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)
Merced · CA, USA
Multiple orange orbs, in a triangle shape, moving NE to SW, then disappeared, followed by more.
Garden Grove · CA, USA
A large amount of unidentified flying object over Disneyland Anaheim Orange County
Garden Grove · CA, USA
Small orbs dif speeds&direction,5bigorbs,lessActivity. 2 LARGE crafts,scaled sky dominantly & reappeared only a few times
Grand Terrace · CA, USA
Fireball realeases two blinking lights and disappears over San Bernardino, CA.
Mohave · CA, USA
Have not a clue what happened!
Eureka · CA, USA
Humboldt County Coastline, two events, similar craft.
Escondido · CA, USA
Star sized reddish orange glowing sphere seen hovering, floating, and disappearing in Escondido's night sky.
Borrego · CA, USA
I took a photo not knowing that there was an object in the sky until I downloaded it on my PC.
Durham · CA, USA
Three orange globes flying in a triangle formation were witnessed in Durham, CA.
Petaluma · CA, USA
Comet like sighting over 101 petaluma area.
Carlsbad · CA, USA
Object moved up and down 2 times with sharp movements.
Alhambra · CA, USA
Blue/green light appear in the sky.
Citrus Heights · CA, USA
Five people were in a hot tub an saw a light hovering in the sky. It would drop suddenly at a arch and change colors to blue led like
Westminster · CA, USA
3 red/orange lights, line changes to triangle. Plane interrupted they dimmed out, one flew away.
El Centro · CA, USA
3 orange bright triangle or arrowhead shape lights reappeared.
Studio City · CA, USA
Bright blue-gray cylinder spiraled downward from Big Dipper,made a left turn over tree tops and sped away.
Antioch · CA, USA
Ball of light appeared from nowhere in the , moved at a high speed than disappeared, yellowish red color
San Mateo · CA, USA
Strange light orb over lake.
San Jose · CA, USA
Triangle shape red and white lights and Laser beamed across the whole city
Porter Ranch · CA, USA
Rectangular object in the sky just after sunrise in the Valley. Can only be seen through camera Lens!
Los angeles · CA, USA
I was on vacation in Los Angeles California, a buddy picked me up from the airport we were driving down sunset blvd. to our apartment a
San Diego · CA, USA
UFO sighted over Downtown San Diego.
Azusa · CA, USA
Many orange lights over the freeway In Azusa CA
Corona · CA, USA
UFO corona ca
Irvine · CA, USA
Bright shiny object-looked like a shiny fish in water-but changed shape quickly, then vanished