UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Triangle crafts in V formation slowly flew over parking lot in Los Angeles Crenshaw shopping area

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-14
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-los-angeles-ca-1978-1620b8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 60 sightings in 1978.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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