CaseTriangle1986

Mt. Airy, NC, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Mt. Airy, NC, USA
Start: 1986-12-31
Location: Mt. Airy, NC, USA

Roadside triangular UFO sighting resulting in missing time. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (86 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1986-12-31
Where: Mt. Airy, NC, USA
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 30-60 seconds
Geo: 36.499, -80.607 · exact
Slug: triangle-over-mt-airy-nc-1986-b7944b

In context

Mt. Airy, NC has 7 sightings on file here.
1986 brought 10 reports from North Carolina.
The 1980s skewed 12% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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