Bemidji, MN, USA
In october 1997 my dad and I seen 3 lights in the shape of a triangle tumbling over each other in Bemidji Minnesota.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-01
- Where
- Bemidji, MN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Geo
- 47.474, -94.880 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bemidji-mn-1997-b766af
Part of a wave
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
- Bemidji, MN shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from Minnesota in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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