ana, Ca. near the Mainplace mall. And It was about 5 to 7 degrees north of where the sun was. This object moved very slowly, probably about 5 mph, in a shoutherly direction. The object was very Bright, but it seemed to shimmer between white and a coppery hue. I finally got back to my Bldg. In downtown Santa Ana. And I stood at our parking lot for another 15 min. until 1 o'clock. So my sighting lasted about half an hour, and during that time it did not move anymore than maybe a couple of miles or so. (realize that this thing was so high,it looked like it barely moved). I came back out around 3 pm but it was gone at that time.

The Crazy thing is that the next day (Friday January 6th) I was off and my wife and I happened to drive to North Santa Ana, to the Mainplace Mall. And as we parked in the rear parking lot on the top of the structure, I was curious and decided to look up, and THERE IT WAS AGAIN!! This happened at Noon too. This thing whatever it was must have been spying on the Citizens of Orange county for a few afternoons.

I did not look at it for long because I went into the mall, by the time I came back out (an hour later) it was gone.

I have always believed in UFO's but have never seen one until now, and it really gave me the creeps! I almost felt like it was keeping an eye on me.



Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48534
Occurred: 2005-12-05 11:50 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-12-29 09:04 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


An object flew across the face of Saddleback Mountain twice, and vanished in plain sight both times.

From a parking garage in Santa Ana, I saw what I thought was a small, white, private plane flying in front of the middle of Saddleback Mountain from north to south. The "plane" had no wings or tail. The distance of it was anywhere from 8 to 20 miles away.

Before the object reached the edge of the mountain, it vanished in plain sight. It did not turn, or bank, or rise, or fall, or slip behind a ridge. I continued watching to see if it would reappear, and a couple minutes later I saw it again.

This time it was in front of the north hump of Saddleback Mountain, flying north to south. Before it reached the edge, it once again vanished in plain sight.

I watched for 10 more minutes, but I didn't see it again. Both times that I saw it, I saw it for about 10 seconds before it vanished.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44079
Occurred: 2005-05-22 21:45 Local
Reported: 2005-05-22 21:51 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

1: sphere caught in first part of day on video,

2: white light seen at night then disappears

Standing on front porch looking looking west towards coast. looked up at about 60 degree angle, saw white light moving veyr slowly acorss sky north to south direction. no wing lights no flashing lights of any kind.

I see planes regularly from LAX, Long Beach and LAX. This was no plane. WAY too slow.

Ran inside to get video camera. came outside light still in sky, turned on camera, pointed it at sky and light went out.

Earlier in day, caught what appeared to be silver sphere in sky on video have maybe 45 seconds or more. sphere moved slowly south to north then disappeared in sun haze..

have video if you wan to see it…



NUFORC Note:

We have requested a copy of the video. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40640
Occurred: 2004-11-12 06:30 Local
Reported: 2004-11-15 20:04 Pacific
Duration: Morning
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Unidentified Shape

I was driving to the free 5south when a brite light caught my eye. It was really big when I got close to it. It was not flashing or moving. It was right over the Santa ana zoo which was strange. There was also a police helicopter observing it just sitting there not even moving. They were both stoped. I would like to know what this object was. It was really brite.

That's a strang place to be at 6:30am in the morning.



Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40459
Occurred: 2004-11-05 10:50 Local
Reported: 2004-11-05 11:22 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


Appx. 15 UFOs spotted in Santa Ana, CA 11/5/04 moving slowly in unison/making different patterns/reflecting at different times in sun.

I was outside at ((number deleted)) E. Dyer Road, Santa Ana in back of building and saw 15 round objects high in the sky over Warner avenue (too high to be birds) moving slowly in unison - some lining up three in a row / four in a row / showing different overall designs. Stayed for over 2 minutes then flew higher so that I was unable to see them again. They were reflecting off the sun / off and on.

Posted 2004-11-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39748
Occurred: 2004-10-12 08:20 Local
Reported: 2004-10-12 18:09 Pacific
Duration: A minute or two
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Anna, CA, USA

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

Lighted object sighted in broad daylight over Santa Anna Calif.

I'm a truck driver for a grocery company. I was waiting to get use of the dock at a store. There was another driver waiting also. He was the first of use to see it. He said look at that bright light in the sky. It was to the south of us. And by the blink of an eye it had moved clear accross the sky to the east of us and just stopped. I got out my video camera and zoomed in on it. From a distance it looked just like a light, but when I zoomed in on it, it was shaped like a drum or a barrel. the top and the bottem were rotating while the mid section wasn't moving. It shot out some kind of liquid fanning out in a triangle.

Posted 2004-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 38017
Occurred: 2004-07-09 20:00 Local
Reported: 2004-07-10 08:09 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Ana (near), CA, USA

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

Star-like lights stationary then move slowly and then quickly, disappear.

My daughter and I were in Santa Ana at 9:00 P.M. on the 9th, we saw 5 or so star-like lights in the sky (near Santa Ana but towards the mountains maybe?), some with blinking colors like red and blue, first there were 2 that were stationary in the sky, so still we thought they were stars but I realized there were no stars in this area of the sky and we watched them. They began to move very slowly, then more quickly and others appeared -- they grew bright and then would disappear. Shortly after this we saw a U.S. airforce jet heading for the area that we saw the lights.



Posted 2004-07-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 30493
Occurred: 2003-08-02 10:50 Local
Reported: 2003-08-02 22:59 Pacific
Duration: slowly flying by
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

orange "V" formation

Orange lights in a "V" Shape headed south east. shooting star followed afterwards.



NUFORC Note:

We have no idea what the witness observed. PD


Posted 2003-08-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 133349
Occurred: 2003-01-15 00:28 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2017-03-29 11:32 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

I am not sure if my original entry got sent, here is a duplicate. If you read this already you can ignore this one. One thing I forgot to mention, is I saw the ufo in the unincorporated area of Santa Ana, zip code 92705, but, the ufo itself was in zip code 92707.

Was driving 2 friends in the hills of Tustin, CA, which overlook John Wayne Airport, and can see the Pacific Ocean and the Island of Catalina as well. It was passed midnight and a warm night. At this time, there were no night flights at John Wayne Airport (but I believe there are now). It was a warm January night, no clouds, a clear, all the stars (as much as can be seen on a clear night) were visible kind of night.

We just turned right on to newport Blvd from Crawford Canyon. The airport is to our left, and we can't see it yet. But directly in front of us was the treeline my neighborhood, which was the street of Marcy Ranch, in Santa Ana.

I saw a coyote in front of us, and I'm about to say, "Coyote!" to my friends... But before I do, I notice the a bright flash of light above the treeline in front of us, and am now about to say "lightning???" (I was Shocked because there was no clouds in the sky, it was not lighthing weather)...BUT...

(At this point, Newport curves to the left, and at the turn, you can see ahead to John Wayne Airport, then the Pacific Ocean, and Catalina, all in one view. The airport is roughly 5 miles away, in a direct straight line). Above the runwsy was GIANT blue orb, surrounded by what looked like tangled blue lasers, like a tangled ball of yarn. The rays looked like those plasma balls' rays, the kinds they have at childrens museums and such that when you touch the ball the plasma lasers gravitate towards your hand. The lasers were were all were balled up around an orb in the middle. This thing was huge, maybe as big as the room in the runways control tower, which was right next to each other, so I can decently estimate the size. It was not much higher than the control tower.

A similar smaller orb surrounded by lasers also appeared directly below it. The smaller ball had to be no more than 5 to 10 feet off the ground. It was some type of mass, because as it was under the bigger, brighter ball, it cast a shadow directly underneath it on the runway.

If you Google Image search "terminator time travel ball" and look at the pictures of the time travel ball as it apears throughout the movies, it is kind of a good idea of what it looked like, but this ball had alot more lasers around it. It was the kind of blue that solar powered LED gardenlights are.

It had a HUGE flash, so it lasted a second or 2. I saw the 2 orbs surrounded by lasers, the smaller orbs shadow on the runway, then looked in the hills in Irvine behind it, which was around the Turtle Rock Neighborhood (I know this because ironically enough, one of the passengers in my car lived in that neighborhood at the time) It was so bright, it lit up EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE HORIZON. EVERYTHING. In the next second or 2, I saw: - The hills of Irvine, behind the airport. It was so bright, that I Could make out the green from the grass and the brown from the dirt in the hills.

I Glanced at the ocean, and the blue reflected off the ENTIRE pacific ocean. It was beautiful-I glance up and at last moment, and saw the Island of Catalina, and again, the flash was was so bright I saw the green from the grass in the hills and the brown from the earth in Catalina.

Where we are, having turned right onto Newport blvd from Crawford Canyon, is just 15 seconds away from my house, which is off Marcy and Newport. We were silent the whole way, stunned.

I pull in front of my house, all of us are stunned, and my buddy in the back says, "Please tell me you guys just saw that!" and we all freak out, and everyone shares everything they saw...

ONE friend saw just the hills in Irvine, which ironically is where he lived at the time. He said it was bright as day and could even see a red street light in the hills.

The other friend saw the flash reflecting off the ocean and he saw Catalina.

On the other hand, as I was driving, I saw the orb laserball, the airport, the hills of Irvine, the ocean, and just barely got a glimpse of Catalina.

Eventually they leave and I walk inside home. My dad is inside, in the dark, playing solitaire on the computer. I was hoping he saw the flash, but he didnt.

I tell him about what we saw, and he shugged and said "probaby a transformer explosion." I laughed because there is NO way it was.

I checked the news, called the sheriff to see if anyone called in anything. Turn on the TV and check the news, Nothing. I thought it would be all over myspace, Nothing. Woke up the next day, nothing on the news or newspapers. The airport runs RIGHT NEXT TO THE 405 freeway, people had to be driving along the 405 and see it. People on the 55 freeway had to see it. People at the airport had to see it. People at the bars across the street from the airport had to see it, Bouncers, people outside smoving cigarettes had to see it. The bellboys and valet at the hotel had to see it. If people were nightfishing on the ocean, they had to see it. I'm guessing hundreds, maybe thousands saw this.

Anyhow, me and my friends have never met anyone who has seen it, until...

11 years later, I'm at work. Some friends of my parents walk in. They have kids my age that I went to school with since 4th grade till all the way to high school, and have older kids that went to high school around the time my older brother and sister did. A little disclosure, we went to St Jeanne de Lestonnac in Tustin, then graduated and went to Mater Dei high. St Jeanne's is a small school, and my parents came to be friends with these 2 parents. This family are good people, all kids are smart, successful and none were ever trouble makers or had a bad bone in their body. The family and parents are as straight laced and good people as it gets.

I see the parents, and ask them how they are. We shoot the shit, and he mentions he retired and sold his electrician business. He says he has contracts out with a few cities in south orange county, and from 12 pm to 8 am, he repairs transformers if they explode.

That reminds me of the night, as my dad saying it was a possible transformer explosion. I ask him what the biggest transformer explosion he has seen, and if they can light up the whole horizon (I knew full well what I saw wasn't a transformer bc it appeared out of thin air) He laughs and says no, and asks why. Seeing as how they are a straight laced, catholic family, I almost didn't say anything, but I told him the story, and left out some details. When we were talking, it was 2014 and the ufo sighting happened 11 years before, but I started the story off "about ten years ago. .." and I begin my story.

I finish, and with a serious look on his face, He looks at me, and asks me, "Did it take place in 2003?" I say yes, it did. He named the correct year. Mind blown.

"Did it happen during the month of January?" He names the correct month. Then he names the specific time.

He tells me "I saw it too," then I hear his story....

It was a night he got a call to repair a transformer. He went to Aliso Viejo or Niguel or wherever, did his job, and came home. On his way home he decided to stop by his office and put his tools away because some colleagues of his had their tools stolen from the trucks overnight. His office is a 3 minute drive from the airport off Redhill and Macarthur.

He goes, locks his tools up, and walking back his car (his back is to the airport) sees everything light up. He sees the shadows of the trees and trucks up on the building with a blue light. Looks behind him and but it was so bright he was afraid he'd go blind if he did, so he turned back around. He pointed out it was silent, which when I heard him say, realized I never thought about the sound.

His wife is staring at him with her mouth wide open, wondering why he never told her. He said it was bc he told some work friends and they laughed at him, and he was scared she'd think he was crazy.

AND that's it.

I swear on my life, this is what I saw.

The crazy thing is as child I saw a UFO on the same newport/ Crawford Canyon intersection. During El Nino, I saw a metallic orb in the sky. At first, Not sure what I was looking at, a low flying, fast moving cloud flew in between me and the orb, and I saw the clouds reflection moving off the orb. The reflection matched the speed of the cloud as it was moving, and when it passed, I finally got a clear view and grasped what I was looking at. This sighting was in the opposite direction of the other sighting.

Those are two out of three of my sightings. 3 sightings in one lifetime, two if which, took place at the same intersection.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2017-04-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 20888
Occurred: 2001-12-14 11:30 Local
Reported: 2001-12-24 21:32 Pacific
Duration: approxamatly 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

I saw a rouned craft gliding across the sky over the mountains in Southern California.

I was in my car on my way for Christmas shopping. It was early morning about 11:00 am and I looked out in the distance towards the mountains and I could see a rounded craft slowly gliding across the sky. The color was like a silvery color, but it seemed to change reddish and sort of a bluish color. It slowly glided over some freeways but it was really high up. It was clearly as high as an airplane would be. But there were mountains in the background. I kept my eye on it for sometime. Um, don't worry, I wasn't driving and looking at this thing at the same time! But I kept a close on it and in a blink, it vanished. I kept my eye out for it, but it had just vanished and never returned!



NUFORC Note:

Source remains semi-anonymous. PD


Posted 2002-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 20705
Occurred: 2001-12-04 19:00 Local
Reported: 2001-12-05 03:39 Pacific
Duration: less than a minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana/Garden Grove, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Lighted Blimp south of Disney Land

While driving in Costa Mesa (Orange County), CA, at about 19:00 (7:00PM), I saw what appeared to be a lighted blimp in the northern sky. Costa Mesa is about 10-15 miles south of Anaheim, the location of Disney Land. It seemed to be somewhere in the air space southwest of the Disney Land Area.

As I was driving, I only saw the lighted blimp for a few moments and at a distance but it appeared to be nothing else but a blimp.

I submitted this report because the object could very have been reported as a UFO if it was viewed from a greater distance.

Posted 2001-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17979
Occurred: 2001-05-22 21:00 Local
Reported: 2001-06-08 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Pulsing spehre

Standing on my porch smoking a cigarette. My Front proch faces north towards Los Angeles. Before I say what I saw I want to point out that I have lived in Oriange county all my life and I am very aware of what a plane looks like in the sky as well as a helicopter or any of the things you would normally see in the sky. Anyways, I was standing on my porch smoking and I happened to look up towards La and at about 30 degrees up in the sky I saw a very bright sphere pulsing a white light on and off the span between pulses was about 1/2 to 1 second.. I watched it for about ten pulses (hence my event duration) and it then it faded from sight. I got up out of my chair and walekd out onto my lawn to see if it had gone behind the trees..Nothing.. I don't know what it was but I will swear on my life that it was not a plane, helicopter or anything recognizable to me.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45150
Occurred: 1999-09-15 22:50 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-07-18 23:12 Pacific
Duration: twenty seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


Five dark triangles in a "V" formation

I was having a smoke after a late dinner. There were some clouds or a partial overcast. I could see some stars between the clouds. I saw a formation of five triangles that were dark and had no lights. They were moving paralel to Fairview Boulevard, toward the coast( I think that is south/west). They flew under the overcast, so I know that they were pretty low. I should have been able to hear some type of engine, jet or propeller noise since they were aparently low and their path was directly overhead, but they were silent. I look at the constelations from time to time and have never seen anything like this before or since.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 7785
Occurred: 1999-05-08 10:12 Local
Reported: 1999-05-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Changing


Time of day - 10:12am No clouds. No wind. 5/8/99 Santa Ana, Ca. I was on my way to the local stripmall to get an early lunch. Being into UFOlogy myself, I tend to watch the sky...this was my first sighting. This was last Saturday...and I glanced up at the western sky, and I observed an object traveling towards me (east) at about 8000 feet. The object was moving at a rapid pace, much like a jet. I assumed, at first, that it was a jet..but I noticed that I could observe no "hard" outline...it did not look like a jet. It had my attention. The object was on a straight track with my position...and as it continued towards my position, at the very moment the object was directly over me...its STOPPED...and it did not travel in any direction for 20 minutes. Well, needless to say, when the object stopped over me...a VERY sudden deceleration..it definatly had my attention. There was no noise from this object. I could not make out the shape of the object for sure, but it was obviously metallic due to the reflection. Suddenly the object appeared to change it's shape slightly..almost like it "split in two"....and the object started to ROTATE Counter-Clockwise!! I continued to watch this object, directly overhead, for a full 7 minutes...and quite frankly Peter, I got bored and went to get my lunch..I was inside for about 5 minutes and when I came out, the object was still there...only now it appeard to have split into 4 "lobes"...still rotating. So I continued to watch it...and after about 5 minutes the object did the most astounding thing. It suddenly moved in a rapid "figure 8" pattern, but did NOT travel in any direction, per se...it was still quite stationary, other than this manuver and it's rotation. It was at that point that I knew this had to be a real "hypertechnology vehicle" (ufo) and it was also at this point that I tried to get the attention of the people around me, to look at this. NOW THIS IS THE ODDEST PART OF ALL....I COULD NOT GET ANYONE TO LOOK AT THIS OBJECT! THIS WAS A CROWDED STRIPMALL, AND YET I COULD NOT GET ANYONE TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I WAS EVEN THERE! NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON EVEN GLANCED IN MY DIRECTION, IT WAS JUST LIKE I WAS NOT EVEN THERE. THEY HAD TO HEAR ME, I WAS SOMEWHAT FRANTIC, TRYING TO GET THEM TO LOOK AT THIS OBJECT, BUT I SWEAR PETER...IT WAS LIKE I WAS NOT THERE, AND THEY DID NOT REACT AT ALL TO MY WORDS. This really started to bother me...and the object continued to rotate, in place. I stood there for several more minutes. Well, at this point I went back to my office to call a friend of mine who lives a few miles down the road, to see if he could see this object..but he could not. I went back outside to see if it was still there, but it was gone, nowhere to be seen. I did not have a camera at the time...much to my disgrace. I hearby swear that the above events are true and accurate, and I KNOW this was not an ordinary object...it was not a bunch of balloons, such things could not travel that fast and suddenly stop and hover in place..for 20 minutes, it's impossible. But I have to say peter...the fact that I could not get ANYONES attention really scared me, and I wondered if there was some sort of "mind control" taking place here. --END.

Posted 1999-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2813
Occurred: 1997-10-31 22:18 Local
Reported: 1997-11-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 min.
No of observers: 4

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Summary : Saw an orange, round object in the northern sky under clear conditions. Object was flickering in brightness and was moving very slowly through the air. It appeared something was falling from the bottom of the craft towards the earth.

the UFO was witnessed by three other people and myself. We were standing in front of my friends place of employment when one of my friends looked up and said "what the hell is that?" The three of us looked up and saw what appeared to be an orange ball slowly moving across the sky. At this time, a customer came up and saw what we were looking at and said the same thing. "what the hell is that." My first impression was that it was a plane that caught on fire. But by observing it more. It appeared to be moving too slowly to be an airplane. Right about this time, we all observed what appeared to be projectiles coming out from underneath the ball traveling down toward the earth. The object then started to dim in brightness and get brighter again. It did this several times. I then assumed it might be a flare but it was traveling in a straight line. the object stayed visible for about 2 or 3 minutes before it slowly faded from sight. I am an office employee that works in Santa Ana. My friends work a right down the street from me.. This is where the sighting took place at. After debating what we had seen for two hours, none of us could come up with any rational explanation of what we saw. Thank you.

Posted 1998-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 615
Occurred: 1995-07-16 01:40 Local
Reported: 1995-07-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 min.


Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45210
Occurred: 1995-07-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-07-21 14:45 Pacific
Duration: 20 - 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Crafts that appeared as small as stars assumed the shape of the "Big Dipper," travelled across the sky & expanding & contracting in




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 27929
Occurred: 1974-04-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-03-01 17:05 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

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

Large pulsing red/orange light that moved slowly across the sky before disappearing.

My brother and I were camping out in sleeping bags on the front porch - I was 7 and he was 9 at the time. We looked up and at about 45 degrees up there was a single large red/orange light that sort of pulsed slowly. It appeared to be quite large and moved very slowly across the sky. We ran in to get my stepfather since we were a bit scared and as we came back out, the light was just beginning to move where we couldn't see it because of the house awning and we ran around to the side of the house where we all saw it for another few seconds before it disappeared. One one of the pulses it just stayed dark. My stepfather called to report it to the police and their response at the time was that it was probably just a weather balloon but we were unconvinced having seen it with our own eyes.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 4047
Occurred: 1965-07-20 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1998-09-06 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 Mins.
No of observers: 10

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


While driving through the intersection of 17'th St. & Prospect Ave., in the Santa Ana/No. Tustin area just before dusk on a Summer evening in 1965, I noticed 5-10 cars stopped & people looking up at the sky. I got out of my car & looked up & saw a bright,circular object in the sky. It was stationary, and looked bigger than a full moon.

I'm not sure of the exact date or time, but it was during the summer of 1965; it could have been June, July, or Aug., and it was between 21:00 and 22:00, just before dusk. I was 19 yrs old and returning from an evening college class, when I drove through the intersection of 17'th St. & Prospect Ave. in the North Tustin/Santa Ana, Ca. area. I noticed 5-10 cars pulled off the road, including a Calif. Highway Patrol car, and people were out of their cars (including a Ca. Hwy Patrrolman) and gazing upward, towards the south, at a brightly lit circular object that appeared as bright as a full moon, and slightly larger. I knew it was not the Moon, however, because I could see the Moon in another part of the sky. The object, which I would estimate was a half mile to one mile away, did not move while I watched it for several minutes. Since I was only about a half mile from my house, I hopped in my car and drove as fast as I could to my house, because I wanted to point out the object to my Mother & Brother. By the time I got to my house the object was no longer visible. I never saw anything in the newspapers, or other media, about this event, and I have never seen any other anomalous objects in the sky, either before, or after this event. What I would like to find out is if there were any other reports of this incident, or if there was an official explanation. I'm wondering if it could have been a weather balloon, or some other military operation, since I was just a few miles from the Santa Ana Marine Corps. Helicopter Base, as well as El Toro Marine Corps. Air Station.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23620
Occurred: 1963-07-15 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-07-05 19:50 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Light


siteing of a strange object.

It was late and dark, and I was lying on my back on the sidewalk in front of my residence looking thru binoculars I had just gotten for my birthday in July. Gazing up into the night time at the stars and focused on one particular that was on a movement in a paralelle manner traveling from the south to the north when it dissapeared behind another star (light) larger that itself. Waiting for it to come thru on the other side and it seemed like ages, but it came out going in the direction it had came from(south)???? It was traveling at a good rate of speed too. I was somewhat flaborgasted by the results and told my wife about the incident at the time and did think it was unusual?? I kept this to myself all these years, but did occasionally tell of this to a few individuals.



NUFORC Note:

Date and time are approximate. We have assigned artificial values for both. We wonder if the witness may have observed a satellite, which reflects sunlight intermittently. That is a guess. PD


Posted 2002-07-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45020
Occurred: 1960-06-03 18:00 Local
Reported: 2005-07-16 12:05 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 8

Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saucer shaped craft seen June 1960 over Santa Ana, California

I was 11 and I was standing with my family and a few neighbors in the driveway of my home. We were standing around waiting to get in the car and someone noticed "it".

My family and neighbor all moved to the end of our driveway to get a better look, as it moved north. We just watched its rotation was marked by the 3 tiered exterior lights. Making sharp turns slowly, it hovered over what is now the intersection of Main street and the 5 frwy.

Comments made were "what is it?". My mother turned to my dad and said "Mike, it's not a plane or a helicopter" My dad said "....no,it's not a blimp either". We could SEE IT.

The strange part is that I cannot remember even mentioning this to anyone until I was on a vacation with my sister and a girlfriend. 1991 and we went up to Devils Tower. We stopped 5 miles short of the turn off, got out of the car, and started talking about the movie "Close encounters...". I turned to my friend and said " We (my sister and I ) saw a UFO once".

At that moment, my sister and I talked about it for the first time. We just looked at each other and started telling the brief story, taking turns,and agreeing with the others recollection. She remembered it as I did. Our friend was dumbstruct.




NUFORC Note:

Date probably is approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD


Posted 2005-09-02