CaseTriangle1997

Chandler (app. 20 miles E/SE of Phoenix), AZ, USA

My wife and I witnessed a craft passing in front uf us that was close to a mile long.This boomerang/trianglar craft became "transluct"

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Chandler (app. 20 miles E/SE of Phoenix), AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1.5 min
Geo
33.306, -111.841 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-chandler-app-20-miles-e-se-of-phoenix-az-1997-47d916
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Chandler (app. 20 miles E/SE of Phoenix), AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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