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
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
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.