CaseTriangle2007

San Rafael, CA, USA

Triangular craft seen over San Rafael, CA around 11pm Sunday night

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-08-12
Where
San Rafael, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.974, -122.531 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-san-rafael-ca-2007-c16d59
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

  • San Rafael, CA shows up 38 times across the archive.
  • 587 reports came from California in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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