Salem, MO, USA
Triangular-shaped object witnessed by two people at close range.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1991-11-10
- Where
- Salem, MO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.646, -91.536 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-salem-mo-1991-db548a
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Salem, MO reports filed in November 1991.
In context
- Salem, MO shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Missouri in 1991.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.