UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Lincoln City, OR, USA

Lights on horizon - object(s) approached, main craft opened/smaller craft "played" returned to original & hover above us

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: 570s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-17
Where
Lincoln City, OR, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
9 to 10 minutes
Geo
44.958, -124.018 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lincoln-city-or-1997-ad08a3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Lincoln City, OR shows up 45 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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