CaseFormation1989

Garrison, MN, USA

21:30; 24 lights looking like satellites on a trajectory in steady succession. ((Starlink satellites))

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-07-31
Where
Garrison, MN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
46.294, -93.827 · exact
Slug
formation-over-garrison-mn-1989-070048
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

  • Garrison, MN shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Minnesota in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 2.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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