CaseFireball1989

Copenhagen (Denmark), Denmark

ann:Light as an exploding thing then taking form to a ball'and first scatter the to the nearest corner,next the opposit'site of the lau

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-10-11
Where
Copenhagen (Denmark), Denmark
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3min.MAX'
Geo
55.676, 12.566 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-copenhagen-denmark-1989-e9f84e
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…

In context

  • Copenhagen (Denmark), Denmark shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Denmark in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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