CaseTriangle2017

Salem, MA, USA

3 UFO’s. Triangular, silent , 6 lights and fast. ((NUFORC Note: Report submitted by aviation mechanic. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-28
Where
Salem, MA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
00:04
Geo
42.520, -70.896 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-salem-ma-2017-c3630f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Salem, MA shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 100 reports came from Massachusetts in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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