La Puente, CA, USA
3 triangle lights racing across the sky playing "tag" for approximately five minutes, then went straight up in the sky out of sight
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-15
- Where
- La Puente, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.020, -117.950 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-la-puente-ca-1966-ba0fba
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from La Puente, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 23 sightings in 1966.
- Triangle sightings ran at 4.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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