“I Saw a Triangle Shaped UFO At a NASA Hangar!” -Dylan Borland Tells All

August 5, 2026

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In 2012, Dylan Borland was a 21-year-old Air Force imagery analyst on the night shift at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Stepping outside his barracks around 1:30 AM to smoke a cigarette and talk on the phone, he saw a white light pop up near a NASA hangar on the base. He thought little of it—maybe a weather balloon test. Then the light flew directly toward him. As it approached, a triangle "manifested" around the light. The craft stopped a hundred feet above him and a hundred feet in front of him. It was a black metallic equilateral triangle, roughly 100 to 150 feet across, with lights at each corner and a larger central light. A golden, lava-lamp-like plasma sheath pulsed around its edges. The air smelled like a lightning storm. His phone went red hot and shut down. After two or three minutes, the center light flashed, and the triangle shot from 100 feet to at least 30,000 feet in two to three seconds—roughly 10,000 to 15,000 feet per second. It hovered like a satellite, then drifted east over the Atlantic. Borland reset his phone, but the encounter had already changed the course of his life.

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1 (00:50) **The Sighting at Langley** - Dylan Borland describes seeing a triangle-shaped UFO emerge from near the NASA hangar at Langley Air Force Base in 2012.
2 (06:31) **The Rubik's Cube Program** - A leaked program name from the ODNI connects to Dylan's testimony and the broader UFO reverse engineering effort.
3 (09:18) **The I-81 Corridor and Historical UFO Flaps** - Dylan connects his sighting to a historical pattern of UFO activity along the I-81 corridor, linking it to early CIA history.
4 (14:10) **From Drone Analyst to Whistleblower** - Dylan details his Air Force career as a geospatial intelligence specialist in the drone program and the psychological toll it took.
5 (26:44) **Detailed Account of the Triangle Sighting** - A second, more detailed walkthrough of the 2012 sighting, focusing on the craft's appearance and behavior.
6 (37:17) **Why Did it Fly to Him?** - Dylan speculates on why the craft approached him and connects his experience to other known incidents, including one involving David Grusch.
7 (41:28) **The NASA Hangar and Google Maps Anomalies** - Dylan reveals that employees at the NASA Langley facility were tagging Google Maps with puzzles, labyrinths, and hieroglyphs.

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