CaseTriangle1990
Marion, VA, USA
I stood directly under a gigantic spacecraft no more than a couple hundred feet above my neighborhood.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-09-01
- Where
- Marion, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.835, -81.515 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-marion-va-1990-976d8d
Wave
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
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Marion, VA.
- This case is one of 5 Virginia reports filed in 1990.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.