Long Beach, CA, USA
Very bright, star-like object making loopy or jerky motions.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-23
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 40 mins.
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-long-beach-ca-2009-0bc785
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Long Beach, CA reports filed in March 2009.
In context
- Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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