Alturas, CA, USA
This is clearly happening here and to quote Mr. Holloway.... "There are UFO's in Modoc County."
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-07
- Where
- Alturas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 Minutes
- Geo
- 41.487, -120.543 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-alturas-ca-2005-d2a0ac
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Alturas, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.