CaseTriangle1997
Monchengladbach (Germany), Germany
White lights in triangular shape hovering for minutes then disappearing upwards and fading.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-01
- Where
- Monchengladbach (Germany), Germany
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 51.185, 6.442 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-monchengladbach-germany-1997-759083
Wave
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
- Monchengladbach (Germany), Germany has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 3 reports from Germany.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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