Elk Park, NC, USA
Huge triangle craft hovering silently 40 ft. above highway 19-E. 6 witnesses, craft seemed to be aware of our presence.
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-08-01
- Where
- Elk Park, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10-15 Min.
- Geo
- 36.157, -81.978 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-elk-park-nc-1989-4b8fd5
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
- Elk Park, NC shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from North Carolina in 1989.
- In the 1980s, 12% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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