Triangle over Hiwassee, VA

The report, as filed

This happened about 2-1/2 years ago, so I believe it happened on Thursday night. The exact time was about 21:30 or 22:30z half past one of those hours. I was watching TV and I heard a loud continuous roar outside. At first I thought it was military craft that flies overhead, from time to time, but there was no Doppler change in the roar. I looked outside to see several bright lights approaching from the west. I am located at about a 2400 ft altitude, and my guess these craft were about 5000 or 6000 ft AGL. It was a partially cloudy night, no moon. A large jet probably C17 was in front. Behind it was the classic TR3B I had read about. Bright specular steady white lights at each or the three points on the delta. A very large circular red disk in the center of it slowly pulsating from dim red to full off at about a 1.5 second periodicity. I could barely make out it’s silhouette. The “C17 (?)” had a four-engine sound with Doppler and nav lights.The steady non-Doppler roar was from the giant triangle behind it. It’s wing span was about four times that of the 4-engine jet in front. Flanking each of the triangle’s side tips were jets with steady white lights. I could not make those out. All four craft were black. The red disk was a uniform light across its surface when it glowed. The red disk diameter was about 1/5 the breadth of the span of the triangle back tip to back tip. About 1 minute later what sounded like two F-15’s on full afterburner came from the same direction and seemed to chase after the four craft. I delayed reporting because I wanted to see if anyone else saw it or reported it, and there was no other report filed.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #141634). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.