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)
Frazier Park · CA, USA
The Love of my Life is snoring so I can’t sleep, I go into the kitchen and watch the snow fall, and it is 1:00 A.M. A star is trying to
Newhall · CA, USA
saw light which "imploded" upon itself leaving a halo, then faded to nothing in the sky
Shingletown · CA, USA
scarry!!
Nevada City · CA, USA
Night sky lit up like daytime.
Fresno · CA, USA
Light projecting strong beam of light (like headlights) in sky slowly moving, then disappeared leaving cloud
Hollister · CA, USA
Break of dawn, an orange sphere shooting thru the sky stops & hovers with an huge white light illuminating from it in a cone shape.
El Dorado Hills (Sacramento) · CA, USA
Plane/Comet looking craft in Sacramento area.
Sacramento (60 east of) · CA, USA
Bright light at low altitude vanishes leaving a round cloud
San Jose · CA, USA
Big low flying shadow cover house then strange things started to happen with the power.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
It was a clear night and I was standing in my porch – when I looked up to the sky and saw this disk style object with color lights. It
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Objects are Military
Santa Clarita · CA, USA
While cutting up a fallen tree at my friend’s house in the forest (highway 14/Sand Canyon Rd area) I decided to take a break and lie do
Mira Loma · CA, USA
Plasma rocket or alien spacecrafts?
Orland · CA, USA
ORBS watching over a launch of there own.
Orland · CA, USA
Orb's overlooking there launch of a craft.
Malibu · CA, USA
There was a hovering, body of some sort, flashing very bright light, almost like a bouy, in the sky.... It would only flash light.... a
Huntington Park · CA, USA
ON APRIL 12 2006 AT ABOUT 6:30 PM IT WAS A CLEARBLUE SKY.I WAS LOOKING DUE WEST. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))
La Quinta · CA, USA
It was close to 8pm in the desert when a light in the eastern sky was bright and light beams shot accross the evening sky. We were in
Industry · CA, USA
White Ball over City of Industry
Fairfield · CA, USA
invisible Helicopter
Eureka · CA, USA
Small black spherical object observed in the eastern horizon at about 30 degrees
Crockett · CA, USA
The object sat in the sky twinkling blue, green and red lights for long time. It did not move at all.
Anza Borrego State Park · CA, USA
While camping in the Anza Borrego desert at the Fish Creek camping area, we had an excellent viewing of a large trianular aircraft. It
Norwalk · CA, USA
A bright, red, occasionally blinking object in the northeastern sky observed for about 15 minutes.
Whittier · CA, USA
We saw a bright red fireball like object that appeared to be too high to possibly be any earthling made air craft. The object appeared