CaseTriangle2012

Arroyo Grande, CA, USA

((HOAX??)) I witnessed a craft flying over my house around 10:30at night . I called my friend told her what i had seen and she.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2012-12-11
Where
Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30-45 seconds
Geo
35.119, -120.591 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-arroyo-grande-ca-2012-fcda4a
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

  • Arroyo Grande, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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