CaseTriangle1983
Van Nuys (Los Angeles), CA, USA
Large (200') black triangle craft with white & blue lights & plumbing like under structure flew at 350 feet . Loud tonal/buzzing
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-08-22
- Where
- Van Nuys (Los Angeles), CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 0:02 (Min.)
- Geo
- 34.187, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-van-nuys-los-angeles-ca-1983-797821
In context
- Van Nuys (Los Angeles), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1983 brought 20 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 12% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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