UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2016

Gainesville, FL, USA

((HOAX??)) White triangle headed northwest at incredible speed till out of eyesight.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-04-01
Where
Gainesville, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
29.652, -82.325 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-gainesville-fl-2016-7d9a06
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Gainesville, FL has 71 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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