CaseTriangle1978

Lake Havasu, AZ, USA

Triangular UFO with following craft - Lake Havasu, AZ

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
Lake Havasu, AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.484, -114.322 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lake-havasu-az-1978-20b566
Wave

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In context

  • Lake Havasu, AZ shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 10 reports came from Arizona in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 7.9% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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