Destrehan, LA, USA
Walking home from football practice one evening I was looking up at the clouds and saw a cloud and out of the cloud flew a black circul
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-01-15
- Where
- Destrehan, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.943, -90.353 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-destrehan-la-1989-b35c01
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Destrehan, LA.
- This case is one of 5 Louisiana reports filed in 1989.
- Circle craft made up 8.2% of 1980s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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