CaseTriangle2002
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
I saw a black triangular aircraft flying at an altitude between 300 - 500 feet - it was HUGE (bigger than any plane I've ever seen), c
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-18
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-santa-cruz-ca-2002-2e207d
In context
- This is one of 76 reports logged in Santa Cruz, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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