UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1973

San Jose, CA, USA

triangles made of 9 lights--no object seen

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
San Jose, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15min+
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-san-jose-ca-1973-d12d24
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 18 sightings in 1973.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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