UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Lake Wales, FL, USA

It was triangle shaped and it had bright white lights no red or green lights were present. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-07
Where
Lake Wales, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
27.901, -81.586 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lake-wales-fl-2008-8f5509
Wave

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In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Lake Wales, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 303 sightings in 2008.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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