UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Dracut, MA, USA

A large black flying machine shaped like a triangle that made no sound.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-08
Where
Dracut, MA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 min
Geo
42.670, -71.302 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-dracut-ma-1997-3bddbd
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Dracut, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Massachusetts in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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