CaseTriangle2016

Dover, NJ, USA

Triangle shape object with 1 light per side (3) and one strobe type light almost in the center. about 100 feet above trees. Drove aroun

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-21
Where
Dover, NJ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.884, -74.562 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-dover-nj-2016-6d129f
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

  • Dover, NJ has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 129 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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