NUFORC UFO Sighting 186205
Occurred: 2024-12-30 00:42 Local
Reported: 2024-12-30 15:04 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Turlock, CA, USA
Location details: Recorded 2 to 5 miles from the Sighting Location, towards the west, north-west.

Shape: Rectangle
Color: Pink lights
Estimated Size: Passenger car size, if not van size.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: West, 280 degrees.
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: Looked like 2 to 5 miles away.
Estimated Speed: Changing from slow to very fast at the end.
Characteristics: Lights on object

Exact shape could not be determined, but pink lights at aircraft's base (bottom side) were positioned in a rectangular fashion.

One object was seen, with four pink lights forming a rectangle at its base. Aircraft moved in various directions, in a way different from jet engine aircraft or rotor aircraft like helicopters. In the fourth recording, it can be seen suddenly changing direction and accelerating faster than most commercial or passenger aircraft can accelerate. The object seemed to be several miles away from the camera. When zooming in, the camera was magnified 15 times (x15) on the phone. The phone used was iPhone 14 Pro. There was no distinct sound coming from the aircraft. It was seen on the west from the sighting location reported, and after about 4 minutes, as can be seen on the fourth (last) recording, it started distancing itself further towards the west/northwest.







Posted 2025-01-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172373
Occurred: 2022-10-11 22:33 Local
Reported: 2022-10-14 03:01 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Turlock, CA, USA
Location details: By the hospital

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

This is the third time I’ve seen this object except this time had 3 white static lights other times 5 warm white

This is the third time I’ve seen this thing but this time it was smaller and had 3 white lights on each of the triangle corners versus the last two sightings that had 3 on one side and two on the other side that were warm in color also this time it was a fly by the other times it hovered then lights flickered then disappeared much smaller this thime as it flew really fast with apselutly no sound what so ever only reason I knowticed it is I was on my knees hooking up electrical Christmas lights that were not wired in to electricity and I saw a flash turned both ways there was no car there was nothing around I looked up and saw 3 round white lights in a triangle form that were kinda holographic of some sort very smooth and fast nothing like the last two the just appeared to just flicker then disappear like the same way the appeard

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137690
Occurred: 2017-12-10 17:37 Local
Reported: 2017-12-10 18:06 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

low flying silent aircraft also reduces noise of heavy traffic

I don’t think this was a ufo, but rather some secret VERY quiet aircraft of some sort that passed near overhead at around 5:35 pm. (Dec 10. '17 ) heading northwest.

I went outside to grab a smoke, and almost immediately I saw off to the north east a craft rather low but seemed much larger then a Cessna and this made me curious about it, and I listen for the engine noise, NONE! No sooner then that I began to feel a pressure wave in cycles ( about 2 per sec ) but NO NOISE, and here’s where it got strange, I live 300 yards from a major highway and the sound from the traffic also was muffled during these cycles …. Quiet – then normal –quiet – normal repeatedly, I could feel a pressure on my ear drums very similar to going deep in a swimming pool, the same kind of pressure the same deadening of sound….. I estimate that the sound of the highway traffic dropped by 80% during these cycles so it was very evident this craft was doing something to cause it.

I watched the aircraft head away with my ears paying close attention to the traffic noise and after the craft was ¼ ~ ½ mile away the normal traffic noise returned and the pressure on the ear drums went away.

Its speed was that of a Cessna, but there was enough visual indicters showing that this was larger, a helicopter of some sort, Drone?

Posted 2017-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135897
Occurred: 2017-08-25 04:30 Local
Reported: 2017-08-25 09:56 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

satellite does rapid button hook maneuver

I awoke at about 4:00 a.m. ( Aug – 25 ) and knew I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I got up and decided to read and perhaps grab a smoke out side, which is what I did.

At 4:30 a.m., I went outside and began to smoke, and as usual, I face north and star gaze and it was very clear, a little fire smoke haze but nothing bad. An airliner was crossing the sky from W-NW to E-SE and was north of my location, I enjoyed the stars as it headed to the Eastern horizon and I turned my head to look toward the western part of the sky for several seconds and turned my head back facing northerly again and saw a very bright satellite slightly north east of my location and headed the same path as the airliner, but the opposite direction. It surprised me I hadn’t seen the hint of the satellite before I turned my head away, it was very bright and I watched it for ~ 10 seconds, and it began to fade in brightness, as is typical.

I took my eye’s off of it to smoke and quickly decided it might flare up again, so I decided to attempt to quickly find it again, so I followed the path I had just seen, and saw a very dim satellite, slightly more north of the assumed path. Here my brain is thinking how the satellite jumped off the straight line path if it was the same satellite, but very quickly, I notice this satellite is in a medium size turn, and not traveling straight. I thought that this thing was going to head north now in view of this turn, (the turn can be best described as less then ¼ the circumference of a dinner plate at arm's length), and then the most fascinating thing happened, this very dim satellite brightened up and did what athletes call “the button hook“ maneuver… it accelerated rapidly in a very tight turn and shot back the direction in which it had come from. I wondered if it was going to trail that airliner.

This was no jet or satellite, this craft was moving at an astonishing speed at the end, and I will surely keep a closer watch on satellites from now on. Are ufo’s now mimicking satellites so as to be less noticeable, it sure seems like it to me.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2017-09-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135767
Occurred: 2017-08-17 21:00 Local
Reported: 2017-08-17 21:58 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 7

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Multiple lights, star sized flying in the skies at fast speeds.

Multiple lights in the skies flashing red/green moving at fast speeds. Two lights stayed behind briefly and proceeded after the rest of the moving lights afterward.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2017-08-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132608
Occurred: 2017-02-14 06:20 Local
Reported: 2017-02-14 08:35 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright light over Turlock, CA.

My son and I saw a light as bright as the moon. It was large, I observed it to be 1/5 to 1/4 of the moon's diameter. It seemed to be moving South to North. We saw it for 15-20 seconds, and then it seemed to just blink out. I looked like there were smoke trails coming from where it went dark. It was still very dark, so the smoke trails may have just been after effects from seeing such a bright light.

Posted 2017-02-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147199
Occurred: 2016-06-28 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2019-07-01 23:09 Pacific
Duration: 0.1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Light looked like shooting star moving slowly horizontally to the left then shoots off to the R and disappears

It was 1:40 am around June I was outside waiting for my girlfriend Outside by the car when in the corner of my eye I see something moving horizontally from the right to the left then when I focused on it it made a sharp almost zig zag maneuver and instantly disappeared all within a second or less.


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NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2019-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 126407
Occurred: 2016-03-16 21:40 Local
Reported: 2016-03-16 23:43 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

light flashed in 3 durations moving short distance over head then dramatically accelerated and continue to flash as it traveled.

March 16, 2016. At around 9:40 pm, I had stepped out to smoke on the back patio as is typical, in my peripheral vision I saw a flash of white light at around 20 degrees from overhead in a north – west direction. I continue to watch that area knowing from past experience some satellites flash from the sun, and again it flashed as expected a little ways away from the original flash, then flashed a third time and dramatically had moved much farther away to my surprise… this thing had accelerated much faster then any fast satellite I had ever seen and in fact continue to flash periodical like skipping light on water sort of speak. It moved so fast I had to open the gate and run around to the front of the house to continue watching, as I refocused my eyes this skipping white flashing light was passing an airline on its left side about 40-50 miles away.

The direction of travel was just south of true west (~250-260 azimuth ). There was no fire trail behind as it flashed. I have seen skipping meteors before with fire trails.

I must say, it’s the seeming acceleration that is puzzling

Posted 2016-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123633
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:20 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 19:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Bright light erratic trajectory moving NW fast leaving fluorescent trail behind

Noticed Large very bright light in the southern part of town. Light moved quite fast then left a fluorescent trail behind the erratic trajectory then disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

U. S. Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123756
Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 18:21 Pacific
Duration: Blue light traveling fast
No of observers: 4

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light


It was traveling for 30 min in sky over Turlock, California. A big Blue light in the sky in the shape of a teardrop. Left a trail of light. And left a glowing blue haze that lasted 30 min..




NUFORC Note:

US Navy missile launch. PD


Posted 2015-11-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117711
Occurred: 2015-03-09 21:30 Local
Reported: 2015-03-10 23:34 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

lights moving and dimming quickly

Tonight about 9:30 pm 3/9/15 , I stepped out on back patio to smoke and, as usual, I look around the stars.

Over in the south west direction, I see a moderate flash of light that went out, followed by pause, then a dim light moving a short distance and going out, then a pause, then another dim light moving in opposite direction and going out, then pause, then another light heading away then going out..... all of this taking place within 1 minute and the area no larger then your fist held out ( obviously many miles away, est. 40 miles from my location ). I have been seeing this same activity periodically for the last 2 years in the same area and decided to relay this to you because recently I read another persons account of exactly the same type of phenomena which he couldn't explain. Up until I read his account I simply wrote it all off as distant airlines or satellites criss crossing each others path in a short time, or even meteorites.

I decided tonight to check Google Earth and draw a path from my location to the direction of seen light activity and noted there was an Observatory about 12 miles north west ( also several small airports SW) of the light phenomena ( Diablo Mountain Range ). I have no clue what this light activity is and I hesitate to call it ufo's ( as in alien craft ), but if you have people you know (or ufo researchers ) in that area of Morgan Hill California (or even San Joaquin Valley), perhaps they can keep an eye on the area of the sky just south of the Observatory for several months and verify this....

I'm sending an image from Google Earth to show location of activity .....

thank you

Posted 2015-03-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108536
Occurred: 2014-04-10 21:25 Local
Reported: 2014-04-10 21:46 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Possible abduction

Bluish/Turquoise flying object over Turlock, CA.

The object was heading north. It was bluish/turquoise in color and in a triangular shape.

There were some clouds in the sky because you could see the color fade in and out as it went through them.

It was moving at a slower pace at first and then burst into a faster speed.

It was a total of about 5 seconds that went by before it was out of my sight.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-04-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107669
Occurred: 2014-03-05 21:01 Local
Reported: 2014-03-05 21:25 Pacific
Duration: ~1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

Fireball like object moving slowly down and east then pausing and bouncing then to decrease in mass and to then drop low out of sight.

There was 1 large fireball/ starlike object high up in the sky. My husband spotted from our bedroom window, it was moving very oddly slow down to the right, so it was unusual. He then alerted me, where then we went outside to view object, where it then paused in the sky slightly bouncing in one spot. Then continued to move down heading east. Then right before our eyes it decreased in size to a smaller fireball like object, then paused. Then dropped down low, to low for further visibility. Very very peculiar like object.

Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107643
Occurred: 2014-03-04 22:04 Local
Reported: 2014-03-04 23:21 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large triangular object spotted over Turlock, California

On March 4, 2014, at approximately 10:04 p.m., I had gone outside to get something out of my car in the driveway when I heard a strange loud rumbling noise. I then noticed that I could actually feel the rumbling in the ground that I was standing on.

I looked skyward and was confused at first because the sky looked so black - no stars at all.

I then realized that what I was looking at was a large unknown craft moving slowly in a southeast direction. It continued on in that direction until I could no longer see it behind the trees in the distance.

I called our local police services to ask if anyone else had noticed anything strange and they reported that they were receiving multiple calls to report the same strange object.

The object was triangular in shape with small faintly lit lights evenly spaced around each edge with brighter lights at each corner of the triangle.

Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107736
Occurred: 2014-03-04 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-03-08 15:50 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Giant Black Triangle

Daughter in-law went to get something out of her car. Location near Monte Vista and Colorado in Turlock, CA. She heard a very strange rumbling noise coming from the sky and it made the ground vibrate right up through her shoes.

She looked up and it was suppose to be partly cloudy night. No stars and no clouds. Pitch black. Then she notice tiny pin points of red lights and was scanning to one side and then saw a soft round ball of white light. It was then that she saw an edge around this soft ball of white light. She scanned for the edge till her head was turned the opposite direction and saw another soft round white light. The continuing her effort to fallow the edge she found a third corner and realize this huge black triangle was over her blocking the sky and moving slowly over her. Again it made a weird rumbling noise which vibrated up through the ground into her feet. It was picking up speed as it traveled South east over all the other homes around her. She froze afraid to move until it got passed her.

Next she bolted inside and got her parents who came out and it was too late it was gone, but they called the police to report it and were told that they knew already because calls were coming in.

Next day I called Turlock Police to see if there would be any info given on the news about the craft. The man I talked to did not know anything about the incident, but checked his computer and said yes there were reports and police went to investigate and found nothing. I asked how many reports and was told only two and I asked why and if that would keep it from being newsworthy and he said that more phone calls could have come in but they only log reports and those that are not repeat descriptions. So he said that there may have easily been more then 2 calls.

I asked her if the object was bigger then a foot ball field and she replied oh yes. I asked bigger then three football fields and she said not sure but could be. I asked her how high up she thought it was and she said it was massive and too hard to say how high up in the sky it was. But it was so big that she had to pan her head all the way left and then all the way right to fallow one edge.

Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102686
Occurred: 2013-09-26 21:58 Local
Reported: 2013-09-27 06:39 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

09/26/13, 21:58hours, what first appeared to be a magnitude 2 meteorite made a climbing "U" turn - and then disappeared in a

The time was 21:58, sky clear, temp 64 deg F.

I made a UFO report online to NUFORC after seeing a chevron ,“V”, shaped UFO (at 20:23), and had just finished sending a drawing when I went out to my back yard. I always look at the stars, and had been outside for about 30 seconds when I noticed what appeared to be a meteorite travel from the South – East to the North – East. The object followed a shallow arc towards the Earth. I was surprised to see that when it approached the area slightly under Cassiopeia it made somewhat of a “U” turn and went up and to the East and disappeared with a slight flash.

The object had the same brightness you would see from a meteorite – and the flash was brighter than the moon.

The object was white.

Posted 2013-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102673
Occurred: 2013-09-26 20:23 Local
Reported: 2013-09-26 21:39 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Observed a "V" shaped UFO with 15 whitish-yellow lights traverse 105 degrees of sky in 10 seconds, on a heading of 150.

The sky was clear, the temperature was 65 F, no wind. Stars were visible to about magnitude 4, some sky-glow.

Observed a “V” shaped UFO traveling from a point in the sky slightly above Dubhe, in the Big Dipper, to the South-East. The object had circular, whitish – yellow lights on each segment of the “V” shape, with one being in the front center. As I tried, and was unsuccessful, to count the lights, I noticed that they were not symmetrical along each section of the “V” – my best guess is there were 7 lights along each “V” in addition to the 1 light in front, making 15 lights total.

The UFO traveled in a straight line and was observed from approximately 35 degrees above the horizon (compass shows the direction the object originated to be 300 degrees, and 150 degrees heading at 40 degrees above the horizon where it was last observed.

With an outstretched hand, the object appeared to be about 1 inch wide. The object made no sound. The object had no standard navigation lights or strobes.

The object was observed for approximately 10 seconds.

Air traffic visible at the time showed no apparent notice of the UFO, this air traffic was on Vectors to San Francisco International.




Posted 2013-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 100867
Occurred: 2013-08-05 22:30 Local
Reported: 2013-08-07 08:37 Pacific
Duration: ~1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Orbs of light across the sky

My daughter and I had finished movie night with my husband and we had gone outside to water my flowers in the garden. During our conversation we were going back and forth and my daughter happened to look directly up into the night sky and said ,” look Mom there is one of those weird lights I’ve seen before” I looked up attempting to see what she had seen and didn’t see it she again ,” it’s right there!”

At this point she grabbed my head and tilted it to where she was looking, and that is when I saw it. I was a ball of light very very high in the sky moving extremely fast. I started to say that is was just a plane although is had no red or blue lights and was moving faster than any plane /jet I had seen, when the object looked like it expanded as the light ball grew and then contracted back to its original size.

While we were discussing that affect and what it could be we watched as it just disappeared in the night sky.

As we were still looking up amazed at what we had saw we saw a second object do the exact same thing however it came from what would have been the object right side flared and then contracted continued steadily and then just disappeared.

I don’t know what we saw but I know I have never seen THAT before, hence our report.

Thanks in advance for your time and attention in this matter.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96114
Occurred: 2013-01-25 20:00 Local
Reported: 2013-01-27 13:42 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Changed Color, Landed

Golden-orange bright star fell from the sky & changed into flat black floppy object, landed in tree then flew away.

I was walking Friday nite & saw 3 bright stars  golden orange in a horizontal row. I was watchng it in the sky wondering what it was. I watched for almost the whole block while walking along the south side of Zeering Rd between Olive Ave and Fosberg Rd. Then  2 cars drove up towards me on the street & headlights & trees overhanging sidewalk blocked my vision momentarily  The cars stopped & parked, one behind the other, small white cars. A girl got out of eac car and said "Did you see that. Look it turned black! Did u see it?". I thought they were talkin to me but they were talkin to each other. I said did u see that too? T he bright lite? One girl said "Look it turned black. Did you see that?" They pointed to the sky and eventually I saw it I had misplaced it when the cars drove up with the bright lights.  It had turned black & changed shape into a flat floppy thing shifting side to side in the sky. It started falling straight down and lan! ded in a tree (I saw the branches move when it landed) in the park across on the north side of Christofferson Parkway. There is a soundwall on the northside of Zeering in between the paralell south side of Christofferson Pkwy. I ran to go see what it was but by the time I was crossing street it took off from the tree & flew southeast into a subdivision on the other side of Olive Ave. it was a large floppy black like an ocean stingray but more pronounced armiture. It was traveling about the speed of a car. I couldn't keep up. I'd tried to follow it but it was Flying diagonally across lanes & down the street. It was the most unusual thing I've ever seen! 




NUFORC Note:

Witness corrected date to 2013. PD


Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95223
Occurred: 2012-12-13 18:30 Local
Reported: 2012-12-13 19:24 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Orb


fast moving point of light

I have to smoke outside, so I often look at the stars during the evenings when I'm out there at night. I have seen many satellites, fast low orbit ones and slow ones, this point of light had all the earmarks of a fast low orbit satellite as I watched it and it took a sudden turn without stopping or slowing to my surprise. I made note of the stars in the area and got a copy off my star program and plotted the path in the attached drawing. nothing else happened and there were no sounds.



Posted 2012-12-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86939
Occurred: 2012-01-30 06:01 Local
Reported: 2012-01-31 20:12 Pacific
Duration: 1
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Red circle lights on each angle.

A triangle shape with red circle lights on each angle flying in the night sky.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-02-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84621
Occurred: 2011-10-18 23:55 Local
Reported: 2011-10-19 00:17 Pacific
Duration: current
No of observers: 8

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

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

a fairball type t moving up & down in the night skay in turlock, ca

The discription of the object was a like a fireball. it was with a blinking light all around. it was steady in the air and didnt move for a while then it would barley move up and then it looked like it was falling then move back up in the same spot and would just stay there blinking.

there was only one. the color i couldnt really tell but it was sparkling & blinking light. the background was in the sky dark.




NUFORC Note:

We have corrected the date above. PD


Posted 2011-10-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82570
Occurred: 2011-07-18 21:30 Local
Reported: 2011-07-18 23:06 Pacific
Duration: 3 min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Four lights moving in the Ca Valley Sky

Just before 9:30pm my wife and I took our puppy out to the back yard for his night time bathroom break. We live in the country so sky watching is just something we like to do.

While waiting I noticed a silvery light moving fast across the east horizon line. The speed of it caught my attention. I pointed it out to my wife and then we notice 3 more as we began to look around. They were almost directly above us. The 3 were moving towards each other when we noticed them. One was moving some what straight from a Southernly direction to a Northern direction. One that looked like it was coming from the northern direction was moving erratically (like jumping from spot to spot. It was also more bright than the others) but mostly head Southernly towards the one coming from the South.

The third just kind of appeared out out no where and seemed to be coming from the West. All 3 looked like they were going to collide.

My wife got excited because she thought they were g! oing to crash! But it looked more like they passed right through each other.

After crossing paths or whatever they did, the one headed more Northernly seem to pick up speed very fast and quickly disappeared into the North direction. The brighter one from the North was still headed southernly but slowed and stopped for about 1 min.

The one that came in from the West instantly turned 90 degrees Northernly (but was more N/W in direction) at the point of meeting for the three. It kept the same speed the entire time. It wasn't fast, but it wasn't slow! We watched it till it faded off into the sky.

The brighter one that stopped, just disappeared where it was. It looked bigger too compared to the other ones and most of the stars that are in the sky.

The other two seemed to be about the same size and brightness. I would size them comparable with the majority of the small stars in the sky. Big enough to see, but too small to see any detail. Not like you would see if it were an airpl! ane, you can see its flashing lights.

Can only say they looked like w hite lights just like most stars look like, other than they were moving.

Posted 2011-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77442
Occurred: 2010-08-27 20:30 Local
Reported: 2010-08-26 20:57 Pacific
Duration: 1min and a half
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

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

This was not an aircraft or meteor

I thought it was a slowly falling star but it descended very slowly and was more fluid than a helicopter then it fell below the fence line where I could not see it was about 5 miles away




NUFORC Note:

Date is flawed. Possible hoax? PD


Posted 2010-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45602
Occurred: 2005-08-14 01:00 Local
Reported: 2005-08-14 02:17 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds each time gap o
No of observers: 3

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

lights in two formations: a group of 3 then an hour later a group of 5 lights

My fiancee (31), her friend (34) and I (41)were all sitting outside talking on a clear moonless night. Just hanging out and looking at the stars.

When we spotted 3 lights flying in a line formation moving North right above us. At first I thought they were birds until we noticed that they were emitting light and not reflecting it. No running lights, no sound, moving at an incredible speed. They were pin-points of light, no way of knowing their altitude but I'm sure it was over 150,000 feet. I would approximate their speed at near 24,000 mph.

They described perfect distance between each other, flying in a straight path then once they passed right above us seemed to converge into just one light. I realize now that they did not converge but that the craft were leaving the area and moving straight out toward the northern pole-star area.

As if they moved away in perspective. It was an awesome sight indeed.

Birds usually don't converge on each other like that, satellites are not visible by reflected light at that hour either.

Were were in awe by what we saw. And kept looking for other phenomenon.

After about 45 minutes we spotted another group of 5 (possibly 6) lights, also in line formation. these were moving North by North-West. Same characteristics and speed as the previous 3 lights. Only these 5 simply moved about 40 degrees and vanished.

I have seen strange things before but these two events took my breath away and left my heart pounding for hours!

Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 27678
Occurred: 2003-02-07 20:45 Local
Reported: 2003-02-12 23:38 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 4

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

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

I saw an orange circle was moving so fast and sudenly appired in the other site of the sky and left



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain anonymous. PD


Posted 2003-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 21123
Occurred: 2002-01-07 21:03 Local
Reported: 2002-01-07 22:24 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

5 White luminescent objects were seen in single file, equally spaced, East to West path and covered 115 degrees of sky in 10 seconds.

Particulars: Objects (5) were observed in single file, equally spaced, East to West trajectory (plus or minus 5 degrees). Objects had no navigation lights. Objects were white luminescent. Objects were observed for approximately 10 seconds and were first observed at 35 degrees elevation East (plus or minus 5 degrees) and last observed at 30 degrees elevation West (plus or minus 5 degrees). Objects did not deviate trajectory, but remained single file, equally spaced. Objects had approximatly 1 degree spacing (from ground observation point). No sound was heard.

Observer was in process of aligning Jupiter with 6.3mm eyepiece and looked up from telescope and noticed what first appeared to be meteorites, however, objects were only 1/2 speed of meteorites (compared to Leonid shower average). Jupiter was beginning to blurr slightly due to fog.

Hypothesis: Objects appeared to be in low Earth orbit, allowing sulight to be reflected, causing white luminous appearance. Objects may have been space debris, but unusual due to the exact same spacing between them. No classification set at this time. UFOs.

Observer qualification: 27 years in Aerospace environment, with full knowledge of all nonclassified aircraft, and limited classified aircraft. SR 71 experience, Air Transport experience with nightime identification capabilities for most aircraft.

Local Weather conditions: Ceiling: unlimited.

Visibility: at ground level, 1 1/2 miles; at 20 degrees elevation, 30 miles; at 45 degrees, stars are visible at 3/4 normal intensity.

Temperature: 46 degrees F Humidity: 97% Barometric: 30.25




((FOLLOW UP COMMUNICATION WITH WITNESS))

...What concerned me the most about my sighting, was the uniformity of all objects. I don't believe I've ever seen that in nature. My second concern was the speed appearing to be about half of what you expect a meteor to be - especially those that wander in from between Mars and Jupiter. I have not
calculated the estimated speed yet. I need to sit down and do this, my calculation can only be a guess at best, using 'apparent' altitude. If it was sunlight I was looking at, reflected from the objects, and it was 21:03 local, that makes the sun about 4 hours over the horizon, leaving about 1/8th of the earth curvature between myself and the sun, a rough guess puts the altitude at about 2000 miles for the objects to reflect the sun as they first appeared in the east. I don't think they were 2000 miles away, unless they were really big! For some reason I want to say they were above the tropopause, somewhere around 25 to 50 miles altitude. If they were meteors, then the beginning of atmosphere would be in this region (but they would leave a trail, albiet even a short one - and no tail was observed). Roughly, and with no figures to back this up, the objects covered over a 1000 miles
with an estimated altitude of 30 miles. This makes their speed to be slightly over 6000 miles an hour - very slow for a meteor, but not necessarily for the US government.

Another thing that bothers me is that their luminosity remained the same, and did not change.

This was an interesting sighting. I will continue to figure on this one. If I reach any conclusions, I will forward them to you, in the meantime please keep me posted.

Thanks very much,

((name deleted))

NUFORC Note:

We spoke with this witness, and we found him to be an exceptionally good, and qualified witness. We do not know what he witnessed. PD


Posted 2002-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14655
Occurred: 2000-10-22 06:10 Local
Reported: 2000-10-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle


Two bright white triangular objects seen which streaked off to the east ,appeared and dissapeared in 2 seconds.

On Sunday morning I went out into the front yard to look for our cat. Low in the horizon, to the south, I saw a bright white triangular object. Another of the same object appeared just east of the first. Then there was a quick streak of the same bright white color just east of the two objects. As if the two objects sped away to the east.It was a very short streak that just stopped with no trace. This all happened in about 2 seconds. The objects did not hover or hesitate. <<<<<<<<<<< < < Arrows depict scene. I am a 41 year old female, married, two children,University graduate,self employed.

Posted 2000-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2191
Occurred: 1997-05-05 19:45 Local
Reported: 1997-05-06 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turlock, CA, USA

Shape: light


Summary : I saw a line of bright lights like star, it lasted about 3 seconds and disappeared.

About 7:45 p.m. on May 5, 1997,I looked up in the sky and noticed a straight line of approx. 4 or 5 bright lights. It caught my eye because of the straight line and how bright it was. I was watching it and trying to figure out what it was, when it slowly started fading away, and then it was completely gone. I looked around in the sky and noticed there were no other stars out. At first I thought it might be an airplane, but it disappeared so fast.

Posted 1999-01-28