UFOMYST
CaseLight1990

Roanoke, VA, USA

"Yellow Orb following vehicle , bright yellow lights entering vehicle.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-11-20
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
light-over-roanoke-va-1990-d865fe
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
  • This case is one of 5 Virginia reports filed in 1990.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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