CaseTriangle2008

Gaberone (Botswama), Botswana

Triangular object over Botswana - Gaberone ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a twinkling star? PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-07-07
Where
Gaberone (Botswama), Botswana
Shape
Triangle
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
Slug
triangle-over-gaberone-botswama-2008-39dd0b
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

  • Gaberone (Botswama), Botswana has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 2 reports from Botswana.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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