Black Triangles

[Siani]

I have to be honest - I was unconvinced of the existence of black triangles, until I saw one at the beginning of this month. Now, I know they exist, but what they are, I have no idea. I suspect my sighting was of something military. It was an archetypal black triangle, quite high up, with an orange-white light on each of its three corners, and a central red light. It was a definite black, equilateral triangle against a not-quite dark sky. It was so archetypal, in fact, that when I first saw it, I laughed, and thought to myself, 'that can't be what it looks like'. I kept expecting it to assume the familiar form of a passenger jet as it got closer, but it maintained the triangular shape. It flew blunt end on, which puzzled me, on a very straight trajectory. I have no idea if it made a noise, because there were other aircraft in the sky at the time. I didn't feel any odd effects from it.

Does anyone else feel these things are military? Or at least some of them? I've been left convinced of their existence, but none the wiser as to what they could possibly be.

[macavity]

Siani,

Out of interest - and if you don't mind saying - where were you when you saw it (i.e. country, city etc.)?

[Siani]

Originally Posted by macavity

Siani,

Out of interest - and if you don't mind saying - where were you when you saw it (i.e. country, city etc.)?

Swansea, in Wales, UK. It was around 6.15 PM, on February 1st. A couple of my neighbours, who were sitting around their patio heater, saw it too. But I think they got spooked, so they fled indoors. One of them, the guy, is ex-military. So in retrospect, his reaction surprised me a little.

[Tommy Allison]

Eventually, I'll see one of these black triangles. That is, if I hang out with more people who see them on a regular basis. I got a new digital camera, and know how to use it.

[macavity]

Thanks, appreciate the reply.

In the interests of full disclosure (if the "d" word hasn't been irreversibly tainted by now) I saw what looked like a stereotypical triangle myself back in 1995, location Dartford in Kent, UK. It's actually something that now makes me feel quite frustrated because I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, I think it was before I'd even heard of BTs in a ufological/paranormal/fortean context. It happened early one evening, lasted just a few seconds before moving out of sight (beyond some nearby houses) and my recollection is that it was moving slowly and silently. The problem if I'm honest is that I don't really have much more than the vaguest of memories about it now, other than remembering where and when it took place. Could it have been a misidentification of a normal aircraft? Possibly, I have to remain open to that because my memory of the incident is so vague. I don't recall any news reports about it in the local media but I did notice that someone posted another sighting to a UFO list a few years later saying that they'd seen something similar in the same area (the sighting itself was a few years later, though, too).

I didn't get the sense that it was otherworldly in any way, I just assumed it was some type of craft I wasn't aware of. Certainly if I had to place my bets now, I'd plump for a military/industrial origin rather than anything more...out there :-)

[Siani]

Originally Posted by macavity

I didn't get the sense that it was otherworldly in any way, I just assumed it was some type of craft I wasn't aware of. Certainly if I had to place my bets now, I'd plump for a military/industrial origin rather than anything more...out there :-)

Same here. Unfortunately, due to the presence of some noisy commercial airliners in the sky at the same time, I was unable to determine if the thing made a noise or not. The craft I saw moved fairly quickly, and I was able to watch it until it receded far into the distance. It certainly didn't scare me in any way. Had it stopped and hovered over me, shot towards me, or done anything else that seemed a bit peculiar, I might have felt differently about it. Was it a UFO? To me, it was, as it was airborne and I had no idea what it was. But I don't consider UFO to be shorthand for 'alien spacecraft'. That said, just because my FT most likely has an earthly explanation, it doesn't mean every triangle does. I still find the Belgian flap of 1989-90 very intriguing, given the calibre of some of the witnesses, who felt it wasn't one of ours.

[Kered]

does anyone else think it unusual that appearances of Black triangles appear to have a preference for NATO countries with a particular bias towards the U.S?