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)
Chatsworth · CA, USA
very large bright twinkling stationary light . Stayed for 20 minuets.
San Jose · CA, USA
Irregularly shaped, rotating was observed over busy highway.
Apple Valley (Panoche Road) · CA, USA
Panoche Experience three lights three crafts three witnesses
Burbank · CA, USA
round, shiny lime green and going down fast behind hills
Redwood City · CA, USA
8/26/2006 2200 HOURS THREE UFO"S OVER SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS.
Los Angeles (Glassel Park) · CA, USA
2 Fireballs of light - large and close followed by 2 red lights further in the distance
South Gate · CA, USA
One bright light with a "tail"; 2 other side by side objects moving around in the sky.
Redwood City · CA, USA
8/27/2006 22:00 ANOTHER LARGE SINGLE CRAFT ABOVE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS.
Grass Valley · CA, USA
Three objects, four lights each. moved slowly and silently.
Alturas · CA, USA
Three lights appear in the Modoc County skies.
Mount Shasta · CA, USA
low flying, dark, large car sized triangle with rectangle dim lights
Tehachapie (outside of) · CA, USA
silent disc flying over foothills North with lower circumference blinking lights that were going around
Valley Springs · CA, USA
hovering object formed a cloud in front of my eyes
Fairfield · CA, USA
red light over Suisun City, Ca seen from Fairfield, Ca
Chula Vista campground parking lot · Mt. Pinos, CA, USA
Two white llights accelerating and changing directions in M31 binocular FOV observed from Mt. Pinos
Northridge · CA, USA
Dark Object with orbiting lights acting as some sort of field
Paramount · CA, USA
Red light over southern california dissappearing on the way down to the ground
South Lake Tahoe · CA, USA
Strange Formation in clouds.
Rancho San Diego · CA, USA
Red Light Over San Diego
El Cajon · CA, USA
we were watching the fire works from my house, which on a decent sized hill, they are at about eye level when at a red object/dot was n
El Cajon · CA, USA
Red Lights Over El Cajon, California
Corona · CA, USA
lighted craft over Corona that dropped a lighted object that hovered in the sky as the original craft departed.
Pittsburg · CA, USA
holyMOTHERLODE OF A MOTHER SHIP
Simi Valley · CA, USA
red and orangish object which hovered in the sky and eventually went upward, dropping an object and disappearing
Laguna Beach · CA, USA
At first it looked like it could maybe just be a plane but then shot up down and side to side.