CaseTriangle2011

Wilmington, NC, USA

Triangle... very dim lights, no noise, around all outer edges, moving slowly, very low... went out of sight over UNCW campus

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-01
Where
Wilmington, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2-5 minutes
Geo
34.236, -77.946 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-wilmington-nc-2011-c5ef88
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

  • Wilmington, NC has 93 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 195 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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