CaseTriangle1971
Lewisburg, WV, USA
A witness near Lewisburg, West Virginia, observed a triangular object hovering silently for about fifteen minutes one night in May 1971.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (136 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-05-01
- Where
- Lewisburg, WV, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.802, -80.446 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-lewisburg-wv-1971-c3ff3a
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Lewisburg, WV.
- This case is one of 4 West Virginia reports filed in 1971.
- Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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