UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Long Beach, CA, USA

White colored upside down V shaped light/craft.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-26
Where
Long Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 to 5 Seconds
Geo
33.767, -118.189 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-long-beach-ca-2008-601dbd
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…

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In context

  • Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
  • 709 reports came from California in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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