UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

Retired Police Officer:Triangle shape, with 6 glowing red lights, seperated and shot across the sky (left to right) then came together.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-20
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2-3 min.
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1978-44b838
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from New York in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 7.9% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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