CaseLight1990

Traverse City, MI, USA

Three eye-witnesses to a bluish light that moved so fast it was unreal above the tree tops.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-11-01
Where
Traverse City, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 min
Geo
44.763, -85.621 · exact
Slug
light-over-traverse-city-mi-1990-ecc00e
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 31 reports logged in Traverse City, MI.
  • This case is one of 11 Michigan 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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