CaseTriangle1996
Hastings, MN, USA
On the night of December 8th, 1996 at 11.15 pm (central) a triangular shaped object appeared in the sky and hovered in the air for a du
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-09
- Where
- Hastings, MN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Approx.15
- Geo
- 44.743, -92.852 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hastings-mn-1996-3d7d07
In context
- Hastings, MN shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Minnesota in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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