Santa Cruz, California UFO Sightings in 2013

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Reddish/Orange ball of light seen over Monterey Bay. My wife, three friends and I were leaving the Crow’s Nest restaurant adjacent the harbor in Santa Cruz, CA after having New Year’s Eve dinner. We’d started about 5:00 and enjoyed a good meal and conversation.

None of us had had anything to drink, and we wanted to get home relatively early. We’re not big revelers… While we walked through the parking lot to our cars, I looked to the southwest, out over Monterey Bay, and noticed a reddish-orange, round ball of light in the sky. I initially took it to be aircraft headlights, as there is a flight path that crosses the bay heading to SFO and planes’ lights can often be seen.

I reconsidered almost immediately though and mentioned it to my wife and friends, joking that there was a UFO in the sky. They all looked and saw it as well. What made me reconsider my observation was, first, its color.

Plane headlights are white. This was definitely a reddish orange. Secondly, there was no apparent movement.

Planes usually have at least some offset of their flight path relative to the viewer that causes some appearance of lateral movement. This had none. It stood still in the air.

Third, it appeared wider than the aircraft lights one normally sees in the sky at night. I’d guess that it looked nearly as wide as a pencil eraser held at arm’s length. It was about 30 degrees about the horizon.

The object stayed fixed in place for several minutes while we chatted and readied to leave. This enhanced its oddness to us, so we were all watching it when, in the course of a few seconds, it grew brighter and larger, then disappeared. I thought I recalled it moving slightly to the right as it brightened, but my wife doesn’t remember that.

After it disappeared, I suggested that it must have been a Chinese lantern. I’ve heard of such being floated in the night sky before, and being mistaken for UFO’s, but I’ve never knowingly seen one. It seemed plausible at the time though.

I’d of left it at that but for catching you on C2C yesterday (1/1/14) describing multiple reports of what sounds remarkably like what we witnessed. We were startled to hear you talk of many reddish orange balls of light being reported in the last day, because this is exactly what we saw. I knew then that I needed to write this, my first ever UFO sighting report.

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3 fire balls over Pescadero (Santa Cruz, CA). got off work to find my neighbor staring at the ocean waving me over. He pointed out what seemed to be flickering star.

as we watched it darted up and down, left and right, diagonal and it was FAST. it was pretty far away so at the speed it was moving was pretty intense to look as quick as it did from our point of view. He said he had been watching for about 30 min.

It stuck with me more because he is an ex-military helicopter pilot- and might know a thing or two about flight. I drove back over to my restaurant to show the kitchen guys, 2 waiters a busser, a kitchen guy and even 3 customers (the waiter told them) came out to see. At that point there were 2 'fireballs' and one had a light shining down on the water.

It was really far out we could not make out the shape or what the light was on other than the water. After a few min we all went back inside then a second kitchen guy wanted to see, when we went back out there were 3. the far left one was the most volatile moving erratically.

The middle one was the brightest but slower to move and would appear and disappear randomly. The far right one was the most calm and the one with the light. The light turned off, it went straight up then diagonal out of sight.

Now i am afraid to go to sleep! If anyone knows what else that could be that would be welcomed!!.

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Out of nowhere bright object appears in the sky and arcs downward at lightening speed into the Pacific Ocean Standing very close to the Santa Cruz beach A very bright object suddenly appeared in the sky and made an arc downward at a very fast speed - disappears below the trees - as if heading into the Pacific Ocean.

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I feel this is probably a new satellite of some sort, but would like to have it on record as a sighting. I called in a report of an unidentified flying object and left a brief message. We first saw the object around 6:30PM on October 29, 2013.

Location was on the northern tip of the Monterey Bay near Santa Cruz, CA. The sky was clear and this was the only object showing in the sky. It was very bright and looked like it was slightly moving, but it never went anywhere.

It wasn’t an airplane of any sort. The object was round. I have a video I made of it with my Sony Camera 20X lens and it appears to be dancing slightly around, occasionally dipping.

I don’t understand this, because with the naked eye it doesn’t appear to be doing anything. Here’s the curious thing. It’s now 8:00PM and the object is still in the same place, except it’s moved lower, and I have to assume it’s because the earth is moving, and not because the object has moved lower.

Because of this, I feel this is probably a satellite, but I’ve lived here in the same place for the past 14 years and have never noticed it before. I have no background in this type of thing as do none of the other observers.

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Bright light hovered over San Jose confirmed by 2 other people, was bright white light with some changing colors.

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fire that rose in the night's sky in Santa Cruz, CA I was in the backyard facing the ocean. A big ball of flame slowly rose above the rooftops from the west, getting smaller as it rose and proceeded southwest, where my sister saw it, and headed north as it got further up and out of sight.

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Orange light ejects flares Just as the second half of the Superbowl was starting I took out the trash, and I saw a bright orange light that appeared to be flying over Santa Cruz or maybe further south over Capitola or Aptos. The light did not blink and seemed unusually bright for an aircraft. It moved smoothly north at first, but later changed direction and headed south and down towards the ocean in the middle of the Monterey Bay.

Before disappearing below the tree line, it shot what looked like a line of about 10 flares UPWARD in a rapid fire manner that only took about five seconds. The flares didn't fall, but seemed to float in place for about 10 or 15 seconds then disappeared. At first I thought this was a helicopter, because I heard the sound of a helicopter nearby, but soon it became apparent that there was indeed a helicopter moving north, but it continued north even after the orange light changed direction.

There was no discernible sound coming from the orange light nor its fl! ares. There is a constant stream of planes flying north over Santa Cruz day and night, but this light seemed to be much lower than the usual planes, and I could see a plane fly above it at what I guess to be about 5000 feet - I think the light was at about 2000 feet before it moved downward towards the ocean. It seems likely that other craft in the sky would have seen it too.

I tried driving down the street to a better vantage point to see where it went, but I saw nothing. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).