Irvine, CA, USA
Watch a bright star at twilight it descended and split off into two over the bay with no sound two objects with neon lights underneath.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-06-30
- Where
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-irvine-ca-1989-25cf03
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 85 reports logged in Irvine, CA.
- This case is one of 32 California reports filed in 1989.
- Diamond craft made up 1.9% of 1980s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
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.