Sacramento, CA, USA
I went out in my driveway to talk to my aunt and was standing on the side of my house in the dark (no porch lights on). It was approxim
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-16
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- >30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-sacramento-ca-2020-cc6d82
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 304 reports logged in Sacramento, CA.
- This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
- Triangle craft made up 6.2% of 2020s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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.