USA
((HOAX??))Triangle ship, 3 round lights, one on each corner, it was hypnotic, felt the vibration and hum of engines on chest, 50 yards.
Report quality: Low19/100
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 (125 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-01-10
- Where
- USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-2017-d1a5a3
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
- 2017 brought 18 reports from USA.
Report
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