Topsail Beach, NC, USA
Near Topsail Beach, 3 silent, star-sized objects each come to a stop, then one at a time, shoot off to disappear seaward
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-10-10
- Where
- Topsail Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.365, -77.631 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-topsail-beach-nc-1989-e36bb0
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
- One of 5 documented reports from Topsail Beach, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 12 sightings in 1989.
- Light sightings ran at 11% during the 1980s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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