CaseChevron1989

Miami, FL, USA

Dark boomerang shaped UFO hovers over MIA airport then flies upward past arriving airliner

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-09-29
Where
Miami, FL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
approx 15 min
Geo
25.774, -80.194 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-miami-fl-1989-fdb42c
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

  • Miami, FL shows up 340 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from Florida in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 1.8% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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