CaseTriangle2017

Redding, CA, USA

At approximately midnight of 12/14/2017 I was on an i-5 off-ramp in redding ca when i looked in the sky and saw a triangular object in

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-14
Where
Redding, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 second
Geo
40.587, -122.392 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-redding-ca-2017-56b906
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 103 reports logged in Redding, CA.
  • This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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