Cypress, CA, USA
I saw a triangle shape thing I live 20 minutes away from lax this thing was higher than a plane landing and super super huge triangle t
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-05
- Where
- Cypress, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.817, -118.037 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-cypress-ca-2011-d6da82
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…
In context
- Cypress, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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