CaseFormation1989
San Diego, CA, USA
The silent object had three orange ball-shaped lights that seperated from eachother as it flew over the mountain.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-08-01
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-diego-ca-1989-b3a0c1
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
- San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from California in 1989.
- In the 1980s, 2.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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