CaseTriangle2020

Modesto, CA, USA

huge, triangular craft, silent sighting in Modesto (Highway Village 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-20
Where
Modesto, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
37.639, -120.997 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-modesto-ca-2020-942d6a
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…

In context

  • Modesto, CA has 114 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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