UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2016

Chesapeake Bay (above; south of Annapolis), MD, USA

Witnessed three bright lights holding in a triangle shape over Chesapeake Bay; very bright, pulsating, incredible speed, not aircraft.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-13
Where
Chesapeake Bay (above; south of Annapolis), MD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
37.962, -76.178 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-chesapeake-bay-above-south-of-annapolis-md-2016-d5e989
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 1 documented reports from Chesapeake Bay (above; south of Annapolis), MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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