UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2010

Freedom (Watsonville), CA, USA

((HOAX??)) 1/9/19 DURATION 20:00 FREEDOM CA IT WAS A TRIANGLE BUT FIRST IT WAS ONE LIGHT

Report quality: Low21/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-01-09
Where
Freedom (Watsonville), CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20
Geo
36.935, -121.773 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-freedom-watsonville-ca-2010-1fdc71
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Freedom (Watsonville), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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