CaseTriangle2016

Port Orange, FL, USA

As we were star gazing this weird triangle formed object with 4 circle lights had flew right over our heads not super far off the groun

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-04-01
Where
Port Orange, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
29.138, -80.996 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-port-orange-fl-2016-0b49d0
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

  • This is one of 16 reports logged in Port Orange, FL.
  • This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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