CaseFormation1990

Lansing, MI, USA

slow moving 3 faint orange tight v formation low in the sky

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-02-04
Where
Lansing, MI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20sec
Geo
42.733, -84.556 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lansing-mi-1990-1818e3
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

  • This is one of 60 reports logged in Lansing, MI.
  • This case is one of 11 Michigan reports filed in 1990.
  • Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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