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)
Riverside · CA, USA
fast moving unblinking silent light raced across the sky.
Riverside · CA, USA
Fireball
Covina · CA, USA
Boomerang shaped craft with orange lights on bottom sighted in Covina, CA.
Vacaville · CA, USA
Very large round center with circles clustered around it. It was bright and orange colored.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Boomerang ship over Los Angeles in 2000
Anderson · CA, USA
Driving hone from school I encountered three massive UFO'S. I was driving home from the nursing (RN) program at our local college,whe
Buttonwillow · CA, USA
Dark "Chevron" shaped craft with 3 white lights flying sideways near Buttonwillow, CA
Lancaster · CA, USA
dark triangular object that emitted a stange sound
Bakersfield · CA, USA
Very strange three sided large object hovering then moved slowly through Bakersfield Ca. neighberhood around Stockdale and Montclair
San Francisco · CA, USA
A white star-like object moving south off the Pacific coast
Santa Clarita · CA, USA
My family and I saw 4 bright steaks of light in the same exact area of the sky all which traveled in opposite directions..
Lancaster · CA, USA
Low flying,fast moving object, making abrupt turns and dissapeared at a steep ange below a small rise.
Visalia · CA, USA
shape was almost an oval but larger at ends. there were two of them. it was burning with a slight tail of fire. the colors were blue,
Paso Robles · CA, USA
I went out to get the mail. When I looked up I saw a very bright light in the sky. My first thought was that it was a really bright s
Mount Shasta · CA, USA
UFO / strange object caught on web-camera
South Pasadena · CA, USA
Two boomerang-shaped crafts, one with an extra, brightly lit object flying just off its left wing tip.
Burbank · CA, USA
A faint orange illuminate crescent that moved in the sky.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Four aircraft, in an unusual flight path and pattern, travelled, at high speed from west to east over Los Angeles.
Fresno · CA, USA
Conjoined formation of shape changing spheres crosses sky
Maricopa · CA, USA
Single Oblong Object w/ dull metallic sheen spotted at high altitude and moving slowly at approx. 2pm, clear, sunny day.
Sacramento · CA, USA
Sighting of V shaped craft over Sacramento, California on 5/28/00 by three witness'.
Clovis · CA, USA
Please respect my privacy. The object was bright and changed directions
Mission Viejo · CA, USA
Formation high-flying 'pearls' in a daylight sky.
Del Mar (Rancho Sante Fe) · CA, USA
Line of orange lights that would go off, on and slowly floated rising and falling.
Huntington Beach · CA, USA
Bright star with red flashing