UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1990

Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom

Large Black Triangle with three Red Lights at each corner about 500 Meters big flew at about 100Feet!!!!

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-02-08
Where
Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Triangle
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
53.481, -2.237 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-manchester-uk-england-1990-07e0d5
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

  • Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 73 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from United Kingdom in 1990.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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