1971: Large triangle flies low over Florence, South Carolina

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: October 1971

Sighting Time: 6:00pm

Day/Night: Dusk/Evening

Location: Florence, South Carolina

Urban or Rural: –in town of Florence,SC – residential area Air Force base about 40 miles West Was travelling toward the coast which is about 65 miles away

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration: 10 min

No. of Object(s): 1

Height & Speed: it was approximately 500 ft high speed was app 30 – 40 mph

Size of Object(s): The object was pretty low for a flying craft app. 500 ft. if I held my arms straight out over my head my hands would be about 2.5 ft apart from wing tip to wing tip.

Distance to Object(s): 500 feet

Shape of Object(s): Triangle

Color of Object(s):  black colored lights on the bottom- no other lights observed approximately 300 ft across completely silent moved slowly app. 30- 40 mph

Number of Witnesses: Single

Source: UFOEvidence.org

Summary/Description: The sighting occurred in the fall of 1971 in Florence, SC. Around dusk one evening the witness went out to the backyard and watched as a large, black triangular craft was passing directly overhead. It was about 300 ft across from tip to tip and about half that distance from front tip to the rear. It was perfectly silent. After the object traveled out of sight, four fighter jets came screaming over, going in the same path.

Full Report

My sighting occurred in the fall of 1971 in Florence, SC. Around dusk one evening I went out to the backyard and as soon as I went out I noticed something dark overhead. I looked up and saw it up close and personal! The largest object I had ever seen in the sky in my entire life. A large, black triangular craft was passing directly overhead. The first thing that I noticed about it was the size and how low it was. It had to be about 300 ft across from tip to tip and about half that distance from front tip to the rear. It was perfectly silent and I couldn’t hear any sound at all coming from it. It was awesome! It was also moving very slowly and I remembered thinking that it moved too slow to remain air born for its size. There were lights on the bottom of various colors – yellow, blue, orange, red. I don’t remember the order of the colors but they were dimly lit and were evenly spaced from one wing tip to the other. It was approximately 500 feet high and the width of it would be about 2.5 feet at arms length. I saw no markings of any kind or any other lights other than the colored lights on the bottom. I saw no visual evidence of an engine or any engine exhaust.

As I stated earlier it was completely silent. I watched it until it traveled (east) out of sight. Just as it got out of my sight 4 fighter jets came screaming over going in the same path as the UFO. There is an Air Force base (Shaw AFB) about 40 miles away and I assume they came from there. I never heard anything on the news about a UFO sighting and I didn’t report it to the Air Force because my parents said we weren’t going to be laughed at by the neighbors for reporting a UFO. I did see this object and I know it was a vehicle and not a cloud or swamp gas or the planet Venus. I was confused at the time because I had never heard of triangular shaped UFOs, I thought all UFOs were saucer or cigar shaped. Since then I have heard of the black triangular UFOs in the 90s, and the one seen in Arizona in 1997 seems very similar to what I saw.

Name: Dennis Horne
Location: Florence, SC, USA
Age: 50