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CaseTriangle2008

Roanoke, VA, USA

Approxiately 11:45 p.m., my wife and I were traveling 81 North to West Virginia and we noticed an object floating 100 yds away from the

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-05-23
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 to 20 minutes
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-roanoke-va-2008-52305f
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 →

In context

  • This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
  • This case is one of 100 Virginia reports filed in 2008.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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