CaseTriangle2009

Towson, MD, USA

A small sphere shape object appeared, with a triangle shaped light being emitted from the bottom. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Towson, MD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.401, -76.602 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-towson-md-2009-a1a11b
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

  • Towson, MD shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 43 reports came from Maryland in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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