CaseTriangle2017

Lancaster, OH, USA

Large black triangle shaped craft no noise or lights wobbled as it moved then slowly went up into sky ((anonymous report))

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-16
Where
Lancaster, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.714, -82.599 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lancaster-oh-2017-a1a943
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

  • Lancaster, OH has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 151 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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