CaseTriangle2014
Hickory, NC, USA
(3) Yellowish/Orange spheres in the shape of a triangle.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-01
- Where
- Hickory, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.733, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hickory-nc-2014-e8fb23
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
- One of 38 documented reports from Hickory, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 282 sightings in 2014.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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