UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Columbus, OH, USA

I saw a dark, triangular craft gliding across the sky in Columbus, Ohio.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-columbus-oh-1997-4cf0f6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 29 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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