UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

El Cajon, CA, USA

We saw the bright lights and others over the the hills near the mountains ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling stars?? ))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 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
2004-08-07
Where
El Cajon, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
32.795, -116.963 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-el-cajon-ca-2004-fa1c61
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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In context

  • One of 87 documented reports from El Cajon, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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