CaseTriangle2009

Lafayette, CO, USA

I completed a report on your site over a year ago and it was very brief and not as descriptive as I should have been in my initial repo

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-01-03
Where
Lafayette, CO, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
7-10 Seconds
Geo
39.994, -105.090 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lafayette-co-2009-7d29b3
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

  • Lafayette, CO shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 90 reports came from Colorado in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.