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)
Willits · CA, USA
Two Orbs spinning in a flipping motion across sky.
North Fork · CA, USA
Greenish, glowing light in mid-day disappears to hillside without a sound
Chico · CA, USA
Fully visible flying saucer
Stockton · CA, USA
I just got of work pulled on hwy 99 when i saw a jumbo jet very low starting to cross the freeway then i saw it was no jet .it had
Garden Grove · CA, USA
During the process of putting things away in my new upstairs apartment I looked out my window and I saw a 10' tall object suddenly appe
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Floating translucent sphere floats right by
San Diego · CA, USA
I saw a ginormous, rectangular, metallic UFO in broad day light over the naval base.
Elfin Forest · CA, USA
Windows all bowed in simultaneously, sound, ears popping almost in pain.
El Dorado Hills · CA, USA
When I was a teenager I was sitting at home alone at my aunt's house and I felt chills up and down my spine. ((anonymous report))
Fullerton · CA, USA
already did this, forgot witness form
Fullerton · CA, USA
test aircraft or ufo?
Stonyford · CA, USA
neon green, round,traveled very very fast. no sound no flashing.
Stonyford · CA, USA
Letts Lake sighting, CA
Stockton · CA, USA
Saw a red glowing sphere while fishing with friend.
Stockton · CA, USA
I also saw a UFO. Well it was a friend and i who saw it,in Stockton,Ca in mid June of 1990 we were fishing.it was a red glowing sph
Los Angeles · CA, USA
the craft had 5 visable lights and a shadow of a form
Redding · CA, USA
We saw a red pulsating orb floating in the air. A local plane pilot reported seeing a blue light flash past his plane.
Santa Maria · CA, USA
It was just siting there when i turned bak after 5 seconds it was gone
Riverside · CA, USA
Tubular shaped object at high altitude over souther calif
North Fork · CA, USA
Five or six soundless lights on airship seen moving from east to west in foothills of Californ ia
Malibu · CA, USA
i was surfing, with another guy, at County Line (across from Neptune's Net), when it came out of the fog bank just offshore.
Norwalk · CA, USA
ufo uncloaked before my very eye's appearing strikingly like the one appearing in movies of hanger 18 .
Buena Park · CA, USA
The event was not a UFO as we can determine but a Bluish/Green Laser Beam.
Los Altos · CA, USA
a grouping of white lights surrounded by haze, floodlight shining down, no sound
San Clemente · CA, USA
((HOAX?? Date is illogical)) Disc-shaped object witnessed.