West Palm Beach, FL, USA
After reading the 1966 acount of Jack brown in cal, talked about a butane shaped craft. I thought I would tell you about the one I saw
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-10-20
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-west-palm-beach-fl-1989-c4ffaf
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 86 reports logged in West Palm Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 16 Florida reports filed in 1989.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1980s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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