CaseTriangle1978
Edina, MN, USA
7/1/78 01:00hours Edina/Minneapolis. MN. single very slow moving black triagle, 2 min visible
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-01
- Where
- Edina, MN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2.5 minutes
- Geo
- 44.890, -93.350 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-edina-mn-1978-01a19e
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Edina, MN.
- This case is one of 5 Minnesota reports filed in 1978.
- Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s 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.