CaseTriangle2009
Thornton, CO, USA
three VERY BRIGHT RED lights shaped like three VERRY big stop lights
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-12
- Where
- Thornton, CO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1:00 min
- Geo
- 39.868, -104.972 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-thornton-co-2009-ed0255
Wave
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
- This is one of 40 reports logged in Thornton, CO.
- This case is one of 90 Colorado reports filed in 2009.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.