Black triangle

The woo is out there UFOlogy

Aliens did it...

The Urantia Book Robert France Dulce base Amitakh Stanford Alien autopsy Wilhelm Reich

...and ran away

Dogon people Out-of-place artifact Crystal skull Yonaguni Monument Ancient Aliens Black Knight satellite v - t - e

Is it really necessary to point out that this is an "artist's conception"?

This photo is 100% real. (But the objects are of earthly origin.)

Black triangles are a type of UFO that look like, well, black triangles with or without lights on their tips. The type seems to have become popular in the 1980s and 1990s. By some coincidence, this is about the same time when vaguely triangular stealth aircraft like B-2 and F-117 were tested and commissioned. Some crazier individuals might propose that these stealth aircraft are actually reverse engineered black triangles. For some time sightings of black triangles became much more common. Either the old flying saucers became passé for alien pilots, or this is just a new fad in hoaxes.

Explanation

Most likely there's no single reason explaining all cases. Nevertheless, here are several possible reasons (assuming that the observer actually saw something triangular):

• Any group of three lights in the dark sky may be interpreted by an observer as a single, triangular craft, even if it's actually three aircraft flying in a formation or something entirely else. Given that a number of these sightings occur at night, this is probably one of the most plausible explanations.
• Misidentified stealth aircraft: the military would be very happy indeed to have their secret stuff "identified" as an alien craft Unidentified Flying Object, although some claims overlap with conspiracy theories such as that about a top secret plane called the TR-3B which is capable of flying into space.
  • A "stealth blimp" (see http://www.thestealthblimp.com/, though this one borders on a conspiracy theory)
• A trio of first or second generation Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS) satellites - US spy satellites that fly in a triangular formation.

A real photo taken during the 1990 Belgian UFO wave... of a black, triangle-shaped, piece of polystyrene with a flashlight, suspended by a wire

One particular declassified document from the UK ministry of defense suggests that most sightings could be a sort of buoyant plasma, that is to say a completely natural phenomenon.

See also

• Aurora (aircraft)

External links

• See the Wikipedia article on Black triangle (UFO).

References

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