CaseChanging1989

Nags Head, NC, USA

Low flying, lights, shooting lights.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-07-20
Where
Nags Head, NC, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
35.957, -75.624 · exact
Slug
changing-over-nags-head-nc-1989-f8fce3
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…

In context

  • Nags Head, NC has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 12 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1980s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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