CaseTriangle1960
Melbourne (Australia), Australia
In 1960, a witness in Melbourne, Australia, reported three triangular objects with orange tails flying level about 30 degrees above the horizon, for about three minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-07-29
- Where
- Melbourne (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 MIN
- Geo
- -37.814, 144.963 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-melbourne-australia-1960-a4ba17
In context
- Melbourne (Australia), Australia has 35 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 1 reports from Australia.
- The 1960s skewed 4.3% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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