CaseTriangle1966

Winston-Salem, NC, USA

3 white lights high in the sky,making a 90 degree fast turn

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 55s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-11-15
Where
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
50-60 sec
Geo
36.100, -80.244 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-winston-salem-nc-1966-ef7ed6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • This is one of 48 reports logged in Winston-Salem, NC.
  • This case is one of 4 North Carolina reports filed in 1966.
  • Triangle craft made up 4.3% of 1960s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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