UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2016

Gates, NC, USA

Object first hovered in sky with extremly bright red lights - was a very large object - larger than a plane.

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 (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-11
Where
Gates, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.503, -76.769 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-gates-nc-2016-133b39
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 Gates, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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