UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Norton, KS, USA

Triangular craft and other strange sightings

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-05
Where
Norton, KS, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
more than four hours
Geo
39.834, -99.892 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-norton-ks-1997-710fff
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Norton, KS.
  • This case is one of 7 Kansas reports filed in 1997.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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