CaseTriangle1997

Scarborough (Canada), ON, Canada

Mom & 3 daughters see "rounded, triangular" obj. w/ approx. 20 lights on leading edge streak overhead to S. Bigger than fist overhead.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-01
Where
Scarborough (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 sec.
Geo
60.000, -96.000 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-scarborough-canada-on-1997-9a9ed2
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

  • Scarborough (Canada), Canada shows up 48 times across the archive.
  • 63 reports came from Canada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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