CaseTriangle2015

Carmel Valley, CA, USA

Blue/triangle horizontal light across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-11-07
Where
Carmel Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
36.480, -121.732 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-carmel-valley-ca-2015-162eab
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Carmel Valley, CA has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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