Orleans, CA, USA
1 triangular dark aircraft with red lighted on 3 corners coming from NE meets 2 aircraft (lights) met flew due N. ((anonymous))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1991-10-15
- Where
- Orleans, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.302, -123.541 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-orleans-ca-1991-49629f
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
- Orleans, CA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from California in 1991.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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