UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

Rensselaer, NY, USA

Three white lights in triangle shape

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-16
Where
Rensselaer, NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 miinutes
Geo
42.643, -73.743 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-rensselaer-ny-2009-861d67
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…

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In context

  • Rensselaer, NY shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 206 reports came from New York in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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