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)
Yosemite National Park · CA, USA
UFO's over Yosemite.
Folsom · CA, USA
Something showed up in old picture
San Dimas · CA, USA
Super-big object covered in bright white lights, and extremely slow moving
San Diego · CA, USA
Disk-surrounded with red/blue lights doing amazing acrobatic maneuvers in night sky.
Tujunga · CA, USA
Daytime Sphere along the San Gabriel Mountains.
Pomona · CA, USA
Circular object with multiple red, blue and green flashing lights, making very tight turns at a fast rate of speed.
Dana Point · CA, USA
A bright orange/red ufo was spotted coming up the coast from San Clemente towards Dana Point CA
Sacramento · CA, USA
About 20 white circular lights that periodically turned red. Caught some on camera doing a zig zag, then they ended up vanishing.
North Hollywood · CA, USA
6 Unidentified Flying Objects slowly disappear into the thin air!
Long Beach · CA, USA
Bright Venus-like stationary light appears in late evening sky and abruptly dims and fades in place.((NUFORC Note: Iridium flare? PD))
Korbel · CA, USA
Bright flashing white/red lights over our farm house. Didn't go outside but they flashed randomly. ((anonymous report))
Lincoln · CA, USA
Balls of light flying high in the sky from Sacramento to Reno West to East. ((anonymous report))
Palm Springs · CA, USA
I witnessed odd lights while driving west on Racket Club Dr. early Tuesday morning. Roughly 1/5 of the way up the silhouette of Mount S
Seaside · CA, USA
Triangle of three lights.
Sonoma · CA, USA
Very bright orange planet like light, sphere, with slight tail and tiny red light near the tail, slowly moving East.
Sonoma (Fetters Hot Springs) · CA, USA
Bright orange light flying and then hovering in the sky.
Friant · CA, USA
We notice a light flying smoothly through the sky, not fast like a jet and not slow like a airplane..
Friant · CA, USA
Summer of 2017, Friant California...On the Madera side of millerton, there is a dead end in which families can set up BBQ's and a dock
Fullerton · CA, USA
Diamonds in sky flying toward each other, and then slowly disappearing. ((anonymous report))
Fullerton · CA, USA
Two diamond objects move toward each other and then seem to collide separate and then stop moving.
Canoga Park · CA, USA
Above the San Fernando Valley.
Lake Los Angeles · CA, USA
Fast moving green lights, one flashing the other steady. Moving faster than airliners leaving Burbank. Heading E, making no noise.
Taft · CA, USA
I'm a truck driver and I've seen the reddish/orange balls of light before. But never this close. One passed over my truck from E to W.
Corona · CA, USA
Fast-moving light over the mountain range, near Corona, California in Southern California 5/5/2017
San Francisco · CA, USA
Ball of light moving east - away from SF - appeared to wobble, made a sudden shift, then disappeared in the still-dark morning sky.