Abilene, TX, USA
Swaying round light at rooftop height between 2 houses and right above--a huge triangular black object--no sound. 500 Lights On Obj
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1991-09-01
- Where
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Geo
- 32.449, -99.733 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-abilene-tx-1991-dd4e78
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…
In context
- Abilene, TX has 42 sightings on file here.
- 1991 brought 17 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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