UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Tampa, FL, USA

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Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-18
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-tampa-fl-1997-5f2c7e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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