Cigar UFO Sightings in California
336 cigar-shaped UFO sightings reported in California since 1944, peaking in 2007 (21 reports).
- Total sightings
- 336
- Span
- 1944–2022
- Peak year
- 2007 (21 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Cigar
1944–2022 · peak 2007 (21 reports)
Tustin · CA, USA
Silver cigar shaped stationary UFO.
San Diego · CA, USA
Cigar-Shaped UFO, sited off the San Diego Coastline.
Pleasanton · CA, USA
White cigar shaped craft with blue light and black square. ((anonymous report))
Vacaville or Fairfield (?) (near) · CA, USA
Shiny with sun reflecting on what looked like cigar shaped object, hovering for 10-20 seconds, then line of extremely bright lights fla
San Dimas · CA, USA
Super-big object covered in bright white lights, and extremely slow moving
Pioneertown (near) · CA, USA
Unseen, captured in photograph.
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
My friends and I were running late at night about 10:25ish. They were on skateboards right in front of me.
Redding · CA, USA
Cigar-shaped craft hovers then vanishes near Redding Muni Airport
Silverlake · CA, USA
Hovering rod and 3 moving orbs over Silverlake, Los Angeles
Oceanside · CA, USA
One silvery looking cigar with smoke out the back going toward the water and north.
Mount Laguna · CA, USA
Pulsating cigar-shape object going across the sky.
Tulare · CA, USA
Shiny, cigar-shaped, object hovering.
Carlsbad · CA, USA
Large bright long light sitting on Pacific Ocean's horizon off coast of Carlsbad, California.
San Francisco · CA, USA
2 cigar/rectangular UFOs floating over San Francisco.
Mount Shasta · CA, USA
3rd sighting of a tube/cigar shaped craft flying South to North, the 1st being stationary over Mt. Shasta City.
Ridgecrest · CA, USA
Multiple lights in the sky, burnout.
Sky Valley · CA, USA
Streaking comet like with long light spray trail. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. PD))
Fremont · CA, USA
Spotted bright light flying through sky. Thought it was a plane but was leaving a bright turquoise haze behind it that lit up the sky.
Grand Terrace · CA, USA
Flame/afterburner looking discharge out of a white light, then large conical white light with subsequent development of green haze.
Los Banos · CA, USA
Heading north. Lit up entire sky like a cone of light from the rear. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Paso Robles · CA, USA
Slow moving craft with search beam and iridescence blue trail lasting 5 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Benicia · CA, USA
Arrow shaped reflexion pointing toward bright light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Ventura · CA, USA
Like a light going horizontal across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))
Barstow · CA, USA
White, cigar shaped, large, high, no noise, fast, no chemtrail to say jetliner.
El Soreno · CA, USA
Large sized electric surveillance drone over Lincoln Heights/El Soreno.