CaseTriangle1978

Yreka, CA, USA

Low flying large darkened triangle with no sound seen by nine policemen

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-03-04
Where
Yreka, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.735, -122.634 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-yreka-ca-1978-e7a78a
Wave

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In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Yreka, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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