Newark, DE, USA
Noisy aircraft travelling slowly S. Low in the sky; lights on each corner of triangle. Near Kirkwood Hwy and Polly Drummond Hill Rd.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-06
- Where
- Newark, DE, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.684, -75.750 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-newark-de-2012-6db246
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Newark, DE reports filed in December 2012.
In context
- Newark, DE shows up 42 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from Delaware in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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