UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop1989

Sierra Madre, CA, USA

odd sighting at Mount Wilson

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-09-20
Where
Sierra Madre, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
34.162, -118.053 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-sierra-madre-ca-1989-0baa4b
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Sierra Madre, CA.
  • This case is one of 32 California reports filed in 1989.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.4% of 1980s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.