Ridgecrest, CA, USA
An orange triangular craft that made no sound observed in the Mojave Desert.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-16
- Where
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 35.622, -117.671 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-ridgecrest-ca-2004-1f0a5b
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Ridgecrest, CA reports filed in November 2004.
In context
- Ridgecrest, CA shows up 37 times across the archive.
- 568 reports came from California in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% 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.