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)
Covina · CA, USA
a lighted object moving across the sky... west to east... no sound, in a cloudy sky...
Fontana · CA, USA
The UFO was completely illuminated by light and spunned extremely fast. It's shape was of a saucer and it hoovered slowly over the cit
Mammoth Lakes · CA, USA
Two white craft, flying in close formation.
Westminster · CA, USA
I observed an unusually bright pure red light by itself, it was the size of a pea held at arms length. It was coming from the South Wes
San Gabriel Valley · CA, USA
Craft was more or less in a holding pattern where it's path was none directional... and apered to rotate 180 degrees on its axis..or to
Covina · CA, USA
WHILE LOOKING UP, I SAW A LIGHT TRAVELLING FROM NORTH TO EAST. IT LOOKED LIKE A STAR, IT DIDN'T HAVE BLINKING LIGHTS LIKE AN AIRPLANE.
Rohnert Park · CA, USA
Brite white light with a downward tail
Laguna Niguel · CA, USA
I was lying down, and I look in the sky. I see a sphere and I thought it was a plane. I look closely, but I see it is not like a plane
San Francisco (Farallon Island) · CA, USA
Encountered large triangular object while night fishing off Farlon Island and fired 100 rounds of 22 ammo at it.
Escondido · CA, USA
approx 22:21 saw a bright light hovering just east of my front driveway. No noise. The brightness would intensify then subsided then in
San Bernadino · CA, USA
While driving north on Interstate 15, me and a business associate who was driving, saw what appeared to be a meteor falling in the sky.
Santa Clarita · CA, USA
Streak across the sky moving from SE to NW, color was teal/silver irredescence. Holding out hand, size was thumb nail, above cirrus clo
Lodi · CA, USA
Strange fireballs on Dec. 03, 1999 on the West side of Lodi. They hung around for about four hours, and military planes flew over.
Corralitos · CA, USA
flying disk with erratic stop and go movement
San Diego · CA, USA
saw a fireball go N. to S. with tail, the coyotes started howling in the canyon right after event.
Costa Mesa · CA, USA
Extremely brillent object glinting in the mid-day sun seemed stationary and then took off straight up and was out of sight in 1 or 2 se
San Diego · CA, USA
short,bright contrail,west over ocean.heading north and descending approx 45deg.gone. reappeared parallel to horizon. reversed directio
Sherman Oaks · CA, USA
A single small cloud moved from WNW to WSW over a 5 min. period in an otherwise clear sky. Faintly comet-shaped. Military rocket launch
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
I was looking at the North Western skies at approx 07.45 A bright light came from the South It seemed to hover for a moment then shoot
Pico Rivera · CA, USA
cylindrical object flying slowly north to south at arox 2000 ft, we (two of us) watched until it disappeard over the san gabriel mounta
Windser · CA, USA
I was driving home from work when an large orange glowing light the size of my thumb at arms length, was hovering in the night sky. it
Browns Valley/Marysville (near Beale Air Force Base) · CA, USA
object appears to remain stationary 20-30 minutes, has many greenish-blue flashing lights some rapidly moving white lghts. No noise. So
Murrieta · CA, USA
group of red/orange objects over plateau followed car down road
Point Arena · CA, USA
Two hour light show of craft over Pacific Ocean on last full moon in 1999
Lake Elsinore · CA, USA
orange light moving west to east, then made sharp turn to the south then broke up into 5 orange lights, faded to the south