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
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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