CaseLight1991

Maiduguri (Nigeria), Nigeria

What fascinated me was the irregularity in speed and distant to the Airliner

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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-07-15
Where
Maiduguri (Nigeria), Nigeria
Shape
Light
Duration
20-25 seconds
Geo
11.847, 13.157 · exact
Slug
light-over-maiduguri-nigeria-1991-5335db
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Maiduguri (Nigeria), Nigeria.
  • This case is one of 1 Nigeria reports filed in 1991.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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