CaseTriangle1997

Gulfport, MS, USA

Triangle UFO near Gulfport, MS 12/31/97

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-12-31
Where
Gulfport, MS, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
under 1 min
Geo
30.367, -89.093 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-gulfport-ms-1997-1a6839
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Gulfport, MS shows up 38 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Mississippi in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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