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)
Anaheim Hills · CA, USA
Three fwhite ussy lights were seen traveling in a circular pattern ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD))
Eureka · CA, USA
Three of us when noticing a string 40 to 50 lights. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Redding · CA, USA
Towards the wester norther sky started with 3 and the 200+lights traveling fast in a straight lUKne coming from the whiskey town lake a
Venice Beach · CA, USA
Bright orange / pink section in clouds over the Pacific Ocean off Malibu / Santa Monica. Like sunset...
Gonzales · CA, USA
My dad, and I saw about 6 lights of varying distances apart from each other extremely high in the sky. (("Spacelink" satellites.))
Fullerton · CA, USA
A large orange oval, like a disc, moved very fast almost at impossible speeds. It moved to the S and then disappeared.
Santa Maria · CA, USA
I was parked behind the movie theater and was looking towards the north east and saw a light like a star but much closer then a star I
Newport Beach · CA, USA
Triangle shaped ufo sighting
Santa Maria · CA, USA
Watching Sunday or Monday night football went outside too record my thoughts. I started the camera recording for twelve minutes and rec
Gasquet · CA, USA
3:31 AM 12/30/19 Gasquet, Del Norte Cnty, CA Round object moving like a heart-beat monitor display from WSW-ENE across the sky for 25s.
Tustin · CA, USA
Dark center, with a very bright glow around it slowly moving through the sky
San Diego · CA, USA
I noticed a series of lights that appeared on the top right corner of the frame (("Starlink" satellites??))
Los Angeles · CA, USA
I was driving back from Magic Mountain with my daughter and her boyfriend( both was on the phone) Suddenly, out of the blue, this huge
Alhambra · CA, USA
I was traveling Eastbound on I-10 in through the city of Alhambra, when by two friends and I saw an extremely bright flash. When we loo
Bass Lake · CA, USA
UFO sighting at Bass Lake , Ca Pines resort
San Dimas · CA, USA
Quick extremely bright flash of flight followed by a light trail that dissapeared within seconds, silent.
Whittier · CA, USA
One cluster (cluster A) was flying low in the sky (like a typical airplane height) and was being paced by a much smaller single light.
Hunting Beach · CA, USA
Fireball Orange Big Light hyper speeds into space and then government tries to seemingly cover up, multiple witnesses, huntingon beach
Dana point · CA, USA
Lighted orb went down towards ocean then disappeared during sunrise. Not sure what it was but strange
Studio City · CA, USA
huge white football field size in length and width diamond prism / box with a huge kite like few thousand yard long white string like t
Yorba Linda · CA, USA
objects like triangle flew across sky and an object fell. light came down from ufo and then turned green and dissappeared.
Marysville · CA, USA
Large craft flying low and slow
Downey · CA, USA
Bright Light made fast movements in the sky
Hawthorne · CA, USA
Weird light brown object flew low and slow across the sky
San Diego · CA, USA
Three lights is the shape of an equilateral triangle. Lights consistently blinked at approximately 160-170 bpm. The object flew in a st