UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Triangle Shape Zooms overhead , no noise, pulsates, changes sizes 3 times, then each point of light seperates and zooms off.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-09-12
Where
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 Seconds
Geo
37.442, -122.143 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-palo-alto-ca-2004-0a7434
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 25 documented reports from Palo Alto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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