UFO sightings in San Francisco, California
There are 16 civilian UFO sighting reports from San Francisco, California in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1969 to 2013. That is 3% of the 528 reports from California, the third most of any place in the state. The busiest year was 2011, with 3 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (5), sphere (5) and cigar (1).
Sighting reports from San Francisco
All 16 reports, newest first.
- 2 Oct 2013 · 11:45Sphere· 15 min
Whitish/metallic sphere high in the sky over San Francisco CA.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2011 · 10:00Other· 15 min
White balls and drifting mechanism seen in Pacific Heights San Francisco
Show on map - 19 Oct 2011 · 19:30Orb· 2 h 30 min
point of light in sky stopped moving and remained stationary for ~2hr
Show on map - 18 Oct 2011 · 23:15Orb· 2 min
drifting flame colored/shaped light hovering and drifting beneath the overcast sky of SF. disappeared, then reappeared, visible 2 mins.
Show on map - 13 Oct 2010 · 21:00Orb· 4 min
Multiple lights over Ocean Beach
Show on map - 13 Oct 2010 · 21:00Sphere· 20 min
coming down 24th st looking northwest across the goldengate.orbs in slightly curved line on the westside of the goldengate at approxima
Show on map - 13 Oct 2008 · 10:15Sphere· 15 min
What caught my attention was how close they were together. I thought it was vapor trials from two planes that was going to land at sfo
Show on map - 17 Oct 2006 · 22:12Other· 5 s
At roughly 10:10pm, on Tuesday, October 17, 2006, I went outside to have a cigarette. The observations that follow took place while I
Show on map - 10 Oct 2006 · 05:00Triangle· 10 min
black triangles were seen flying across the surface of the full moon
Show on map - 26 Oct 2005 · 21:00Orb· 15 s
VERY BRIGHT, warm white light and pretty large, low on the Western horizon as if it was a prominent planet about to set.
Show on map - 27 Oct 2004 · 19:55Sphere
UFO over San Francisco during eclipse 10/26/04
Show on map - 22 Oct 2002 · 13:00Cigar· 6 h
Cigar shape,sliver color,hovering,in a group of trees,and it had two lights.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2002 · 14:40Other· 3 min
Air show to the northwest, small metallic objects forming circle formations to the southeast 4th appeared out of nowhere.
Show on map - 1 Oct 1998 · 10:00Sphere· 7 min
Soccer Balls over SF
Show on map - 15 Oct 1974 · 22:30Orb· 3 min
A pulsing light that ascended at 90 degrees
Show on map - 1 Oct 1969 · 16:00Disc· 10 min
It was in the afternoon just before sunset at 20 Steiner St SF CA I saw above me and there was one other person who was with me on the
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.