CaseTriangle2016

Columbia, MS, USA

Aunt, sister, and I was traveling home when we notice a colorful flying object in the sky on the opposite side of the hwy..

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-12
Where
Columbia, MS, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
Geo
31.252, -89.838 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-columbia-ms-2016-41c80c
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

  • Columbia, MS shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 32 reports came from Mississippi in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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