CaseTriangle2019

Richmond, VA, USA

I was very high in the sky and a great distance from where we sat, but there was a clear triangular formation of the lights.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-09-20
Where
Richmond, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-richmond-va-2019-6d15f3
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Richmond, VA logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2019.

In context

  • One of 125 documented reports from Richmond, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 194 sightings in 2019.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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