UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Hastings, MN, USA

7 Amber colored lights with the shape of isosceles triangle behind it.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-23
Where
Hastings, MN, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
44.743, -92.852 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hastings-mn-1997-987d9c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Hastings, MN.
  • This case is one of 28 Minnesota reports filed in 1997.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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