El Cajon, CA, USA
3 Red objects hovering over El Cajon CA
Report quality: High74/100
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-01
- Where
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-el-cajon-ca-2010-736e00
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
January 2010 was a busy month for El Cajon, CA: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 87 reports logged in El Cajon, CA.
- This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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