Los Angeles, CA, USA
A triangular - silent object glided through the skyscrapers in downtown LA ((NUFORC Note: B-2 bomber? PD))
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-04-12
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-los-angeles-ca-2005-95c8c1
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
4 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in April 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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