"Football Field Sized" Black Triangle - NUFORC UFO Sighting 180940

[Giddierone]

For your consideration:
A recent "football field-sized" black triangle UFO report. (Looks like a lot like a plane. Pictures also appear to have been tampered with).

NUFORC UFO Sighting 180940

Occurred: 2024-02-16 19:04 Local
Reported: 2024-03-26 17:36 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes.
No of observers: 2 - Pilot

Location: Fayetteville, NC, USA
Location details: approx 100 miles south of fayeteville

Shape: Triangle
Color: black
Estimated Size: football field size. ish.
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: 3-4000 feet below.
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 3-4000 feet
Estimated Speed: unknown. approx 300 kts
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Large acre plus-sized triangular craft traveling approx 32000 feet.

Large triangular craft traveling west to East at approx 32000 feet. Seen from above in airliner traveling north-south at 36000 ft. Three white lights. One on 'nose' if triangle. One white light on each 'rear' corner. Single red light in rear center where 'tail' would be. Not picked up on with either onboard radar or TCAS. Red-light turned off after approx 30 seconds. Craft suddenly appeared to 'frazzle' with what looked like static discharge for approx 10 seconds then effectively disappeared into the darkness. Either it left or went totally dark. It was night time so unsure which. Very very cool to watch. Managed to capture. Few pics with cellphone. attached.

Source: https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=180940

Alleged witness photo.

[midtone adjusted version below] (frowny face emoji).

 

[NoParty]

Worst.
Triangle.
Football.
Field...
EVER!!

 

[Ann K]

midtone adjusted version below] (frowny face emoji).

Well, it's not a "flying Delorean", but maybe it's a flying Honda Odyssey...

 

[Calter]

Unless local time isn't EST, there's no airliner travelling at 36k feet north-south 100 miles south from Fayetteville at the time given. The closest match would be one that is 30 miles east of Fayetteville (100 miles south would be above Myrtle Beach)

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2024-02-17-00:04&lat=34.498&lon=-78.905&zoom=8.9

There's a couple more that are 100 miles southwest or southeast, and a couple that are at lower altitudes.

Considering there's not a plane in the time and place given, it's going to be tough to give candidates for what the UFO actually is (besides it probably being a plane). I don't see many planes travelling perpendicular to those routes though.

 

[John J.]

Well, it's not a "flying Delorean", but maybe it's a flying Honda Odyssey...

2025: A Honda Odyssey is frankly not a film I'd pay to see.

 

[JMartJr]

Considering there's not a plane in the time and place given

...but that area is pretty busy with military traffic.

 

[NorCal Dave]

Worst.
Triangle.
Football.
Field...
EVER!!

Technically, the report mentions both a football field-ish sized UFO:

Estimated Size: football field size. ish.

AND an acre plus-sized craft:

Large acre plus-sized triangular craft traveling approx 32000 feet.

While both sound big, why the 2 different descriptions. For our non-US friends that calculate everything in easy to compare metric units of 10 and don't know the joys of America's convoluted system of unrelated fractional, base 12, base 3 and other complicated units of measure, let's break this down.

An American Football (real football, not soccer) field is 100 yards long by 53.3 yards wide. A foot is 12" and a yard is 3 feet, so close to a meter. Thus, the field (pitch) is 91.44 meters by 48.8 meters. There is not an accurate description of the craft, just that it is a triangle and football field (a non-soccer pitch) sized. If we go with an equal lateral triangle, then that would be 100 yards (91.44 meters) on a side for a total square footage of 45000 sq feet. We always figure area in sq footage, unless you're buying carpet or fabric, in which case it's in sq yards . Or concrete which is figured in cubic yards. But we can say it was 5000 sq' yards, or 4572 sq meters. Pretty big.

However, the report also says it was an "acre plus" in size. An acre is more like a metric hectare and is the unit used to sell property, mostly larger property. An acre comprises 4840 sq yards or 4047 sq meters or around 1/2 a hectare. So, yeah an American football field sized UFO could be roughly an acre-plus in size.

It may the worst ever description of a football sized UFO but could be a decent description of an acre-plus sized UFO. Even it they're basicaly the same thing.

 

[NoParty]

As far as I know, the Cleveland Browns are (probably) the only NFL team to play on a triangular field.

 

[Ann K]

It may the worst ever description of a football sized UFO but could be a decent description of an acre-plus sized UFO. Even it they're basicaly the same thing.

It also has an approximate speed and an approximate distance, so don't quibble about the approximate size(s) ...

 

[Minus0]

Here is one of the additional photos from the NUFORC site with a higher ISO. It appears to be a foggy coastline/river? Perhaps the lights are at a power plant or industrial park? Or is that the nose, wing, reflection of the aircraft? The dark feature seems like it's on the ground rather than a splotch on the window

Can anyone identify features from the window frame? It's annoying how they didn't include information about the specific flight.

Also, metadata is included with other pics at different zoom levels so assuming ~45 degree angle someone could likely approximate the overall size of the complex. I don't have any tools to measure the pictures accurately on my phone, but my guesstimation would be the lights are less than a km wide (assuming low elevation of light source).

 

[Mick West]

Here is one of the additional photos from the NUFORC site with a higher ISO. It appears to be a foggy coastline/river?

It appears, at the very least, to have been AI upscaled, if not heavily edited. Look at this weird and inconsistent wave texture in two regions that should be at the same distance.

This seems like a very low/dubious information report, which I'd not waste time on without some real images, or better DTLs.

 

[FatPhil]

[midtone adjusted version below] (frowny face emoji).
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Suspicions raised:

 

[Giddierone]

This seems like a very low/dubious information report, which I'd not waste time on without some real images, or better DTLs

I agree, and sorry to post this here, although I thought it deserved at least as much discussion as some lights on a crane.
It's a report submitted to and published by NUFORC (The National UFO Reporting Center) website, an organisation claiming legitimacy and which makes some big claims about its transparency and association with various agencies-while asking for donations-yet fails to do even basic due diligence on this fantastical claimed observation. Stuff like this makes all of their reports seem dubious.