CaseTriangle2005
Cairo, WV, USA
Bright, triangle object in clear November sky over secluded ridge
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 (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-04
- Where
- Cairo, WV, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Approx. 3 min
- Geo
- 39.209, -81.157 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-cairo-wv-2005-6fec03
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
- Cairo, WV has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 24 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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