CaseTriangle2011

Discovery Bay, CA, USA

Six bright lights in the sky off of HWY 4 were flying with no noise in Discovery Bay camming from the west to east norht dissapears

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-21
Where
Discovery Bay, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2:30 minutes
Geo
37.909, -121.600 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-discovery-bay-ca-2011-063280
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

  • Discovery Bay, CA has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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