Issue #45 Entity Sightings In California Over The Last Decade

While doing some research for a fellow writer yesterday, I noticed a very interesting trend over the last decade; not only were the number of sightings increasing, but the number of cases involving entities was increasing as well, at least here in California. While some of the cases were under the purview of my good friend Ruben Uriarte, our Northern California State Director, I am including them because most people think of California as a whole state, not broken into sections. The following list will show you how many cases were closed by MUFON Field Investigators in California for the given year, then how many of those cases involved an entity. After than I will break down the entity cases to show what the disposition of those cases was.

1.  2004 - 45 cases completed - four of those involved an entity. Out of those four, two were hoaxes and one was closed as an 'IFO', leaving one that was closed as an 'Unknown'.

2.  2005 - 124 cases completed - one involved an entity. It was closed as 'Insufficient Data'.

3.  2006 - 202 cases completed - five of those involved an entity. Out of those five, two were hoaxes, two were determined to be 'Insufficient Data', and one had no available information.

4.  2007 - 284 cases completed - eight of those involved an entity. One of those was a hoax, one was closed as 'Insufficient Data', however six of them were closed as 'Unknown'.

5.  2008 - 627 cases completed - seven of those involved an entity. One was closed as 'Insufficient Data', and once again, six were closed as 'Unknown'.

6.  2009 - 586 cases completed - nine of those involved an entity. One of those was a hoax, two were closed as 'IFO's, two were closed as 'Insufficient Data', and four were closed as 'Unknown'.

7.  2010 - 593 cases completed - nine of those involved an entity. One of those was a hoax, six were closed as 'Insufficient Data', one was closed as an 'IFO', and one was closed as an 'Unknown'.

8.  2011 - 739 cases completed - fifteen involved an entity. Three of those were hoaxes, four were closed as 'Insufficient Data', three were closed as 'IFO's, and four were closed as 'Unknown'.

9.  2012 - 915 cases completed - twenty-two of those involved an entity. Two of those were hoaxes, five were closed as 'Insufficient Data', seven were closed as 'IFO's, three were 'Information Only', and five were closed as 'Unknown'.

10.  2013 - 816 cases completed - thirty-seven involved an entity. One of those was a hoax, thirteen of them were 'Information Only', six were closed as 'Insufficient Data', six were closed as 'IFO's, and eleven were closed as 'Unknown'.

11.  2014 - 1,089 cases completed - fifty-five involved an entity. Ten of those were hoaxes, fifteen were 'Information Only', fourteen were closed as 'IFO's, seven were closed as 'Insufficient Data', and nine were closed as 'Unknown'.

While we might be off to a slower start this year, I have full confidence the numbers will be comparable to last years. So far 168 cases have been completed, and eleven of those have involved an entity. Of those eleven, four were 'Information Only', four were closed as 'IFO's, two were closed as 'Insufficient Data', and one was closed as an 'Unknown'.

As you can see by the number of cases closed, there has been a steady increase in the number of cases we have been working. That is one of the reasons that I am always trying to interest more people in becoming MUFON Field Investigators...we could use the help!

What I found most interesting in going through all these cases was the fact that one picture has been taken of an entity in all this time. While many of the reports were closed as 'Unknown', none of them had a photograph accompanying the report.

So, while the evidence might be mounting to suggest an increased ET involvement, at least here in California, as of this moment they have remained as elusive as "Bigfoot". 

I hope this shed some light on our investigator's hard work, and maybe even encourages a few new people to look into becoming MUFON Field Investigator's!