Malibu, CA, USA
i was surfing, with another guy, at County Line (across from Neptune's Net), when it came out of the fog bank just offshore.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-05-04
- Where
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.026, -118.780 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-malibu-ca-1990-646e3f
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
- Malibu, CA shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 48 reports came from California in 1990.
- In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.