CaseFlash1989
San Jose, CA, USA
A bright flash illuminated a third of the sky originating from a point like a star.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-10-17
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-san-jose-ca-1989-042289
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 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 32 California reports filed in 1989.
- Flash craft made up 0.6% of 1980s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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