Memphis, TN, USA
2 huge triangle shaped objects, low to the ground moving very slow. we follow them for several miles before they vanish.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-01
- Where
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 45 mins
- Geo
- 35.150, -90.049 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-memphis-tn-1978-7268b6
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In context
- One of 126 documented reports from Memphis, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 9 sightings in 1978.
- Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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