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
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
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.