CaseTriangle2018

Windber, PA, USA

((HOAX??)) Triangle craft, yellow blue lights, makes eyes water. near johnstown pa

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2018-03-02
Where
Windber, PA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.240, -78.835 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-windber-pa-2018-5e5f2d
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Windber, PA.
  • This case is one of 94 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2018.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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