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)
Irvine · CA, USA
Hovering craft with red and green blinking lights. Hovers for a minute and then moved to a new spot.
Antelope · CA, USA
Craft had 3 parts. Round flashing large object. Hovered silently for about 15 minutes then slowly moved south, until it disappeared beh
Whittier · CA, USA
Saw 3 round object with red bright lights. They were moving lightly, then all of the sudden they took off.
Los Alamitos · CA, USA
My family and I were at a hotel in Orange County and enjoying the outdoor pool and hot tub when I noticed a weird white pearlescent obj
Antioch · CA, USA
Fireball over Antioch California seen for 15-20 minutes travelling at varying speeds and making dramatic direction changes.
San Bernardino · CA, USA
July 29, 2015, at approx. 5:30 pm. I witnessed a strange phenonmena. At this time I lived by the san Bernardino mountains ant atten
Ramona · CA, USA
I heard a pulsating sound, thought, "That's a weird sounding helicopter." Looked up and saw a jet following a light.
Salton City · CA, USA
Bright yellow circle lights.
San Francisco · CA, USA
Ufo outside airplane. ((NUFORC Note: Photo indicates two bright objects ahead of the a/c wing; possible reflections. PD))
Coalinga · CA, USA
Very bright as compared to star background. Definitely not an airplane; too fast no flashing lights. Traveled about 110 deg arc.
Stockton · CA, USA
Seven Beautiful luminous orange orange orbs dance away above Stockton California
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Huge bright light on top of Taylor Mountain ridge. Looked like huge spot light, perfect circle. Watched it for total of 5 mins and film
Anaheim · CA, USA
My wife and I saw what by all appearances was a UFO at Disneyland on the night of June 4th 2015.
Cobb · CA, USA
Round dot in full daylight. Hovered for hours not moving but progressed towards west at same rate as sun setting west. Since then sky
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
V-shaped formation of steady, bright, white lights moving close to ground, slowly, silently across night sky.
Avenal · CA, USA
3 round lights-I-5 in Avenal, CA (North of Kettleman City).
Tehachapi · CA, USA
Orange balls in the sky, drifting from the west due east; made no sound.
La Canada Flintridge · CA, USA
UNKNOWN WEIRD LIGHTS OVER LA CANADA, CA, NEAR JPL NASA.
Berkeley (above) · CA, USA
Sequenced lights in Oakland Hills.
Galt · CA, USA
2 bright orange balls of light hovering for about 5 or 10 minutes at 11:50pm, in Galt, CA, Thursday night.
Beaumont · CA, USA
Small black sphere flying at the speed of prop plane on a straight line that disappeared behind a small cloud and never re-emerged.
Reno · CA, USA
Cluster on 5 objects.
Gridley · CA, USA
While sitting in the backyard, my friend and I talked about the day and we saw a green light, appear on the power line, at the same tim
San Jose · CA, USA
It silently flew towards us from the west.
Bakersfield · CA, USA
Saw an orange light with flame like trail completely silent, traveling from north to south, headed toward Los Angeles.