UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1990

Richmond, VA, USA

The huge, silent craft seemed not use aerodynamics like planes; too huge, too slow to remain aloft.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-01-23
Where
Richmond, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-richmond-va-1990-c0e7a7
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

  • Richmond, VA has 125 sightings on file here.
  • 1990 brought 5 reports from Virginia.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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