Scarborough (Canada), ON, Canada
Mom & 3 daughters see "rounded, triangular" obj. w/ approx. 20 lights on leading edge streak overhead to S. Bigger than fist 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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-01
- Where
- Scarborough (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- 60.000, -96.000 · fallback
- Slug
- triangle-over-scarborough-canada-on-1997-9a9ed2
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
- Scarborough (Canada), Canada shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from Canada in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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