CaseCigar1989
New Haven, CT, USA
CIGAR SHAPE
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (11 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-11-25
- Where
- New Haven, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 41.308, -72.928 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-new-haven-ct-1989-07ddf8
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
- New Haven, CT has 23 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 5 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1980s skewed 3.9% cigar 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.