Long Beach, CA
California · Orange County · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metro
Long Beach is a large city in California with a population of 458,491. Residents earn $83,969 per year, which is 12% above the national average.
2.6
/5.0
C+
Fair
458,491
Population
9,049/sq mi density
$83,969
Median Income
$42,370 per capita
$762,200
Home Value
$847,495 Zillow
$1,803
Median Rent
33.0% income on rent
61°F
Avg Temperature
335 sunny days/yr
506
Violent Crime/100K
2,414 property/100K
C+
Overall
2.6 / 5.0
Fair overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
A
Economy
4.1 / 5.0
$83,969 median income, 4.3% unemployment
D
Affordability
1.5 / 5.0
$762,200 home value, $1,803/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
506 violent crimes/100K (33% above avg)
B+
Education
3.8 / 5.0
34.8% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
83
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Historic Markers
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UFO Sightings Near Long Beach, CA
83 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Long Beach, CA.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Long beach, CA | 2014 | LONG BEACH, CA.. interacted with a UFO while stargazing and using a Green high output laser beam. |
| Long beach, CA | 2013 | I still have trouble believing this myself. |
| Long beach, CA | 2013 | White round object seen in Long Beach, California. |
| Long beach, CA | 2013 | Orange light slowly moving through sky then disappearing |
| Long beach, CA | 2013 | 3 Whitish-yellow lights in the shape of a triangle at 1st glance i thought it was a shooting star but it kept going fast and silent. |
| Long beach, CA | 2013 | Witnessed two objects in sky during two different occasions flying unnaturally. |
| Long beach, CA | 2013 | Multiple red/orange orbs forming triangle and hovered slowly. |
| Port of long beach, CA | 2013 | White/blue orb disappeared before hitting ocean. |
| Long beach, CA | 2012 | Orange Sphere dripping "embers" |
| Long beach, CA | 2012 | 2 white star-like objects moving in tandem, synchronized turn, no plane lights |
| Long beach, CA | 2012 | Aircraft with white flashing headlights, no other lights, no discernible sound |
| Long beach, CA | 2012 | Long Beach California November 16, 2012, appeared to be 2 large comets or fireballs over ocean. |
| Long beach, CA | 2012 | Flaming/Sparkling trails with following helicopter over Long Beach, CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2011 | UFO sighting in Long Beach, one drops from the sky, the other remained |
| Long beach, CA | 2011 | Two throbbing extremely bright pulsating orbs the size of grapefruits outside bedroom window in Long Beach, CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2011 | VANTAGE POINT AND SIGHTING DIRECTION Standing at GPS coordinates (per Google Maps) 33.778603,-118.198761, if you face north and then tu |
| Long beach, CA | 2011 | Bright green light over north Long Beach CA. |
| Long beach, CA | 2011 | The Aircraft was a circle it white lights surrounding it with one on top of it. |
| Long beach, CA | 2011 | Big, extremely bright, bluish-white, silent light that changed shape in the sky over the ocean in Long Beach, CA. |
| Long beach, CA | 2010 | Triangular object seen in Long Beach, CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2010 | UFO sighting Long Beach, CA - Small spherical bright light reflective object remaining perfectly stationary |
| Long beach, CA | 2010 | Very fast Oblong crescent shaped object streaking through sky above Long Beach/Seal Beach, CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2010 | Saw 3 bright lights flying and then they stopped, forming a triangle. |
| Long beach, CA | 2010 | Saw bright green flash & streak, no accompanying sound, suspected copper/thallium-containing iron meteorite. |
| Long beach, CA | 2010 | Loud cycling noise followed by multiple helicopters |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | I know of no object that could do it. |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | UFO seen in Long Beach California; Air traffic rerouted, helicopters search and no word in the media! |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | Very bright, star-like object making loopy or jerky motions. |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | They were moving to fast not to make a shock wave sound |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | 12/12/09 between 22:30 and 23:00 numerous moving bright lights 50 - 60 in the sky moving in an easterly direction with bursts of speed |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | I saw blinking lights which at first looked like an aircraft except for irregularities in the sequence. The craft looked like it was j |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | Unexplained Lights in the sky over Long Beach, CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | Rainbow harbor UFOs |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | Three orange circular objects flying in a triangular formation. |
| Long beach, CA | 2009 | Confirming sphere siting |
| Long beach (just south on the 405), CA | 2008 | Two Lights |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | Large white circle flew over Long Beach at a low elevation. |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | Chrome Disk motionless over ocean at sunset in Long Beach, CA 3/3/08 5:45 pm |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | Fireball moves slowly across the sky, puses, then changes directions - Long Beach, CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | Long Beach California red/purple/pink fireball falling from the sky for about 15-20 seconds |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | green light travelling at light speed |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | Perfect pulsating triangle over the freeway near the airport. |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | White colored upside down V shaped light/craft. |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | strange object's shapped somewhat like the number 8 sideways |
| Long beach, CA | 2008 | A formation of lights hovering above the Long Beach Harbor. |
| Long beach, CA | 2007 | Sliver and Red Spheres Over Long Beach California |
| Long beach, CA | 2007 | fireballs in a triangle ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)) |
| Long beach, CA | 2007 | BRIGHT STATIONARY LIGHTS WITH PORT HOLES SOUTH OF LONG BEACH CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2007 | Green Flash seen during Long Beach Black Out |
| Long beach, CA | 2007 | many red orbs arranged in a trinangle |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | 2 oval shaped lights in the sky. Moved quickly, following each other in circles and various directions then vanished very rapidly when |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | Orange fireball drips small ball |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | Let me first say that I have been a pilot since I was 17 years old, flew helicopters in the Army and logged over 3600 hours of flight t |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | Giant craft? with random red blinking lights. |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | V shaped light formation |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | Bright Green Shooting Star? (NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD)) |
| Long beach, CA | 2006 | orange light drips in LONG BEACH CA |
| Long beach, CA | 2005 | Star-like object/body very high the sky; but moving about extremely fast is very unnatural trajectory, constantly changed position, and |
| Long beach, CA | 2005 | Bright green fireball decended straight down from the sky, it faded about 100 feet before hitting the ground. |
| Long beach, CA | 2005 | Big saucer with bright white lights flying over Long Beach Calicornia. |
| Long beach, CA | 2004 | Lights moving over SoCal in the afternoon |
| Long beach, CA | 2004 | On Dec 25th , 2004 I was heading east on stearns going towards cal state long beach on my way home for christmas dinner. As I made a ri |
| Long beach (sports arena), CA | 2003 | UFO watching the harbor of long beach. |
| Long beach, CA | 2003 | a large yellowish light appeared a couple thousand ft up to the south east of my home in long beach, ca. |
| Long beach, CA | 2002 | 8 crystal clear crafts at Queen Mary |
| Long beach, CA | 2002 | Fast moving orange sky jumping, spark trail, disappearing, reappearing flying object on 5/12/02, 22:00-22:14pm |
| Long beach, CA | 2002 | Time was about 21:15 I was in my back yard when I heard a loud jet as I looked up I could see these lights flashing I could not believe |
| Long beach, CA | 2002 | When doing trash run I looked to sky and saw a scary green fireball which seemed to want to communicate, as if it were alive. |
| Long beach, CA | 2002 | Two fast movers over L.A. |
| Long beach, CA | 2001 | Fire dripping light over Long Beach, CA. |
| Long beach, CA | 2000 | 2 dark circular balls staying stationary for 5 minutes in a contrail that was 3 minutes old. 1 disappeared, another into a cloud. |
| Long beach, CA | 1999 | While viewing the meteor shower, I noticed just to the right of Jupiter a small orange dot heading due north over me, passed extreme sp |
| Long beach, CA | 1998 | Traveling in car on 405 Fwy No. transition to 22 Fwy E. observed Large Triangle Craft very low Aprox 300 to 400ft traviling west craft |
| Long beach, CA | 1997 | egg shape UFO sppoted 4th of Jul 1997 Stainless steal reflective in color about 13:00 hours hovering |
| Long beach, CA | 1996 | A Large Brilliant green fireball was seen "fall to earth" in the direction of the Long beach airport.There was no fire or evidence of a |
| Long beach, CA | 1995 | Chevron/triangular orbs of light over Long Beach, CA. |
| Long beach, CA | 1994 | I observed the Craft at a close enough distance to know it was not anything man made |
| Long beach, CA | 1981 | 5 dull red lights in V formation cruising over the coast of Long Beach |
| Long beach, CA | 1981 | V-formaton of 3 large crafts |
| Long beach, CA | 1965 | At about 4 years of age, I observed a cylinderically shaped object fly over at about 2oclock due west. |
| Long beach (terminal island), CA | 1960 | 9/17/1960 -21:10 hours-Terminal Island, Califronia, Four Crescent over LBNSY- observed 4-5 seconds above broken clouds |
| Long beach, CA | 1959 | As a young man, I would lay out in the yard at night and look at the sky--I often saw an object moving at night speed, very high, no no |
| Long beach, CA | 1957 | Three disks stationary in a triangle formation during the day surrounded by a mirage effect seemingly caused by heat. |
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