CaseTriangle1947
San Deigo, CA, USA
The craft was V shaped with an arodinamic body the thrust was in the form of the spectrum.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (90 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
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-san-deigo-ca-1947-56dbad
Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
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.
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.