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
Possible Chinese Spacecraft Launch??
Livermore · CA, USA
Strange light in the sky over Livermore CA.
Hayward · CA, USA
low altitude flourescent light
Earp · CA, USA
Four lights over Parker Strip CA/AZ
Ventura · CA, USA
It was Saturday evening October 16, 2005. I myself have never in the past seen anything like this or any other UFO's. I still don't kno
Modesto · CA, USA
Strange Bright Green Light moving through sky near Modesto CA at 2:25 am... visible from I-5 on the left horizon. Very nearby
Porterville · CA, USA
big red ball like object with littler star like objects zooming around
Santa Maria · CA, USA
Dark oval like shape moving both fast and slow at night.
Santa Maria · CA, USA
Experienced observer witnesses a strange, amorphous, unlighted object streak across the sky, stop, and then simply disappear.
Lancaster · CA, USA
SPHERE SHAPE CRAFT
Hinkley · CA, USA
Dark brown potato-shaped object seen over desert mountains.
Yucaipa · CA, USA
Amber/orange light sighting
Yucaipa · CA, USA
Light in Eastern Sky, emitting other lights, turning from single to three light pattern
Pasadena · CA, USA
Amazing glowing air craft in Pasadena, California
Morgan Hill · CA, USA
Trying to locate Mars in the early morning hours I was searching the sky towards the East South-East with binoculars when i came across
San Francisco · CA, USA
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle about peculiar lights seen over California on the night of October 26, 2005.
Tracy · CA, USA
it was an oval shape brighty lit no sound blinking lights underneath
San Jose · CA, USA
multiple reddish lights moving quickly through apartment complex in san jose
Tracy · CA, USA
((NUFORC Note: Student report? PD)) On this odd night my little brother was coming home froms his friends house.
San Francisco · CA, USA
VERY BRIGHT, warm white light and pretty large, low on the Western horizon as if it was a prominent planet about to set.
Borrego Springs · CA, USA
four orange/yellow balls forming two sides of a triangle
Tracy · CA, USA
silver oval shaped object with circular shinning lights
Redwood City · CA, USA
8:14 a,m, My family apparently saw a scene of two bright white objects destroyed by a green object.
Carlsbad · CA, USA
2 Flashing red lights pass directly overhead in perfect formation at very high altitude with no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Aircraft. PD))
Lancaster · CA, USA
I first noticed what appeared to be a jetliner (approx the same altitude & speed as a jetliner) flying due east outside commercial air-