Surf Cam Captures Possible UFO Sighting in SoCal (Video)

Originally posted on SURFER | By Dashel Pierson | Last updated Dec 4, 2025 7:07 PM ET

With hundreds of cameras live-streaming continuously all across the globe – primarily, of course, to check surf conditions – Surfline has a godlike network of eyeballs.

And occasionally, it’s not just the waves that Surfline’s cams capture. The cameras have recorded (and assisted in solving) crimes; they’ve caught sharks breaching at popular surf spots like Lower Trestles; and dead whales slowly and sadly washing ashore.

But this next clip may just be the biggest in terms of strange phenomena, outside the realm of surfing, as captured by a Surfline cam. It shows something unexplainable, something perhaps of the UFO variety, and it has many folks scratching their heads.

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“Don’t think the Surfline cams were meant to see this,” the video reads, as two glowing structures hover above the ocean under cover of darkness.

Then, the two illuminated objects turn into a multitude. Somewhat like a meteor shower, but this was not the Perseids. “This is the part that gets harder to explain,” the video continues.

And that wasn’t the end of it.

The video continues, explaining: “This wasn’t the only cam that caught something either...”

In the next clip, from another cam, a beam of light shines down over the ocean. It’s the kind of light pillar that popular sci-fi likes to depict when humans get beamed up into the mothership, treated like lab experiments, probed and prodded by extraterrestrials.

As for the fine folks at Surfline, in a statement to SURFER, here’s what they had to say about the otherworldly capture:

“We’ve seen some pretty wild stuff on the cams, but what happened this morning at 4:46am on our Ventura Point cam might take the cake.”

For more of Surfline’s most “WTF moments” captured on their cams, see the video below.