CaseChevron1971
Menands (Albany), NY, USA
Witnesses in Menands, near Albany, New York reported a large, black, boomerang-shaped chevron object gliding silently overhead for about three minutes in October 1971.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-10-12
- Where
- Menands (Albany), NY, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.692, -73.725 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-menands-albany-ny-1971-951e20
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Menands (Albany), NY.
- This case is one of 5 New York reports filed in 1971.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 1970s reports, vs 1.1% 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.