This article here describes the Flying Triangle issue pretty well. What I want to know is, has anyone here seen one?
Furthermore, are there any pictures of said triangles around that any of these viewers happened to take?
I don’t know about you but a UFO with “disco lights” sounds like something to be eliminated.
When I was a boat captain, I saw a lot of unusual things in the night skies offshore, usually attributable to lightning phenomena or Low Earth Orbit satellites, but once and only once did I see something truly unexplainable.
I was standing by at an oil rig 180 miles off of the Louisiana coast at early daybreak, waiting for the rig to finish their crew change so that the cargo could be offloaded from the boat. I left the wheelhouse with the boat drifting about a quarter mile from the rig and walked out onto the wing deck for some fresh air. I was looking up because the skies were very clear and the stars were beautiful, and I had a habit of watching for satellites when offshore at night.
Something appeared to move, and I saw a diamond-shaped area that was completely blanking out the stars. It was jet black, and it had a light on each point of the diamond of somewhat slightly higher magnitude than the stars. It was moving slowly across the sky over the rig towards the boat, and it passed directly overhead, silently. There was no scale with which I could guess it’s size or range, so I held up my hand at arms length, and my hand just about covered the object.
About the time it passed overhead, the radio went berserk with calls from the rig: “Cap’n! Hey, Cap’n! Did you guys see that?” I looked up at the rig, and there were people gathered on its decks, pointing at the object. My deckhand came tearing up the ladder to the wheelhouse, frantic and weeping from fright.
That was the only encounter with an unidentifiable craft that I have ever witnessed.
I’m sorry, you were specifically inquiring about the triangle-shaped aircraft, and not UFOs in general. And I even read the linked page first. :smack:
So sorry. Must. sleep. soon.
I once saw one 7 years back. It was far to high up for me to give any sort of estimate of size or speed but it was about the apparent size of a matchbox held at arm’s length and travelled form the centre of the night sky to the horizon in about 30 seconds, totally visible the whole time. It pretty much matched some of those descriptions: triangular, totally silent. No disco lights but there were either lights along the perimeter or it was reflecting ground lights from the perimeter. The lights were extremely dim and could only be seen if you looked for them. The object itself was only visible because it blocked out the stars. I couldn’t even say that it was a triangle and not an A or V shape since the middle was totally invisible at night,
I have to admit I never even considered it was an alien spacecraft, I just assumed some sort of experimental craft since it had no navigation lights and I was terribly impressed at how quiet it was. A normal jet flying at that apparent level would have been fairly easy to hear if you were listening.
Had I has a camera with me I could have photographed the area of sky, but there almost certainly wasn’t enough light to show anything. As I said it was only really visible at all because it blocked out the stars as it moved. It would have required movie footage of some sport to photograph it.
The A-12 “flying dorito”: http://www.habu2.net/a12/avenger2.htm
Well, they generally sit and spin in the middle of the screen, but can move around, and shoot at asteroids and the occasional UFO.
Ugh. Stupid public computer ate my previous post. And of course like all eaten posts, their content is never repeated word for word. But here goes.
In summary:
I saw a show on tv cover one instance of “flying triangles” where a local avaiton club admited to producing a hoax. I want to beleive the club was located near New Mex. and or Ariz. … It was discussed along with The Taos Hum.
I do not think that one hoax can ruin UFOs for the rest of the bunch. Strictly speaking, I think it is hard for one to ignore the Letter defintion of a UFO, but the Spirit and evolved defintion is what most people spaz out over. I tend to think that the truth is out there, or up there. 
Also, “The Matrix” has a Flying triangle. When The Neb brings neo up in the claw device it has, a triangle of lights is formed. This has to be intentional… Knowing the Wachowskis (SP) intended for everything they shot. A quote (paraphrased) on the amount of religious and other symbolism : “[We intended symbolism on] All of it”
Here’s one kind of flying triangle.
Yes, but that would hardly block out the stars…
Do a Google Image search for triangle UFO and you’ll find some pics. Example - these are the pics I remember seeing in the book Open Skies, Closed Minds by Nick Pope (interesting, if a little wacko).
What I can’t figure out is how this tinfoil-hat wankery wound up getting published as an article on space.com. This article is taken almost word for word from a press release on the nids website (http://www.nidsci.org/articles/8_25trireport.php) without any attempt at balance or questioning the facts provided from a single, not exactly reliable, source.
No, they wouldn’t, but I suspect that geese do account for a fair number of UFO sightings; at night, their white bellies can reflect lights on the ground making them look like a triangular formation of lights, furthermore, I think there’s a type of optical illusion wherein the area bordered by a light outline can actually look darker than the area outside the outline when they are in fact the same shade.
But no, I don’t think this accounts for all UFO sightings, triangular or otherwise; but I don’t think we’re being visited by extraterrestrials.
Watch the pilot episode of The X-Files.
The final scene…
I saw one - in Staten Island, no less. My mom and I were out walking the dog about six or seven years ago and we both looked simultaneously up at the sky to see a very large triangular craft floating not more than 100ft (unless it was really, really enormous) above the houses we were standing right next to. If we’d been any closer, we’d have been under it. There were red and green lights on the underside, and it was dead silent.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a terribly clear mental picture of it, but I’m sure you can find plenty on Google.
