CaseChanging1989

Grand Junction, CO, USA

F.A.A. gives false report of UFO over Western Colorado

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-04-01
Where
Grand Junction, CO, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 min
Geo
39.064, -108.551 · exact
Slug
changing-over-grand-junction-co-1989-302778
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Grand Junction, CO shows up 104 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Colorado in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 1.9% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.