UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2005

Mendota (near), CA, USA

My husband and I were travelling (by van) towards Fresno, CA. We were on Panoche Rd. approaching 33. The kids were asleep in the back 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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-04
Where
Mendota (near), CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
36.754, -120.382 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-mendota-near-ca-2005-698ccf
Wave

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  • Historical wave2004

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Mendota (near), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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