UFOMYST
CaseCone1989

Vanport, PA, USA

Cone shaped craft, size of small car, approx 50 feet above ground. Shot up in sky when I started running.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-02-17
Where
Vanport, PA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.685, -80.329 · exact
Slug
cone-over-vanport-pa-1989-4849f5
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Vanport, PA.
  • This case is one of 7 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1989.
  • Cone craft made up 0.4% of 1980s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Report

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