CaseTriangle1996
Canandaigua, NY, USA
large triangular object, black with small red and white lights. Hovered for 10 minutes at 500ft elevation
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-01
- Where
- Canandaigua, NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15min
- Geo
- 42.874, -77.288 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-canandaigua-ny-1996-f32982
In context
- Canandaigua, NY has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 28 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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