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)
Laguna Beach · CA, USA
I saw an object in the sky and automatically dismissed it as an aircraft but after watching the item not move with multiple colors: Blu
San Francisco · CA, USA
I saw 4 groups of small glowing orange lights generally traveling North, one of which made a manuever impossible to any known aircraft.
Milligan · CA, USA
Dozens of spacecraft strobing white lights with one red (appearing diamond shaped) headed to southwest.
Rice · CA, USA
25-50 aircrafts white and one red light(diamond shaped) strobing furiously headed in one direction
La Quinta · CA, USA
Abnormally bright object moved across the night sky at very low altitude in a slow, momentumless "surging" fashion.
Monrovia · CA, USA
Two mysterious rectangle objects.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Bright falling light over Passadina
Santa Monica · CA, USA
fast green light shooting down from sky
Lake Elsinore · CA, USA
Large semi transparent green flash
Aliso Viejo · CA, USA
Aliso Viejo, CA 1/6/06 10:50pm square shape in sky w/ dim lights in corners flying erratically all directions above neighborhoods.
Encinitas/Carlsbad · CA, USA
Big green fireball fell into ocean near Carlsbad/Oceanside, CA at 23:12, 01/04/2006
Newport Beach · CA, USA
strange bright object observed at noon over southern california
Santa Ana · CA, USA
A statonary Round Metallic Object, Hovering at High Altitude over Central Orange County, CA. in early January 2006
Poway · CA, USA
Two bright objects floating in the sky, all of the sudden dim and fly away.
Palm Springs · CA, USA
Large Rectangle object traveling south to north, no sound,over Palm Springs.
El Segundo · CA, USA
Rotating fire ball moving very fast, few hundred feet above the ground, south east end of LAX
Manhattan Beach · CA, USA
I was standing at the top floor of our home lookng south, a fire ball passed over our home and disapeared over the neighbors roof tops
Lebec · CA, USA
small streaks of light (or cloud) shooting out of huge cloud formation and returning in the cloud.
Citrus Heights · CA, USA
Three lights in atriangle shape flew across the sky below the cluds heading northeast over Citrus Heights.
Folsom · CA, USA
black government triangular shape hovering above Hwy 50 in Sacramento
Torrance · CA, USA
square shaped object over Southern California
Riverside/Norco · CA, USA
Many people observing similar objects over California
Willow Creek · CA, USA
Bright light into the bedroom window woke us up.
Oroville · CA, USA
Object seen in Kelly Ridge
Antelope · CA, USA
while driving on a country road we observed a large triangle with many blinking lights hovering at a very low altitude.