CaseTriangle2009

Valdese, NC, USA

Watching movie, cousin got my attention, pointed at craft outside literally floating in the air as if it was on ice. Never changing alt

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-21
Where
Valdese, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
35.741, -81.563 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-valdese-nc-2009-c5da72
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 2 reports logged in Valdese, NC.
  • This case is one of 125 North Carolina reports filed in 2009.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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