CaseTriangle2003
Merced, CA, USA
3 lights form perfect acute triangle for huge craft moving slowly overhead
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-07-04
- Where
- Merced, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.302, -120.483 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-merced-ca-2003-f14dbb
In context
- Merced, CA has 34 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 599 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.