CaseTriangle1996
Roanoke, VA, USA
I saw a triangular craft with only red light from front to back on it. Craft stopped over my back yard and shone light down.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-10-15
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-roanoke-va-1996-217cc4
In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
- This case is one of 15 Virginia reports filed in 1996.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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