CaseRectangle1989

Talladega (Super Speedway), AL, USA

Rectangular object with rounded edges approx 20-30,000 ft alt seen above superspeedway

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 (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-05-07
Where
Talladega (Super Speedway), AL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
33.436, -86.106 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-talladega-super-speedway-al-1989-0a8271
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Talladega (Super Speedway), AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 1 sightings in 1989.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 3.2% during the 1980s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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