CaseTriangle2012

Lenoir, NC, USA

A friend and I witnessed a possible UFO take off about 250 feet away.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-20
Where
Lenoir, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
6-7 seconds
Geo
35.914, -81.539 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lenoir-nc-2012-f1124e
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

  • One of 9 documented reports from Lenoir, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 249 sightings in 2012.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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