CaseTriangle2015

Mentor, OH, USA

((HOAX??)) I saw a black triangle fly low with a red light on bottom with two blinking ones on each side.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-01-23
Where
Mentor, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.666, -81.340 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-mentor-oh-2015-b70169
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

  • One of 24 documented reports from Mentor, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 214 sightings in 2015.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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