CaseChanging1990

Redding, CA, USA

symentrical group of orange dots in night sky, no sound at all, no break in flowing formation at all

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-08-23
Where
Redding, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3 to 5 minutes
Geo
40.587, -122.392 · exact
Slug
changing-over-redding-ca-1990-c93700
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

  • Redding, CA shows up 103 times across the archive.
  • 48 reports came from California in 1990.
  • In the 1990s, 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.