UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Triangle Dim Lights, Silent, See-Through, and very Fast

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-22
Where
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
36.974, -122.031 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-santa-cruz-ca-2004-fd903a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 76 documented reports from Santa Cruz, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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