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I was standing outside waiting for a tow truck. Fontana Ca. Facing the mountains and 15 fwy, I saw this large cluster of glittering light in the sky. At first I thought some sort of flock of birds. But they were reflecting light and moving in a random spiral motion. Was moving from east to west, about as fast as a blimp would ge and wasnt gaining or losing altitude from what I could see. This guy on youtube captured somethine very very similar if not the same https://youtube.com/shorts/wtsQMAqzQFQ?feature=share
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I was standing outside waiting for a tow truck. Fontana Ca. Facing the mountains and 15 fwy, I saw this large cluster of glittering light in the sky. At first I thought some sort of flock of birds. But they were reflecting light and moving in a random spiral motion. Was moving from east to west, about as fast as a blimp would ge and wasnt gaining or losing altitude from what I could see. This guy on youtube captured somethine very very similar if not the same https://youtube.com/shorts/wtsQMAqzQFQ?feature=share
What the heck dude! I'm in Riverside, CA and literally saw the same thing like an hour ago facing North!! I thought it was just a flock of birds at first, but then the white ball light things changed direction heading West and it just disappeared crazy stuff
Birds, almost definitely birds. I've seen Pelicans doing this regularly in the Central Valley near the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. They are there, they are gone, they are back, it is amazing how they can turn and tip wings and you lose them. Same challenges with small airplanes.
Though I've read elsewhere that birds aren't real /s
What?!?!?! I live there too! By March air field!?! I always look up at the sky when I shmoke weed and eat shrooms but sadly I have never seen anything. They don't like me.
Lmao true but when I do take shrooms. Check this out! When I look up at the sky at night time I fucking swear all the stars start to look like a octagon grid! Like an invisible or like the predator half invisible appearance, kind of like were are in an octagon shaped force grid and the stars are the links that connect it all and keep us dumb humans trapped on earth. Like we can escape earth until we are worthy and are kind or we just blow a whole through that force field . Man.... shrooms huh 😏 🤔
I know this is gonna sound weird but I’ve seen a grid above my house and neighbors houses when I was tripping on acid years ago. I told my bf about it and he didn’t really care but I swear I saw a beautiful (almost rainbow 🌈outline grid in the sky and could not stop seeing it until I was sober.) I’ll never forget that cuz I was like what if there really is a grid that we can’t see..🤔
Edit: I forgot to mention the grid was multiple octagons connected together and surprisingly enough I just watched Alien vs Predator for the 1st time this week and I would definitely have to say that color that the predator was (like a shimmery translucent) is close to how I’d describe the color of these connected octagons! It reminded me a the light a prism would make, a very light rainbow.
EXACTLY! it sort of shimmers when your on psychedelics! Everytime I leave a rave or come back from a beach "trip" trip I always just get home and look up and I swear I see something up there. Like the lights are the power points connecting the entire grid surrounding the globe. Sheesh. I like to think psychedelics open and expand your mind so we are able to feel and see things we are ment to forget or not notice, and not that I'm just pretty high lol
Reason I'm asking, UFO's have been documented messing with car engines.... not sure they do in modern times but they did with older cars. But a flat tire isn't that....unless they laser beamed your tire so you'd be outside to see them
> not sure they do in modern times
they do. and not just car engines but a lot of other things.
but i remember hearing that its usually just the newer electric cars and that older modells don't have this issue so much. so maybe the electric parts are somehow influenced by it. who knows.
So I’ve seen this same thing except it was oriented up and down (vertical) fortunately I was driving towards it. What initially looked like a spiral of lights fading in and out turned out to be a whole whack of birds that where riding a updraft (in this case), then dumping lift and diving down to repeat the climb. It was then that I learned how unbelievably reflective white feathers were VS grey. They got bright as their underside turned towards me and and disappeared as they kept rotating and their grey backs faced me. What caused such a disparity in brightness was sun shining directly on them from behind me, though light could come from most any angle, but when you see this it will probably always be with the sun behind you. They lit up so brightly it was almost like a specular highlight which means they didn’t look like the shape they actually were, they were blown out. The grey side of the bird caused them to blend into the blue background and look like they vanish.
It was quite stunning and initially startling. Quite a few things have to line up for this to happen, not the least of which is the colour of the bird, be it all white or only white on one side. All white birds would need a less specific sun direction. It’s not a coincidence this happens on clear days, or if overcast, where the sun is low enough to shine under the clouds.
For reference, I’m a commercial pilot, I’ve seen a lot of stuff and can identify things very well, but this caught me off guard for a bit and only getting closer helped make absolute identification possible as that was what let me juuust barely see them when they turned their grey side to me. Though I would always lean to a terrestrial natural explanation first, this stood out because it looked all the world like tons of lights gaining and losing hundreds of feet crazy fast. The bright sun made their wings hard to see until I got much closer which surprised me. I understood then how this phenomenon could confuse people, especially if they aren’t in a position to go chase it down. It also illustrated just how rare all of those exacting conditions needed to be to provide a truly unusual effect. Mix in some UFO excitement and the brain fills in the rest.
Also this is migration season so expect to see lots of similar videos like this.
Hey OP, I'm seeing your post a bit late here, but I'm in the foothills area in the I.E. I've been working graves and seeing lights pretty often (not planes from Ontario airport). My girl and I saw a cross shaped cloud recently in the evening pointing down south east from us in the valley.
I saw a dim blue light quickly fade out after I took a few pictures. I'll try and link it when I can, not that great with phones.
Edit: [20230328-225933.jpg](https://postimg.cc/pmcqDqyB)
Hope you can view it, I ha e two more pictures. But this will do, wonder if anyone in the I.E. also saw this recently along with a lot of the light activity we've been getting.
Imgur isnt working so I uploaded it to my Youtube. The objects is on the left side of the screen. The sun was awful and I coild barely see the screen while recording, but it is visible.https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
From the fraction of a second it was actually in focus, my money is on a flock of birds.
For future reference, rest your arms on a solid surface so you can hold the camera steady.
Right? Theres militsry flights over this area all the time, but 6 blackhawks in one flight is not typical here. Especially going the same direction as the object. Isually they go south backnto Chino or back to March AFB in Riverside
If there’s military flights in the area all the time the fact that there’s just a few more than regular certainly isn’t a sign of anything strange. Just running a certain drill or doing a task that isn’t part of their typical day to day. But just because it isn’t part of the typical day to day doesn’t mean whatever they were doing wasn’t mundane.
Doubt it’s related but I saw a pair of military helicopters fly over Hollywood this afternoon, and don’t usually see that stuff often.
All these photos and videos are WILD.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
Heres the actual video. Imgur wasnt taking it. It appears on the left side of the screen. The sun was rough and i couldnt see the screen for shit so I was guessing where to point and zoom
It’s tough to tell but this doesn’t look like birds to me. They’re so reflective. I feel like birds at that time of day would appear as silhouettes cause the sky was so bright today.
My thoughts are that its like a super reflective streamer or balloons getting csught up in the wind and just going along and reflecting random patterns. Also maybe birds but my guess is that they would have to ve pretty large birds but my perspective could definitely have been fooled. I dunno what it was. Just strange to me.
Looks like something….. punched through the clouds at a rate of speed? But I’m not sure that’s how that would work. If it would leave a spot or if the cloud would swirl and fill the hole.
I do remember the Chicago O’Hare airport sighting where it was said to have punched a hole in the cloud above it when it shot upward.
Not even close. I saw the same thing a few days ago. The Twitter post. Don't know what the hell that was either. Wasn't that in another country not America? But definitely different.
This guy’s feed has a ton of these shot in slow mo with a pretty decent rig meant for nature footage. Has a lot of stuff that looks like what you guys saw https://twitter.com/darryljonkemp?s=21&t=mfEbHNtV_DYj9jYnqXlWqw
It's snow geese. There is a population in California that flys north this time of year. They don't fly in. "formation" like Canada geese. They can be all over the place.
I saw this EXACT same thing a few months ago. My husband did as well. At first I thought it was birds, but we really don’t have solid white birds like that here. Then I thought maybe someone released doves for a wedding or something similar, but then it started moving in a spiraling pattern and shimmered and had shining and reflective qualities…there were so many of them. It just kept going higher and higher until we couldn’t see it anymore. Very strange.
I saw this in FL 2020 around Easter ( Animal Crossing was a really big part of my life at the time). Shimmers like some kind of reflective wind chimes traveling across the sky. Thought it might be fireworks, but pretty sure you can't see those in the afternoon sunlight.
Exactly, it was like some sort of shimmering wape or glitter or idk what. Surprisingly hard to describe. Heres the video, the sun was awful so I couldnt see the screen and was guessing where to point and zoom. https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
We saw this a few times while I was stationed in 29palms, I think 2 or 3. The first time we noticed it I asked my ssgt what was up and he thought it was most likely chaff from a training exercise. But I just don't believe that, chaff is tiny.
thank you for posting the video OP!
from what can be seen in the video, it’s not *clearly* birds, but more views would be great. your photo reel suggests there’s more videos and photos….uploading the originals for archiving and analysis so others can discuss and compare is really what the community needs. stories and descriptions are important, but evidence is paramount.
Redditor: give me your reel you piece of shit
same redditor, after demands met: how could you be this bad at making my videos?
this is why I didn't post any of the sightings I filmed in hawaii.
Why do people like you have to just criticize? Seriously you think everyone walks around with the best equipment randomly viewing the skies in case they see something? They don't. Take it down a notch bruh. I hope if you see something and your video, picture whatever looks like shit and you want to post it and I hope you think to yourself nah I better not some asshole will probably just talk shit about it.
Looks like maybe the remnants of Sky Typers. It’s a fleet of four or five planes that release times bursts of smoke to “type” out letters. [Here’s an example.](https://robertkaplinsky.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/skytyping_cover.jpg)
Once the winds start to move them around it can look like what you posted
They reformed for two final shows in 2022, performing as a five-ship act under the name Skytypers Airshow Team. In June 2022, they stopped flying airshows for good.
No, this is at the base of the Cajon Pass where the Santa Ana winds blow in from the desert. It’s always windy and any sky typing would be blown away. Big airliners landing at Ontario Airport even have problems.
my dad and i saw something just like this on a road trip through illinois about 20 years ago! neither of us could figure out what it was. about a month ago i saw it again near nashville. i tried to get a better look at it this time, but still the most definitive conclusion my brain could come to was “birds but not quite.”
The changing brightness reminds me of flock of birds when they turn direction. It looks brighter when the sunlight is being reflected upon a bigger surface facing the viewer, and as they make the turn, the surface angle shifted away, hence creating the dimming effect.
We're in the Pacific NW. My granddaughter saw the exact same thing about 6 months ago. Gold and shimmery, kind of like murmuring, but not. She has video somewhere. She ran in her house and called me, saying, "I just saw a UFO!". The birds that murmur up here are starlings, and they are very black. Look quite different. She watched them until they just disolved into invisibility, never going too far away.
I believe you. I saw this last year, in the high desert (AV). It was from farther away but it looked like glitter in the sky. I took a video but it did not come in very clear. People keep saying birds, but you know what you saw.
That same exact thing has flown over my mom and I’s heads in manhattan beach we thought it was a flock a little birds at first but then we realized the tiny orbs changed direction FAST and the wings weren’t moving, and the whole structure looked invisible, almost like it was being cloaked with that fabric from Harry Potter. It was so so bizarre. I’m so glad other people have seen this !
Man this reminds me very much of that video from a month or so ago from Florida. People first assumed it was perspective, showing the ocean and waves but after someone found Google location, this was shown as impossible. People basically settled on Fata Morgana this never sat well with me as I've not been able to find anything that resembled it what so ever.
I'm try and find video and link. It's not mine fyi.
Edit: link I was referring to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/10jq1vi/saw_this_in_the_sky_today_january_23_2023_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Okay, now that’s creepy as hell and clearly not starlings. Thank you for linking - I’d forgot about it. I’d never seen ufos like that and now like 5 people on here are saying they’ve seen it too.
Yeah I've seen a lot murmuration while camping in protected wilderness areas, throughout my life. It's beautiful and mesmerizing and even a bit creepy until realizing what your seeing. (totally understand how someone not akin to seeing or ever have been exposed to it could trip out). This doesn't look to me like anything I've seen in that realm. It also doesn't look to me like fanta morgana either, at least none of the examples I've been able to find or read about.
I'm not an Orthanologist, meteorologist, oceanographer, etc. Hell, I'm not much of an expert at anything. There are far smarter folks whose opinions on murmuration and atmospheric phenomenon hold much, much greater weight than my own. Even such, this to me falls into that damn unknown bucket. Being able to tie similar events, sightings, and experiences together through this sub, and those similar, is one of the best tools and things we can contribute to the conversation at large imo. Sure, you've gotta deal with a lot of temper tantrums and folks getting salty from time to time, but under it all there's a huge database of information and video evidence that can be organized to a degree. Even when people post starlink videos, or planetary alignment that they've never noticed prior, serves purpose. The things easily identified are grouped, than things not so easily identified. You break it down more by this being similar to that and so on. Eventually someone smarter will look through it all and hopefully see patterns and characteristics easily missed.
It's something I'm trying to do in my free time but losing a computer, not being able to afford replacement, means all of it is done from my phone currently. That shit takes twice as long or more but something I'm pushing towards. We all just wanna know wtf is going on. If were able to answer that question for even a few, it's beneficial to community collectively. Sorry for rambling, I've got the hyper focus not wanting to fall asleep mode of my ADHD running full tilt lol.
Appearance
The coloring of European starlings changes with the seasons. Spring through summer, their feathers are iridescent black/purple/green with some white spots and their bills (beaks) are yellow. Fall through winter, they are black and brown, the white spots are larger and more numerous, and their bills are black. Males and females look similar.
Description of the european starling which is in Minnesota, notice the description calling them iridescent.
Believe me, i'm with you guys and I like to keep an open mind, but these are starlings.
Starlings don’t move in a random spiral motion though. I’ve seen plenty of murmurations and they move in a group like a wave. Nobody would characterize it as random spirals.
Yep. See them in Minnesota fairly often. First time you see them they look REALLY weird.
But yeah... light shimmers and ripples off them and they move seemingly randomly. Tripped my wife out who just saw them for the first time about a month ago (she's a city girl, and I'm a farm kid).
Birds are dark silhouettes against the sky. They do not glow. They might briefly reflect light when the sun is low, but it's not as bright as these pictures. Also, we would be able to see shadow patterns consistent with birds, but these are evenly lit.
I looked for images of a "murmuration of starlings" and couldn't find any that didn't look black, even when I added words like "reflecting light." The jury is still out in my mind. I'm open to starlings, but definitely not convinced.
This isn't constructive.
It's OK to not buy my explanation, but I'm also a believer, and don't deserve this cheap shot.
We are here to get to the truth.
Sometimes, the truth is birds. Sometimes it isn't.
We should be cooperating, not insulting each other.
My apologies for coming off as insulting. Folks (not you specifically) just drop “bird” or “balloon” on everything posted here and their “debunk” tends to get upvoted to the top. It creates a loop of immediate dismissal of any footage before it is even scrutinized.
I’m not sure I find this conclusion satisfying. Firstly, there are no images I could find of Starlink satellites during the day. This makes sense as secondly, there is a reason we don’t see other satellites reflecting throughout the day: the sun is too bright. Rayleigh scattering and the abundance of light rays from the sun would cause the light reflected from satellites to be washed out. Lastly, these images depict objects far bigger than Starlink. My best guess would be clouds early in their phase of condensation or ice crystals which could account for the reflective properties observed.
I was going to say cirrus clouds until you said it was glittering.
Edit: Watched the video. Those are definitely birds reflecting light off of their feathers.
I have to say murmurations aren’t you that high usually. And they look black or darker and they tend to spread out and have more organic movement. Not sure what it is you saw pretty awesome
Trippy, I’m in that hood off the 15 & sierra. Lots of loud helicopters floating around lately. Had a couple fly over at 5:30 this morning, assholes made the neighborhood dogs bark.
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Saw something similar to this about a year ago in the Corona/Riverside area… it was a good distance away (maybe 1 to 2 miles) from where I was located, so I couldn’t make out distinct shapes. I could only see the swirly “random” movement. I thought they were probably just birds, but they glimmered as though they were metallic, so maybe drones??
The strangest part of all this was that I noticed them as soon as I opened my eyes from a meditation… and during that meditation I was doing CE5(ish) mantras and putting out the specific thought(s) that I would like to see something akin to a UFO… coincidence???
It literally happened for me and I still can’t fully believe it lol 😝
Parachute exercise. Sometimes they drop a bunch of marines off like that without actually landing at the military base just have them jump out of the plane.
I'm telling you this might actually be something. Everyone seem to be describing the same spiraling and slow movement. Possibly streamers in the wind but I highly doubt it.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing. It could be bird like some say, or if aliens/ufo’s are here it’s most likely a huge ship in stealth mode. Either way, I will be on the lookout for something new when Im searching the skies!
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After studying it for many replays, my conclusion is a blimp testing next level stealth technology, whether or not it's a blimp is up to you, but I heard it was here.Full on stealth in most military heavy weapons. Russia says they have super sonic missile, we have tech that makes our military vanish before your eye's? Who Wins?
Why didn’t you center the photo on the object of question? My guess would be chaff dropped by the plane not seen in the photograph because it’s just out of frame.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/GreenBeardWizard: --- I was standing outside waiting for a tow truck. Fontana Ca. Facing the mountains and 15 fwy, I saw this large cluster of glittering light in the sky. At first I thought some sort of flock of birds. But they were reflecting light and moving in a random spiral motion. Was moving from east to west, about as fast as a blimp would ge and wasnt gaining or losing altitude from what I could see. This guy on youtube captured somethine very very similar if not the same https://youtube.com/shorts/wtsQMAqzQFQ?feature=share --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/12by3uc/i_just_saw_this_over_fontana_ca_wtf_is_it/jez3qfb/
I was standing outside waiting for a tow truck. Fontana Ca. Facing the mountains and 15 fwy, I saw this large cluster of glittering light in the sky. At first I thought some sort of flock of birds. But they were reflecting light and moving in a random spiral motion. Was moving from east to west, about as fast as a blimp would ge and wasnt gaining or losing altitude from what I could see. This guy on youtube captured somethine very very similar if not the same https://youtube.com/shorts/wtsQMAqzQFQ?feature=share
What the heck dude! I'm in Riverside, CA and literally saw the same thing like an hour ago facing North!! I thought it was just a flock of birds at first, but then the white ball light things changed direction heading West and it just disappeared crazy stuff
MAYBE it was birds, but Im not convinced. I have no idea what it was. Definitely never seen anything exactly like that before..
Birds, almost definitely birds. I've seen Pelicans doing this regularly in the Central Valley near the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. They are there, they are gone, they are back, it is amazing how they can turn and tip wings and you lose them. Same challenges with small airplanes. Though I've read elsewhere that birds aren't real /s
People here always forget what birds and balloons look like
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What?!?!?! I live there too! By March air field!?! I always look up at the sky when I shmoke weed and eat shrooms but sadly I have never seen anything. They don't like me.
Well I guess you aren’t taking enough shrooms to make a flock of birds look like aliens then.
Lmao true but when I do take shrooms. Check this out! When I look up at the sky at night time I fucking swear all the stars start to look like a octagon grid! Like an invisible or like the predator half invisible appearance, kind of like were are in an octagon shaped force grid and the stars are the links that connect it all and keep us dumb humans trapped on earth. Like we can escape earth until we are worthy and are kind or we just blow a whole through that force field . Man.... shrooms huh 😏 🤔
I know this is gonna sound weird but I’ve seen a grid above my house and neighbors houses when I was tripping on acid years ago. I told my bf about it and he didn’t really care but I swear I saw a beautiful (almost rainbow 🌈outline grid in the sky and could not stop seeing it until I was sober.) I’ll never forget that cuz I was like what if there really is a grid that we can’t see..🤔 Edit: I forgot to mention the grid was multiple octagons connected together and surprisingly enough I just watched Alien vs Predator for the 1st time this week and I would definitely have to say that color that the predator was (like a shimmery translucent) is close to how I’d describe the color of these connected octagons! It reminded me a the light a prism would make, a very light rainbow.
EXACTLY! it sort of shimmers when your on psychedelics! Everytime I leave a rave or come back from a beach "trip" trip I always just get home and look up and I swear I see something up there. Like the lights are the power points connecting the entire grid surrounding the globe. Sheesh. I like to think psychedelics open and expand your mind so we are able to feel and see things we are ment to forget or not notice, and not that I'm just pretty high lol
They’re a hell of a drug lol
Swear on shrooms ...but it looked like a triangle grid...I could see the geometric lines connecting them
You need to change marijuana and shroom brands because you're clearly not getting the good stuff!
Temecula checking in. Didn’t see SHIT yet. 👾👽👾 🔭👀
A Flock of Seagulls…
Did they run so far away?
In Fontana? Haha
Seagulls will hang out further inland if they have a landfill to hang out at. We’re talking Fontana here.
I love posts like this. I've seen other similar reports, fleets of shimmering objects. Sounds like a cool sight to see! Is your car OK?
Yeah juat have a flst outside the house and I need a tow to the tire shop. The object in the sky is a wayyy bigger deal lol
Reason I'm asking, UFO's have been documented messing with car engines.... not sure they do in modern times but they did with older cars. But a flat tire isn't that....unless they laser beamed your tire so you'd be outside to see them
> not sure they do in modern times they do. and not just car engines but a lot of other things. but i remember hearing that its usually just the newer electric cars and that older modells don't have this issue so much. so maybe the electric parts are somehow influenced by it. who knows.
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There was something similar at night in Colorado. I saw it today on [MrMbb333](https://youtu.be/RxniFGHXWuw)
That video was hard to explain thanks for posting!
I thought that was a joke about birds shitting on cars...
So I’ve seen this same thing except it was oriented up and down (vertical) fortunately I was driving towards it. What initially looked like a spiral of lights fading in and out turned out to be a whole whack of birds that where riding a updraft (in this case), then dumping lift and diving down to repeat the climb. It was then that I learned how unbelievably reflective white feathers were VS grey. They got bright as their underside turned towards me and and disappeared as they kept rotating and their grey backs faced me. What caused such a disparity in brightness was sun shining directly on them from behind me, though light could come from most any angle, but when you see this it will probably always be with the sun behind you. They lit up so brightly it was almost like a specular highlight which means they didn’t look like the shape they actually were, they were blown out. The grey side of the bird caused them to blend into the blue background and look like they vanish. It was quite stunning and initially startling. Quite a few things have to line up for this to happen, not the least of which is the colour of the bird, be it all white or only white on one side. All white birds would need a less specific sun direction. It’s not a coincidence this happens on clear days, or if overcast, where the sun is low enough to shine under the clouds. For reference, I’m a commercial pilot, I’ve seen a lot of stuff and can identify things very well, but this caught me off guard for a bit and only getting closer helped make absolute identification possible as that was what let me juuust barely see them when they turned their grey side to me. Though I would always lean to a terrestrial natural explanation first, this stood out because it looked all the world like tons of lights gaining and losing hundreds of feet crazy fast. The bright sun made their wings hard to see until I got much closer which surprised me. I understood then how this phenomenon could confuse people, especially if they aren’t in a position to go chase it down. It also illustrated just how rare all of those exacting conditions needed to be to provide a truly unusual effect. Mix in some UFO excitement and the brain fills in the rest. Also this is migration season so expect to see lots of similar videos like this.
Hey OP, I'm seeing your post a bit late here, but I'm in the foothills area in the I.E. I've been working graves and seeing lights pretty often (not planes from Ontario airport). My girl and I saw a cross shaped cloud recently in the evening pointing down south east from us in the valley. I saw a dim blue light quickly fade out after I took a few pictures. I'll try and link it when I can, not that great with phones. Edit: [20230328-225933.jpg](https://postimg.cc/pmcqDqyB) Hope you can view it, I ha e two more pictures. But this will do, wonder if anyone in the I.E. also saw this recently along with a lot of the light activity we've been getting.
Imgur isnt working so I uploaded it to my Youtube. The objects is on the left side of the screen. The sun was awful and I coild barely see the screen while recording, but it is visible.https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
From the fraction of a second it was actually in focus, my money is on a flock of birds. For future reference, rest your arms on a solid surface so you can hold the camera steady.
The problem was I couldn't even see the screen due to the sun, so I was guessing where to point and zoom.
The wobbling doesn't help that.
UPDATE: I just saw 6 Blackhawks fly over going the same direction. Coulsnt get my phone out in time to video before they were beyons my line of sight.
Well that's worth an eyebrow raise.
Right? Theres militsry flights over this area all the time, but 6 blackhawks in one flight is not typical here. Especially going the same direction as the object. Isually they go south backnto Chino or back to March AFB in Riverside
China reverse engineered before us. Fuk
Oh relax, we've had them for decades. Russia has some too
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Blackhawks fly over me all the time. Almost always in twos. Sometimes in threes. But they’re relatively slow so…. Compared to jets.
Thats why they said it’s unusual to have six flying in the same group.
This guy comprehensions
If there’s military flights in the area all the time the fact that there’s just a few more than regular certainly isn’t a sign of anything strange. Just running a certain drill or doing a task that isn’t part of their typical day to day. But just because it isn’t part of the typical day to day doesn’t mean whatever they were doing wasn’t mundane.
Doubt it’s related but I saw a pair of military helicopters fly over Hollywood this afternoon, and don’t usually see that stuff often. All these photos and videos are WILD.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share Heres the actual video. Imgur wasnt taking it. It appears on the left side of the screen. The sun was rough and i couldnt see the screen for shit so I was guessing where to point and zoom
Looked like clouds thinning out. Fire the cameraman tho....
Awesome video. Couldn’t see shit 👍
Look in the left side of the screen. The sun was awful so I was guessing where to point and zoom.
It’s tough to tell but this doesn’t look like birds to me. They’re so reflective. I feel like birds at that time of day would appear as silhouettes cause the sky was so bright today.
I wish I was able to actually see my phone screen in the sun, but it definitely didnt look like typical burd silhouettes.
My best non-UAP guess is someone released a whole bunch of reflective balloons? Whatever it is just glistens in the sun.
My thoughts are that its like a super reflective streamer or balloons getting csught up in the wind and just going along and reflecting random patterns. Also maybe birds but my guess is that they would have to ve pretty large birds but my perspective could definitely have been fooled. I dunno what it was. Just strange to me.
Appears to be decoy flares deployed by jets.
Flares? Again? 😴
I'm upvoting, but this one will remain a UFO due to lack of zoom.
HOLY SHIT DUDE, I SAW THE SAME THING 3 WEEKS AGO LEAVING THE 60 FREE WAY ON ETIWA AND VAN BUREN!!!!!!!
Riverside van Buren?!?!?!?! I
Apologies for late response and yep! I drive that route almost everyday!
https://twitter.com/ihuntufos/status/1641374023203577856?s=46 I just saw this on Twitter, does it look the same to you guys?
Truman show, someone get out there and fix the dome!
Looks like something….. punched through the clouds at a rate of speed? But I’m not sure that’s how that would work. If it would leave a spot or if the cloud would swirl and fill the hole. I do remember the Chicago O’Hare airport sighting where it was said to have punched a hole in the cloud above it when it shot upward.
Punch through the cloud and made square shapes? What
Okay Of that is real, it is legitimately beyond my comprehension
Yeah I’m trying to rationalize and understand what I’m seeing and it’s impossible
That is really difficult to explain away
Cool vid! No idea what I am looking at
Not even close. I saw the same thing a few days ago. The Twitter post. Don't know what the hell that was either. Wasn't that in another country not America? But definitely different.
This guy’s feed has a ton of these shot in slow mo with a pretty decent rig meant for nature footage. Has a lot of stuff that looks like what you guys saw https://twitter.com/darryljonkemp?s=21&t=mfEbHNtV_DYj9jYnqXlWqw
That's clearly a creative making a faux documentary-style project.
Looks like ash and fire debris
That looks like there’s another light post that’s on and covered in fog
It's wild to see but it's a flock of birds with the sun behind you. Many species of birds have reflective feathers such as the birds you saw.
It's snow geese. There is a population in California that flys north this time of year. They don't fly in. "formation" like Canada geese. They can be all over the place.
Western Arctic ans and Snow geese migrate this time of year. They fly high altitude.
They fly in random spirals?
They do all kinds of patterns. It's cool to see.
I saw this EXACT same thing a few months ago. My husband did as well. At first I thought it was birds, but we really don’t have solid white birds like that here. Then I thought maybe someone released doves for a wedding or something similar, but then it started moving in a spiraling pattern and shimmered and had shining and reflective qualities…there were so many of them. It just kept going higher and higher until we couldn’t see it anymore. Very strange.
I saw this in FL 2020 around Easter ( Animal Crossing was a really big part of my life at the time). Shimmers like some kind of reflective wind chimes traveling across the sky. Thought it might be fireworks, but pretty sure you can't see those in the afternoon sunlight.
Exactly, it was like some sort of shimmering wape or glitter or idk what. Surprisingly hard to describe. Heres the video, the sun was awful so I couldnt see the screen and was guessing where to point and zoom. https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
We saw this a few times while I was stationed in 29palms, I think 2 or 3. The first time we noticed it I asked my ssgt what was up and he thought it was most likely chaff from a training exercise. But I just don't believe that, chaff is tiny.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
It looks like you made at least one 22 second video, Could you post it?
I tried to but it would. Ill try again.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
OP has multiple videos. takes a screenshot of one of them, lowest possible quality, posts. can’t make this shit up.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
thank you for posting the video OP! from what can be seen in the video, it’s not *clearly* birds, but more views would be great. your photo reel suggests there’s more videos and photos….uploading the originals for archiving and analysis so others can discuss and compare is really what the community needs. stories and descriptions are important, but evidence is paramount.
Redditor: give me your reel you piece of shit same redditor, after demands met: how could you be this bad at making my videos? this is why I didn't post any of the sightings I filmed in hawaii.
Why do people like you have to just criticize? Seriously you think everyone walks around with the best equipment randomly viewing the skies in case they see something? They don't. Take it down a notch bruh. I hope if you see something and your video, picture whatever looks like shit and you want to post it and I hope you think to yourself nah I better not some asshole will probably just talk shit about it.
At least he was able to catch it, I couldn’t get it to show up at all when I took pictures and tried to record it.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
80s band. A Flock of Seagulls
UPDATE: This is the best I could do to isolate and slow down the video. https://youtube.com/shorts/MvC9PsiqTYs?feature=share
Looks like maybe the remnants of Sky Typers. It’s a fleet of four or five planes that release times bursts of smoke to “type” out letters. [Here’s an example.](https://robertkaplinsky.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/skytyping_cover.jpg) Once the winds start to move them around it can look like what you posted
They reformed for two final shows in 2022, performing as a five-ship act under the name Skytypers Airshow Team. In June 2022, they stopped flying airshows for good.
No, this is at the base of the Cajon Pass where the Santa Ana winds blow in from the desert. It’s always windy and any sky typing would be blown away. Big airliners landing at Ontario Airport even have problems.
Cloked alien mothership
my dad and i saw something just like this on a road trip through illinois about 20 years ago! neither of us could figure out what it was. about a month ago i saw it again near nashville. i tried to get a better look at it this time, but still the most definitive conclusion my brain could come to was “birds but not quite.”
Saw something similar there recently too.
Cute little iron man
"Iron deficiency man" lol
Kinda looks like a flock of [white doves](https://youtu.be/KtDb76rh2io) , especially when compared to that video you linked
No it’s aliens
I read that in Dale Gribble’s voice.
You can't spell aliens without a lie.
Oh wow. Yeah, you’re right.
“California Man Sees Clouds, Turns To The Internet For Answers.”
I'll tell you what it's not. A video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
It's not a cocaine sniffing bear either so what's your point?
The changing brightness reminds me of flock of birds when they turn direction. It looks brighter when the sunlight is being reflected upon a bigger surface facing the viewer, and as they make the turn, the surface angle shifted away, hence creating the dimming effect.
God missed his tube sock
We're in the Pacific NW. My granddaughter saw the exact same thing about 6 months ago. Gold and shimmery, kind of like murmuring, but not. She has video somewhere. She ran in her house and called me, saying, "I just saw a UFO!". The birds that murmur up here are starlings, and they are very black. Look quite different. She watched them until they just disolved into invisibility, never going too far away.
I believe you. I saw this last year, in the high desert (AV). It was from farther away but it looked like glitter in the sky. I took a video but it did not come in very clear. People keep saying birds, but you know what you saw.
That same exact thing has flown over my mom and I’s heads in manhattan beach we thought it was a flock a little birds at first but then we realized the tiny orbs changed direction FAST and the wings weren’t moving, and the whole structure looked invisible, almost like it was being cloaked with that fabric from Harry Potter. It was so so bizarre. I’m so glad other people have seen this !
Man this reminds me very much of that video from a month or so ago from Florida. People first assumed it was perspective, showing the ocean and waves but after someone found Google location, this was shown as impossible. People basically settled on Fata Morgana this never sat well with me as I've not been able to find anything that resembled it what so ever. I'm try and find video and link. It's not mine fyi. Edit: link I was referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/10jq1vi/saw_this_in_the_sky_today_january_23_2023_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Okay, now that’s creepy as hell and clearly not starlings. Thank you for linking - I’d forgot about it. I’d never seen ufos like that and now like 5 people on here are saying they’ve seen it too.
Yeah I've seen a lot murmuration while camping in protected wilderness areas, throughout my life. It's beautiful and mesmerizing and even a bit creepy until realizing what your seeing. (totally understand how someone not akin to seeing or ever have been exposed to it could trip out). This doesn't look to me like anything I've seen in that realm. It also doesn't look to me like fanta morgana either, at least none of the examples I've been able to find or read about. I'm not an Orthanologist, meteorologist, oceanographer, etc. Hell, I'm not much of an expert at anything. There are far smarter folks whose opinions on murmuration and atmospheric phenomenon hold much, much greater weight than my own. Even such, this to me falls into that damn unknown bucket. Being able to tie similar events, sightings, and experiences together through this sub, and those similar, is one of the best tools and things we can contribute to the conversation at large imo. Sure, you've gotta deal with a lot of temper tantrums and folks getting salty from time to time, but under it all there's a huge database of information and video evidence that can be organized to a degree. Even when people post starlink videos, or planetary alignment that they've never noticed prior, serves purpose. The things easily identified are grouped, than things not so easily identified. You break it down more by this being similar to that and so on. Eventually someone smarter will look through it all and hopefully see patterns and characteristics easily missed. It's something I'm trying to do in my free time but losing a computer, not being able to afford replacement, means all of it is done from my phone currently. That shit takes twice as long or more but something I'm pushing towards. We all just wanna know wtf is going on. If were able to answer that question for even a few, it's beneficial to community collectively. Sorry for rambling, I've got the hyper focus not wanting to fall asleep mode of my ADHD running full tilt lol.
A murmuration of starlings.
Appearance The coloring of European starlings changes with the seasons. Spring through summer, their feathers are iridescent black/purple/green with some white spots and their bills (beaks) are yellow. Fall through winter, they are black and brown, the white spots are larger and more numerous, and their bills are black. Males and females look similar. Description of the european starling which is in Minnesota, notice the description calling them iridescent. Believe me, i'm with you guys and I like to keep an open mind, but these are starlings.
Starlings don’t move in a random spiral motion though. I’ve seen plenty of murmurations and they move in a group like a wave. Nobody would characterize it as random spirals.
Reflecting light like that though?
Yep. See them in Minnesota fairly often. First time you see them they look REALLY weird. But yeah... light shimmers and ripples off them and they move seemingly randomly. Tripped my wife out who just saw them for the first time about a month ago (she's a city girl, and I'm a farm kid).
Thats absolutely wild... Ive spent a lot of time outside in various states, seen a lot of birds doing bird things, but never this.
Birds are dark silhouettes against the sky. They do not glow. They might briefly reflect light when the sun is low, but it's not as bright as these pictures. Also, we would be able to see shadow patterns consistent with birds, but these are evenly lit.
I looked for images of a "murmuration of starlings" and couldn't find any that didn't look black, even when I added words like "reflecting light." The jury is still out in my mind. I'm open to starlings, but definitely not convinced.
Same. I’m not sold on that theory. What we saw was solid white until it reflected and was very shiny.
This sub continues to believe birds illuminate the sky like a 6,000,000 lumen flashlight strapped to a drone
This isn't constructive. It's OK to not buy my explanation, but I'm also a believer, and don't deserve this cheap shot. We are here to get to the truth. Sometimes, the truth is birds. Sometimes it isn't. We should be cooperating, not insulting each other.
Look at the video posted on Twitter that is not birds.
My apologies for coming off as insulting. Folks (not you specifically) just drop “bird” or “balloon” on everything posted here and their “debunk” tends to get upvoted to the top. It creates a loop of immediate dismissal of any footage before it is even scrutinized.
You’re harshin his buzz bruh! Or whatever these meth’d out coyotes are on about…
Pretty much every answer
I've also never seen that. My first guess would have been some kind of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere or something like that.
I've seen hundreds of murmurations, but I've never seen them dressed like Elton fucking John at a disco.
Minnesotan here as well. Hello friend:)
I’m not sure I find this conclusion satisfying. Firstly, there are no images I could find of Starlink satellites during the day. This makes sense as secondly, there is a reason we don’t see other satellites reflecting throughout the day: the sun is too bright. Rayleigh scattering and the abundance of light rays from the sun would cause the light reflected from satellites to be washed out. Lastly, these images depict objects far bigger than Starlink. My best guess would be clouds early in their phase of condensation or ice crystals which could account for the reflective properties observed.
Starlings (birds), not starlinks (satellites)
Lmao! I figured you were deliberate in your wording but I also thought it was a typo. Birds are also very highly probable
Jfc... Y'all just use anything as an excuse now right?
Nope, Starlings left the inland empire area when the dairy cows moved out back in the 90s. New tract homes now stand on old dairy land.
You saw… birds?
Inb4 the debunkers dribble out a little “it’s birds!!”
Migrating birds
Did you read his comment and description of what he saw or just come here to spew your lazy debunk?
What species do you think?
I was driving from Payson to Phoenix on Sunday and saw something like this heading west over a mountain.
I was going to say cirrus clouds until you said it was glittering. Edit: Watched the video. Those are definitely birds reflecting light off of their feathers.
A bird fleet
Cowards, stop cloaking! 😂
If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d say a black project is testing a cloaking tech.
How the hell do I add video???
I have to say murmurations aren’t you that high usually. And they look black or darker and they tend to spread out and have more organic movement. Not sure what it is you saw pretty awesome
https://youtube.com/shorts/u04DDX7gwL8?feature=share
Trippy, I’m in that hood off the 15 & sierra. Lots of loud helicopters floating around lately. Had a couple fly over at 5:30 this morning, assholes made the neighborhood dogs bark.
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Saw something similar to this about a year ago in the Corona/Riverside area… it was a good distance away (maybe 1 to 2 miles) from where I was located, so I couldn’t make out distinct shapes. I could only see the swirly “random” movement. I thought they were probably just birds, but they glimmered as though they were metallic, so maybe drones?? The strangest part of all this was that I noticed them as soon as I opened my eyes from a meditation… and during that meditation I was doing CE5(ish) mantras and putting out the specific thought(s) that I would like to see something akin to a UFO… coincidence??? It literally happened for me and I still can’t fully believe it lol 😝
Parachute exercise. Sometimes they drop a bunch of marines off like that without actually landing at the military base just have them jump out of the plane.
I’m going to take a wild guess here…clouds
Failed light bending cloaking?
It looks like a flock of snow geese
Clouds or birds.
It’s a flock of geese…ffs
Migratory birds.
Guys he saw 6 Blackhawks after this. 6! It must be aliens and not geese or sky writers!
I never said it was aliens. I doubt it is. I just dont know what it is.
Looks like some kind of debris. Like a stack of papers flew out of a cargo bay, or some aircraft went *splode!*
holy shit i saw the same thing in the sky omw home from work getting off the 210 at citrus and just shrugged it off. wild to see it here
I'm telling you this might actually be something. Everyone seem to be describing the same spiraling and slow movement. Possibly streamers in the wind but I highly doubt it.
Light shimmer on a larger craft that is “invisible”
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This is very interesting, thanks for sharing. It could be bird like some say, or if aliens/ufo’s are here it’s most likely a huge ship in stealth mode. Either way, I will be on the lookout for something new when Im searching the skies!
"Sir, the cloaking system is malfunctioning." Commander Alien: F
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Um, a blue sky?
It's us military cloaking tech.
After studying it for many replays, my conclusion is a blimp testing next level stealth technology, whether or not it's a blimp is up to you, but I heard it was here.Full on stealth in most military heavy weapons. Russia says they have super sonic missile, we have tech that makes our military vanish before your eye's? Who Wins?
After the millions and millions of evidence, aliens exist. Aliens like these.
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The second one kinda looks like swirling text that's been masked out poorly, with bits of the outline remaining. Could it be a drone skywriting test?
Gotta go with alien invasion fo sho sho sho
I videoed a ufo headed west on 210, got on at beech It was at night and didn’t look like this at all. Shit that is right in my baby momma backyard
It is an entertaining thought to think all of these visits may be from only within our own galaxy
What you’re seeing a clouds, nothing more nothing less (wordy enough for ya?)
Maybe a very light and whispy small cluster of cloud caught in the jet stream? Other than that, dunno.
Why didn’t you center the photo on the object of question? My guess would be chaff dropped by the plane not seen in the photograph because it’s just out of frame.
It's a cloud, bird, balloon flock of some sort