State Report
UFO Sightings in California
26,075 sightings on record from 1721 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
26,075
Share of US total
12.16%
Peak year
2012
1,425 reports
Top shape
Light
5,090 reports
Years active
302
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-14 | Oxnard | triangle | 5 seconds | Immediately discounted normal aircraft and birds. |
| 2023-12-11 | Sacramento | changing | A couple of minutes | Object originally appeared yellow white light in a stick shape then turned to a cross shape and then bluish white... |
| 2023-12-11 | Morro Bay | chevron | 45 seconds | An object moving through the sky then disappearing |
| 2023-12-11 | San Leandro | circle | 5 minhutes | Object traveling very fast doing sprials and zig zagging across the sky |
| 2023-12-07 | Mill Valley | unknown | 20 seconds | Series of green bird shaped ufo's moving in a line quickly accross the sky and disappearing. |
| 2023-12-06 | San Diego | diamond | 20mins | Witnessed object that appeared to be rotating and either reflecting light or flashing bright light. Easier to share the... |
| 2023-12-05 | Santa Monica | oval | One minute | Woke up early and saw strange lights hovering over the ocean. One had lights of different colors. |
| 2023-11-28 | San Francisco | disk | 2 | I decided to film the morning sky and saw with my eye and both the camera the very fast flying dot through all the sky... |
| 2023-11-25 | South Gate | orb | 20 minutes | Stood out and behaved comparably different from birds, planes and balloon that happened to pass by. |
| 2023-11-25 | San Jose | circle | 35 or 50 miles | So I was working out and I know what a shooting star looks like and what I saw was not it it was bright white and no... |
| 2023-11-25 | Woodland | circle | 20 | Light hovered in sky past 2 nights |
| 2023-11-21 | Los Angeles | circle | All night | It is just sitting there like a bright star. When I returned with my phone it had moved a little west. |
| 2023-11-20 | San Jose | unknown | 1 minute | An orange light in the sky moving slowly. No flashing lights that an airplane or helicopter would have. |
| 2023-11-12 | Culver City | teardrop | Few minutes | All white object hovering over West Los Angeles and then moving straight up slowly. |
| 2023-11-12 | Los Angeles | teardrop | 10min | What looked to be a point very still in sky |
| 2023-11-11 | Redding | orb | 5 seconds | Descending blue/white orb |
| 2023-11-10 | Mill Valley | sphere | 35 seconds | Large unidentifiable aircraft flying. The UFO disappeared on in front of my eyes. |
| 2023-11-10 | Dixon | other | 1-2 Minutes | 5 of us (4 Adults, one (1) 7 year old. Flew over at about 300-750 ft altitude |
| 2023-11-06 | Yuba City | circle | 1-2 min and 1-2 min | UFO,star then reappeared UFO ship. |
| 2023-11-05 | San Diego | orb | 1-3 minutes | 5 White Orbs Hover Silently 240 Yards Above Me In The Night Sky. |