UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2006

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

((POSSIBLE HOAX)) A triangular craft with solid red and flashing white lights hovering strangely over Virginia Beach, VA late at night.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2006-07-02
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2-5 min.
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-virginia-beach-va-2006-84742f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
  • 68 reports came from Virginia in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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