Casetriangle1997

Bloomington, MN, USA

Tiangular with rounded edges and blue,red lights on the bottom that were fashing not very brightly.We were coming home from store, stor

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-09
Where
Bloomington, MN, USA
Shape
triangle
Duration
5 sec.
Geo
44.841, -93.298 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bloomington-mn-1997-bd72e7
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…

In context

  • Bloomington, MN has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 28 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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