Roanoke, VA, USA
bottem was covered with lights. and it was a big black triangle like shape.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-12
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 09:57
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-roanoke-va-2005-454792
Part of a wave
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
- Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Virginia in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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