CaseTriangle2014
Rio Del Mar, CA, USA
Flashing Objects hovering over the ocean near Santa Cruz, CA.
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-26
- Where
- Rio Del Mar, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 36.968, -121.900 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-rio-del-mar-ca-2014-6b42b1
Wave
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…
In context
- Rio Del Mar, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 869 reports came from California in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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