CaseTriangle2003

Santa Maria, CA, USA

Triangular shaped object, motionlessly hovering in sky over ocean, with blue neon rings on either end and spotlight in center.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-04-13
Where
Santa Maria, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
34.953, -120.436 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-santa-maria-ca-2003-e085ae

In context

  • Santa Maria, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2003 brought 599 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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