CaseFormation1990
Lansing, MI, USA
slow moving 3 faint orange tight v formation low in the sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-02-04
- Where
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20sec
- Geo
- 42.733, -84.556 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lansing-mi-1990-1818e3
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 60 reports logged in Lansing, MI.
- This case is one of 11 Michigan reports filed in 1990.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% 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.