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)
Newport Beach · CA, USA
8 of us saw a massive, dark object floating low and silently from the beach to the oceans horizon casting a shadow across the water.
Los Angeles/Long Beach · CA, USA
1 RED FIREBALL OBJECT GOING SOUTH ALONG THE COAST OF LONG BEACH AT A FAST SPEED, AT 06:15 AM. THEN I SAW TWO FIGTHER JETS 15 MIN LATER,
Yuba City · CA, USA
While walking my dog on the feather river levee at night, I noticed a floating light bar on the oppisite side (east) of the river. At f
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Bright Green Light Moving Quickly Across Sky
Mount Shasta · CA, USA
Pulsating, rotating lights at approx 40-50deg. angle, ESE of Mt. Shasta, at least 2-4 hrs. ((NUFORC Note:Possibly Sirius? PD))
Los Angeles · CA, USA
hovering rectangle over santa monica
San Francisco Bay Area · CA, USA
Brilliant red/gold light on Mt Vaca web cam.
San Francisco Bay Area · CA, USA
Brilliant red/gold light on Mt Vaca web cam
Fairfield · CA, USA
9 People see a "red star" in the sky at midnite!! - My first sighting please contact
Big Pines · CA, USA
Huge Black Object with no Lights hovering around Mountians near Mt Whitney
Walnut Creek · CA, USA
((HOAX??)) Saucer object with rotating colored lights hovering in sky.
Sonoma · CA, USA
Bright red pulsating light that remained motionless for a long duration, ascended and moved rapidly, red droplets falling from object
San Francisco · CA, USA
Circlulating lights, pulsating yellow squares
Ukiah · CA, USA
At least 6 large circular craft hovering in thin cloud cover move across the western sky.
Fresno · CA, USA
BIG red blinking circle above Fresno,CA
San Diego · CA, USA
I have never heard of anyone discribe what I saw and possibly it was just my eyes playing tricks on me but.....it was a large triangle
Camp Pendleton · CA, USA
Random crescent brownish objects floating in the sky then rapidly accelerating out of sight
Newport Beach · CA, USA
one disk with lights underneath it observed by myself another adult and 3 kids for a few minutes in the sky stationary as well as movin
Camp Pendleton · CA, USA
Meandering floating balls of light that accelerated away at amazing spped
Nine Palms · CA, USA
not real
Twenty Nine Palms · CA, USA
concentric circles appearing on a mojave desert lake bed
California (southern) · CA, USA
simple explanation of " rings " in dry lake bed as seen by biplane piloit during flight .
Twenty Nine Palms/Joshua Tree Monument · CA, USA
Large rings on dry lake bed visible from the air - photo included
Marina Del Rey/Mar Vista · CA, USA
Round disc shap craft, no sound as round as the moon when full. Just above the low cloud line.
Ukiah · CA, USA
4 CYLINDER OR CIGAR SHAPED CRAFT WOVE AND DANCED A PATH TO THE SUNSET.