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)
San Dimas · CA, USA
Strange cirles appeared and dissappeard in plain daylight... Unexplainable...
Pollock Pines · CA, USA
Ten small, white, shiny objects hovered over our house in changing formations before drifting upwards and disappearing.
Grass Valley · CA, USA
Big scary thing come out of no where
Sacramento · CA, USA
Moving blue light in night sky in Sacramento, CA. Unusual color. March 3, 2012
Ontario · CA, USA
IT WAS BIG & BURNED ORANGE A LIGHT CIRCLED & SEPERATED INTO 3 PA RTS
Hollywood · CA, USA
This was an indisputable moving creature of sorts in the sky, not machinery, and definitely not man made or controlled. Calculated.
Los Angeles (mid-city) · CA, USA
Triangular shaped ufo in los angeles
Soulsbyville · CA, USA
An unexplained object square in shape, floating and tubmling silently in the sky until ascending out of sight.
Ventura · CA, USA
Clear triangle over Ventura
Citrus Heights · CA, USA
Slowly floating object with strange lights, moving across the city.
Sacramento · CA, USA
3 bright colorful lights, flying wild off each other. Playfully? Clear night, very visable, great view
Citrus Heights · CA, USA
Fireball object seen
Santa Clara · CA, USA
Seven bright crafts "ufo's" seemed to dance in the Calif Sky last night
Grass Valley · CA, USA
Two "star" like objects flashing red, white and blue with unnatural intensity.
Sacramento · CA, USA
Dark, noiseless, floating V shaped object, moving from south to north, morphing shape
Stockton · CA, USA
Large bright light shrinks and flies away quickly.
Selma · CA, USA
Weird flashing light not moving comes n goes has been doing that a few nights now i cannot identify it niether can my family....cant ge
Redding · CA, USA
An orange fire-ball was seen flying through the sky, pretty low, and then I seen it disappear behind the trees.
Santa Ana · CA, USA
Red and blue but at 8pm it was red and like around 9 pm was blue. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))
Santa Ana · CA, USA
Floating oval aircraft with red lights, moderate to fast smooth movement
Ventura · CA, USA
On Friday night around 7 there was sitings of a blue circle that hovered, and changed directions in Ventura, Ca. over the ocean. The ob
Oakley · CA, USA
2 diamond shaped bright white lights suspended still in sky for about 40 min. before being covered with strange straight-edge clouds.
Diamond Bar · CA, USA
Teardrop orb - lights moving rnd bottom, bright bright light on top-stay n place 10mn moved then diasppeared into air 3 helictrs chase
Madera/Fresno · CA, USA
One solid black, upside down triangle. No lights, moving very slowly over Hwy 41. Morphed.
Fountain Valley · CA, USA
At least 3 orange points of light varying in brightness and movement at night lower than Mars