UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Triangular craft, solid white lights with red center over Oceana Air Force Base Virginia Beach, VA

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-10-20
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-virginia-beach-va-2008-6558ec
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…

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In context

  • One of 176 documented reports from Virginia Beach, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2008.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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