Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Myself, my 12 yr old son and his friend watched a large triangular shape craft with colored lights (red mostly) in chevron design glide
Report quality: High73/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 33.509, -111.899 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-scottsdale-az-1997-f9c0db
Part of a wave
AZ flap 1997-03
AZ, USA
47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Scottsdale, AZ reports filed in March 1997.
AZ flap 1997-03
This report belongs to the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Scottsdale, AZ shows up 172 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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