UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

Duluth, MN, USA

((HOAX??)) black triangle, three white lights on bottom, 1 pilot human, windy sound, slow, near woods or airport, see in craft,

Report quality: Low21/100

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 (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2009-02-08
Where
Duluth, MN, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
46.783, -92.107 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-duluth-mn-2009-8d15ca
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

  • Duluth, MN shows up 60 times across the archive.
  • 64 reports came from Minnesota in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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