Huge and Silent: The Mystery of Black Triangle-Shaped UFOs

In the larger context of the UFO enigma, another still-unsolved mystery stands out: Why are there so many reports describing strange, triangular-shaped, dark, silent craft the size of a football field

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What exactly are these? And why do so many of them float or move slowly and methodically, leaving no visible trails in the sky?

In the years after the US Air Force coined the term “unidentified flying object” (in 1952), reports often referred to UFOs generically as “flying saucers”.

But witnesses then, and ever since, have described a huge range of shapes: plates (or two plates stuck together), eggs, hats, cigars, boomerangs, light bulbs, and even Tic Tac candies.

Among the most commonly reported were V-shaped, arrowhead-shaped, or triangular. David Marler, UFO researcher and author of “Triangular UFOs: An Assessment of the Situation,” says he has reviewed more than 17,000 case files involving unidentified triangular craft, sometimes called “black triangles.”