THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT

2000: Formation of Three Black Triangle Craft Hovering Over Los Angeles

Stopped at a traffic light on Pico Boulevard just west of Sawtelle, near Santa Monica Airport, in the summer of 2000, a driver and his girlfriend looked almost straight up through the windshield and saw three black triangle crafts hanging motionless in the evening sky, roughly private-jet size, spaced in a loose triangular formation, with no lights, no markings, and no sound. He tilted his head to rule out a windshield reflection or debris before the light changed. By the time he’d driven a few blocks to a shallower viewing angle, the sky where they’d been was simply empty.

Date: Summer 2000 (exact date undocumented)

Sighting Time: Approximately 6:00 p.m. (1800 hours)

Day/Night: Dusk/evening

Location: Directly over the intersection of Pico and Sawtelle Boulevards, West Los Angeles, California, near Santa Monica Airport

Urban or Rural: Urban (West Los Angeles)

No. of Entity(s): Not Applicable

Entity Type: Not Applicable

Entity Description: Not Applicable

Hynek Classification: DD — Daylight Disc (applied here to a non-disc daylight/dusk structured object). This site’s legacy field data listed a combined “DD|NL,” but the witness explicitly describes the objects as unlit, with no lights, markings, or reflections of any kind, observed against a still-lit evening sky rather than in full darkness; since NL specifically requires a luminous source, DD is the more accurate single classification and the ambiguous dual tag has been resolved.

Duration: Less than 30 seconds

No. of Object(s): 3

Description of the Object(s): Solid black, equilateral triangular objects with no markings, lights, reflections, or visible conventional aircraft features such as stabilizers; noted for their complete stillness and silhouette-like appearance against the sky

Shape of Object(s): Triangular (equilateral)

Size of Object(s): Appeared less than 2 inches across at arm’s length; witness’s impression was of objects comparable in actual size to a private or fighter jet, estimated at less than 100 feet per side

Color of Object(s): Solid black

Distance to Object(s): Directly overhead; witness estimated an altitude of approximately 7,500 feet

Height & Speed: Estimated 7,500 feet altitude; completely motionless throughout the observation

Number of Witnesses: 2 (the reporting witness and his then-girlfriend)

Special Features/Characteristics: Objects were silent and completely motionless throughout the observation; arranged in a loose triangular formation, each separated from the others by roughly five times an individual object’s width; witness deliberately shifted his head to different viewing angles to confirm the objects were genuinely airborne rather than a windshield reflection or debris; after resuming driving for a few blocks, where the objects should have become easier to view at a shallower angle, the sky was completely empty where they had been; the sighting occurred significantly higher in altitude than typical Santa Monica Airport traffic in the area; per the witness’s original submission metadata, he had never formally reported the sighting to any official channel prior to this UFOEvidence.org account, and was residing in Towson, Maryland, age 31, at the time of that report, well removed in both time and distance from the original 2000 Los Angeles sighting

Case Status: Unexplained

Source: UFOEvidence.org

Summary/Description: While stopped at a traffic light in West Los Angeles in the summer of 2000, a driver and his girlfriend observed three identical, solid black, triangular objects nearly directly overhead, motionless and silent, in a loose triangular formation. The witness confirmed the objects were genuinely airborne by shifting his viewing angle before the light changed. After driving a few blocks, the objects had vanished from a sky where they should have remained visible.

Related Cases: None documented on this site, though independent NUFORC-logged reports describe at least two other black triangle sightings in the greater Santa Monica area during the same summer of 2000, including one near LAX/Santa Monica Airport on June 19, 2000 and another over the Santa Monica Mountains on August 4, 2000; none of these can be confirmed as the same event as this sighting, but they suggest a broader local pattern of similar reports during that period

Full Report

In the summer of 2000, I was driving with my then-girlfriend late one afternoon before sunset, westbound on Pico Blvd. just west of Sawtelle Blvd. While stopped at a traffic light, she pointed to something she saw in the sky, which was almost directly over us. I had to lean forward to be able to see up through the windshield to observe three identical black triangular objects. I observed them for less than 30 seconds. The objects were motionless, and we could not hear any noise from them. There were no markings, lights, reflections, or familiar aircraft features (stabilizers, etc.), just a solid black object.

The objects were in a loose triangle formation, separated from each other by a distance of approximately five times their individual width. What struck me most was their stillness and almost silhouette-like appearance.

My impression is that the objects were the size of private jets or fighter planes. They were significantly higher in altitude than the normal Santa Monica airport traffic that occurs regularly in that area, enough so that a closed fist at arm’s length could have covered two of the objects, were they spaced tip to tip.

While observing them, I moved my head to change my viewing angle so as to verify that this was not caused by debris on the windshield or reflections. These were definitely airborne objects.

Once the traffic light changed to green, I resumed driving, but was unable to see the objects again since they were nearly directly overhead. Once we had driven a few blocks so that the objects should have been easier to view from a shallower angle, the sky was empty where they had been.

Can the sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object? Given the shape of the craft, their hovering behavior, and sudden apparent disappearance, I assume that the objects were either undisclosed advanced aircraft or extraterrestrial craft.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

West Los Angeles, 2000 — A Well-Documented Entry in the “Black Triangle” Genre

Classification resolved. This site’s legacy field data listed a combined “DD|NL” tag. Since the witness is explicit that the objects showed no lights of any kind, and were observed at dusk against a still-lit sky rather than full darkness, NL (which requires a luminous source) does not apply; DD is the accurate single classification for this case.
The witness’s self-verification step is a genuine strength. Deliberately shifting viewing angle specifically to rule out a windshield reflection or debris, before the objects disappeared, is exactly the kind of self-skeptical verification step that strengthens an account’s reliability. This detail moves the case beyond a passive glance and toward an active, if brief, investigation by the witness himself.
Sits within a broader, independently documented local cluster. NUFORC’s own logged reports include at least two other black triangle sightings in the greater Santa Monica area during the same summer of 2000: one on June 19 near the LAX/Santa Monica Airport corridor, and another on August 4 over the Santa Monica Mountains, witnessed by two children at a summer camp. None of these can be confirmed as describing the same objects as this sighting, and each stands as its own independent report, but their proximity in both time and location is worth noting as broader regional context rather than treating this case in isolation.
Proximity to Santa Monica Airport cuts both ways. The witness explicitly notes the objects were well above the airport’s normal traffic altitude, a detail that argues against a simple misidentification of conventional airport traffic. At the same time, the area’s general aviation activity and its history of association with black-triangle-genre reports more broadly are worth bearing in mind as context, without either confirming or dismissing the sighting on that basis alone.
Two-witness, single-vantage-point structure remains a limitation. Both observers shared the same vehicle and viewing position; no independent, separately located witness to this specific sighting has been identified.

Three solid black, silent, motionless triangles hung directly over a West Los Angeles intersection for less than half a minute one evening in the summer of 2000, watched by two people who took the trouble to rule out the obvious mundane explanations before the light turned green. They weren’t the only ones seeing shapes like that over the Santa Monica area that summer. What any of them were remains exactly as unresolved now as it was the moment the sky went empty.