CaseTriangle1968
Mediterranean Sea (near Malta), Malta
A witness aboard the USS Shangri-La near Malta in the Mediterranean Sea reported an object in November 1968 that stopped in mid-sky, turned about 45 degrees, and then vanished from sight.
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (187 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-11-02
- Where
- Mediterranean Sea (near Malta), Malta
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- USS SHANGER LA
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-mediterranean-sea-near-malta-1968-d58695
In context
- Mediterranean Sea (near Malta), Malta has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 1 reports from Malta.
- The 1960s skewed 4.3% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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