UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2009

Renton, WA, USA

Triangular object with three red steady lights flying over Renton.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-09-19
Where
Renton, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
47.483, -122.217 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-renton-wa-2009-3c036d
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Renton, WA in September 2009 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Renton, WA has 86 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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