CaseTriangle2009

Salinas, CA, USA

30 - 40 min interaction with triangle craft

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-20
Where
Salinas, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30-40 min.
Geo
36.678, -121.656 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-salinas-ca-2009-03125a
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

  • One of 51 documented reports from Salinas, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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