UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Arizona (desert; on route 66), AZ, USA

There were smaller lights flying around the hugh triangle firing lasers and they blew up something.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-09
Where
Arizona (desert; on route 66), AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
32.756, -111.671 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-arizona-desert-on-route-66-az-1997-eee247
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Arizona (desert; on route 66), AZ has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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