Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sighted at high altitude over North East Los Angeles. Appeared to be a triangle or chevron craft with five white lights. The craft move
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-01
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-los-angeles-ca-2020-b9f601
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
Los Angeles, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2020.
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
- Triangle sightings ran at 6.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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