UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Petaluma, CA, USA

A triangular formation of about 10 glowing,reddish lights suddenly appear and fly silently overhead.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-13
Where
Petaluma, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 sec.
Geo
38.232, -122.637 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-petaluma-ca-1997-daa834
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 43 documented reports from Petaluma, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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