CaseTriangle2017

Franklinton, LA, USA

2 red lights with lights projected upward to make a triangular shape. Was positioned in the sky at top of trees. ((anonymous report))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-19
Where
Franklinton, LA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
30.847, -90.155 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-franklinton-la-2017-2f5387
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

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Franklinton, LA.
  • This case is one of 33 Louisiana reports filed in 2017.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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