CaseTriangle1989

Louisiana, LA, USA

I was hitch hicking. It was late and I walked off the main highway on a paved road that ran perpendicular. I had walked about half a

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-05-15
Where
Louisiana, LA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.449, -91.052 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-louisiana-la-1989-9a1c4d
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

  • Louisiana, LA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Louisiana in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 12% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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