Saugus, CA, USA
Noiseless triangular craft with orange glow seen flying at extremely high speed at night - the silence was weird.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-30
- Where
- Saugus, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 34.411, -118.540 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-saugus-ca-2008-f30bb0
Part of a wave
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
- Saugus, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.