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 witness in Covina, California reported a disk-shaped object hovering at roughly 1,500 feet for about ten minutes before disappearing, in August 1955.
Homaland · CA, USA
My grandfather saw it crash, in foot hills behind house. Saw it on ground, airforce picked it up. I saw crash site. some time in 50s
Martinez (outskirts) · CA, USA
We observed a large object aprox.size "football field or larger" aproach us 45mph make 90 degree turn. color "red glowing ember".2000 f
Quartz Hill · CA, USA
childhood ufo
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
A witness in Santa Rosa, California reported a large disk-shaped object, estimated at over 200 feet across, observed for about ten minutes in 1955.
Yucaipa · CA, USA
A witness in Yucaipa, California reported a luminous oval object in the sky in December 1954, similar to one described in Los Angeles newspapers over Inyokern Air Base.
North Hollywood · CA, USA
A witness in North Hollywood, California reported a star-like point of light slowly traveling across the sky for about 30 minutes in 1954.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
A witness in Los Angeles reported a red, glowing circular object traveling at an extreme reported speed across the night sky for about 15 seconds in 1954.
Walnut Creek · CA, USA
I have not reported this before. I feel it should be recorderd somewhere. My friend and I used to take time-lapse photos of the stars a
Hawthorne · CA, USA
It was 1954. Background. I was 24, busy building our young family, had never heard of the 1947 Saucers by Mt. Rainier.
El Cerrito · CA, USA
It was a Sunday evening and must have been in November of Decemberme to Berkeley because it was dark and I needed to be in Berkeley for
Fish Canyon · CA, USA
Helix flight pattern at zenith
Palm Beach · CA, USA
Witnesses near Palm Beach, California reported multiple bright lights high in the sky, resembling illuminated light bulbs, briefly observed in June 1954.
Hawthorne · CA, USA
A witness in Hawthorne, California reported a distant, stationary light in the sky for several minutes before it suddenly departed at great speed, in June 1954.
Pasadena · CA, USA
A witness in Pasadena, California reported a bright white circular object passing overhead and appearing to eject a smaller object of similar shape, over about five minutes in June 1954.
Stanford Campus · CA, USA
A Civil Defense plane spotter reported a disk-shaped object over Stanford University, California for about ten minutes in April 1954.
Burney · CA, USA
Witnesses near Burney, California reported one large and two smaller disk-shaped objects in the sky for 15 to 30 minutes in February 1954.
San Bernadino Mtns · Church Camp, CA, USA
A group of seventh-graders at a church camp in the San Bernardino Mountains, California reported seeing a disk-shaped object for about 15 minutes in August 1953.
Vallejo · CA, USA
Witnesses in Vallejo, California reported lights in the sky initially mistaken for shooting stars, observed for about an hour in August 1953.
Fresno · CA, USA
i seem to be the only one of my siblings to recall this event.i do not understand why this is. 500 Lights On Object0: Ye
(City unknown) · CA, USA
What I saw was when I was about 7 years old in 1953. I was at my grandmas house in the country, and my friend was visiting her grandma
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Witnesses reported a green fireball traveling north at low altitude over Los Angeles for about five seconds in April 1953.
Palm Springs · CA, USA
In the spring of 1953 Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Talbot, told my father and others that he had been buzzed by a UFO.
Wilmington · CA, USA
Witnesses in Wilmington, California reported three disk-shaped objects that appeared suddenly, hovered, darted forward, hovered again, then vanished within one to two minutes in July 1952.
unknown · CA, USA
This movie was filmed in 1952, a huge year in the history of ufo sightings