CaseTriangle2001
Capitola, CA, USA
Small Black Triangle flying over surfers in Capitola, CA midday at about 750 ft. altitude perfectly quiet and flying level
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-13
- Where
- Capitola, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.975, -121.953 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-capitola-ca-2001-64f88b
In context
- One of 15 documented reports from Capitola, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 379 sightings in 2001.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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