Winchester, VA, USA
((HOAX?)) Bunch of red light triangles appeared soon after a high pitch noise w/ the arrival of a blue light ship then all disappeared.
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-03-06
- Where
- Winchester, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.186, -78.163 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-winchester-va-2018-f254be
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
- Winchester, VA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 74 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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