UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Durham, NC, USA

large triangular craft with 5 lights1 a red blinking light,hovering until i arrived right next to it and slowly dissappeared

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-21
Where
Durham, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 to 4 min.
Geo
35.994, -78.899 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-durham-nc-2008-e9d125
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

April 2008 was a busy month for Durham, NC: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 65 reports logged in Durham, 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.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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