UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Dale Ville, IN, USA

Triangle craft with pole sticking out the front with small rectangle wing near end of pole and small ball at end of pole. Color of airc

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-23
Where
Dale Ville, IN, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 min
Geo
40.121, -85.558 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-dale-ville-in-1997-8bc9b8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Dale Ville, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 20 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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