CaseTriangle2017

Newton, KS, USA

Perfect triangular formation made by floating lights above tree line slowly glided until it disappeared.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-10
Where
Newton, KS, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
~10 minutes
Geo
38.047, -97.345 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-newton-ks-2017-c321b3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Newton, KS shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Kansas in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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