Los Angeles, CA, USA
I watched this event for about 2 hours. It first appeared as a very intense bright light just over the Grifith Park observatory in Los
Report quality: High73/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-13
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 hrs
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-los-angeles-ca-2006-2a594d
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Los Angeles, CA reports filed in July 2006.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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