CaseTriangle1997

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

I was hypnotized upon a star and a triangle shaped craft moved before my eyes about 50 FT away.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-01
Where
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 min
Geo
27.771, -82.679 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-st-petersburg-fl-1997-ecd50b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • St. Petersburg, FL shows up 118 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Florida in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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