CaseTriangle2018

Mount Vernon, WA, USA

Very loud triangle craft with lights that don't blink

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-14
Where
Mount Vernon, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
48.421, -122.334 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-mount-vernon-wa-2018-434562
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

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in Mount Vernon, WA.
  • This case is one of 172 Washington reports filed in 2018.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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