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)
San Jose · CA, USA
Diamonds are forever!!
Los Angeles · CA, USA
VERY bright object seemed to change course.
Long Beach · CA, USA
Fireball moves slowly across the sky, puses, then changes directions - Long Beach, CA
Hermosa Beach · CA, USA
disappearing object during a sunny, clear daytime on Hermosa Beach, CA
Quail Valley · CA, USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSxiUVJ0u8g&feature=channel
Davis · CA, USA
Green light in the sky
Long Beach · CA, USA
green light travelling at light speed
Concord · CA, USA
It looked like a plane but it stopped in Midair and started going the other direction without turning around!
Calabasas · CA, USA
We were having dinner on our deck in our hillside home which overlooks the SF Valley on Nov 14 2008 @ 6:30pm.We saw a huge V shaped
Los Angeles · CA, USA
incomplete V formation of red flashing lights flying.
Anaheim · CA, USA
Spinning top shaped craft photographed in california November 2008
San Francisco · CA, USA
Dim Orange
Hanford · CA, USA
Silver fat disk fading in and out with a blueish tinge, very high speed , in a perfectly straight line n to s
Emeryville · CA, USA
It looked like a vapor trail from a jet engine.
San Juan Capistrano · CA, USA
chevron shaped lights fly silently over San Juan Capistrano at high rate of speed
San Francisco · CA, USA
It had a TRANGULAR SHAPE, was DARK GRAY (lit by the moon light) with 3 ROUND CIRCLES ON IT'S BOTTOM
San Francisco · CA, USA
black shadowed rectangle bottom object came in from the west made U-turn back out to the west 23:27 11/15/08
Carlsbad · CA, USA
The object was transparent & cylindrical but having smooth edges and having a cross sectional area with red and green lights.
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Brilliant fireball observed while driving north on Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa, CA. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Los Angeles · CA, USA
I saw a small circular object with bright lights hovering low and very slowly in the air.
Morongo Valley · CA, USA
Blueish/White light seen in Morongo Valley, CA.
Vista · CA, USA
Unidentified light flashing and reappearing throughout the valley
Hermosa Beach · CA, USA
V-shaped amber lights
Morongo Valley · CA, USA
Fast flying Object
Playa Del Rey · CA, USA
3 round objects behaving "not normal," hovering near the day-time moon