CaseTriangle1996
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
My wife and I were walking towards our car through the back parking lot of Andreas Restaurant after dinner. I was looking towards the d
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-16
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-santa-barbara-ca-1996-187b42
In context
- One of 117 documented reports from Santa Barbara, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 136 sightings in 1996.
- Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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