UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Shelby, OH, USA

Triangular, slow moving object with no lights and very low altitude outside of Shelby

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-09-15
Where
Shelby, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.881, -82.662 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-shelby-oh-1978-39f877
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Shelby, OH.
  • This case is one of 10 Ohio reports filed in 1978.
  • Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.