Madras, OR, USA
I worked swing shift at the mill there And I was on the back porch.Everone else was sleeping.I was relaxing before bed.I could view mos
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Madras, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 44.633, -121.129 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-madras-or-1997-d2ba60
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Madras, OR has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 37 reports from Oregon.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.