CaseTriangle2008

Canonsburg, PA, USA

strange and lonely light attracted the attention of two seperate groups of people as it flew overhead

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-12
Where
Canonsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
approx 3-5 min?
Geo
40.263, -80.187 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-canonsburg-pa-2008-26fb37
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from Canonsburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 193 sightings in 2008.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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