CaseTriangle2013
Richmond, CA, USA
White dots forming triangle with one trailing dot. Silent propulsion.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-21
- Where
- Richmond, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- ~30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.936, -122.348 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-richmond-ca-2013-3ad980
Wave
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
- Richmond, CA has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 728 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.