CaseDisk1990
Platteville, WI, USA
Close encounter on the highway with a hovering craft / bright lights (white, red and orange).
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-01-15
- Where
- Platteville, WI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.734, -90.478 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-platteville-wi-1990-0e9f94
Wave
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 5 reports logged in Platteville, WI.
- This case is one of 11 Wisconsin reports filed in 1990.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% 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.