UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Death Valley, NV, USA

((HOAX??)) This World Nuclear Missiles Must Stop 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Low17/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
1997-03-12
Where
Death Valley, NV, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
36.240, -116.811 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-death-valley-nv-1997-7efa5d
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

  • Death Valley, NV shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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