CaseTriangle2012

Washington, D.C., DC, USA

Saw a triangular craft flying north to south, few minutes saw a chemtrail moving east to west.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-31
Where
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-washington-d-c-dc-2012-6a4c3f
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

  • Washington, D.C., DC has 109 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 11 reports from District of Columbia.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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