UFOMYST
Casetriangle1997

Arabela (near Roswell), NM, USA

I was on a ranch that I was living on at the base of the capitain mountains, and was sitting outside the house under a tree, when he to

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-22
Where
Arabela (near Roswell), NM, USA
Shape
triangle
Duration
2.5 hrs
Geo
33.587, -105.173 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-arabela-near-roswell-nm-1997-7d6bfc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Arabela (near Roswell), NM.
  • This case is one of 24 New Mexico reports filed in 1997.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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