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Walnut Creek · CA, USA
Bright light emitted from circular shape. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
San Bernardino · CA, USA
Blue trail of light and a bright circle of light moving in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
North Hollywood · CA, USA
White orb on fire.
Huntington Beach · CA, USA
My oldest started saying he saw a shooting star or a helicopter. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Long Beach · CA, USA
Brightest light in the western clear sky as big as the moon. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Oceanside · CA, USA
Yellowish orangish light approached as a plane. Then the obj. stopped, turned white.((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Bright light in sky.
Menifee · CA, USA
It was a greenish blue circular shape ball of light. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Carlsbad · CA, USA
Appeared orange molten metal streaking high speed leaving trail of molten material. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Campbell · CA, USA
Cone of light, bright blue contrail and symmetrical vapor cloud. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
West Salem · OR, USA
A white ball shaped light moving at a super high hate of speed 200 feet above ground. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Arizona City · AZ, USA
Red to white "flare" that emitted a fog. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
A blue streak/hazey to the southwestern side. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Bluish-green plume of smoke or exhaust then gone.
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
It hovered for several minutes then left a beam of light and a large mushroom cloud.((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Tucson · AZ, USA
Large light approaches/retreats silently. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
East Northport · NY, USA
White blue tinge light circulating erratically in sky for over an hour. Above the clouds not coming from ground
Olathe · KS, USA
Flickering sphere which descended and then reappeared.
Corpus Christi (south of) · TX, USA
White circular craft at high speed and altitude
Rockvile · MD, USA
6 circular very larger silver balls each the size a moving truck, in a triangle formation hovering above the interstate at night
Louisville · KY, USA
In the easter sky, a green object appeared in Orion's belt. The object appeared to be far away, but from our perspective had the same
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
Blue ball in sky falling to ground, disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))
Rotterdam/Amsterdam · NY, USA
Large size and very bright light in the sky about 20x the size of an avg. "shooting star." It was going across the sky, SLOW
Williston · VT, USA
streaked through sky-larger than a shooting star with blue red color