CaseTriangle1997

Oberlin, OH, USA

this ship had two high lntense headlights in the front -triangular shaped -red diamond light on the bottom50 feet off the ground

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-19
Where
Oberlin, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 min
Geo
41.294, -82.217 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-oberlin-oh-1997-247e5f
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

  • Oberlin, OH has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 29 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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