CaseTriangle2020

Bradenton, FL, USA

An air craft caught my eye early one morning. The craft made no sound at all as I watched the craft fly in the distance it appeared to

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-25
Where
Bradenton, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
27.499, -82.575 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bradenton-fl-2020-ce9c8b
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

  • Bradenton, FL shows up 74 times across the archive.
  • 403 reports came from Florida in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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