UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Lahaina, HI, USA

During our viewing of the Paleids meteor shower, we viewed a large dark triangle craft appear out of no where and travel across the sky

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-15
Where
Lahaina, HI, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
20.875, -156.680 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lahaina-hi-1997-a0dcd8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Lahaina, HI.
  • This case is one of 6 Hawaii reports filed in 1997.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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