East Los Angeles, CA, USA
We were driving home from downtown L.A. on the 10 fwy headed east. Fireworks were going off on both sides of the freeway. Traffic was
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-04
- Where
- East Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.024, -118.172 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-east-los-angeles-ca-2015-cfa1fd
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
- East Los Angeles, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 814 reports came from California in 2015.
- 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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