Monterey Bay area, CA, USA
Triangle-shaped craft w/3 solid white lights on the bottom, travelling fast, visible about 6 sec.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-28
- Where
- Monterey Bay area, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-monterey-bay-area-ca-2013-38af2f
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Monterey Bay area, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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