Eldorado Hills-Placerville (Hwy 50, CA, USA
It appeared just as I crested over a hill, blatent and moving slowly and effortlessly just above the tree line.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-06
- Where
- Eldorado Hills-Placerville (Hwy 50, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30-60 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-eldorado-hills-placerville-hwy-50-ca-2021-df3bd9
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Eldorado Hills-Placerville (Hwy 50, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Triangle craft made up 6.2% of 2020s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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.