UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Warrenton, VA, USA

triangular metalic object high in the sky moving at an extreme high rate of speed.changed direction 3 times at sharp angles.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-23
Where
Warrenton, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
38.713, -77.795 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-warrenton-va-1997-17c60e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Warrenton, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 23 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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