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)
El Cajon · CA, USA
An unusual sight in the night sky of El Cajon
San Pablo · CA, USA
bright moon sized object appeared to be over hills in Marin county as seen from Contra Costa County, Ca
Monrovia · CA, USA
3 shiny stationary metallic edged shapes in a row around 8pm.
San Diego · CA, USA
a white oval shaped light that appeared and disappeared three times and the shooting of a lightning bolt type of ray.
San Diego · CA, USA
My sister, friend and I saw some UFO's
Long Beach · CA, USA
Fire dripping light over Long Beach, CA.
Big Pine · CA, USA
3 objects take off from mountains near Big Ears site
El Cajon · CA, USA
green light crashed into star
San Jose · CA, USA
Diamond shaped object with white lights rotating in the middle as well as red,yellow,blue,orange lights flashing all over the object.
Orange · CA, USA
flashing lights
Sacramento · CA, USA
Silver Ball in Sacramento Sky (carmichael) 07/06/01
Gardena · CA, USA
I witnessed these craft first on 07//3/01, @10:30am, approx. in the same area, that I witnessed them on 7/08/01. They seemed to be doin
Spring Valley · CA, USA
Light spotted over Sweetwater Resivior in Spring Valley
Fresno · CA, USA
ATNOSPHERIC LENSING?? ?
Springville · CA, USA
Two very very bright lights were seen going across the sky one directly above the other. They were traveling north to south and one was
Sutter Creek · CA, USA
noticed fly object remaining in place (hoovering back and forth)
Orange · CA, USA
A large fireball type object appeared to be flying very rapidly across the sky coming from the south towards the north and then dissape
Anaheim Hills · CA, USA
small, white, slowly moving object too high for an airplane, had to stare at the sky for about a min to even see it.
Joshua Tree · CA, USA
A large, very bright white, round satellite-appearance light, moving slowly. Then made an extremely fast "W" maneuver, and then vanishe
Wilmington · CA, USA
I saw floating fire ball in the sky about 3:15 am . It looked like it was flicking and dropping small fire balls that would disappear
El Centro · CA, USA
Lots of light in Imperial Valley
Warner Springs · CA, USA
Perfectly symmetrical silver cylinder flying object with no emissions high rate of speed horizontal
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
Moon in different places in the sky.
Eureka · CA, USA
brilliant green shooting star
Huntington Beach · CA, USA
Still diamond shape craft in So. Cal. northern sky.