Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
07/03/90 Lake Tahoe Ca Circle 1-3 minutes It shot into our view about 50 ft away and then shot out of sight after a few minutes
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-07-03
- Where
- Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Geo
- 39.145, -120.096 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lake-tahoe-ca-1990-57e0b8
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 1 reports logged in Lake Tahoe, CA.
- This case is one of 48 California reports filed in 1990.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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