CaseLight1991

Niece (France), France

"Satellite" takes sudden, abrupt right angle turn.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-08-12
Where
Niece (France), France
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
Slug
light-over-niece-france-1991-443290
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

  • Niece (France), France shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from France in 1991.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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