UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Dale City (Interstate 95), VA, USA

3, medium blue, grapefruit-sized lights in a triangular formation in the sky. It moved rapidly a short distance and then stopped in th

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-26
Where
Dale City (Interstate 95), VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
38.637, -77.311 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-dale-city-interstate-95-va-1997-dfc676
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Dale City (Interstate 95), 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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