CaseTriangle2005
Japan, Japan
Multiple sightings in very narrow, low-altitude air corridor
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-03
- Where
- Japan, Japan
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 40.993, -75.910 · fallback
- Slug
- triangle-over-japan-2005-01b633
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
- Japan, Japan shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Japan in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.