Wallops Island, VA, USA
Black cilinder with a crome colored "strap" arond its middle, cylinder stood on end, No lights and nothing supporting it
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-04-02
- Where
- Wallops Island, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.853, -75.474 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-wallops-island-va-1989-f67613
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Wallops Island, VA.
- This case is one of 7 Virginia reports filed in 1989.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1980s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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