CaseTriangle1997

New Braunfels, TX, USA

Huge black triangle with 7 lights, very silent, right above trees.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
New Braunfels, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
29.703, -98.124 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-new-braunfels-tx-1997-8e079f
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

  • New Braunfels, TX shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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