Flying Triangle Mystery

History

Flying Triangle Mystery is held in the archive as a research report by Omar Fowler, the British researcher who led the Phenomena Research Association in Derby and who built up one of the more substantial UK case databases on the late twentieth century flying-triangle sighting wave. The triangle wave is the British analogue to the better-known Belgian wave of 1989 to 1990, which the Belgian SOBEPS organisation documented through its Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique two-volume case study. The British triangle reports overlap the Belgian wave geographically and chronologically, and the working hypothesis among researchers of both wings has been that the underlying object or objects, whatever they are, sit inside a single phenomenon rather than two regional ones.

Fowler's report documents the British side of that case-record working method. The Phenomena Research Association's running case-collection effort across the 1990s built up a structured database of triangle-typology reports across the UK, with particular attention to the East Midlands and South Wales clusters where multiple-witness sightings recurred. The report's editorial framing is the one Fowler had been working in for years: collect the reports, structure the case database, look for typological consistency across reports, and resist forcing premature interpretive closure.