UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Buffalo, NY, USA

I was on my way to work and when i walked out the door i saw a triangle shape object hoovering over the house across the street. My wif

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-16
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-buffalo-ny-1997-898eea
Wave

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In context

  • Buffalo, NY has 130 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from New York.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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