CaseUnknown1990
Los Altos, CA, USA
a grouping of white lights surrounded by haze, floodlight shining down, no sound
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
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-03-15
- Where
- Los Altos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- @ 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.385, -122.114 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-los-altos-ca-1990-bf0451
Wave
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
- Los Altos, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1990 brought 48 reports from California.
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.