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)
Mission Viejo · CA, USA
Extremely fast moving craft lights up as it shoots over Southern CA coastline
Burlingame · CA, USA
Saucer with lots of lights flying at about 3,000 feet. and made no sound.
Windsor · CA, USA
One object traveling towards a group of 3, then fell out of sky.
Fairfield · CA, USA
Single bright light that moved like no airplane i have ever seen before
Glendora · CA, USA
Saw a hovering, tilted, silvery oval with a dome on top. I saw it in the sky 7-30-03 at 12:50pm in Glendora, CA for 2-3 scs. Flew aw
Wilmington · CA, USA
red glowing object splits, then 1 splits off and falls to earth, then both disapear
Klamath · CA, USA
Saw a light in the sky and then it darted toward the ground.
Simi Valley · CA, USA
A disc-like object flew over us, manuevered in the sky for a minute, then flew away and disappeared from site
Universal City · CA, USA
Two triangle shaped objects with lights on each end.
Truckee · CA, USA
While driving back from Nevada, to calif. we started to get into a thunder storm. Shortly after passing the welcome to calif. sign, my
Oakland · CA, USA
Large, gray cylindrical object at or near Oakland Airport
Ventura · CA, USA
An object following a military jet, disappears
Oakley · CA, USA
2 lights merge, then disappear.
Burney · CA, USA
Formation of 3 flying orbs over the skys of burney california.
Santa Rosa area (above) · CA, USA
Metallic sphere north of San Francisco below our plane
Lakewood · CA, USA
I could not sleep so I got up and went outside standing on the top stair of my back porch, listening to the quiet night, I am facing Ea
Moss Beach · CA, USA
3 objets approched us and somehow my car was mysteriously fixed.
Camarillo · CA, USA
Chevron shaped black object flying low ans slow with no sound and appeard to have been pursued by 3 navy planes.
Rancho Cucamonga · CA, USA
We observed a bright orange object moving across the sky slowly form horizon to horizon.
Ludlow · CA, USA
"Spliting Amber Chevron Shaped UFO's in Ludlow , Ca Hwy 40...6/13/2003 3am"
Oxnard · CA, USA
2 UFO's flew in the sky
Barstow · CA, USA
There were red and blue lights round lights coming toward us. It was the size of a small car hovering.
Barstow · CA, USA
There were round red and blue lights on the object., hovering beside us as I was still driving, no sound.
Malibu · CA, USA
this object could only be seen through the eye of a camera.Highly stealth.
Monterey · CA, USA
Across the graveyard near Dennis the Menance park looking toward Carmel/Big Sur. Me EX Airforce!