UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

Fortuna, CA, USA

it was a clear night, me and a friend were outside, i looked up after hearing a large "jet" overhead, i pointed out to my friend that a

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-21
Where
Fortuna, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.598, -124.157 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-fortuna-ca-2009-edb8fc
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…

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In context

  • Fortuna, CA has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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