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)
California · CA, USA
it had bright lights and went at a smooth pase, It seperated and flew of at great spead
Lancaster · CA, USA
Cylinder object flying low with three balls of light.
Alturas · CA, USA
Newspaper Article to March 7th Sighting
Alturas · CA, USA
This is clearly happening here and to quote Mr. Holloway.... "There are UFO's in Modoc County."
Victorville · CA, USA
How many people have to see them before the government has the ball's to tell the truth? LOOK UP SEE FOR YOURSELF.
Downieville · CA, USA
Bright flash in the sky for 40 minutes, not moving.
Yuba City · CA, USA
3 Triangular objects, bright white lights with 2 round red "tail lights", slow speed, low altitude
Lancaster · CA, USA
Large orange light moving out of the w.s.w. to the e.s.e over lancaster, ca. area 02:31
Daly City · CA, USA
Blinking light moving in different directions
Mill Valley · CA, USA
I DO HAVE ONE OTHER EXPERIENCE WITH SEEING A UFO TRAVELING UP HWY 29 TWO MONTHS AGO AS WELL AS TWO PARENTS OF FRIENDS THAT HAVE SEEN UF
Millville · CA, USA
Bright green fireball in Shasta/Trinity County, California ((NUFORC Note: Probable dramatic meteor at 19:45 hrs. on this date. PD))
Kelseyville · CA, USA
3 Red Glowing UFOs
San Pedro · CA, USA
multiple UFO sightings over San Pedro, CA.
Garden Grove · CA, USA
it sound like plane, color orange, and spark with the sun, also with out wings, and faster then any plain I know.
Paradise · CA, USA
a white "contrail" fixed in size, shape and consistency.
Yucca Valley · CA, USA
object hovered,one object disappeard,another seemed to come after the original,which left at high rate of speed. ((Sirius??))
Castro Valley · CA, USA
Shiny white object flys silently over our home
Santa Monica · CA, USA
It appeared with three white lights then we saw colored lights and then it went into the clouds and came back out then dissapeared
Tehachapi · CA, USA
3 hovering flashing lites
Murrieta · CA, USA
Triangular shaped craft with 3 red lights and smaller blue lights.
Napa · CA, USA
Hello, Around Thursday 1am. I witnessed a large bright ball of orange red that was traveling in a left to right fashion. It was in the
Palm Desert · CA, USA
Saw a perfect symmetricalTriangle of three lights all connected by light beams in the North Sky.
Los Alamitos · CA, USA
"Phoenix Lights" duplicate formation scenario!
San Diego · CA, USA
a bright white light over I-5, hovered for about 5 minutes. and then began to move southeast. emerged into a row of bright white lights
San Francisco · CA, USA
I did not see the craft at the time, but it was noticed on my return when i downloaded the pictures from my digital camera. I took one