UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA

Black triangle flying low over northwestern Florida.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-26
Where
Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
7-9 seconds
Geo
30.421, -86.617 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-fort-walton-beach-fl-2009-d3f860
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 17 documented reports from Fort Walton Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 254 sightings in 2009.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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