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The Humming Black Triangle

On a dark evening in June or July 2011, two US Army veterans pulling out of a driveway saw a massive black triangle with a car-sized white light in each corner pass low overhead, humming and pulsing, and cross the trees before either could film it. They described it to the FBI in April 2025. This is the record of what they reported, not a verdict on what flew over the street.

◆ THE SHORT VERSION

  • The Humming Black Triangle is a reported UAP case in Location withheld by the FBI, USA, June or July 2011.
  • Two US Army veterans told the FBI a massive black triangle with a car-sized white light in each corner flew low over them, making a low, pulsing hum.
  • One of them estimated it at about 800 feet up and 200 feet long by 100 wide, with something greyish or graphite-coloured in the middle.
  • It crossed the tree line in ten to fifteen seconds, before a phone could be brought out to film it.
  • One of them believed neighbours also saw it, but no statements from them are in the release.
  • For this case Fractured Realities holds 2 distinct sources and 2 corroborating primary documents.
  • The archive grades it L1 · SINGLE CHANNEL — it is retold more than once, but everything traces back through one channel.

Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.

The Humming Black Triangle
From the case file · released government record · FBI-UAP-D029 · FBI digital rendering of what the witness described, 2011 · released by the Department of War, 7 Aug 2026 ↗
EVENT DATE
June or July 2011
LOCATION
Location withheld by the FBI · USA
INDEPENDENCE
L1 · SINGLE CHANNEL
SOURCES
2 distinct
CLAIMANTS
0
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT

It was about 8 or 9 PM and dark. The car was fifty feet out of the driveway and about to turn left when one of the men saw three lights in the sky. He got out and looked up. Above him, flying north, was "a massive black isosceles triangle shaped object". Each corner held a car-sized white light with a diffuse glow, set back a little from the point. It flew low and made "a low humming noise that made a pulsing sound".

The other man put it at maybe 800 feet up and, judging from their surroundings, 200 feet long by 100 wide. It moved slowly and steadily. He remembered something greyish or graphite-coloured in the middle. By the time a phone came out to film it, the object had crossed the tree line behind the houses to the north. It was in view for ten to fifteen seconds. One of them felt "dumbfounded and awestruck".

What is on the record

An FBI FD-302, FBI-UAP-D028, records a joint FBI interview in April 2025. One man served six and a half years in the US Army and the other twenty-four; the rest of their backgrounds is redacted. The release pairs it with an FBI digital rendering, FBI-UAP-D029, of a man beside a pickup on a residential street at night looking up at a dark triangle with a light at each corner. It depicts what they described and is not a photograph. Both came in the Department of War's PURSUE release of 7 August 2026.

Every place is withheld, down to the road they were turning onto. One of them believed a couple of neighbours also saw the object, and they said they would ask for statements. None is in the release. The shape wavers between isosceles and equilateral, and "low to the ground" sits beside an 800-foot estimate. The record offers no explanation, and with the place and day withheld nothing can be checked against reports from the time.

Why it sits where it does

The page grades L1, one channel. Two men saw it, but both reach the archive through one interview fourteen years later. Both are redacted, so the record carries no identified witness and the page cannot reach the official-record tier. A tier measures sourcing, never truth. What flew over the street is not resolved here.

◆ CORROBORATION
✓FBI-UAP-D028_FD-302_Dark-Triangle-with-Lights_2011 (government primary)
✓FBI-UAP-D029_Digital-Rendering_Dark-Triangle-with-Lights_2011.jpg (government primary)
◆ SOURCES

Everything this file draws on, in the open — reports, not reality. Check us.

Documents & published sources

Government records, papers and journalism the archive links to this case.

government records · 2
DoW UAP Release 5 · 2
FBI-UAP-D028_FD-302_Dark-Triangle-with-Lights_2011corroboration
FBI-UAP-D029_Digital-Rendering_Dark-Triangle-with-Lights_2011.jpgcorroboration
TRIANGULAR CRAFTMILITARY WITNESS2011USA

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