CaseTriangle2006
Branchland, WV, USA
A brightly lighted, fast moving, triangular object.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-11
- Where
- Branchland, WV, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.221, -82.204 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-branchland-wv-2006-6195fd
Wave
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
- Branchland, WV has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 16 reports from West Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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