Key West, FL, USA
ON OR ABOUT THE DATE LISTED ABOVE I,ALONG WITH MY FAMILY, WERE DRIVING HOME FROM THE BEACH WHEN MY WIFE ,WHO WAS LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-08-30
- Where
- Key West, FL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 24.555, -81.782 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-key-west-fl-1989-684dff
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
- Key West, FL has 25 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 16 reports from Florida.
- The 1980s skewed 0.4% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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