UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Charlotte, NC, USA

I spotted two triangular craft over the treetops........

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-26
Where
Charlotte, NC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
few seconds
Geo
35.227, -80.843 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-charlotte-nc-1997-e5a48a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 231 reports logged in Charlotte, NC.
  • This case is one of 25 North Carolina reports filed in 1997.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.