Bourbonnais, IL, USA
I was traveling home from visiting my dad in Carle Hospital on 113 heading towards Custer Park, IL. It was dark out I was in farm count
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-01
- Where
- Bourbonnais, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- -1 min
- Geo
- 41.154, -87.888 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bourbonnais-il-1997-116a9b
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Bourbonnais, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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