Madera, CA, USA
3 bright white lights on triangler shaped obj.. Obj. was seen flying over Hwy 99 N, between Madera and Fresno Co. ((anonymous report))
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: 13s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-22
- Where
- Madera, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 13 seconds
- Geo
- 36.961, -120.061 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-madera-ca-2016-784c82
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…
In context
- This is one of 30 reports logged in Madera, CA.
- This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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