CaseTriangle2008

Cherryville, NC, USA

Triangle shaped object seen in NC sky

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-18
Where
Cherryville, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
35.379, -81.379 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-cherryville-nc-2008-f6093d
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Cherryville, NC.
  • This case is one of 133 North Carolina reports filed in 2008.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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