CaseTriangle1972
Gravesend (UK/England), United Kingdom
A witness in Gravesend, England reported three lights on a triangular object moving horizontally for about a quarter to half mile before shooting upward at high speed, in December 1972.
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-12-16
- Where
- Gravesend (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 51.442, 0.371 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-gravesend-uk-england-1972-7b146f
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Gravesend (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 6 United Kingdom reports filed in 1972.
- Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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