UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Hartford (near; Highway 91), CT, USA

Slow moving triangle shaped craft with big white lights and a red pulsating light in the center flew about 300 feet over my car.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-17
Where
Hartford (near; Highway 91), CT, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 min. app.
Geo
41.764, -72.685 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hartford-near-highway-91-ct-1997-3aa076
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Hartford (near; Highway 91), CT has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 12 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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