CaseUnknown1989
Yakima, WA, USA
5 blue lights flying in file. Made perpendicullar turn with 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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-03-01
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4Min
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-yakima-wa-1989-f2cd14
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
- Yakima, WA has 113 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 8 reports from Washington.
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.