UFOMYST
Casetriangle1997

Detroit, MI, USA

A wedge shaped object flew over head of us as we stood on our deck in our backyard. Ther was a bright light in the middle of the ship a

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-09
Where
Detroit, MI, USA
Shape
triangle
Duration
5min.
Geo
42.331, -83.046 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-detroit-mi-1997-6a2daa
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Detroit, MI shows up 94 times across the archive.
  • 46 reports came from Michigan in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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