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California UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 530 UFO sighting reports in California from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (106 reports, 20.00% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (82 reports, 15.47% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (100 reports, 18.87% of total).
- 11/11/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (26 reports, 4.91% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (171 reports, 32.26% of total).
California UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 California UFO reports from 2019, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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I was driving back from Magic Mountain with my daughter and her boyfriend ( both was on the phone) Suddenly, out of the blue, this huge green light ball came down from the sky and had a laser beam that was also green, it went directly to the ground. It has no sound. Then it disappeared.
It was so fast. maybe only 500 meters from my car. It was so perfectly green and beautiful.
Wow! I told my kids they just missed out something so beautiful because they spend to much time looking down on the phone.
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I was standing over highway I94 facing west and I was attempting to take a good picture of the San Diego skyline. Whereupon I took a series of pictures so I could pick out the best one to post on my Instagram. After examining the fotos I noticed a series of lights that appeared on the top right corner of the frame and kept moving with objects appearing on each subsequent picture.
I do not claim to know what these pictures represent but as you can clearly appreciate they seem to be grouping in formation and flying what seems to be moving from right to left or north to south over the downtown San Diego skyline. With the Lindbergh airport to the north of the picture frame.
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Dark center, with a very bright glow around it slowly moving through the sky Approximately 5:15 PM walking my dog, Walter, through a neighborhood park, I saw a bright light, too bright to be a star. No flashing lights as is the case with standard aircraft. The light would move very slowly, stop, then move again slowly.
I wouldn't of thought it any anything special, maybe a satellite, until I used my iphone 10 and zoomed in for a picture. What I saw was a dark center, with a very bright glow around it. I estimate the light somewhere over Newport Beach, CA, approximately 8 to 10 miles away.
45 minutes later, it is still in the sky. I would expect you to also receive additional reports from this.
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3:31 AM 12/30/19 Gasquet, Del Norte Cnty, CA Round object moving like a heart-beat monitor display from WSW-ENE across the sky for 25s. 3:31 AM Monday, December 30, 2019 Gasquet, Del Norte County, California As seen through Bedroom window with no lights on inside room or house I woke up and opened my eyes. Looking out the bedroom window, I could see a cloudless sky full of stars (Orion and the Seven Sisters were both visible).
It was then that I noticed movement across the sky from the treeline towards the house (roughly moving from west-southwest to east-northeast) of what appeared to be a whitish-blue satellite. I rubbed my eyes and grabbed my glasses to watch it as it moved, as it appeared to be deviating from its course in sporadic bursts that were perpendicular to its direction of travel, at times seeming to zigzag back and forth across its general direction of travel. I call them bursts because each time the object appeared to return to its main path, and the speed of the bursts was eight to ten times faster out and back than the speed of the general pathway that the object was taking.
I have watched the skies since I was a kid and have seen countless satellites-- including the space station, but I had never seen that kind of motion that high up in either the outer atmosphere or in outer space. I checked the data from the Heavens-Above website and could not find a satellite traveling along that orbit at that time on that night, so I do not know what I saw which is why I am reporting it here https://www.heavens-above.
com/AllSats.aspx?lat=34.11036&lng=-118.
44846&loc=house&alt=300&tz=PST.
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Watching Sunday or Monday night football went outside too record my thoughts. I started the camera recording for twelve minutes and recorded several different lights. The UFO is in the first minute and half.
I recorded this on a TracFone CL.
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Triangle shaped ufo sighting Two triangle shaped crafts flying very close together. They made a large banked turn and they were flying unison.
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I was parked behind the movie theater and was looking towards the north east and saw a light like a star but much closer then a star I thought it's a plane but it was too fast I then saw 2 planes with red light blinking but lower then the light cross where it had been as the planes came cross the bright light moving faster then a plane headed out into space the last I saw it .it was moving out into pitch black not across the sky but out beyond the earth .it was gone I could see the planes head northeast.
still I dont know what I saw but it wasnt a plane it was faster and higher it was a constant white light like a star but but moving very high in the sky it was the size of a far star but it was much closer then a star all know is it moved fast and disappeared into space not east west north or south but away from earth .satalights not move planes dont head out into space .did anyone else see it in this area.
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A large orange oval, like a disc, moved very fast almost at impossible speeds. It moved to the south and then disappeared One week before this date I saw an oval white light in the sky and I went to get my roommate. Once we both care out to see it was gone.
On December 26th 2019, I saw the exact same shape in the exact same spot. I went to get my roommate again and we both saw it. It looked about a mile away.
None of us could look directly at it, it was white and extremely bright. After about 5 minutes the craft moved around a bit and then disappeared.
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My dad, and I saw about 6 lights of varying distances apart from each other extremely high in the sky flashing at times but, moving extremely fast. Disappeared one by one, seemingly fading into the night sky as if flying up at extreme speed. No sound was made.
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Bright orange / pink section in clouds over the Pacific Ocean off Malibu / Santa Monica. Like sunset. Saw a bright orange / pink bright sky almost as If the sun has set.
It was well over the Pacific off Santa Monica and Malibu. No lights near it. Over dark ocean.
Entire sky dark blue and white clouds. This seem to get brighter at times, spread a little longer, never moved at all. Pic doesn’t do justice.
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Towards the wester northern sky started with 3 and the 200+ lights traveling fast in a straight lUKne coming from the whiskey town lake area slowing down and seem to turn like lights on a huge massive object planes flew below and could see the sky beyond it about 5 mile craft wide whole neighborhood saw some video is available but cant see anything but black haven't enhanced on PC yet.
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Three of us were out fishing north of Eureka California ,total darkness other than flashlights when noticing a string 40 to 50 lights at very high altitude following each other across the sky, amazing sight all evenly spaced headed north easterly direction, there was no telling how many we missed before we noticed them. There was no sound seem like an endless stream of them, we did see two flying to one side of them following at the same speed that we're not quite as bright they all seem perfectly spaced. Surely not something you see everyday or nite.
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Three fwhite ussy lights were seen traveling in a circular pattern each one of them above the clouds and coliding before engaging in the same pattern once a gain.
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Lights in sky in straight line at satellite heights moving very fast in easterly direction.
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OBJECTS APPEAR AS SATELLITES IN FORMATION 30 BRIGHT OBJECTS IN A FORMATION IN LOW ORBIT GOING EQUAL DISTANCE APART FROM SW TO NE AT 6PM SHARP - NOT SATELLITES SAW SEVERAL MORE AFTER THE PASSED IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
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31 UFOs seen traveling SW to NE in a mostly evenly space row, one after the other. Another traveling alongside & disappearing. Today it rained a little, but the sky had cleared quite a bit.
I was standing in my yard with my dog, looking toward the sky, looking at a planet and first stars of the night. At about 6 pm I saw the first 3 stars traveling evenly spaced in a row. There was a small gap in spacing, then one after another light after light traveled in a row.
I watched 31 lights evenly spaced traveling in a row from SW to NE. One light traveled alongside one of the lights in the row, then went off into a different direction.
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satellite like looking objects single file line, orderely flying in perfection, 30 or so of them, wow!!!!! I was looking at the night sky when I thought I saw a satellite, I watched it for a few seconds before it disappeared, I then noticed several more following in the same direction, all equal distant apart, I counted 30 in a row that were going West to East.
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Hundreds of crisscrossing star-like objects A friend was outside at a party and came to tell us what he was witnessing. About ten of us went outside and saw what I would normally think of as a satellite, but rather than one or two there were possibly a hundred of these star-like/satellite-like objects crisscrossing the sky in straight lines. Often it looked like two would almost crash into each other, but they all avoided contact.
There were planes in the sky, but these were much, much higher than aircraft would go. After a while we saw less of them and the cold temperature inevitably brought us inside. I tried videoing them but they were too high.
I’ve not seen any reports online as of 12/23 about this.
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Lights in a row Three of us saw 15 same shaped white lights in straight line spaced at the same distances apart heading at North east 30 degrees very high altitude . No sound could be heard, I’m a Vietnam veteran , 22 year aircraft mechanic.
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I’m driving at the end of my block. There is a bright orange ball in the sky. About the size of a dime if I held it up to my eye.
So I pull out my phone (while still looking at the object). The dot then breaks into 5 smaller balls and split up. One by one and just like somebody turned off a light switch, they’re gone.
California UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 106 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Circle | 57 reported sightings | 10.75% of all reports |
Sphere | 46 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
Other | 43 reported sightings | 8.11% of all reports |
Triangle | 40 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
Unknown | 37 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
Formation | 32 reported sightings | 6.04% of all reports |
Oval | 24 reported sightings | 4.53% of all reports |
Cigar | 19 reported sightings | 3.58% of all reports |
Disk | 17 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
Cylinder | 15 reported sightings | 2.83% of all reports |
Flash | 13 reported sightings | 2.45% of all reports |
Rectangle | 13 reported sightings | 2.45% of all reports |
Changing | 13 reported sightings | 2.45% of all reports |
Fireball | 11 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Diamond | 11 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Chevron | 7 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Teardrop | 5 reported sightings | 0.94% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.19% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.19% of all reports |
California UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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November | 82 reported sightings | 15.47% of all reports |
October | 73 reported sightings | 13.77% of all reports |
September | 62 reported sightings | 11.70% of all reports |
August | 50 reported sightings | 9.43% of all reports |
July | 49 reported sightings | 9.25% of all reports |
December | 48 reported sightings | 9.06% of all reports |
June | 42 reported sightings | 7.92% of all reports |
April | 29 reported sightings | 5.47% of all reports |
May | 28 reported sightings | 5.28% of all reports |
February | 24 reported sightings | 4.53% of all reports |
March | 22 reported sightings | 4.15% of all reports |
January | 21 reported sightings | 3.96% of all reports |
California UFO Sightings From 2019 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Monday | 100 reported sightings | 18.87% of all reports |
Saturday | 80 reported sightings | 15.09% of all reports |
Sunday | 77 reported sightings | 14.53% of all reports |
Friday | 73 reported sightings | 13.77% of all reports |
Tuesday | 73 reported sightings | 13.77% of all reports |
Thursday | 69 reported sightings | 13.02% of all reports |
Wednesday | 58 reported sightings | 10.94% of all reports |
California UFO Sightings From 2019 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/11/19 | 26 reported sightings | 4.91% of all reports |
10/24/19 | 8 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
12/22/19 | 7 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
10/07/19 | 7 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
10/18/19 | 6 reported sightings | 1.13% of all reports |
California UFO Sightings From 2019 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 171 reported sightings | 32.26% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 114 reported sightings | 21.51% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 95 reported sightings | 17.92% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 62 reported sightings | 11.70% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 44 reported sightings | 8.30% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 44 reported sightings | 8.30% of all reports |
All California Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in California, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in California
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in California.