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)
Sunland · CA, USA
Two parallel contrails were seen in the western sky approximately over eastern San Fernando Valley heading from south-east to north-wes
Rancho Cordova · just east/southeast of Sacramento, 2 miles f, CA, USA
For a brief second, there was a flash that lit up my familyroom. I couldn't see what direction or it came from or was going
Diamond Bar · CA, USA
Observed disk shaped craft with dome while traveling n/bound on 57 FWY.
Kelseyville · CA, USA
Three vehicles, two small and one large in the rear. approximately 30 to 80 thousand feet leaving a triangle wake. moving from NW to NE
Alameda · CA, USA
a flying chevron with extremely white bright lights for about 5 seconds and it disapeared in clear sky while banking right
Burlingame · CA, USA
This is in referance to the request on Art bells show to submit sighting on the night of november 16. This is what I saw...
San Rafael · CA, USA
Very bright high flying Orange Triangle over San Francisco during Leonid Meteor shower
Carlsbad · CA, USA
V shaped formation of approximately 7 lights obseved for 2 seconds. Formation approx 2 1/2 fingers wide, seen for 30 deg. of arc. No so
Redding · CA, USA
large, boomerang shaped craft....no lights, completely black...no noise..flew over us...north to south direction(approx.)..very fast
San Diego · CA, USA
Four stationary lights in sky suddenly moved toward ea other untill they all reached ea other. Then returned the same direction they ca
Indio · CA, USA
4 dark triangle objects with 3-4 lights flying fast and high, no sound
Sherman Oaks · CA, USA
Nightime,black craft/no lights, flying under conventional aircraft,craft had a thick body with short stuby shark fin like wings!
Bellflower · CA, USA
Red blob, went to a dot, then disappeared
Petaluma · CA, USA
Clouds over small aircraft airport flashing coded laser light to ground or vice versa, animals making noise
Half Moon Bay · CA, USA
70+ chevron-shaped aircraft, approx. 40,000`, flying from northeast to southwest over Half Moon Bay, CA, like someone opened up at box
San Francisco · CA, USA
looked out window at an object the color of a setting sun moving west to east at a slow speed.
Fresno · CA, USA
18 year old girl encountered an alien spacecraft coming home from the Clovis Community College Center on Nov. of 1999
Anaheim · CA, USA
Ufo shooting smaller crafts from bigger Ufo
Sacramento · CA, USA
Noted two airliner sized objects travelling West to Easterly across the sky within my field of view.
Monrovia · CA, USA
I WOKE AT 2AM IN THE MORNING, LYING ON MY BED IN THE PITCH DARKNESS, AND HOVERING ABOVE ME WAS A RED TRANSLUCENT LIGHT. IT SEEMED TO MO
Redondo Beach · CA, USA
Follow up to : Blue-green luminescent objects moving at a high rate of speed
Redondo Beach · CA, USA
Blue-green luninescent objects moving at a high rate of speed, producing no sound and maneuvering at incredible angles to each other.
Weldon · CA, USA
A bright shaft of light shaped like a huge check mark from west to east was seen coming up behind the mountains, behind which there is
San Diego · CA, USA
We were traveling West to East on Pomerado Road. On my left side above the tree tops, a very large white bright light circular in shape
Green Valley · CA, USA
Moving bright light that disappeared and seemed to become a faint moving light