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)
Santa Clarita · CA, USA
Up close over backyard pool
Los Angeles (300 mi. W of; at sea) · CA, USA
5 light doing incredible maneuvers over the Pacific Ocean. ((NUFORC Note: Report from Coast Guard lookout. PD))
Apple Valley · CA, USA
Daytime / air to air near miss / sighting
La Habra · CA, USA
ufo was a triangle, approx. 100 Yds each side, approx. 50 feet thick. 1st view from side..several minutes..2nd/3rd view underneath 15 m
Rancho Palos Verdes · CA, USA
Late at night in the summer of 1979 a huge chevron shapped UFO flew silently and slowly just above the rooftops of So. California
Garden Grove · CA, USA
Cigar shaped object
Alameda · CA, USA
This is a very delayed report: While stationed at the Alameda Naval air station in California. It was I believe early in 1979 when thei
Hollister · CA, USA
ORANGE BRIGHT EGG SHAPED OBJECTS
Castro Valley · CA, USA
saw boxkite shaped object with lights on corners, then driver saw tried to follow, to fast in blink of eye went 2 miles other direction
Los Angeles (over I-10 · on most rural Bayou stretch), CA, USA
Metallic UFO seen hovering silently, directly over eastbound lanes.Light underneath shined UP onto craft-was being moved by humandoid s
Manteca · CA, USA
blue belly: ship with blue light outlineing the bottom of saucer, white ball of light on each end. top: one white ball of light on top
San Jose · CA, USA
1979 ufo and entities sighting up close
Napa · CA, USA
Triangular UFO SIghting Napa County Summer 1979 (on the way to Lake Berryessa)
Palmdale · CA, USA
It was a round white craft with a disk around it. It moved up the street and hovered above the school for about 5min. Then went over th
Ramona · CA, USA
It was a greenish glowing object which moved at unimaginable great speed.
Sunnyvale · CA, USA
Huge green glowing cigar shaped craft observed flying at treetop level over Sunnyvale.
Salinas · CA, USA
Disc shaped saucer craft seen about 100 feet away
Berkeley · CA, USA
Rectangler in shape, lights all the way around it, no noise, darted up and down, left to right stopping very fast, maze like decoration
Downey · CA, USA
Very large silent slim chevron aircraft over Downey CA 1979
California Hot Springs · CA, USA
saucer larger than a sierra nevada mountain
Windsor · CA, USA
Chrome cylinder hovers at vertical angle 5,000 or more up on a clear cloudless day. ((anonymous report))
Big Sur (Lucia) · CA, USA
triangular glowing, amber object lighting circle of ocean, leaving glowing light and dropping 2 glowing objects into ocean, silent,
Lake Arrowhead · CA, USA
My husband, 3 children, and I moved to LK Arrowhead in 1971. We were both Fine Artists. We wanted to get away from Los Angeles, the sch
Grover Beach · CA, USA
Grover Beach UFO coming from ocean
Pismo Beach · CA, USA
An enormous triangle hovered over me for at least seven minutes.