My spouse and I were at a fire lookout tower and saw between 20-30 metallic spheres moving in unison from a distance between 2-4 miles.

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Location

Hobart Mills

34.0522°N, -118.2437°W

CA, USA

Witness Account

While my spouse and I were inside the Sardine Peak Fire Lookout—an 8,200‑foot high‑altitude fire lookout tower used for wide‑area visibility over the Sierra valley—around 1 PM on August 7th, 2026, I was sitting on the bunk talking while my spouse stood at the window completely still for nearly two minutes, silently staring south toward the ridge above Stampede Reservoir, roughly 5–6 miles away and about 2,000 feet lower. When my spouse finally said, without moving, “Do you see that,” we both observed a cluster of approximately 20–30 perfectly oval metallic spheres above the distant ridge line. The objects flashed brightly like curved metal catching sunlight and moved in perfect unison, shifting direction together in a smooth, coordinated way similar to a school of fish, with no wobble, drift, or spacing changes. They briefly disappeared, then reappeared about 2 miles south closer to Stampede before vanishing again. They were not larger than the lodgepole and Jeffrey pine silhouettes in the foreground, but were clearly miles away, not insects or anything close. Throughout the entire sighting there was no sound at all, even though aircraft, helicopters, fire suppression tankers, and…

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