CaseTriangle2016

Adelaide (Australia), Australia

Triangular Aircraft Sighting

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-15
Where
Adelaide (Australia), Australia
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
-34.929, 138.599 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-adelaide-australia-2016-b741d7
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…

In context

  • Adelaide (Australia), Australia shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Australia in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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