UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2021

Santa Ana, CA, USA

I was outside smoking a cigarette on my back patio. Suddenly I looked up into the sky on a windy clear day. Thats when I noticed a weir

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-22
Where
Santa Ana, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 min
Geo
33.746, -117.868 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-santa-ana-ca-2021-14e47a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 61 documented reports from Santa Ana, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 330 sightings in 2021.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 6.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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