UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Barrington, IL, USA

Very large triangular humming (pulsing) craft with several lights moving slowly

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-05-06
Where
Barrington, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.154, -88.136 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-barrington-il-1978-f66e2c
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In context

  • Barrington, IL shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Illinois in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 7.9% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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