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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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

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