CaseTriangle2008

New Carrollton, MD, USA

Last night I saw something unusual in the night sky, this was not natural by any means it happened very quickly but I saw enough to kn

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-02
Where
New Carrollton, MD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1-3 minutes
Geo
38.970, -76.880 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-new-carrollton-md-2008-c0ab09
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

  • New Carrollton, MD has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 65 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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