CaseTriangle1978
San Diego, CA, USA
Two young boys spot a triangle in the early summer eve
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-04
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-san-diego-ca-1978-931705
Wave
Part of a wave
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Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from California in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 7.9% 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.