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Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Strangest thing... On our way to the lake, it caught the corner of my eye. The only way I can describe it is... Looked like a flying du
Orangevale · CA, USA
Pulsing, changing colors, but relatively stationary in the NE sky, at about 30 degrees from horizon.
Mecca · CA, USA
Very bright just appeared then more appeared out of nowhere.
Sacramento · CA, USA
Etheric-like spaceshap? Thingy? Smokey-ish maybe?
Cardiff by The Sea · CA, USA
Bright light dissolves into "fog" circle and the. Fades out. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Unkown obj. with beam of white light moved horizontally, before taking off into sky. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Santa Ana · CA, USA
Bright green/blue gas in the the dark night sky. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Del Mar · CA, USA
Contrail then white cloud, then blue/green cloud over Del Mar, CA. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
San Jose · CA, USA
We noticed a bright light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Stockton · CA, USA
Bright sphere, star looking object; had a foggy dome around it with a blue ray of light. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Buellton (near) · CA, USA
Two dots of light connected by a beam and then a spiral and cone-shaped object. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Canoga Park · CA, USA
Light emits green gas cloud and travels north seen from Canoga Park. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Moreno Valley · CA, USA
Alien ship spotted over moreno valley california. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
San Pablo · CA, USA
Light coming out of cloud I thought was a helicopter with spot light behind a cloud. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Litchfield · CA, USA
An illuminated "cloud" greenish blue overhead and to the west an object at the center of a "hourglass" shaped cloud.
Fallbrook · CA, USA
Glowing green cloud-like orb hanging in night sky. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Placerville · CA, USA
Comet-like sighting in Northern California. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Palmdale · CA, USA
Bright light leaves mist and blue streak in sky after breaking apart. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Yosemite · CA, USA
Large silent ship leaving behind a green sparkly dust that hovered then shot into space
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
Stratospheric Blue Light Beam tracking Orange Sun Ball. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Oakley · CA, USA
someone called in on coast to coast open lines and reported seeing what i saw. we both were at the drive in. small world.
Fresno · CA, USA
Square white lights stopped..went up..then down over the horizon.
Torrance · CA, USA
Football Shape 10 minutes: Football like shape lights white translucent than red. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus? PD))
Sonoma · CA, USA
3-4 rotating, glowing red orbs in our tree at night. As they rotated it looked like glowing embers.