CaseTriangle2017

Bellingham, WA, USA

Triangle of glowing lights, what initially looked like a plane started heading over the W arboretum, then hovered. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-06
Where
Bellingham, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
48.760, -122.488 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bellingham-wa-2017-730859
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 136 reports logged in Bellingham, WA.
  • This case is one of 205 Washington reports filed in 2017.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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