CaseCone1989

San Diego (Fire Mountain), CA, USA

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Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 32400s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-07-20
Where
San Diego (Fire Mountain), CA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
8-10 hours
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
cone-over-san-diego-fire-mountain-ca-1989-d9b757
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in San Diego (Fire Mountain), CA.
  • This case is one of 32 California reports filed in 1989.
  • Cone craft made up 0.4% of 1980s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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