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2004: Jaipur, Rajasthan UFO Sighting | Black Triangle Case Archive

Sanket Sharma had a nightly habit: an amateur astronomer, he’d glance up at the stars for a few minutes every time he parked his car in Jaipur, Rajasthan. On the night of May 10, 2004, at 10:20 PM, that habit paid off — a large, black, triangular or boomerang-shaped object crossed the sky from the northeast toward the southwest at a measured, unhurried pace, six to eight bright lights burning along its edges, some of them seeming to swivel and focus in different directions, “like searching for something.” He ran inside to call his parents out to see it. By the time they made it outside, five or six seconds after he’d first spotted it, the object was already gone.

Date: May 10, 2004

Sighting Time: 10:20 PM local time

Day/Night: Night

Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Urban or Rural: Urban

No. of Entity(‘s): 0 — none reported

Entity Type: Not applicable

Entity Description: Not applicable

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) — retained, though the object’s described structure is considerably more defined than a typical undifferentiated nocturnal light; see Researcher’s Notes

Duration: 5–6 seconds

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A large, black, triangular or boomerang-shaped object with 6–8 very bright lights along its edges; some lights appeared to focus in specific directions, as if searching for something; traveled from the northeast toward the southwest at a moderate, unhurried pace

Shape of Object(s): Large black triangle or boomerang shape

Size of Object(s): Undocumented — described only as “rather big”

Color of Object(s): Black, with about 6–8 very bright lights along the edges

Distance to Object(s): Undocumented

Height & Speed: Undocumented altitude; described as moving at a moderate pace, “not very fast”

Number of Witnesses: 1 confirmed (the reporting witness); his parents were called but arrived after the object had already disappeared

Special Features/Characteristics: Witness is a self-described amateur astronomer with an established nightly stargazing habit; some of the object’s edge lights appeared to focus in specific directions, as if searching for something; witness called for his parents upon sighting the object, but they arrived only after it had vanished

Case Status: Unexplained

Source: Sanket Sharma (named witness)

Summary/Description: At 10:20 PM on May 10, 2004, amateur astronomer Sanket Sharma, while parking his car in Jaipur, Rajasthan, observed a large, black, triangular or boomerang-shaped object with 6–8 bright edge lights crossing the sky from the northeast toward the southwest at a moderate pace for about 5–6 seconds. He called his parents to see it, but the object had vanished by the time they arrived.

Related Cases: Undocumented — source does not reference other cases

Detailed Report

The witness, Sanket Sharma, describes himself as an amateur astronomer who had long made a habit of studying the night sky — specifically, taking a few minutes to look up whenever he parked his car for the night in Jaipur, Rajasthan. That habit turned up something unusual on the evening of May 10, 2004, at around 10:20 PM local time: after parking, he looked up and spotted what he described as “a rather big object with several lights below it.”

The object approached from the northeast and continued on toward the southwest, moving at a measured pace rather than anything fast. As Sharma watched, its shape became clear: a large, black triangle or boomerang, with six to eight very bright lights arranged along its edges. Some of those lights, he noted, appeared to swivel and focus in particular directions, an effect he likened to searching for something.

Sharma ran inside to call his parents out to see it, but by the time they reached him, the object was already gone. In total, he estimated he’d had the object in view for about five or six seconds.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

The Jaipur Triangle — India 2004 and Six Seconds an Astronomer Didn’t Waste

Source Credibility: The account is attributed to a named source, Sanket Sharma, who identifies as an amateur astronomer with an established nightly stargazing habit — a background that lends the observation somewhat more weight than a casual, one-off sighting by an untrained observer.
Classification Notes: NL is retained, though the object’s described structure — a large black triangle or boomerang shape with 6–8 bright edge lights — is considerably more defined than a typical undifferentiated nocturnal light; no distance or size data survive in the source to assess proximity more precisely.
Failed Corroboration: The witness called for his parents upon seeing the object, but they arrived only after it had already disappeared — an ordinary, unremarkable gap rather than a sign of inconsistency, though it means the sighting remains effectively single-witness.
The Searching Lights: The witness’s observation that some of the edge lights appeared to focus in specific directions “like searching for something” is a distinctive, purposeful-seeming behavioral detail, offered here as reported without further interpretation.

Six seconds isn’t much to build a case on, but Sanket Sharma’s habit of actually looking up every night is exactly the kind of ordinary discipline that turns a fleeting moment into a usable account: a shape, a color, a light count, a direction of travel, all caught before his parents could even reach the door. It remains filed as Unexplained, resting on the strength of one practiced observer’s brief, clear look.