CaseTriangle1991

Groton, NY, USA

My sister and I saw a massive, silent, v-shaped formation of bright white lights fly directly overhead.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-09-05
Where
Groton, NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 sec.
Geo
42.588, -76.367 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-groton-ny-1991-8c69c9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Groton, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1991 brought 21 reports from New York.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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