UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2005

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Dark grey triangular object cruising slowly north over Santa Monica making loud engine noise. ((NUFORC Note: B-2 bomber? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-04-12
Where
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
34.019, -118.491 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-santa-monica-ca-2005-ee40a2
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…

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In context

  • Santa Monica, CA shows up 61 times across the archive.
  • 539 reports came from California in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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