UFOs - Credible sightings arranged by shape

UFOs - Credible sightings arranged by shape
Published online (September 2025).

Triangle

Source: hundreds, possibly thousands of reports; documentary.
Year: 1989-1990.
Location: Belgium.
(from Wikipedia)
"The Belgian UFO wave began in November 1989. Reports were filed, most many weeks after the events. Many of the reports related a large object flying at low altitude. Some reports also stated that the craft was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath.
The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of March 30, 1990. On that night, one unknown object was tracked on radar, and two Belgian Air Force F-16s were sent to investigate, with neither pilot reporting seeing the object. No reports were received from the public on the date. But over the next 2 weeks reports from 143 people who claimed to have witnessed the object were received, all of them after the event. Over the ensuing months, many others claimed to have witnessed these events as well. Following the incident, the Belgian Air Force released a report detailing the events of that night.
At around 23:00 on March 30, 1990, the supervisor for the Control Reporting Center (CRC) at Glons received reports that three unusual lights were seen moving towards Thorembais-Gembloux, which lies to the southeast of Brussels. Glons CRC requested the Wavre gendarmerie send a patrol to confirm the sighting.
Some later reports stated that, approximately 10 minutes later, a second set of lights were seen moving towards the first triangle. Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake tracked one object on its radar, and an order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base was given. In reports after the event, multiple witnesses claimed that the phenomenon was visible from the ground, and described the whole formation as "maintaining their relative positions while moving slowly across the sky".
Over the next hour, the two scrambled F-16s attempted nine separate interceptions of the targets. On three occasions, they managed to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds, but these were later shown to be radar locks on each other. The pilots never reported seeing any of the claimed sightings, saw none of the claimed manoeuvres, and never got a lock on any objects apart from the other F16. The other contacts were all found to be the result of a well-known atmospheric interference called Bragg scattering.
After 00:30, radar contact became much more sporadic and the final confirmed lock took place at 00:40. Following several further unconfirmed contacts, the F-16s eventually returned to base shortly after 01:00.
Members of the Wavre gendarmerie who had been sent to confirm the original report, describe four lights now being arranged in a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at around 01:30. They also reported that a low engine noise was heard and that it seemed to have a stick coming out one end with a turbine on it, which has led many to conclude the object was a helicopter".

Source: 7 people, including 4 police officers; documentary.
Year: 2000.
Location: St. Clair County, Illinois.
(from skeptoid.com)
"The first was 66-year-old Mel Noll who parked at his miniature golf course around 4 in the morning, to make sure his plumbing hadn't frozen. He saw what he described as a big house floating in the air, with windows and all sorts of details. He went to the nearby police station in Highland, where the dispatcher radioed officer Ed Barton. He saw a bright white light, followed it, then parked and got close enough to shut off his own lights and observed that it looked like a giant triangle with bright white lights at each corner. Nearby, insomniac Johnny Doss, listening to a police scanner, heard the call and also went outside and saw what he later described as having several bright lights.
Next, officer Dave Martin in a neighboring department spotted it, and described three bright white lights with a blinking red one in the middle. Nearby, officer Craig Stevens also heard the chatter and parked his car in a big dark field where he hoped he might be able to see something, and described a huge object with three bright lights in back and a red one in the middle. Further south, officer Matt Jany got out his binoculars and saw what he thought he heard the others describing. It was big, taller in the middle, with lots of lights on it; white on the extremities and red in the middle. The final sighting was two hours later, near sunrise, when commuter Steven Wonnacott saw what he described as a motionless arrowhead shaped object, with a few bright lights and lots of smaller lights on it. Overall, the object spent about one hour traveling some 100 km in a generally southwestern direction".

Source: third hearing in front of the House Oversight Committee, September 2025, U.S. Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli; full video, full transcript.
Year: 2003, 2005.
Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California.
"The incursions began on October 14th, 2003 (...) Later that night, while I was on duty, security guards at a critical launch site reported a bright fast-moving object over the ocean. I responded to the incident. Chaos ensued over the radio as the object approached rapidly. I heard my friend screaming, "It's coming right at us, it's coming right for us, and now it's right here". Moments later, I heard them say that it had shot off and was gone. When I arrived on scene, I talked to five shaken witnesses who described a massive triangular craft, larger than a football field, that hovered silently for about 45 seconds over their entry control point before shooting away at impossible speed.
(...) After that, things did get quiet, until about 2005, when another patrol reported a massive triangular craft, larger than a C-130, silently floating over the installation. He watched it for a few minutes, it traveled west and disappeared into the night".

Source: third hearing in front of the House Oversight Committee, September 2025, U.S. Air Force Veteran Dylan Borland; full video, full transcript.
Year: 2012.
Location: Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia.
"On barracks on the base, I lived in the barracks, there was a little smoke pit outside. I was there on the telephone and looking across to the flight line and I see a white light pop up and stop about 100 feet in the air. I thought it was a weather balloon. I've seen tests from there before. Weeknight, normal thing, not surprising. I actually finished my cigarette and I began walking up towards the flight line. There is a track, and because I was on three months of night work, I would walk the track at night when we were weathered down. And as I began walking towards the light towards the flight line and the track, the light then flies across the base across the flight line and as it flies to me, a triangle manifests around the light. I can't tell you if it's active camouflage, I can't tell you if it appeared around the light, but I can tell you that it was a white light and then it was a triangle.
It stopped about 100 feet in front of me and approximately 100 feet above me. My telephone got extremely hot, completely froze dead. I remember how thick it was. It was between one to two stories thick, equilateral triangle (Ed.: from the same interview, "approximately 100 foot" wide). I could never see the top of it. And the edges were 90 degrees. There were four lights in total, one light on each corner and a larger light in the center, two to three times the size of the corner lights. But what was really odd was the outside, the best way to describe it is looking at a James Webb Telescope picture where you have the colors and then the black background. So the craft itself was this black metallic flake paint, but on top of the craft was this gold, lava plasma, some type of fluid going over and around the craft.
I'm under this for about two to three minutes, and then the center light flashes two to three times, no sound. Immediately shoots up to commercial jet level minimum in my opinion, and I immediately feel static electricity all over my body. And then I smell the smell of after a thunderstorm or lightning storm, that really strong summer thunderstorm smell. Gets up to flight level, I'm trying to get my phone reset and I can only see the center light at this point. If I didn't actually see it take off, I would've thought it was a star. And then it hovers up there and it begins to slowly move due east out over the Atlantic Ocean. I finally got my phone reset. The entire thing was about from the time I saw the light pop up near the hangar until it took off out over the ocean was about 15 minutes".

Source: first report of the UAPTF, 2020.
Year: 2019.
Location: off the eastern coast of the U.S.
(from thedebrief.org)
"Overwhelmingly, everyone The Debrief spoke with said the most striking feature of the recently released UAPTF intelligence position report was the inclusion of a new and "extremely clear" photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft.
The photograph, which is said to have also been taken from inside the cockpit of a military fighter jet, depicted an apparent aerospace vehicle described as a large equilateral triangle with rounded or "blunted" edges and large, perfectly spherical white "lights" in each corner. Officials who had seen it said the image was captured in 2019 by an F/A-18 fighter pilot.
Two officials that received the report said the photo was taken after the triangular craft emerged from the ocean and began to ascend straight upwards at a 90-degree angle. It was indicated that this event occurred off the eastern coast of the United States. Several other sources confirmed the photos existence; however, they declined to provide any further specifics of the incident".

Source: Immaculate Constellation (2017-2024?).
Year: ?
Location: Pacific Ocean.
"INDOPACOM - Intelligence Vessels Positioned to Collect on Reproduction Vehicle: On USG networks there exists infrared footage of and imagery of a grouping of vessels engaged in SIGINT and MASINT collection at night in a specific area of the Pacific Ocean. In this footage, which was in close-proximity to the vessels, a large equilateral-triangle UAP suddenly appears directly over the ships. Three bright points are seen at each bottom corner of the UAP, which is observed to slowly rotate on its horizontal axis. This rotation partially reveals a horizontal bar of sweeping lights. Intelligence analysis associated with this event specifies that the equilateral-triangle is a Reproduction Vehicle (RV) and concludes that the vessels must have been aware of the RV's frequent use of those coordinates, due to foreign pre-positioning of advanced collection assets at the exact time and place. After a brief period of hovering and slowly rotating approximately 500-1000 meters above the ocean, the RV suddenly disappears, and the footage ends".

Source: Immaculate Constellation (2017-2024?).
Year: ?
Location: Pacific Ocean.
"INDOPACOM - Equilateral Triangle UAP Tails Unwitting Vessel: On USG networks, there exists infrared footage of an equilateral-triangle UAP, approximately fighter-jet sized, hovering less than 200 meters above a vessel, in the night at a location in the Pacific. Intelligence analysis associated with this event specifies that the equilateral-triangle is an ARV/RV of unknown origin. The vessel gives no signs that it is aware of the ARV/RV maintaining altitude and bearing directly overhead. Two lights on the underside of the ARV/RV are visible, while a third is blocked from view due to a slightly upward angle of orientation".

Tic Tac

Source: well documented, about ten witnesses came forward; see my page.
Year: 2004.
Location: objects going from Santa Catalina island to Guadalupe island.
(AI Overview)
"Navy pilots investigating unexplained radar contacts observed and interacted with an oblong, Tic Tac-shaped object that defied conventional flight characteristics and propulsion".

Source: third hearing in front of the House Oversight Committee, September 2025, U.S. Air Force Veteran Alexandro Wiggins; full video, full transcript, interview.
Year: 2023.
Location: between San Diego and San Clemente island, about 32° 53.333', -117° 56.012'.
"On the evening of February 15th, 2023, at approximately 19:15 PST in the Whiskey-291 warning area off the coast of Southern California, I was serving on board USS Jackson. During that period, I moved between the interior communication center, ICC-1, and the bridge wing, correlating the sensor picture with visual observations, part of my routine responsibilities for surface and air picture management. What I observed and what our crew recorded was not consistent with conventional aircraft or drones as they appear on our system. A self-luminous Tic Tac-shaped object emerged from the ocean before linking up with three other similar objects. The four then disappeared simultaneously, with a high synchronized, near instantaneous acceleration. I observed no sonic boom and no conventional propulsion signatures, no exhaust plume, no control surface articulation on the Sapphire image system. Shortly after the synchronized departure, radar tracks dropped. These observations were multi-sensor and recorded inside of ICC-1, with time location overlay visible in our source frames that have been made public by journalists. From my experience operating in this region over many years, and consistent with our public characterized encounters, unidentified objects reoccur in United States operation areas off Southern California".

Source: Immaculate Constellation (2017-2024?).
Year: ?
Location: Atlantic Ocean.
"SOUTHCOM - Tic Tac Detected by Space Asset in Proximity of Vessel: On USG networks there exists OPIR imagery and MASINT of a Tic Tac UAP transiting through an area of the Atlantic Ocean. The Tic Tac maneuvers at an altitude at or near local cloud cover, and correlated electromagnetic signatures were collected by MASINT. In the available footage the Tic Tac UAP transits rapidly through the field of regard as it transits the ocean. No observed reaction is seen to come from the vessel, but its proximity in time and space to the trajectory of this UAP suggests foreknowledge of the UAP event by intelligence".

The Nimitz incident - Timeline, resources, hypotheses, questions.
Published online (December 2020).

David Grusch and his witnesses - Trying to make sense of this mess.
Published online (October 2023).

The retrieval program - As reported by Grusch's witnesses.
Published online (September 2024).

Excerpts from AARO's reports - Was it all a misunderstanding?
Published online (January 2025).

Credible sightings arranged by shape - Triangles, Tic Tac, etc.
Published online (September 2025).