NUFORC UFO Sighting 167455
Occurred: 2022-03-29 20:00 Local
Reported: 2022-04-12 19:17 Pacific
Duration: Approximately 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Willits, CA, USA
Location details: (39.4551941, -123.2592882)

Shape: Orb


Thought it was a balloon then realized it was moving horizontally and it made a very precise 90 degree turn

12 year crew chief in the Air Force. Was an aerospace technologies instructor. Have a DJI FPV drone and am familiar with the noise they produce at varying altitudes.

This caught my attention because it maintained a consistent altitude and altered course by 90 degrees in a very precise and deliberate manner. It did not produce any noise. It was as if it was vantablack, couldn’t make out any features other than the general shape and size because it was dark and the object was black.

It looked spherical from a distance. It maintained an approximate altitude of 500 feet. It flew toward me and proceeded over me as I started to record. When flying overhead at aproximately it appeared less spherical and more like a horizontally pitched disc, to the naked eye. It looked to be aproximately 6 feet in width and it traveled at approximately 5-10 mph. It had similar appearances to the declassified navy video of a black orb splashing into the water. I will also note that this particular valley has little to no cell service. I recorded it with low definition on an iPhone 12, then stopped the recording to change my settings to HD with a higher frame rate. By the time I had done so and started recording again, it was gone and I was left looking like ab idiot with a phone in a field.

Disclaimer: I did have the generator for my camper operating, but I can hear my drone at that altitude and location. This thing was substantially larger and made no noise and had no noticeable outlets, exhausts, fans, propellers, or viewable means of propulsion.

It is very possible that it was a man-made blimp-like object, I just haven’t seen anything like it before and it resembled close enough to the craft in the navy video for me to submit this.




Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128847
Occurred: 2016-07-27 20:30 Local
Reported: 2016-07-28 07:29 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Other


Silvery orange, stationary object high in sky.

Most likely a weather balloon? Silvery/orange color, with 8x binoculars saw a hint of a separation or vertical seam in the middle. Object was NNW from obs site, about 50 deg elevation. Watched for several minutes, no movement or change, got bored and 20 min later, no longer visible.

Appeared to be high in elevation, at a goodly distance. Not a helo or airplane.

This appeared high in sky, above a ridge line of trees.

Posted 2016-08-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 127172
Occurred: 2016-05-04 21:05 Local
Reported: 2016-05-04 22:55 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

11 orange glowing discs spotted just east of 101 in Willits, near east valley road, hovering low and slowly moved a bit west before completely disappearing.

Posted 2016-05-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124368
Occurred: 2015-11-25 19:55 Local
Reported: 2015-11-25 22:28 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Burning, glowing red object high as an airliner, moving slowly to the south and vanished.

Walked outside to grab wood and looked up to the NNW and saw a slow moving light much like an airliner or satellite but the red ball that it was at that size and altitude would be much larger than any plane. It was visibly bigger than any jet.

First thought was jet on fire. I ran 15 feet to a window to get another witness but it had vanished when I returned 10 seconds later and looked for it where it should have been.

Please let me no if anyone learns what it was.

Posted 2015-11-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108554
Occurred: 2014-04-11 19:00 Local
Reported: 2014-04-11 22:23 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Pulsating orange light. Hovered silent, moved smoothly away and upward changing direction hesitated, moved closer, then away, out of sight.

Was able to get one witness before it was totally out of sight.

April 11, 2014, just at sunset. Willits, CA.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106400
Occurred: 2014-01-18 20:00 Local
Reported: 2014-01-18 21:20 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


fireballs in the sky over Willits Ca.

Dark night and it looked liked like fire in the sky. several balls of fire. One seemed to be larger like a short stick on fire. They looked to be very high up in the sky. They slowly burnt out.

Posted 2014-01-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157162
Occurred: 2011-12-01 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-06-26 17:38 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Willitts, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Me and three friends saw 5-6 Orange Orbs in the Mts at night in 2011. Me and my exgf heard/ the "Boom" from the Reptile wars

In December 2011, Three friends and I saw a handful of orange orbs in the distant sky to the left in the mountains of Willetts, CA. They were moving around in the same area of each other, never breaking from the group. We didn’t know what were seeing. We didn’t say UFO’s at first. I said out loud, “Maybe their lights from a movie set in the woods?” We sat on a boulder for approximately 30 minutes watching them.

Eventually, were agreed we’re seeing something paranormal. I’m a musician/videographer, and I record so much that I annoy my friends. That night I was so mad that I left my camera in Long Beach, the first time I see something like this. I thought, how convenient? I can’t believe if I talk about this, I have to answer, “Did you get proof” with “No I forgot my camera”. I didn’t own a smartphone in 2011. I can’t for anyone else.

It wasn’t until 2014 I saw the same orange orbs on Youtube. After that, there was no denying I saw astronauts from somewhere else. I got deep into researching and today my mind state is this. I know we are not alone. I don’t have a book or a bunch of social media posts trying to convert people into believers. I know how that conversation goes. Humans are so egocentric, if you tell them you experienced something they didn’t and were raised to ridicule it, they will not only ridicule it, they will also tell you that you didn’t see it. Or that you didn’t experience seeing a UFO. How egotistical is that? People who were not present, telling you what you did and did not experience.

I’m from Vietnam. I was born in Saigon and found by the delta river when I was a couple days old in 1975 Nov. I’m just now learning about UFO’s in the Vietnam War. I had no idea that these events were happening. Knowing what I saw and know, there’s no doubt in my mind I believe it.

A separate incident that is not UFO related, but paranormal, happened in 2017 at my studio in downtown LA. In 2016 I started watching videos on Youtube about the “Boom” explosion happening all over the planet. I read it’s some kind of war with the Reptilian race underground. Summer 2017, while hanging out with my ex-GF, we both heard and felt that, “Boom” underground shaking the whole building for a few seconds. There was no earthquake. No one said anything about it in the news or social media. I revisited those Youtube videos and I was in disbelief, that my tuition was right, yet completely at ease and enlightened, we experienced that same event.

To this day, I am still astonished that there’s things in the sky, the ocean, the Cold, the underground, and the general public are angrily against the whole notion of something smarter, perhaps even better, exists. I get why. It’s like the government are The Monkeys, and they secretly discover The Doors, a way more advanced act that blows them out the water. In order for The Monkeys to make their fans still think they’re the best band there is, they cover up the discovery of The Doors. Because they know if the people find out about there’s someone more powerful, they will be seen as Top dog anymore. It’s another sign of egocentrics in the human character.

There’s more out there that we do not know, than we do know, and we’ll most likely die that way. Yet, we behave like we know everything there is to know and pretend we’re going to live forever.

Posted 2020-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81945
Occurred: 2011-06-26 22:00 Local
Reported: 2011-06-27 10:19 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Willits, CA, USA

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

Red, orange, gold slow-moving crafts appeared and vanished June 26, 2011 California.

Sunday night, 6/26/11 about 10:00 p.m., outside of Willits in Northern California. I skywatch every night and had just gone out, facing west, clear dark night, when a beautiful bright, sparkling object appeared towards the south, and silently moved at a height lower than our few commercial flyovers, quite slowly and steadily without variation in altitude, apparently heading north-northwest. I of course assumed it was a plane—and from my angle it did seem to be a flat elliptical shape, but I knew the colors were wrong: red at the rear, gold at the front, with the lights moving and interplaying into brilliant orange and a coppery gold at the center. No separation between the lights and colors. They weren’t flashing but instead moving and pulsing, really lovely.

After only a few seconds of watching this, the lights all suddenly and uniformly dimmed and got hazy and changed character and it looked like a tiny version of a nebula cloud like I’ve seen in Hubble photos—but then I was distracted by a sudden narrow streak of dull white light that shot down, from some distance southward behind the “craft,” straight down to the ground (which I thought well, this could be a meteor, just without luminosity which isn’t uncommon). Then the original “craft” immediately got bright again, back to red and orange and gold, and traveled only a short distance more when it just disappeared. I waited and searched the sky to see if it reappeared but it didn’t.

Then about 30 seconds later, another one appeared from almost the same point of origin, again out of nowhere, again silently and fairly slowly traveled the same flight path, but this one was all gold light and the light was more steady and the “craft” seemed a bit smaller. When it got to the point where the first one had dimmed, it vanished. All of this took between 1 – 2 minutes. Nothing more occurred.

I had not myself heard of any UFO sightings with orange as a key color but I’ve now googled and see there are some, including multiple sightings in Washington in 2009.

Posted 2011-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44181
Occurred: 2005-04-24 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-05-30 13:24 Pacific
Duration: about 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

Black spot, killed digital camera

I was walking through my yard when i heard a high pitched sound, sort of like the sound you hear when you frist turn on a TV,

I looked up (thats where the sound came from) and I saw what I thought was a jet plane, we see planes a lot in this area, they fly so high that all one can see is a sliver dot.

But this on was pitch black and it was moving extremly fast from north to south.

I ran to my house and got my camera (a sony digital). I got back to find that the object was almost out of sight and now it was moving in the oposite direction, it had changed corse.

I got it in the viewfinder of the camera a took about 25 pictures in rapid secetion. I would have i was about to take more when the camera registered that the flash memory card was full, this card was a 512mb and could hold almost 180 pics.

I watch the object until it was out of sight and then I went into my house and looked at the pictures. all of them showed a bright white light with a trail of smaller lights behind it.

All other pictures I have taken sence then with that camera have had a blueish spot in the center



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-06-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34608
Occurred: 2004-01-21 20:00 Local
Reported: 2004-01-21 22:11 Pacific
Duration: 00:30
No of observers: 2

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

((

NUFORC Note:

We have spoken with this witness via telephone, and she sounds to us to be quite serious minded and credible. However,

bright fireball changing and flashing colors red to white to yellow to orange hovering for 30 minutes and then vanishing

At 20:00 hours or 8:oo pm pacific time Jan 21, 2004 I drove out of my country home driveway to take my Mother home and noticed this large fireball looking object in the south western sky well above the tree tops. I live at the elevation of 2400 ft and this was well above that. I was viewing it from a high open unobstrcted ridge. It was not moving and that was the reason I noticed it so much. As I drove my mother home on my way back to my house there it still was ...not moving just hovering over the ridge. At first I thought it might be a helicopter but there was no sound. I stopped and watched it for another ten minutes. Then I went to get my son to have another witness and we then watched it together for ten more minutes. Then it looked like it moved a little to the east and then it just disappeared. I am a 53 year old art teacher. It was a very clear night. I have lived here for 24 years. This object I will describe as a bright fireball changing and flashing color from red to white to yellow and hovering for 30 minutes in the same spot then vanishing.

ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS, SUBMITTED 24JA04.))

video footage of fireball and inside interior which contains a solid shaped craft moving and hovering

Please see my first report dated willits, Ca for Jan.21. I'm including this added report for our siting because today Sat Jan 24 we looked at the video clips that my 14 year old son took the night of the siting and Wow! We put these on our computer and what looked like a fireball is blown up on the screen and you can easily see what is inside of the fireball, a shaped solid craft surrounded by the firery lights of the fireball. These pictures are incredible! The camera had a 460x digital zoom sony brand. This zoom enables us to see inside the fireball just enough to blow our minds!

END #1))

ADDENDUM #2, SUBMITTED 08FE04))

video freeze framing reveals fireball turning into a rod of 11 connected smaller light balls and then going back into a fireball shape

This report is an extention of my other two reports for this date. The video footage of this event of Jan 21,04 is astounding. In freeze framing the video by way of milli seconds I have been able to see things which I could not see that night by my naked eyes. The computer enables me to not only freeze a milli second but to blow it up much larger to see just what it is or might be. There is a series of photos that I can only describe as the fireball spliting up into many smaller balls of light all attached in a long rod like formation of 11 balls of various pastel colors of light and then it goes into a progression of from 11 balls of light to 10 to 8 to 4 to 2 to one the fireball shape. It does this a few times where it goes from a long rod of attached balls of light to a single fireball of light. This is incredible and it happens so fast it could not be seen until the video was freeze framed. In other photos is is obvious that the solid white interior of the fireball is moving very fast because it changes it position and angle continually. There is another unexplainable part of this footage that puzzels me. In the bottom of the screen there is a very small dancing ball of light that at first I dismissed because it was so small in comparison to the main fireball . This tiny ball of light moves from side to side and and then at the end of the video the main fireball seems to disappear and reappear at the bottom of the screen very small with the other very small ball of light. It seems to be communicating with that tiny ball of light. We could not see this tiny ball of light with the naked eye that night of the sighting.

END #2))


Posted 2004-01-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34651
Occurred: 2004-01-21 20:00 Local
Reported: 2004-01-24 13:59 Pacific
Duration: 00:30/00:45
No of observers: 2

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Changed Colo

video footage of fireball and inside interior which contains a solid shaped craft moving and hovering

Please see my first report dated willits, Ca for Jan.21. I'm including this added report for our siting because today Sat Jan 24 we looked at the video clips that my 14 year old son took the night of the siting and Wow! We put these on our computer and what looked like a fireball is blown up on the screen and you can easily see what is inside of the fireball, a shaped solid craft surrounded by the firery lights of the fireball. These pictures are incredible! The camera had a 460x digital zoom sony brand. This zoom enables us to see inside the fireball just enough to blow our minds!

Posted 2004-01-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34931
Occurred: 2004-01-21 20:00 Local
Reported: 2004-02-08 21:13 Pacific
Duration: 00:30/00:45
No of observers: 2

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

video freeze framing reveals fireball turning into a rod of 11 connected smaller light balls and then going back into a fireball shape

This report is an extention of my other two reports for this date. The video footage of this event of Jan 21,04 is astounding. In freeze framing the video by way of milli seconds I have been able to see things which I could not see that night by my naked eyes. The computer enables me to not only freeze a milli second but to blow it up much larger to see just what it is or might be. There is a series of photos that I can only describe as the fireball spliting up into many smaller balls of light all attached in a long rod like formation of 11 balls of various pastel colors of light and then it goes into a progression of from 11 balls of light to 10 to 8 to 4 to 2 to one the fireball shape. It does this a few times where it goes from a long rod of attached balls of light to a single fireball of light. This is incredible and it happens so fast it could not be seen until the video was freeze framed. In other photos is is obvious that the solid white interior of the fireball is moving very fast because it changes it position and angle continually. There is another unexplainable part of this footage that puzzels me. In the bottom of the screen there is a very small dancing ball of light that at first I dismissed because it was so small in comparison to the main fireball . This tiny ball of light moves from side to side and and then at the end of the video the main fireball seems to disappear and reappear at the bottom of the screen very small with the other very small ball of light. It seems to be communicating with that tiny ball of light. We could not see this tiny ball of light with the naked eye that night of the sighting.



Posted 2004-02-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17777
Occurred: 2001-05-11 22:48 Local
Reported: 2001-05-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Willits (west of), CA, USA

Shape: Light


A triangle formation of "satelites" moving apparently very high and fast.

What appeared to be 3 "satellites", flying very high (as one would see normal satellites) flying in a triangle formation, with lead "light" at point of triangle, flying from directly above to the south. Movement not quite as smooth or as fast as satellites normally travel, nor quite as bright either. No sound, no flashing lights. Have had a response from one previous "Operation Blue Book" Air Force officer, who stated "you saw what you saw, it was not aircraft nor a satellite. You are one of the lucky few. ???



NUFORC Note:

We suspect this report may describe three U.S. Navy satellites, referrred to as "N.O.S.S." satellites. There are several other entries for dates during the preceding weeks. PD


Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90247
Occurred: 1990-07-15 13:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-06-30 05:51 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

Two Orbs spinning in a flipping motion across sky.

I would like to report something I witness when I was a about 13 years old. It was summer time, and I was in a friends backyard playing. When my little brother noticed something flying in the sky over our town. It struck us as strange, cause it made no noise, and flew funny. It flew like a football when kicked, end over end style. But it was like two orbs stuck together. The two orb shapes would seem to separate, then come back together as it flew. It was very reflective. Silver in color. My Brother and Two friends watched it for about 15 seconds till it passed from view behind trees that obscured our view. It was north of our location, and flying in an easterly direction.

Never seen anything like it sense then, and it still is very clear in my mind. Bright clear day, middle of the afternoon, and my brother recalls the same thing. Thanks for listening



NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-07-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55819
Occurred: 1983-05-15 19:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-03-19 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 1.50 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Willits, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

Saw dark diamond shaped UFO for 1 and a half minutes at tree top level.

While driving up Sherwood Road going outside of Willits California, the driver (Jeff) saw something weird as we cressed the top of Sherwood by the cross.

As we traveled about 50 yards, the driver decided to pull over and I do not know if the car stopped running or if it was on his own accord, the passenger (Martha) saw the object too. We exited the vehicle (a 1979 Datsun 210) which is when I saw the object moving across the sky. I previously was in the back seat and could not see what the others could see.

The object we saw moved very slow, about 15 miles an hour, and did not have much sound to it. It was at tree top level (about 100 to no more than 150 feet above) Lights shot from the pointed end to the back of the object and then again to the forward point in different colors. It made a low humming sound.

As it passed over us, we manuvured around the tree's, backtracking from where we had come from to get a better view of the object. We then ran to see it from around the tree's and the object had now dissapeared.

Cars were now coming and we ran back to our car, jumped in, and left the sight area. None of us ever forgot that experience.






NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-04-27