San Deigo, CA, USA
A witness in San Diego, California described an unusual, V-shaped, triangular craft, observed for about 10 seconds in April 1947.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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 (129 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-04-15
- Where
- San Deigo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 ,seconds
- Geo
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- Slug
- triangle-over-san-deigo-ca-1947-56dbad
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in San Deigo, CA.
- This case is one of 7 California reports filed in 1947.
- Triangle craft made up 0.6% of 1940s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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