CaseTriangle1997

Oklahoma City, OK, USA

3 TRIANULAR OBJECTS HOVERING APPROX. ONE MINUTE, OBJECTS QUICKLY DARTED UP THEN MOVED FROM EAST TO SOUTHWEST, AT MODERATE PACE.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-16
Where
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 TO 5 MINUTES
Geo
35.468, -97.516 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-oklahoma-city-ok-1997-079729
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…

In context

  • One of 136 documented reports from Oklahoma City, OK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oklahoma logged 7 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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