UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

North Tonawanda, NY, USA

Low slow silent over houses,hand glider shaped, 1.5 x as big, 5' thick, round edges,dirty yellow,lit from inside like candle thru wax p

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-24
Where
North Tonawanda, NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1.5 minutes
Geo
43.039, -78.864 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-north-tonawanda-ny-1997-c70218
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • North Tonawanda, NY shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from New York in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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