CaseTriangle1999

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Los Angeles, CA, USA
Start: 1999-04-17
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

A "V" formation of lights following a Los Angeles Airport flight path. (How could no one else see it)?

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (102 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-04-17
Where: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 30 seconds
Geo: 34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug: triangle-over-los-angeles-ca-1999-e5ced3

In context

Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
407 reports came from California in 1999.
In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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