UFO and UAP cases: triangles and V shapes

19 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters describing triangles and V shapes, 1951 to 2024: 9 disputed, 4 unresolved, 3 explained, 3 identified. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.

19 cases

• Lubbock Lights 30 August 1951 · Lubbock, Texas DISPUTED
• Carson Sink — two colonels in a B-25 meet three deltas 24 July 1952 · Over the Carson Sink, Nevada, on the airway to Salt Lake City UNRESOLVED
• Zanfretta — the Torriglia night patrol 6 December 1978 · Marzano di Torriglia, Genoa, Italy DISPUTED
• Todmorden — PC Alan Godfrey 29 November 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire UNRESOLVED
• Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED
• Hudson Valley "Westchester boomerang" 24 July 1984 · Brewster, Putnam County, New York EXPLAINED
• Belgian UFO wave — F-16 intercepts 30 March 1990 · Brussels – Wavre – Gembloux, Belgium DISPUTED
• Calvine photograph 4 August 1990 · Moors above Calvine, Perthshire UNRESOLVED
• The “immense triangle” over France — a Proton re-entry 5 November 1990 · From the Bay of Biscay across France to Alsace IDENTIFIED
• Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED
• Phoenix Lights 13 March 1997 · Henderson, NV → Phoenix → Tucson, Arizona EXPLAINED
• Howden Moor — sonic booms and the search for a crash 24 March 1997 · Howden Moors, Dark Peak, on the Derbyshire–South Yorkshire border DISPUTED
• Southern Illinois police sightings 5 January 2000 · Highland → Lebanon → Shiloh → Dupo, Illinois DISPUTED
• Tinley Park lights 21 August 2004 · Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois DISPUTED
• AARO’s “Southeast Asia Triangles” — fishing nets 30 August 2017 · A river in Southeast Asia (exact location withheld) IDENTIFIED
• USS Omaha sphere & USS Russell "pyramids" 15 July 2019 · Off San Diego, California DISPUTED
• Espora naval air base — the “battle” that the Navy denied 5 September 2023 · Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires province EXPLAINED
• Colorado Springs law-enforcement videos 1 October 2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado UNRESOLVED
• The “plume” over Buenos Aires — a Chinese rocket identified 8 May 2024 · Castelar, Buenos Aires province; also seen from Entre Ríos, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay IDENTIFIED

By shape

• Lights and fireballs 137
• Spheres and orbs 60
• Discs and saucers 47
• Cylinders and cigar shapes 26
• Formations and rows of lights 19