Cylinder UFO Sightings in California
217 cylinder-shaped UFO sightings reported in California since 1963, peaking in 2019 (15 reports).
- Total sightings
- 217
- Span
- 1963–2022
- Peak year
- 2019 (15 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Cylinder
1963–2022 · peak 2019 (15 reports)
Antelope · CA, USA
On 10/18/13 at 19:00 we (adult and 2 teenagers) noticed a red/orange glowing cylinder object due west from our upstairs bedroom window.
Salinas (~1 hour past; on Hwy 101) · CA, USA
Huge pulsing object shoots across sky toward ocean.
W. Sacramento · CA, USA
Lighted from below/whitish lights front to rear with dark gap between front and rear headeding from sothwest to northeast but drifiiit
Coloma · CA, USA
Two large pink and blue cylinder objects hanging in sky over Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Fowler · CA, USA
A very bright multi colored light hovering for an hour in Fowler, Ca.
Palo Alto · CA, USA
Silver cylindrical shape with 4 smaller cylinders around the center hovering over the oval area of Stanford Univ campus.
San Francisco · CA, USA
High altitude rod or cylinder shaped object with white blinking lights observed in SF.
Benicia · CA, USA
3 sets of 5 red glowing cylinders flew over the bay near Benicia, CA.
Studio City · CA, USA
Bright blue-gray cylinder spiraled downward from Big Dipper,made a left turn over tree tops and sped away.
Monterey · CA, USA
Cylinder shape
Bakersfield · CA, USA
White ufo looked like a humungous pcp pipe (747 size) no protrusions heading from Los Angeles, to the north. Silent too. No vapor.
Irvine · CA, USA
6 extremely bright lights, surrounding a dark bodied craft, moving very slowly
Los Banos · CA, USA
Large chrome cylinder shaped object with black dots spinning with two flaps hanging from the bottom.
Seal Beach · CA, USA
It was not a domestic or foreign aircraft, it wasnt an earthly ship..
San Diego · CA, USA
Cylinder shaped moving slowly and no sound above Miramar base where it sudden disappeared!
Murrieta · CA, USA
Saw a silver cigar shaped object flying virtically in Murrieta Ca skies this morning.
Monterey · CA, USA
two lights with a glow around them twenty feet in front of a car
Atascadero · CA, USA
A crew of cylinder ufos, it was great
West Sacramento · CA, USA
Unknown craft heading Southeast from the Northwest at approx 5 thousand feet..reflecting lite only..no apparent onboard lighting
Palo Alto · CA, USA
Cylinder craft with green light appeared and dissapeared over radar satelittle dishes by 280 freeway
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
Flying Saucer Photo
Palomar Mountain · CA, USA
Cigar shaped craft with glowing Orbs entering craft.
Visalia · CA, USA
The green glowing aircraft
Rosamond · CA, USA
Bright orange object over Rosamond, CA. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB at 21:24 hrs. (Pacific). PD))
W. Sacramento · CA, USA
Slightly elongated brite white light silently traveling west to east then blacked out rapidly