CaseTriangle2005

Gloucester, VA, USA

bright streaks of light, hovering crafts, triangle lights, different colors , numerous aircrafts appeared to be playing in the sky

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-15
Where
Gloucester, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
37.414, -76.526 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-gloucester-va-2005-83d62f
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

  • Gloucester, VA shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from Virginia in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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