UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2012

Burke, VA, USA

Three very faint lights in a small triangular shape moving very fast across the sky

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-17
Where
Burke, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
38.793, -77.272 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-burke-va-2012-c929ca
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…

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Burke, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 150 sightings in 2012.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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