UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Gaberone (Botswana), Botswana

Object with bright lights above Gaberone - Botswana

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-05-14
Where
Gaberone (Botswana), Botswana
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
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Slug
triangle-over-gaberone-botswana-2008-7f34cf
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 Gaberone (Botswana), Botswana in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Botswana logged 2 sightings in 2008.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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