CaseTriangle2016

Arnold, MO, USA

Triangle obj. moving W to SE from my position. Three red lights one on each corner. Half a mile in the sky. Moving steady

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-01
Where
Arnold, MO, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
38.433, -90.378 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-arnold-mo-2016-4159c5
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

  • Arnold, MO has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 112 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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