Light UFO Sightings in California
3,107 light-shaped UFO sightings reported in California since 1937, peaking in 2015 (194 reports).
- Total sightings
- 3,107
- Span
- 1937–2028
- Peak year
- 2015 (194 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1937–2028 · peak 2015 (194 reports)
El Centro · CA, USA
Strange line of lights, can't explain. ((anonymous report))
Lake Elsinore · CA, USA
About 20 lights flying in the sky over Lake Elsinore area for about 2 hours.
Turlock · CA, USA
Multiple lights, star sized flying in the skies at fast speeds. ((anonymous report))
San Dimas · CA, USA
Inconsistent rapid flashing light, at the perceptual distance of a star.
Turlock · CA, USA
Satellite does rapid button hook maneuver. ((anonymous report))
Concord · CA, USA
Bright fluorescent bright green light quite low appeared on top, then moved towards NE then E before disappearing.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Bright, yellowish-orange light(s) observed from Northeast LA, off in the distance.
Kearny Mesa · CA, USA
Ball of light/object, larger than commercial airplane. ((anonymous report))
E. Rio Vista · CA, USA
I'm a truck driver headed E on Hwy 12 just W of I-5, when this ball of light white in color starter for my right. ((anonymous report))
Rancho Mirage · CA, USA
Seen a bright light thought maybe was drone but the way it moved was nothing man-made and it split in 2.
Yreka · CA, USA
UFO sighting in Yreka, CA, during 4th of July fireworks display. (07/04/2017).
Warner Springs (near) · CA, USA
Tailgating vehicle disappears.
Riverside · CA, USA
Pulsing red light, changes colors & altitude.
Modesto · CA, USA
Light is sky very bright on appears around 3 am ish to 5ish look like could change colors. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
San Diego · CA, USA
Bright flash moving across sky, not a shooting star. ((NUFORC Note: Tumbling booster?? PD))
Borrego Springs · CA, USA
Series of lights in California desert.
San Leandro · CA, USA
Strange Craft With Flashing Red and Green Lights Circling in the Sky.
Chula Vista · CA, USA
Witnessed a red pulsing light and what we thought was a white star.
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))
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
((Location no revealed by witness)) · CA, USA
I saw something strange in the night sky disappear! ((anonymous report))