Hart Mountain (near Lakeview), OR, USA
Isosceles triangle, reflecting light, moved at 45 degree angle from ground level to milky way over 3-5 minutes at about 22:15 on July 2
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-22
- Where
- Hart Mountain (near Lakeview), OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 42.399, -119.781 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hart-mountain-near-lakeview-or-1997-6bbdfc
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Hart Mountain (near Lakeview), OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 37 reports came from Oregon in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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