CaseTriangle2012

Rydal, PA, USA

Low flying triangle over Valley Road in Rydal, PA.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-06
Where
Rydal, PA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.106, -75.109 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-rydal-pa-2012-2a304f
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

  • Rydal, PA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 297 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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