UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

Lancaster, OH, USA

My nephew and I saw a large craft that was not identifiable and flying very low.

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 (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-23
Where
Lancaster, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
39.714, -82.599 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lancaster-oh-2009-d7a370
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

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In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Lancaster, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 132 sightings in 2009.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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