UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1977

Mechanicsburg, PA, USA

Triangle shaped (white only) lights observed flying directly over head apeared to be one solid object

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-01
Where
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.214, -77.009 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-mechanicsburg-pa-1977-e41ff7
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 29 documented reports from Mechanicsburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 12 sightings in 1977.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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