UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Hickory, NC, USA

Large triangle shaped craft traveling west on Hwy 70, Hickory, NC, at almost midnight. ((NUFORC Note: Highly reliable witness. PD))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Hickory, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
<5 minutes
Geo
35.733, -81.341 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hickory-nc-1978-d8f493
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In context

  • One of 38 documented reports from Hickory, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 8 sightings in 1978.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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