Sitka, AK, USA
Bright white light with some blue and possibly red. Traveled left to right in the night sky in an up and down zig zag type movement.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-03-15
- Where
- Sitka, AK, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 57.053, -135.331 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sitka-ak-1990-2e3ac4
Part of a wave
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
- Sitka, AK shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Alaska in 1990.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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