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)
Santa Ana · CA, USA
Birght light being followed by helicopter slowly.
Isla Vista (UCSB) · CA, USA
Santa Barbara oval silver disk spotted at 9:30 am, over the sea.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
BLIMP/UFO? in L.A.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
The brightest red flashing lights I've ever seen in a delta formation over L.A.
Orland · CA, USA
Silent, Triangular shaped craft moving quickly with no lights or sound.
Sacramento · CA, USA
Skunk smell for over 10 miles while very large craft flew across the sky.
Santa Barbara/Goleta · CA, USA
Bright green sphere over Santa Barbara
Manhattan Beach · CA, USA
Very bright light shooting accross sky. LARGE
El Cerrito · CA, USA
Rotating dics-like object with raised dome center over El Cerrito, CA on 12/15/2007
San Lucas · CA, USA
I have NEVER seen anything like this large, bright, hovering sphere that changed colors.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
12/15/07 22:07 Los Angeles, Ca Cylindrical 10 sec Object was completely silent heading S-W from the east.
Mission Viejo/Lake Forest · CA, USA
Flying disk looked at least four times the size of a Frisbee from the ground so had to be much bigger. Just under clouds a large disk
Irvine · CA, USA
Ring of blue light flying in physics-defying pattern around Irvine Spectrum.
Fresno · CA, USA
I don't know what to do,I try to not think about it , but now,I don't know what to think about, US.
El Centro · CA, USA
It was around nine thirty at night. I began to walk out of my car that I had parked in front of my house. As I began to walk the stretc
San Diego · CA, USA
Orange/yellow lights seen from Ocean Beach, San Diego, rising till no longer visible.
San Diego · CA, USA
We saw two lights that went across 40 plus degrees of sky, while watching I got my telescope and tried to see them, which the two lig
San Diego · CA, USA
It was a clear night in San Diego and as I came up the back stairs I saw two large reddish orange lights, very bright, hovering in the
Los Angeles · CA, USA
I was taking picture of a bright round object in the southern sky I think it was venus when I looked at the pictures a green round bal
San Marino · CA, USA
In daylight, Slow moving object rotated above reflecting off sun for 15 minutes until I lost sight of it.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Steady bright light over Los Angeles
Los Alamos · CA, USA
Strange helicopter craft on 101 near Los Alamos
San Martin · CA, USA
4-5 tight circle red-white-green-blue BRIGHT lights over Morgan Hill
Tustin · CA, USA
Large flat object hovering with bright lights.
Van Nuys · CA, USA
Turquoise lights floating in triangular formation.