UFOMYST
Casetriangle1997

Reno/Sparks, NV, USA

Large inverted triangle light moved slowly along the flight path of the airport for about a minute then instantly vanished.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-12
Where
Reno/Sparks, NV, USA
Shape
triangle
Duration
about1:30sec
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-reno-sparks-nv-1997-293720
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Reno/Sparks, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 29 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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