UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Riverside, CA, USA

3 triangular shaped ufos over an empty field in Riverside, CA with beams of light searching the field; no noise, no wind, not copters

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-01
Where
Riverside, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.953, -117.396 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-riverside-ca-1978-ffacd8
Wave

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In context

  • One of 117 documented reports from Riverside, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 60 sightings in 1978.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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