Oberlin, OH, USA
this ship had two high lntense headlights in the front -triangular shaped -red diamond light on the bottom50 feet off the ground
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-19
- Where
- Oberlin, OH, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 41.294, -82.217 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-oberlin-oh-1997-247e5f
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
- Oberlin, OH has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 29 reports from Ohio.
- 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.