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)
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Blue oval shape on top left of the moon.
Littlerock · CA, USA
MADAR Node 56
Atwater · CA, USA
V shaped silent craft with 3 red lights on each point.
Midway City · CA, USA
I was walking my dog at 4:08am and noticed a fast moving object in the sky. I stared at it trying to see any type of blinking red blue
Hanford · CA, USA
At approximately 2125 I saw a large, bright diamond shaped object traveling south to north at a high rate of speed. I looked at the obj
Camarillo · CA, USA
Walked on a bridge over a freeway, took two pictures quickly, noticed after that there were two saucers and they disappeared
Oceanside · CA, USA
7 of us were out on the driveway ,our contractor looked up into the sky not quite directly overhead and spotted a round doughnut shaped
Lancaster · CA, USA
This object look like a fireball coming towards us from the West in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, it looked like it was coming st
North Highlands · CA, USA
White flashing light.
Paramount · CA, USA
I notice a circular or dot object about sun set no noice appears to come from that object a bright light appears like it’s was from low
Riverside · CA, USA
Oval whitish-yellow light levitating in sky, kept disappearing and reappearing before our eyes.
Rossmond · CA, USA
Low flying pulsating orbs
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
MADAR Node 57
Oceanside · CA, USA
I create art outside my backyard and I use a slow motion camera with dance. I caught the 2 oval black crafts + 1 white still one.
Merced · CA, USA
Bright white ring over Merced
Merced · CA, USA
Daughter called me on phone and told me to look up strait into the sky.Wife and I observed cigar shaped craft iminating a hazy orange a
Fresno · CA, USA
Satellite Object
NoLos Angeles (northeast of) · CA, USA
My brother was looking at a star with small binoculars and he told me to have a look when I was done I put the binoculars down and we b
McFarland · CA, USA
Observed and filmed an orb overhead during the day. Not similar to other aircraft I have observed.
Modesto · CA, USA
huge, triangular craft, silent sighting in Modesto (Highway Village Area)
Los Ángeles · CA, USA
UFO split into 3
Littlerock · CA, USA
MADAR Node 56
Temecula · CA, USA
Two round shape crafts in the sky just sitting there and then out of no where a flash and they where gone. It move way to quick tone a
Temecula · CA, USA
Huge bright blue flying object seen low in the sky in Southern California
Stanton · CA, USA
Overcast night,rectangular object right above us lights on the rear,could see the clouds churning up,no sound,moving straight north slo