CaseTriangle2008

Pope AFB, NC, USA

Objects could be F-117s

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-27
Where
Pope AFB, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1-2hrs
Geo
35.173, -79.021 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-pope-afb-nc-2008-e06a47
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

  • Pope AFB, NC shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 133 reports came from North Carolina in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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