Mountain Ranch, CA, USA
Triangular object w/o the bottom. Red then Green then Yellow white flashing. Hanged in the sky.((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-01-20
- Where
- Mountain Ranch, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 38.228, -120.541 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mountain-ranch-ca-2005-133209
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
- Mountain Ranch, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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