CaseDisk1989
Kingsport, TN, USA
Flying saucer with multi-colored lights near Kingsport, TN.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-04-25
- Where
- Kingsport, TN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2
- Geo
- 36.548, -82.562 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-kingsport-tn-1989-041f53
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
- Kingsport, TN shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Tennessee in 1989.
- In the 1980s, 14.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.