UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2016

I-495 North (driving on), MD, USA

Triangle UFO over Maryland Highway 495N.

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-14
Where
I-495 North (driving on), MD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
triangle-over-i-495-north-driving-on-md-2016-627e80
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in I-495 North (driving on), MD.
  • This case is one of 97 Maryland reports filed in 2016.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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