NUFORC UFO Sighting 175492
Occurred: 2023-02-20 10:52 Local
Reported: 2023-04-24 17:09 Pacific
Duration: 42 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, CA, USA
Location details: Stagnant in the sky

Shape: Orb
Explanation: Balloon - Probable
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

My son and I were outside trying to find the fighter jet that was passing by and ended up seeing an orb object floating in mid air.

At first the object looked like a red balloon in the sky but it did not move at all as would a balloon being pushed in the air. I took out my phone to record it and as I zoomed in on the object, it appears as if lights were being emitted in a sequence. I then tilted my camera from side to side to see if anything else was around but the object was the only thing in the sky. Then it vanished from sight.










Posted 2023-05-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152053
Occurred: 2019-12-25 00:15 Local
Reported: 2019-12-25 00:30 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, CA, USA

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

My dad, and I saw about 6 lights of varying distances apart from each other extremely high in the sky flashing at times but, moving extremely fast. Disappeared one by one, seemingly fading into the night sky as if flying up at extreme speed. No sound was made.

Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145726
Occurred: 2019-04-17 22:20 Local
Reported: 2019-04-18 04:43 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Gonzalez, LA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three lights in the shape of a triangle with one red light in the center.

On Wednesday, April 17th, 2019, at approximately 20:20 hrs., I took my dogs out to the back yard as I normally do every day around this time. My rear door faces South, so when I walk outside, I’m looking almost due South. It was mostly cloudy with high thin clouds and I could see the brightest stars in the sky intermittently through the clouds. My attention was drawn almost directly above, to a silent, triangle shaped object that was heading South at a rather slow rate of speed compared to the everyday air traffic in the area.

Another interesting comparison to the everyday local air traffic is it goes East to West or West to East and very rarely have I ever seen it travel North to South. The only things that appear to deviate from that pattern are helicopters, hot air balloons or powered parachutes and none of these can be mistaken for what I saw.

I watched in disbelief as I attempted to explain it away in my mind, but I couldn’t. There were three white or dull white lights, each marked a corner of the triangle and it had one slowly, pulsating red light in the center. I was able to see an outline of the triangle since the moon had the clouds somewhat glowing. I didn’t have my phone with me when I reached for it to snap a picture and I could feel my heart pounding harder with each second that I watched, knowing that no one would believe me. I thought I saw a green light near the front of the triangle which, appeared to be circling in a sporadic manner of directions. The green light looked like just a light that I couldn’t determine an outline for, much smaller and much less intense compared to the triangle. This all happened in probably less than a minute, but I couldn’t leave my dogs out, so I called inside to my wife, but she didn’t hear me over the TV.

I slept on this before typing this because I still can not believe what I saw.

Posted 2019-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136790
Occurred: 2017-10-17 02:00 Local
Reported: 2017-10-17 00:31 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

lights at each corner were striped following the triangle contour.

Standing on porch, looked straight up at stars, immediately a huge triangle with all 3 corners lit with a striped pattern of light in the corners, it was moving swiftly south and was gone.

Posted 2017-10-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124052
Occurred: 2015-11-13 21:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-13 20:25 Pacific
Duration: 15
No of observers: 3

Location: Gonzales, ID, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

7-14 large amber glowing balls of light traveling together at the same speed.

These amber balls of light were in a type of formation and they all were stationary for a moment above then they all started traveling together in the same direction at the exact same speed...quite slow. They were glowing amber and no blinking lights were noted. We watched them either circling over the sky or more and more kept coming. We could not tell, due to the tree line.

We watched them for what seemed like 15 minutes. They were beautiful. There could have been either 7 to 14. Depending on whether they were just circling, or more coming after the first 7.

Planes started flying around close; they had to have seen them. There's no way they couldn't have seen them.

Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 120816
Occurred: 2015-08-01 22:10 Local
Reported: 2015-08-01 20:29 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was just walking after dinner and looking to big moon in clear sky, all of sudden a very fast white light appeared in sky, my husband was with me I told him see what it is? He also saw it and within second it just got disappeared. It was not plane or rocket as it appeared out of no where and disappeared with 30-40 seconds.

Posted 2015-08-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115129
Occurred: 2014-11-04 00:20 Local
Reported: 2014-11-03 23:59 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Gonzalas, LA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Black triangular with white light in center seen hovering above trees while driving home

While driving I witnessed a bright light which I thought was possibly a star. As I drove closer I realized it was a hovering object over the trees. The object was black, approximately 50ft across with red lights toward each end and a white light in the center and was about 400ft in above the ground over the trees. The object stayed motionless as I drove past it. I’ve lived close to close to airports all my life and distinguish between various craft however this was unlike any craft I’ve ever seen.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104524
Occurred: 2013-11-16 22:30 Local
Reported: 2013-11-17 10:13 Pacific
Duration: 11 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright, Orange lights in the sky

On the evening of 11/16/13 at approximately 22:00 to 22:30 hours, I was sitting on my bench in my back yard with a friend of mine just hanging out and discussing life events. The bench faces West, I was sitting on the South end facing north while he was on the North end facing south when I noticed something in the sky behind him, to the North. It was a sphere shaped, bright orange glowing ball that moved rather slowly as compared to aircraft observed in the area. I never wanted to post about this before, but since this is the third time I've seen this phenomena this year, I decided to research to see if I was the only one who is seeing these things and now I’m here telling my story, reluctantly due to my profession.

My first sighting took place on New Year’s Eve of this year and there were six objects that night, of the same description as previously mentioned but they appeared to be traveling in formations of two. The first two came from the south at a very high rate of speed, moving north; one behind the other, at the same speed then appeared to stop over us, at the same time, almost like they were attached. When those two stopped, two more came from the south in the same manner, appeared to be the same distance apart from each other as the first two and actually moved on a slightly north, north westerly direction and slowed to a stop while the third set came from the south in the same manner as the other two sets but was even more slightly to the north westerly direction and slowed to a stop as well. By this time I had everyone’s attention to them and the objects slowly disappeared over us, all at the same time. It was witnessed by almost everyone at my house that night, approxim! ately 8 to 10 people and this whole incident occurred within approximately 30 seconds.

The second sighting, I had only seen one of them but it was traveling south at a very high rate of speed and I watched it until it disappeared in the horizon. I was the only one who observed that one and I didn't think anyone would believe me but this sighting only lasted approximately 3 to 5 seconds. Please note that the directions listed are approximate or in that general direction. I hope I didn't confuse anyone with the details. I would also like to add that I did see a Chinese lantern one night a few months ago that someone launched from the next street over from me and the lights I saw did not resemble the characteristics of the lantern at all. The lights I saw were much much brighter and didn't flicker like the lantern did.

The only photo that we had was from a cell phone and was not very clear or showed anything more than a stationary light.

I tried to include as much information as I could remember or even describe in this report.



Posted 2013-11-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87865
Occurred: 2012-03-17 20:45 Local
Reported: 2012-03-19 18:37 Pacific
Duration: 7 mins
No of observers: 5

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Light


12-15 red lights were flying high in the sky following the same path and then vanished .

On 3/12/2012 in Gonzales La. at 8:45pm.... 12-15 red lights(red dots) were flying in the sky in different formations. Lasted about 8 minutes and all vanished in the distance.. Very facinating! Not a Joke!

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80238
Occurred: 2011-02-26 19:15 Local
Reported: 2011-02-26 17:31 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

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

Bright orange fiery upside down teardrop floating slowly under clouds in a straight line in Gonzales, LA.

Direction of origin unknown. Bright, fiery orange upside down teardrop, with a more rounded tip, floating from one horizon to another. Slightly glowing and pulsating. Flying below clouds as far as we could tell. Much too slow to be a shooting star or comet, even lacking a tail that either of those would have. Direction of pulsating glow upwards toward and from the larger round part of the teardrop, but, with focus, seemed like it was made up of many small lights, resembling tightly gathered Christmas Tree lights. Path was a straight line, as it seemed. We observed it until out of sight. The witnesses : Heavy Equipment Operator, father, college student, mother. No drug/alcohol use...expecting a child. Viewed while stepping outside to smoke a cigarette.



Posted 2011-03-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76802
Occurred: 2010-07-26 21:20 Local
Reported: 2010-07-26 20:06 Pacific
Duration: 20 SECONDS
No of observers: 4

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

ORANGE FIERY ORB TRAVELING NORTH TO SOUTH BENEATH CLOUD COVER THEN SHOT STRAIT UP THROUGH CLOUD COVER AND DISAPPEARED.

ORANGE FIERY ORB TRAVELING BENEATH CLOUD COVER NORTH TO SOUTH. MY FAMILY AND I WATCHED IT FOLLOW A STRAIT PATH ABOUT 20 SECONDS THEN IT SHOT STRAIT UP THROUGH THE CLOUD COVER AND DISAPPEARED.



Posted 2010-07-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67790
Occurred: 2009-01-01 00:15 Local
Reported: 2009-01-01 15:04 Pacific
Duration: one minute
No of observers: 7

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three seperate groups of bright red objects moving in a westerly direction

On December 31, 2008, my family and I were sitting outside of my residence watching the pre-New Year fireworks and waiting for the post New Year, midnight, fireworks celebration. There were about seven of us sitting in the front of my residence. The group consisted of a brother, children, in-law and relatives.

The neighbors started the fireworks about mid-night. The continuous exploding of fireworks last for about 9 to 11 minutes. At the end of the firecrackers exploding, our attention was drawn to the southeastern sky. Flying in a westerly direction were several unknown objects. The first formation consisted of four objects. Three of these appeared to be in some type of symetrical formation and the fourth one of this group was alone. These four objects were red in color and we could not see any blinking lights nor could we hear any noise coming from this group. They objects were low enough that we should have been able to hear whether or not they were of a fixed wing aircraft or rotor aircraft.

Behind this group of four we noticed two others and either a single or a third group of two objects. All of the objects were similar in nature in that they all displayed a red light, none displayed any flashing lights. We could not see any color that would be visible on an aircraft; green on one side or a solid white when viewing from the rear.

The sky was clear as we could see stars and a partial moon. The wind was blowing from the north. We had a small fire in an outdoor pit and we were sitting in a semi-circle. I myself was sitting with my back to the north, viewing the objects coming from the east, heading westward as if to say they were followig directly over I-10.

As the objects moved slightly to a point past 180 to 190 degrees, the objects seemed to just disappear. There were no clouds that would obsecure our view of these objects. The objects in the second and third group disappeared as did the ones in the first group.

Members of the viewing group includes a 63 year old registered pharmacist and his wife who is a college graduate and her daughter; my 25 year old son, a college graduate and his wife who is a registered nurse; my sister-in-law who is a photographer; myself, a 55 year old retired state police polygraph examiner and my wife a Licensed Practical Nurse.

There was no-one in the group who was intoxicated. I had only had two drinks all night. The only explanation I can give for not hearing any aircraft noise is that our ears were ringing from the fireworks. However, no one in the group could hear any aircraft engine noise nor could we see any flashing lights. As we verbalized our observations.

I also submitted an email to a friend of mine who is a dispatcher with the local sheriff's office. The content of that email was to ask him if any other reports concerning these objects were received by sheriff's office. At the time of this writng, I have not heard from him.

Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 52923
Occurred: 2006-10-13 06:40 Local
Reported: 2006-10-13 18:18 Pacific
Duration: Unknown
No of observers: 0

Location: Gonzales, CA, USA

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

Three lights hoovering near Gonzales, CA

My sister was going to work early in the morning, traveling north on highway 101. She saw three bright balls of light floating on the sky. She said that these lights were lined up in a horizontal line. The ball of light in the middle had a blue-ish color to it, and the other two right next to it were lit up white in color. My sister thought it was probably a set of flares because they had a bit of a streak/trail right behind in the lights. Strange thing was that my sister said that these lights started hoovering lower and lower to ground, to the point where it was about even to the height of a roof of a single story house. After this, she said that these lights started rotating from a lined up horizontal pattern, to a three-point triangular pattern. She said that if you were to "connect the dots" between these three lights, that you'd connect a triangle. After she arrived at work, her co-worker had arrived just shortly. Since her co-worker lives around where we live, my sister had asked her if she had seen anything strange on the way to work. Her co-worker said that she had only seen a horrible car accident nearby a 76 gas station. This was the same location where my sister had also seen these strange lights. We thought that maybe this unfortunate person had seen these strange lights as he/she drove, and was not paying attention to the road. I used to fuel up aircraft at a local airport, and I've seen helicopters, jets, big planes, small planes. I thought that maybe my sister had seen a helicopter or something, so I asked her to describe it for me. She didnt mention anything like blinking lights, spotlights, noise, dust picking up or anything like that. Who knows what it was, maybe it was something that is totally explainable. It was dark, so she couldnt make out anything that was behind this lights. If anyone out there saw something at this location, let me know.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34134
Occurred: 2003-12-24 03:19 Local
Reported: 2003-12-26 09:03 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

The Silent Trianlge Helicopter

Me my friend and his girlfriend were talking in my truck at 3:15 am on chrismas mourning when a very bright light appeared at to the left of us. The light was rising and moving toward us. we all got out of the truck and i said "UFO!...oh no its a helicopter."...the closer it got the more it didnt look like a helicopter. It passed right over my head about 50 feet in the air, it was soo low.It had a bright spot light on the front but it was like inside of the craft...it had 3 white lights under it in a triangle. The craft was black and it had red blinking lights on the back and some on the side. The sound it made was nothing like i ever heard, it was going slow about 25 mph. i could even tell that it was slowing down and going lower. it went over the trees in the woods were i no longer could see it. my friends did not beleive in aliens before that night, but we know what we saw. we were freaking out talk when i said "shhh!!! yal still here it"..the sound was getting louder. it came back from the far left of the woods going up. we just watched it as is slowly got went over the trees. About 2 minutes after we seen it we smelled a burning smell. we knew no one would just start a fire a 3 a.m. we would have smelled it before. we thought the craft had a purpose for going back there so the next day we went back there...i cant talk about what we found yet cause i dont know the whole story and what is really going on...but its crazy....beleive in aliens they exsist!!!!!

Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14582
Occurred: 2000-10-14 18:30 Local
Reported: 2000-10-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


Gigantic ufo near Gonzales, LA

My son and I were traveling north on U.S. hwy. 61 outside Gonzales, La. I was looking at the unusual number of contrails in the sky to the west of the town, when we both noticed what at first we thought was an extremely large airplane banner in the sky at about 2 o'clock high. It was rectangular in shape. Then we realized that there was no plane in front, and it was not moving. It looked to be about 2 miles away, and appeared to be the size of a football field. We observed it for about 30 seconds, until trees blocked the view. On subsequent trips past this area, we haven't seen anything that could resemble it, so we know it wasn't something that we mistook for a ufo (like a billboard, microwave tower, etc.).

Posted 2000-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70370
Occurred: 1999-06-01 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-06-05 07:11 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 7

Location: Gonzales, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

strange lights in gablin moutains

It was a thursday october night while myself and 6 other friends were out hunting in the gablin mountins in gonzales it was not completely dark when i was leading point and noticed some strange white light witch appeared to be car head lights but what was strange about that it was on the hill top moving foward the hills were to high for a vechile to be on then it started coming down the hill all we could see were the white lights and then just as it got closer to the ground it shot straight up turned red blue white and moved in different directions so fast and at at angles in possible for modern aircraft thier was not noise or dust kicked backed then it changed to a yellow white light then shot in to the night sky




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 20565
Occurred: 1998-10-07 22:05 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-11-25 23:03 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

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

Silent triangle shaped ufo up close and personal

My friend and I were smoking a cigarette outside and shooting the 'bull'. It was a clear night. A handful of lights moving across the sky caught the corner of my vision. Over toward the house behind a street light (in view) I seen 5 lights that were the size of stars along with the same brightness. I nudged my friend and just pointed. We started walking back towards the house when the lights were becoming a lot more identifiable. The 5 lights were in a half circle and sitting on the belly side of a huge triangle shaped ufo. Both of us experienced a tone or ringing in our ears, other than that there was absolutely no sound. When the vessel came into full view it couldn't have been no more than 300 to 400 feet off the ground and this thing was creeping. It couldn't have been going faster than 5 or 10 miles per hour. I knew it was strange because this thing was as long as my neighbor's yard and our's put together. Anything human would have fell out the sky or been loud. As it was passing we both noticed that the ship had blue wave like sparks coming out the back. The sparks drifted for about 10 feet or so from the craft and just disappeared. When our view was starting to be compromised by trees we climbed the roof of the house and watched as it went over the 4 lane highway and skimmed across the trees until it was gone. After this incident, although not my first I've experienced the same ringing in my ears, my sinus's which hardly ever bothered me are bothering me all the time, and even hives. I've noticed throughout my life that I have seen more ufo's up close than I can shake a stick at. Some more experiences that I've had.... an orange glowing ball that blinks in and out of existence which I've seen on 3 occasions, and an egg shaped one that appeared once when I was a child that was hovering directly above me 1000's of feet and actually split the clouds as it left. Dreams, visions or remembering things... some recent and most when I was little..... well that's all for now... too much to write! .... thx for the patience..and time

Posted 2001-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68979
Occurred: 1990-12-24 23:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-27 19:15 Pacific
Duration: In a trailer park
No of observers: 1

Location: Gonzales, LA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

Magic came down to earth.

Believe me or not, my brother and me at the age of 5&6 were anxiously waiting for Santa Claus to deliver presents. While we were looking out the window this glitter substance started to come down to earth and even though me and my brother were so young when we seen it, it was amazing and my brother says the same.

As the craft slowly came towards the ground it was like it was spooked then it quickly started to go back into the sky, awesome.

I'm a big believer in the Lord Jesus Christ but I believe that this was something incredible possibly not from this earth I don't know. But sometimes you think that your living a special life. I'm not crazy, probably one of the most average Americans you have ever seen. I'm attending medical school now to educate myself about this extrodinary planet that we are now lifing on. Father Please HElp mE.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18620
Occurred: 1963-06-01 08:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-07-25 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec.
No of observers: 2

Location: Gonzales, TX, USA

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

Object was cigar shaped,lights along side and exremely fast.

I was driving toward Gonzales Tex from Houston, and as I started to pass a slower moving vehicle. This cigar shaped object crossed the road in front of me at a tremendous rate of speed.It was appoximately 8' above the ground going south to north. The car in front of me swerved to the shoulder and I immediately pulled of also. I got out of my car and went back to the other driver who was a pregnant woman and I asked her if she saw what I had witnessed.She was trembling as we discussed what we had seen, I looked for the "craft" and it was no where to be seen but I noticed that the pasture grasses were parted where this object had passed by. I drove onto Gonzales immediately to the police station to report what I had seen.The officer dismissed it by saying that it was either a crop duster aircraft or some sort plane from the Air Force base near Galveston. I asked him to call both places and he refused.I wish I had gotten the womans name so as to verify this claim. I've waited all these years to come forth because of the ridicule I would have recieved among my family and aquaintences.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2001-08-05