Malibu, CA, USA
Huge triangler shape object seen up close over the tree line in the Malibu mountains in 1966
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-15
- Where
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.026, -118.780 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-malibu-ca-1966-ee290d
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Malibu, CA shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from California in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 4.3% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.