Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
((HOAX??)) I witnessed a craft flying over my house around 10:30at night . I called my friend told her what i had seen and she.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2012-12-11
- Where
- Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30-45 seconds
- Geo
- 35.119, -120.591 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-arroyo-grande-ca-2012-fcda4a
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
- Arroyo Grande, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 758 reports came from California in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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