CaseTriangle1989

Rockfish, VA, USA

Triangle up close. Uncharacteristic thoughts in my mind.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-03-15
Where
Rockfish, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 min
Geo
37.801, -78.756 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-rockfish-va-1989-33d78b
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 1 reports logged in Rockfish, VA.
  • This case is one of 7 Virginia reports filed in 1989.
  • Triangle craft made up 12% of 1980s 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.