Triangle over San Pedro, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
7 to 10 red lights (flashing) in a triangular shape moving silently and slowly due south. Many other small planes in relatively the sam
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2002-11-10 → 2002-11-27
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October 12, 2023 · 7:43 PM · TRIANGLE
San Pedro, CA
I like to sit in my San Pedro backyard and satellite watch. Tonight, at about 7:43, while facing south toward Catalina, a silent, dim, compact triangle with about 5 lights flew from the east toward the west. It looked almost translucent. It was about the size of what I imagine an F117 would be. The speed was brisk but not fighter-jet speed, if that makes sense. There was a light hazy cloud cover hanging over the coast that served to amplify the sighting. Stars and satellites could be seen in spite of the clouds. At first I thought it was a ‘V’ formation of seabirds. My next thought was, ‘that’s a flying triangle, omigod!’.
June 4, 2021 · 5:56 PM · UNKNOWN
San Pedro, CA
I was walking my dog along the ocean in the Point Fermin area heading SW on paseo Del Mar. Across the street is an old base, the Korean Friendship Bell and a large dog park. The base and bell are on the top of that large hill. The conditions were sunny, golden hour light, with some clouds in the sky over the ocean behind me with clear skies in the direction of the UAP. Im a photographer so I had my camera with 50mm-250mm lens. I was looking toward the park deciding if I was going to take my dog there or to another park just ahead. When I looked at the park, I noticed what looked like a falling craft or debris, with what looked like streaks from a fast falling object. I noticed it was floating, not falling. After about a minute, I took out my camera to shoot some photos. Around that time the object floated away from me, heading NW towards rancho palos verde. I walked down the street to keep eye contact on it until it went past the tree line and was no longer in view. The entire event was 2-3 minutes in length. There was no sound. At its closest it was maybe 100-150 yards away. There was a helicopter in the vicinity about a mile away over the ocean
May 16, 2021 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
San Pedro, CA
Unbelievable! Very large circle shadow drifted across the water and docks at the port of los angeles headed north east.shadow was about 300 feet across silently drifting with no noise and nothing in the sky to be seen causing the shadow.myself and two co workers witnessed this as well as numerous longshoreman,all of whom stopped working to watch this event.has anyone else seen this? We were all stunned and cant stop talking about it.absolutely nothing in the sky could be seen or heard while this huge shadow moved across the port.
December 25, 2020 · 9:00 AM · CHANGING
San Pedro, CA
Outside of my window on Christmas day (from second story apartment), I had a strange feeling to look outside and so I did. I noticed immediately a strange ball of lights that changed various colors about 40 feet from my bedroom window it was almost so close, enough for me to see it's round sphere like shape. I know it noticed me because it flew so fast that I just grabbed my phone to record. Almost a full 45 minutes it was in the area going from one spot to another and then disappearing and the crazy thing is know it was a UFO. I know there are no man made space craft that when going invisible, turn the color Burgundy. I have many pieces of video footage from close up zoomed in video footage of it and am hesitant to upload on social media. The colors it changed was beautiful. While everyone was at home and enjoying Christmas, I was recording something super cool!!!
December 10, 2019 · 9:40 PM · TEARDROP
San Pedro, CA
We left from visiting family and on the way home with my family, I noticed something from a distance that was not normal. I saw a glowing object from a distance that I had to pull over to take pictures. After taking pictures we decided to follow the flying object so we did until we got to Long Beach Ca as we we’re following we also took pictures until we didn’t see the object.
October 31, 2019 · 6:18 AM · LIGHT
San Pedro, CA
I was take photos of the sunrise facing east. I had my camera set up on a tripod doing long/multiple exposures. I was looking south to see if the boats (container ships) on the horizon line are moving or staying still. Just above the horizon a light caught my eye. At first it looked like a shooting star, it appeared to be moving at a 45º angle to the horizon, with a slight downward arc. When it was just above the horizon it darted up and then made a movement in the shape of a fish hook as it disappeared. It was about 3 to 5 times the thickness of a shooting star. About 5 to 7 times brighter than a plane but moved about 10x faster than a plane. The object did not reflect on the ocean and did get dimmer as it approached the horizon as to appear outside the earths atmosphere. The entire even happen in less than a second. As I saw it I put my hand on my phone in my pocket, by that time it was over.