UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

Bristol, TN, USA

Triangular object photographed

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-09
Where
Bristol, TN, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
25 seconds
Geo
36.595, -82.189 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bristol-tn-2004-dd1e19
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 31 reports logged in Bristol, TN.
  • This case is one of 81 Tennessee reports filed in 2004.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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