CaseLight1989

Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom

A red 'sun' that pulsed back and forth in an unbelievable way.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-30
Where
Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
52.481, -1.900 · exact
Slug
light-over-birmingham-uk-england-1989-7657ed
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    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

  • Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from United Kingdom in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 11% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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