UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2020

Hat Creek, CA, USA

I observed a bright light in the sky to my west. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-03-09
Where
Hat Creek, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.830, -121.514 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hat-creek-ca-2020-8041a6
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

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Hat Creek, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 6.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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