CaseTriangle2021

Porterville, CA, USA

Looking West over top of my house when I saw a flash of blue/white light. Second flash a couple of seconds later closer to me. At that

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-23
Where
Porterville, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
36.065, -119.017 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-porterville-ca-2021-096eb8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 36 reports logged in Porterville, 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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