CaseTriangle1966
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
3 white lights high in the sky,making a 90 degree fast turn
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 55s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-11-15
- Where
- Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 50-60 sec
- Geo
- 36.100, -80.244 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-winston-salem-nc-1966-ef7ed6
Wave
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 48 reports logged in Winston-Salem, NC.
- This case is one of 4 North Carolina reports filed in 1966.
- Triangle craft made up 4.3% of 1960s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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.