NUFORC UFO Sighting 177949
Occurred: 2023-08-30 21:32 Local
Reported: 2023-08-31 12:48 Pacific
Duration: Video and pictures
No of observers: 1

Location: Wofford Heights, CA, USA
Location details: Driveway and taking pictures of the blue moon

Shape: Circle
Explanation: Camera Anomaly - Certain


Outside viewing the blue moon driveway

The pictures will show a strange object in my driveway? One of the pictures shows a dock at the top of the screen. It disappears, and the screen goes black for a second or two then you see the moon come into focus in the circular orbit, spinning at high speed. Some of the pictures I had taken may have been a reflection from my iPhone, but these definitely were not.




Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174787
Occurred: 2023-02-22 16:52 Local
Reported: 2023-03-01 11:28 Pacific
Duration: 5 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Sierra Valley, CA, USA
Location details: Farm

Shape: Circle


Floating Circular Object

This is a second hand report, person who captured the image reported seeing a hovering circular object above their house during a snow storm. Typically I'm skeptical of these types of events/ sightings but as you will see in the image, this isn't a flashing light or a dimly seen object. The person who took this picture is a 60 year old man who works as a carpenter and is not computer savvy and the meta data on the picture indicates no altering. The image looks like a metal trash can lid hovering in the sky during a snow storm and is the most clear image of what looks like what a CGI artist would create to put in a movie about UFO's.




Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69843
Occurred: 2008-07-15 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-04-28 01:33 Pacific
Duration: 4 hours
No of observers: 0

Location: Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA, USA

Shape: Light


mutiple satellites moving erratically back and forth acrosss the sky

I was at a campout music festival high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in July of 2008, it was the middle of the night and the skies were clear and many stars were visible. My brother and I were lying on our backs watching the stars and we noticed what appeared to be a satellite moving across the sky, but then the object stopped moving in a straight line and turned in an almost 180 degree turn. It turned and changed its course many times. We noticed that there was not just one, but at least a dozen of these small lights high in the sky moving about randomly. We were not the only people to see them; there were probably dozens of people who saw these crafts in the sky. Whatever they were they were not conventional satellites and they appeared to be beyond the Earth’s atmosphere (about the same range as a standard satellite). I would like to point out that we were at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, and I have a feeling these things could be witnessed on any given night.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63949
Occurred: 2008-06-14 03:00 Local
Reported: 2008-06-17 12:18 Pacific
Duration: 3 sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Sierra Nevada (Gross Ridge area), CA, USA

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

A small object in sky that got bigger and emited a bluish aura for a moment then returned to its orignal form.

I was backpacking in the Sierras, near Gross Ridge ( Emigrant Gap ) , the moon was almost near full but had gone down near the horizon this allowed the clear night sky and stars stand out, we were looking up to see shooting stars and other objects like satellites, just for pleasure our camp fire had died down, it was around 3am what seemed like satellite came across the sky in a linear pattern so we labeled it a sat, however I notice that the object was flying a lot closer orbit than other satellites I saw that night, a suddenly it shine and or emitted a bluish light the dot got bigger, I mean it was a little dot in the sky and then it just emitted a bluish glow and got bigger for a few secs no more than five, then it return to original shape of a dot and left my view of the sky.



Posted 2008-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32431
Occurred: 2003-10-15 20:30 Local
Reported: 2003-10-19 12:01 Pacific
Duration: 15 to 20 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Wofford Heights, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Bright light broke into 6 objects two turn toward us the others vanished metal sparks fell from sky to ground

((four names of witnesses deleted)) were in our front yard talking and looking at the night sky. ((name deleted)) was looking toward me and talking I was facing north east.

About 3/4 of a mile to 0ne mile and about 1500 feet in the sky a intense white light suddenly appeared it was about 1/4 the size of the moon at that distance. The light was so intense that ((name deleted)) turned around at the same time I was saying “look at that”.The object split into six objects each 1/4 the size of the original. One object moved upward, two flew right, two flew left and one moved straight ahead. The pattern was similar to a five pointed star, with each tip moving away as a ball of light. As the object separated the individual balls changed color and stretched. The color was white, blue and red smeared or streaked as they moved. The upper ball and the two to the left disappear leaving the right two coming toward our location and grouping together about 25 to 50 apart. These two began to slowly blink in a ruby red color, one blink about every 4 or 5 seconds.

They flew within about 8 or 9 hundred yards of our location in a arc back toward the mountain(north). ((nameds deleted)) saw this. The center object turned yellow and move toward the lake and disappeared also( we heard a faint jet sound at this point). We stood outside and talked about what we had saw and about two or three minutes latter a shower of sparks fell into the lake area. The shower of sparks was about 1 hundred to 150 feet long and about 8 to 10 feet wide ,it fell to the south east . About 10 minutes latter we heard a large military helicopter .It came over the mountains to the south very low to the terrain, it flew to the location of the thing that fell made a turn over the location then flew toward Kernville. ((name deleted)) and I went down to the lake to see if we could see anything .There was an odor of hot metal in the air. There was a truck near the location where we estimated the object to be. The truck was moving side to side and around in circles someone was walking in front of it. We decided to try to ask them if they had seen the object but the truck sped off.


((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION FROM WITNESS))

The data box should have instructions " not to include personal data except first names". The reason that mine was included is I first wrote the report on correl then copied it to the spot.Also, to bad someone could not come up to investigate as stuff from the yellow object fell to the ground or in the lake near the shore(alot of stuff).There was one other vehicle looking in the area for it, as my son and I were.If the lake continues to get lower it may become visible.
What should we do if we find something?There also was a military hummer with 5 or 6 tubes on top of it in town sunday.I am familiar with jets and stars and planets and the station ,it flew over this location several months ago.I own a telescope celestron 8 inch so I know about those things.And I fly radio control aircraft and have about 50 hrs. flight traing in fixed wing full size aircraft.I have studied military aircraft and the space program for 40 years and if it was ours we are way ahead of anyone else.The single object split into 6 no sound from the two that past overhead. Thank You ((name deleted))

Posted 2003-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 30699
Occurred: 2003-08-07 21:30 Local
Reported: 2003-08-15 14:11 Pacific
Duration: about 20 seconds or so
No of observers: 2

Location: Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Blight blue light in the Sierra Nevada

Brother and I were night fishing at a lake high in the sierra nevada mountains this night when i glanced up to the trees. I saw what looked like a very bright blue star flying overhead. It had no flashing lights or visable shape. It was a very white blue color. It flew straight away from us and it took about 20 seconds till we couldnt see the light anymore.



Posted 2003-08-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29575
Occurred: 2003-07-04 14:00 Local
Reported: 2003-07-07 01:44 Pacific
Duration: One minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Tioga Pass, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


Tilted oval reflective object sighted in the distance above a mountain ridge in the Eastern Sierra, near Tioga Pass, CA.

I sighted this object during a daytime hike in the Sierra Nevada, on a trail above Saddlebag Lake, just east of Tioga Pass and west of the town of Lee Vining, CA. I was standing on the trail, waiting for my husband. Looking to the southeast, I saw what appeared to be an oval object, placed at an angle, and appearing to leave a short trail behind it. However, it was not moving at all. It is possible that there was no trail, but rather that the object was larger than I thought at first. The object was an odd color - sort of a dirty brown. It occurred to me that it could be reflecting the landscape below it. I watched the object for nearly a minute, and it seemed odd to me that it was not moving. But I had the impression it was fairly distant. I glanced away only for an instant, and when I looked back, it was gone - no trail, nothing. I told my husband about it while I was watching it, but by the time he turned around to look it had gone.

This was the second strange sighting for me in three days. And I have never reported a UFO sighting in my life. Possibly because the objects had certain similarities, yet were sighted in two quite far-flung spots in California, I felt compelled to report them. Both objects were sighted in daylight, hung over mountain ridges, and seemed to be reflective. I would be very interested in whether anyone has reported similar objects during this timeframe.



Posted 2003-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13390
Occurred: 2000-07-01 22:30 Local
Reported: 2000-07-11 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Sierra Nevada Mtns (Big Five Lakes), CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

Extremely large fireball with gas trailing behind it for at least a minute and appeared as if it was going to crash.

On July 1 at approximately 10:30pm PDT while backpacking, I observed an enormous explosive fireball with much gas trailing behind it over the sky for what seemed to be a very long time--at least a minute. It appeared in the west and travel northeast as it continued to burn bigger and brighter, and then seemed to be burning up. It seemed to be altering its' path, not following a straight trajectory. It seemed as if it was going to crash. There was no sound that accompanied the phenomenon.It was enormous in size even though it appeared to be very far out in space.This was visible from an altitude of over 10,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California and it appeared to go down in the desert area somewhat east of Mt. Whitney as it disappeared out of our sight behind a group of mountains. I have never witnessed anything like this ever, and it was way too big to be any ordinary plane crash. If it was a meteor of any type certainly it would have been reported by the media. I am interested in knowing if anyone else saw this phenomena, and what kind of explanation there could be.

Posted 2000-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29013
Occurred: 1997-05-25 01:10 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-05-31 18:08 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Skies over Sierra Nevada, CA, USA

Shape: Light


several very fast greenish/blue pulses of light along the Eastern side of California or possibly in Nevada

I was traveling north on Highway 99 between Sacramento and Marysville. I am not sure of the actual date but it was Memorial Day Weekend 1997. I did not actually see an object so to speak. There were just several pulses of greenish/blue light, one right after the other for several minutes. Followed by a short break of a couple of minutes then another series but not as many as the first. Lighting the sky in a northenly direction, mainly reflecting off some scattered clouds. There was no lightning activity on this night nor enough cloud cover to produce any, and they were not white. I would estimate they were traveling between Yosemite(approx.) and Lassen(approx.) in less than a second. Faster than one could imagine. I wasn't counting but I would have to say there were about 20-30 in all. I would not rule out experimental aircraft, which I feel is the most likely scenario in this case. I have my eyes checked regularly and still have 20/15 or better vision. I was not drinking or under the influence of anything. I do believe our government does not tell us everything they know and are working on. I dont care if anyone believes me or not, I am just stepping up to share with those who have seen things that they themselves cannot identify. To sum this up,I have never seen anything like it and will never forget it.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2003-06-03