CaseTriangle2004

San Diego, CA, USA

I was sitting on the patio in Point Loma (in San Diego, Ca) Friday, May 14th, 2004, looking up at the Big Dipper when I saw three red a

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-14
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
approximately 45 seconds
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-san-diego-ca-2004-f7064e
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

  • San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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