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)
Oceanside · CA, USA
The circular object or light was bright orange in the center, and had a hazy red ring surrounding it.
Hayward · CA, USA
Parked 50 feet above started as a black machine, then turned silver and slowly moved to the east changing shape to a ball of light. Lig
Sacramento · CA, USA
At 5:39 pm I was in my backyard and saw lights out of the corner of my eye and looked up in the sky to see a triangular craft with 8 ye
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Strange directional "swoosh" sound in the sky near LAX draws attention of 3 witnesses to look up at an empty sky.
Palm Desert · CA, USA
red pulising lights making triangle formations and hovering
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
Orange light over Santa Barbara
Borrego Springs · CA, USA
Small object "floats" against the wind.
Lake Shasta · CA, USA
Saw an orange fireball move silently across the sky from west to east.
Orange · CA, USA
Ball of light over Southern California.
Sacramento · CA, USA
UFO in first frame then cloaked from video, iPad video five minutes.
Porterville · CA, USA
UFO paralleling a man made aircraft during a suspected "chem-trail" operation caught on video.
San Luis Obispo · CA, USA
Disc-shaped, possibly metallic, seemingly light-reflecting, object seen in photograph, but didn't notice it when I took the picture.
Moorpark · CA, USA
6 very high bright lights silently meandering into various symmetrical formations.
Palmdale · CA, USA
At night, a bright orange light coming toward us and suddenly disappeared.
La Mirada · CA, USA
Bright flash over house
Chino Hills · CA, USA
Three bright Yellow/Orange round spiked objects in diagonal line.
San Francisco · CA, USA
High altitude rod or cylinder shaped object with white blinking lights observed in SF.
Sacramento · CA, USA
6-7 Orange/red fireballs seen over Sacramento.
Point Richmond · CA, USA
1 person witnesses a dark triangular UFO with lights in a star-like cluster that crosses 1/3 of sky in about 5 seconds.
Tracy · CA, USA
We seen 6 red balls of fire floating thru the sky at 9:10 pm first 3 separate then the other 3 close together no sound at all really we
Sacramento · CA, USA
Orange red glowing orbs chaging patterns and directions then zapping out
Fresno · CA, USA
Formation of 6 orange orbs flying over fresno ca may 31st 2013
Los Banos (near; on Interstate 5) · CA, USA
We saw three spherical-shaped, bright white lights erratically flying over a field adjacent to interstate 5 in approximately Los Banos,
Lakeside · CA, USA
Line of 5 blinking lights moving slowly across the sky.
Santee · CA, USA
Santee, CA. Lights seen in the sky.