UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2012

Morganton, NC, USA

Triangle object with blue lights traveling at speeds that could not be a plane or anything man-made in the sky above interstate I-40.

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-20
Where
Morganton, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 sec
Geo
35.745, -81.685 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-morganton-nc-2012-01ca52
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

  • Morganton, NC has 25 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 249 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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