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)
Arbuckle/College City (between) · CA, USA
Red flashing lights hovering over a body of water.
College City · CA, USA
About 5.5 hours total (between two sightings) oscillating lights are seen by 3 people in the country skies.
Lancaster · CA, USA
Triangular craft flies over highway... low altitude... then disappears only to reappear later
Thousand Oaks · CA, USA
Three high speed orange lights in a long narrow triangular pattern over Thousand Oaks CA.
Chico · CA, USA
Orange star-like ball of light, erratic motion, no noise.
Carlsbad · CA, USA
two hazy lights circling in the sky, joining, and disappearing.
San Diego · CA, USA
Two reddish dots appear in the sky, move around a bit and then fade out
South El Monte · CA, USA
5 circular disk-like objects; one with a blue disk-like object affixed to it moving back and forth half way around it continuously.
San Jose · CA, USA
Very bright cobalt blue fireball over highway 101 near Minetta San Jose Airport
San Diego · CA, USA
bright speck of light moves in strange path in western sky of pacific beach
Mission Viejo · CA, USA
Extremely bright object in the eastern sky in southern O.C. moving very slowly. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail?? PD))
Hawthorne · CA, USA
I was at work about 7:00 to 7:30 AM when a co worker said look at the U.F.O. at first I said "it was just a helicopter with two big lig
Mountain Ranch · CA, USA
Triangular object w/o the bottom. Red then Green then Yellow white flashing. Hanged in the sky.((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus. PD))
Rancho Cucamonga · CA, USA
Four shiny disc shaped objects flying in formation above the moutains and then disappeared.
Carson · CA, USA
Reddish object produced flashes of light, discharged a gaseus material, dissappeared, reappeared and dissapeared again.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
We saw a subject size if a helycopter, round and it had a whole in the midle, it looked like a donut,block and you cood see sky throoh
Orangevale · CA, USA
Vee shaped red/orange lights moving east to west over Sacramento.
Morgan Hill (12 mi. north of on 101) · CA, USA
Stationary object off US 101, blinding lights flashing and then disappeared.
Modesto · CA, USA
5 white lights arranged in chevron pattern, silent
Penn Valley · CA, USA
VERY Large Craft silently flys overhead slowly to the east, accompanied by large electric blue explosion
Riverside · CA, USA
Floursent green "stars" that actually fly in the skies over So. Cal.
Hawthorne/Lawndale · CA, USA
Aqua green florescent lights on leading edge of triangular craft moving at great speed downward and seemed to disapeared into a portal
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
Three objects traveling west..very cold clear evening. thought were shooting stars, no trails, gold in color moveing so fast, very very
Sunol/Pleasanton · CA, USA
7 Lights, Big to small, moving to the center of the triangle, appearing out of no where as if going un cloaked.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Huge triangle with red lights