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)
Ventura · CA, USA
It was amazing
Oxnard · CA, USA
Oxnard sighting of duel colored craft
Camarillo (Rural) · CA, USA
The craft made two passes by my location, i got a good look at it, i beleieve to have been taken onboard for a short time.
Ventura · CA, USA
UFO seen shining bright light onto a jail
Ventura · CA, USA
A hovering saucer is sighted on Lake Havasu, Ariz at night.I was sitting on my porch and I saw a great big circle of lights in the
Oxnard · CA, USA
bright,disk in the clear sky
Ventura · CA, USA
It was like 2 fire balls circling the sky
Somis · CA, USA
On May 22,2002 I was leaving my job at Spearament Rhino and as I was walking to my car I noticed a strange light hovering over it a fe
Encinitas · CA, USA
huge bright object dropping toward the ocean or horizon?
Sacramento · CA, USA
15 black dots making formations and staying in the same spot for 15 minutes
Angels Camp · CA, USA
Mothlike craft over angels camp CA
Ventura · CA, USA
Light moving in the sky then dissappears
Lake Isabella · CA, USA
4 pinpoint lights in the sky that looked like satellites but exhibited unusual movements not characteristic with satellites.
Ventura · CA, USA
Me and my friend were not on any drugs or alcahol
Ojai · CA, USA
My girlfriend and I took an evening walk, saw a brilliant stationary object which suddenly began to move outward and vanished.
Ojai · CA, USA
While walking South to Besant Meadow with a dark sky, before Moon rise, bright sphere in east became very bright , then dimmed as it mo
Manhattan Beach · CA, USA
Silver flying saucer floats, then wobbles then speeds away at lightspeed becoming a pinpoint of orange light.
Bakersfield · CA, USA
Observed two lights moving fast and near miss to aircraft
Strathmore/lLndsay · CA, USA
Large Carft sighted in Strathmore/Lindsay Calif. in May 2002 with large panel lights.
Rubicon Trail · CA, USA
Triangle fades into a tear in space
Stanislaus National Forest · CA, USA
Three satallite-like formation of lights in night sky forming the shape of a triangle
Pico Rivera · CA, USA
On the evening my daughter and witnessed two orange flying objects and one released a orange balls of light to earth that faded.
Lookout · CA, USA
It was above the cemetary, you could see the circular shape of it and it was spinning. There were white and blue lights on it they woul
Fremont · CA, USA
I SAW A TRIANGLER OBJECT OR CRAFT IN THE SKY, FLYING TOWARDS THE BIG DIPPER.
Sacramento · CA, USA
About 9:30 P.M., 4/3/02, a large Y shaped, lighted object hovered south of Sacramento and west of CA Hwy 99 for about 45 minutes.