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)
Canyon Country · CA, USA
Moving slow In sky like 10 sec pass over shadow pine. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Ripon · CA, USA
We were traveling south on highway 99 passing through Ripon, CA . I was looking at the clouds against the beautiful color of blue sky.
San Francisco · CA, USA
White star craft unseen by naked eye
Marin County · CA, USA
Stationary groups of glowing lights seen at treetop level
Santa Rsoa · CA, USA
Bright green glowing cylinder, flying horizontally, in a steady direct line, disappearing abruptly without arcing, falling or flaring.
Fairfax · CA, USA
low and close extremely bright white fireball Fairfax CA followed by loud boom.
Lakewood · CA, USA
Large red pulsating light vanished.
Woodland · CA, USA
As I was leaving work on Tuesday (1/28/2020), I looked to the night sky and saw about five (possibly more) orange orbs in the sky. They
Davis · CA, USA
Two very bright star like objects seen near Orion’s Belt
North Hollywood · CA, USA
2 observers. Brightness of Jupiter. Conscious attention scared em away. Immediate reaction.
Bakersfield · CA, USA
One orange object with tail following turned into three objects. All had tails at first then were orange lights. Could have moved aroun
San Diego · CA, USA
meteor or space junk?
Garden Grove · CA, USA
Golden Meteor.
San Bernardino · CA, USA
Strange flash of light in the sky and trails of objects falling out of the sky toward the mountains 01/30/20. 01/31/20 1 witness of 6 s
San marcos · CA, USA
Four lights in a single line in the eastern sky. Lights were Low on the horizon. Lights were traviling slowly to the north.
Newport Beach · CA, USA
Straight line of light in sky. ((NUFORC Note: Starlink satellites. PD))((anonymous reports))
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Cylinder object in the sky lighting up from the bottom in Hollywood area
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Streak of fast bright light above Los Angeles
Clovis · CA, USA
saw a rather large ball of light hovering in the sky for a split second and then shot off to the North.
La Conchita · CA, USA
Saw a red flash of light beaming down over Ventura
Riverside · CA, USA
The object emitted light.
Half Moon Bay · CA, USA
Sky suddenly turned Green for about 12 seconds accompanied by (blink of the eye) power outage.
Ramona · CA, USA
Lights went out. Went outside and entire neighborhood was dark (no power). Saw a very bright flash of white light toward the north side
Cypress · CA, USA
Standing outside saw a ball of light shoot so fast in a downward position my best guess is it was some place close to the North it was
Ramona · CA, USA
Lights went out in my neighborhood. West end of Ramona, CA. After lights went out there was a very bright flash/explosion of white ligh