CaseTriangle1971
Bristol, CT, USA
A witness in Bristol, Connecticut reported a very large triangular object over the west end of town during a five-minute sighting in October 1971.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (146 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-10-29
- Where
- Bristol, CT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5min.
- Geo
- 41.672, -72.949 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bristol-ct-1971-12604c
In context
- One of 40 documented reports from Bristol, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 4 sightings in 1971.
- Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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