Dublin (Republic of Ireland), Ireland
i was taking a shortcut through the secondary school and i saw a very bright light,i thought it was a really bright star.as i got close
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-10-21
- Where
- Dublin (Republic of Ireland), Ireland
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 25mins[at least]
- Geo
- 53.333, -6.249 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-dublin-republic-of-ireland-1989-e8eeb9
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
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Dublin (Republic of Ireland), Ireland.
- This case is one of 3 Ireland reports filed in 1989.
- Triangle craft made up 12% of 1980s reports, vs 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.