CaseTriangle2006
Gatwick Airport (UK/England), United Kingdom
Black triangle sighting - via strange white light effects
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-22
- Where
- Gatwick Airport (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1-2mins
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-gatwick-airport-uk-england-2006-28191d
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Gatwick Airport (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 221 reports came from United Kingdom in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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