Formation UFO Sightings in California
552 formation-shaped UFO sightings reported in California since 1950, peaking in 2020 (57 reports).
- Total sightings
- 552
- Span
- 1950–2022
- Peak year
- 2020 (57 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Formation
1950–2022 · peak 2020 (57 reports)
Los Angeles · CA, USA
A silver polygon object with several satelight ships over downtown Los Angeles in the mid nintey's, stops and flys straight up.
Yosemite National Park · CA, USA
A group of lights in darting flight pattern (impossible to be from earth) over Yosemite, seemed to be aware of my watching.
San Diego · CA, USA
The silent object had three orange ball-shaped lights that seperated from eachother as it flew over the mountain.
Blythe · CA, USA
Lights over Calufornia desert simular to Phoenix
Monterey Bay Area · CA, USA
Silver-grey balloon clusters at very high altitude, at high speed
Sacramento · CA, USA
A glowing, moving line, going from W to E, which when observed thru binoculars resolved into disks.
Ramona · CA, USA
3 bright shiney luminecent like objects houvering in the horizon over san diego 1985.
Joshua Tree National Park · Twenty Nine Palms, CA, USA
Saw 3 saucer-shaped items traveling in formation, 3 stationary lights on each. Traveling at 2:00 AM over Joshua Tree National Park
Long Beach · CA, USA
V-formaton of 3 large crafts
Pine Grove · CA, USA
3 unknown objects overflew our house just after dark. They were in formation.
Brea · CA, USA
Night-time flight of lights changes formation suddenly.
La Crescenta · CA, USA
Triangle formation in foothills.
Joshua Tree National Monument · CA, USA
single satellite type object omits other object flies in formation and rejoins
Reseda · CA, USA
Dove Shaped Ships that Glowed Green in mid-1970s
Yorba Linda · CA, USA
I am reporting this years later. One night I could not sleep, and so I was looking outside my window from the couch I slept on at my gr
Newport Beach · CA, USA
A report from Newport Beach, CA in June 1973 described a V-shaped formation of lights seen moving across the night sky, lasting 10 seconds.
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
Four hazy, circular white lights were reported flying in formation over Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, at 1:00 a.m. in June 1971, visible for about two seconds.
Lamont · CA, USA
Witnesses near Lamont, California, described nine to thirteen objects in a V-shaped formation moving at extreme speed high in the atmosphere for four to five seconds in August 1969.
La Puenty · CA, USA
ufo seen over school by entire school.
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
A witness in Santa Barbara, California reported five white lights hovering in formation in July 1968, which they stated were not weather balloons, during a five-minute sighting.
Palm Wells · CA, USA
Witnesses near Palm Wells, California, reported small, lighted spherical objects hovering just above the ground about a quarter mile away, in a sighting lasting ten minutes in May 1967.
North Hollywood · CA, USA
A witness in North Hollywood, California, reported three bright, colored lights in formation approaching directly overhead during a three-minute sighting in April 1967.
Delano · CA, USA
A witness in Delano, California reported a formation of objects at night heading toward the Radio Free Europe transmission towers, in a sighting lasting about 15 minutes in June 1965.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
I was 11 years old and my family and I were at a kite flying contest in a park . About 7 silver saucer shaped ships hovered over the pa
Los Padres National Forest · CA, USA
A witness near Los Padres National Forest, California reported objects moving in formation, observed for about 20 seconds in July 1950.