Auburn, WA, USA
We were outside lighting fireworks when way up in the sky we saw a triangular shaped "thing" that had lights. It was going very very sl
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 47.307, -122.228 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-auburn-wa-1997-fdbc96
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 104 reports logged in Auburn, WA.
- This case is one of 89 Washington reports filed in 1997.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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