CaseTriangle2004

Varnville, SC, USA

Three lights on the bottom of an unidentified aircraft form a triangular shape. (in South Carolina) 4-28-04 in Varnville at 11:35 p.m.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-28
Where
Varnville, SC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.850, -81.079 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-varnville-sc-2004-7e457f
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Varnville, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 47 sightings in 2004.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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