Pismo Beach, CA, USA
Black triangle with three white lights at each corner passed overhead slowly and silently at 9 pm in a residential area near hwy 101.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-03
- Where
- Pismo Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 35.143, -120.641 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-pismo-beach-ca-2021-5a7d6d
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 15 reports logged in Pismo Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Triangle craft made up 6.2% of 2020s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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