Unknown UFO Sightings in California
1,463 unknown-shaped UFO sightings reported in California since 1942, peaking in 1995 (141 reports).
- Total sightings
- 1,463
- Span
- 1942–2022
- Peak year
- 1995 (141 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Unknown
1942–2022 · peak 1995 (141 reports)
Salinas · CA, USA
Possible closely encounter?
Diamond Bar · CA, USA
one craft intered and stoped east of me moved to my south viewed me met two other craft and left in a tryangel formation
Los Angeles · CA, USA
strange blue light enhances IQ
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
Light in the sky
29 Palms · CA, USA
I was in the Marines and stationed at Marine Corps Base 29 Palms, CA in the Summer of 1977. I and some friends were at a Drive-In movie
Butte Meadows (near) · CA, USA
Strange light beamed straight down over our campfire. There was no sound.
Sacramento · CA, USA
Hovering silent craft with diamond pattern lights
Barstow · CA, USA
Man and son are approached on the highway by a cigar-shaped craft with windows along its side.
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
Organized human-alien abduction
Santa Monica · CA, USA
Two UFO's sighted over Los Angeles and reported on ABC channel 7 news the nest day.
Newbury Park · CA, USA
I saw what appeared to be the lights of a plane that seemed to be going to crash nearby which then became a swirling mass of light and
Lake McClure · CA, USA
At about midnight about 1976 at Hunter's Point, Lake McClure, California heard extreme water commotion and observed submersible
Brea · CA, USA
A light in the sky which first moved South to North, stopped briefly then moved again West til out of sight.
Cerritos · CA, USA
A car struck an invisible object causing the car to come to a complete stop.
San Jose · CA, USA
Please read these abductions going on with a 41yo male.
Novato · CA, USA
When I was a kid in 1975, I was out in the yard after dark and i was looking for shooting stars. I saw a shooting star after a few minu
Orange County · CA, USA
I did not fill out your form as it is not working. My mother and I were walking out of our local grocery store when we heard loud clang
San Diego · CA, USA
Something very large and silent passed overhead - heard but not seen. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the sound of wing vortices. PD))
Laguna Beach · CA, USA
A report from Laguna Beach, CA in September 1973 described an unidentified object seen near the Coast Highway, lasting 1 hour.
San Diego · CA, USA
A report from San Diego, CA in August 1973 described an intense noise overhead that reportedly shook the ground, lasting 2 minutes.
San Luis Obispo · CA, USA
A report from San Luis Obispo, CA in May 1973 described an object that made a sharp 90-degree turn at high speed before appearing to vanish upward, lasting 5 minutes.
San Clemente · CA, USA
An anonymous witness in San Clemente, California reported noticing unusual, cat-like eyes on a figure encountered during a roughly one-minute event in February 1973.
Crescent City · CA, USA
A witness in Crescent City, California reported high-pitched tones during what they believed was an unidentified object encounter, in a brief thirty-second sighting in the early 1970s.
Monterey · CA, USA
A witness in Monterey, California reported a silent, unidentified object flying toward the Pacific Ocean shoreline during a one-minute sighting in June 1972.
Loomis & Folsom Lake · CA, USA
A family near Loomis and Folsom Lake, California reported multiple unidentified objects in the sky above the lake area throughout the summer of 1972.