CaseTriangle1989

Banning, CA, USA

My son and I saw two triangular craft hovering about 100 feet above the roadway.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-30
Where
Banning, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 min.
Geo
33.926, -116.876 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-banning-ca-1989-f3cd37
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

  • Banning, CA has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 32 reports from California.
  • The 1980s skewed 12% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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