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

  • 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

  • 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

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