Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Witnesses in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reported three white lights arranged in a triangular pattern high in the sky, making a sharp 90-degree turn during a sighting in November 1966.
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: 55s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (187 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
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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
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