Coalinga, CA, USA
080605, Coalinga, Flying over I5, Brightly lit Wedge shaped ufo separates into 3 objects (yellow, red, white).
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-06
- Where
- Coalinga, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-5 mintues plus (we did
- Geo
- 36.140, -120.360 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-coalinga-ca-2005-e273ff
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
Coalinga, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2005.
In context
- One of 15 documented reports from Coalinga, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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