UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

West Covina, CA, USA

Triangular and extremely bright; disappeared in an instant; probably military craft due to two osprey which preceded it.

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 (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-13
Where
West Covina, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 secs
Geo
34.069, -117.939 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-west-covina-ca-2009-208b3a
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 22 documented reports from West Covina, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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