CaseTriangle2018

Hawthorne, CA, USA

two lights almost as if fighting each other. Red ligh move almost in aquatic manner, then burned out like signal flare. white light s

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 (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-06
Where
Hawthorne, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
33.916, -118.353 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hawthorne-ca-2018-59e370
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

  • Hawthorne, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 331 reports came from California in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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