CaseTriangle1989

Centralia, WA, USA

A huge triangularly shaped silent object that blotted out 25 degrees of the sky, lighted by four glowing points.

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 (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-10-10
Where
Centralia, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
46.716, -122.954 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-centralia-wa-1989-e6e032
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

  • Centralia, WA has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 8 reports from Washington.
  • The 1980s skewed 12% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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