UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

I-40 (rural Arizona), AZ, USA

I stood at the exact turning point as it came across from CA./NV then to Phoenix.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-07
Where
I-40 (rural Arizona), AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
triangle-over-i-40-rural-arizona-az-1997-df82ec
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • I-40 (rural Arizona), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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