UFO Sightings in California
15,215 UFO sightings reported in California since 1935, peaking in 2014 (869 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 15,215
- Span
- 1935–2028
- Peak year
- 2014 (869 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1935–2028 · peak 2014 (869 reports)
Top cities in California
Los Angeles
1942–2022 · peak 2007 (29 reports)
San Diego
1944–2022 · peak 2007 (32 reports)
Sacramento
1956–2022 · peak 2012 (26 reports)
San Jose
1947–2022 · peak 2012 (21 reports)
San Francisco
1956–2021 · peak 2008 (26 reports)
Fresno
1953–2022 · peak 2014 (18 reports)
Long Beach
1957–2022 · peak 2017 (13 reports)
Bakersfield
1961–2022 · peak 1995 (13 reports)
Santa Rosa
1955–2022 · peak 2015 (10 reports)
Santa Barbara
1968–2022 · peak 2020 (12 reports)
Riverside
1976–2020 · peak 2008 (11 reports)
Modesto
1947–2021 · peak 2009 (13 reports)
Redding
1986–2022 · peak 2012 (10 reports)
Burbank
1981–2021 · peak 2003 (24 reports)
Huntington Beach
1945–2020 · peak 2012 (8 reports)
Anaheim
1963–2020 · peak 2015 (12 reports)
Ventura
1967–2021 · peak 2012 (13 reports)
El Cajon
1969–2022 · peak 2014 (14 reports)
Irvine
1980–2022 · peak 2007 (18 reports)
Oakland
1968–2022 · peak 2003 (6 reports)
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Black oval shape w/heat waves visible over 5 freeway in Silverlake
Yorba Linda · CA, USA
Bright light moving silently and beyond our capabilities.
Arcata · CA, USA
I am familiar with aircraft and this object preformed like and aircraft but weird at low altitude and nighttime over populated area.
Rialto · CA, USA
I saw strange lights moving N.W. counted 13 . ((Starlink satellites?))
Sacramento · CA, USA
Translucent shimmering white soft edges rectangle wide as a the side of an AMTRAC train car.
South San Jose · CA, USA
High Altitude Object - in San Jose CA July 1st 2010 small whte dot w/red and silver
Rosemead · CA, USA
July 1,2010 20:00 rosemead, california fireball 20min a bright orange red beaming light flying over in rosemead , then disappeared
Ridgecrest · CA, USA
Light flashes, dark grey "satellite", periwinkle blue and white "satellite"
Palmdale · CA, USA
headed north west, over palmdale, followed by chase jet a triangle like pattern of lights with red light in the middle. Possiable TR3B
Carson · CA, USA
red/Orange light in Carson, CA ; Flashed, Shot out beams
Clovis · CA, USA
Unknown very big object with 2 lights disappears no sound with it at all... thought we were going to die
Lemoore · CA, USA
craft with 3 top lights, no sound approached car, does 360 sharp turn in field.
Rohnert Park · CA, USA
Bright yellow fireball made right angle turn and disappeared.
Riverside · CA, USA
Dull orange orb suddenly appears
Highland · CA, USA
Low flying military aircraft seen in the area which is out of the ordinary.
Irvine · CA, USA
two small red lights going across the skay and never faiding.
Lodi · CA, USA
Not UFO, but lightning can appear identical to sightings and persist for unnaturally seeming long times.
Irvine · CA, USA
Golden Ball in SKy
Rancho Santa Margarita · CA, USA
the flight pattern of the craft and consistancy of the lights and speed does not exist on earth, abrasive
Indio · CA, USA
one white light with 3 red lights, the red lights were faint but then shot out like missals.
Selma · CA, USA
Dim red/orange object slowed then sped up again while maintaining trajectory
Rio Linda · CA, USA
orangeish red & it moved like no other flying object right admist the fireworks and in front of every one who looked at it ,very real.
Huntington Beach · CA, USA
Cylidrical object with bright white lights heading northeasterly from downtown Huntington Beach
Orland · CA, USA
Satellites that flash and then disappear and ones that change direction.
Ridgecrest · CA, USA
White starlike object that pulsed twice while changing directions