UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2020

Lotus, CA, USA

Large black triangular shape craft flying low with no noise

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-23
Where
Lotus, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
38.802, -120.909 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lotus-ca-2020-4a2afa
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

  • Lotus, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.2% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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