CaseTriangle2009

El Paso, TX, USA

((HOAX?? No date provided)) 3 lights form triangle in el paso texas

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2009-05-21
Where
El Paso, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
31.759, -106.487 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-el-paso-tx-2009-ded492
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 123 reports logged in El Paso, TX.
  • This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2009.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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