CaseTriangle2009

Vandalia, OH, USA

triangler figure in Vandalia, OH

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-04
Where
Vandalia, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
39.891, -84.199 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-vandalia-oh-2009-28d0e2
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

  • Vandalia, OH shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 132 reports came from Ohio in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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