The Villages, FL, USA
This grey triangular object was as big as a car with rounded triangular wings flying a slow as trees no lights, silent.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-22
- Where
- The Villages, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 28.934, -81.960 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-the-villages-fl-2017-b7b3e7
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…
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from The Villages, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 334 sightings in 2017.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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