UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

San Francisco, CA, USA

flying-wing shape outlined by 12-14 lights. Apparent high altitude over- head east to west mvmnt. Appx. 9-12 moon widths

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: 14s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-28
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
12-15s
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-san-francisco-ca-1997-6898e2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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