CaseTriangle1988
Vandalia, MO, USA
The shape was a dark sharp triangle that made no noise and seemed transparent from directly below.
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 (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-01-15
- Where
- Vandalia, MO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.311, -91.488 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-vandalia-mo-1988-4d77df
In context
- Vandalia, MO has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1988 brought 9 reports from Missouri.
- The 1980s skewed 12% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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.