UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2006

Carbondale, IL, USA

Apparent fixed wing aircraft flying at a few thousand feet making no noise.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-18
Where
Carbondale, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
37.727, -89.217 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-carbondale-il-2006-9a089d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Carbondale, IL.
  • This case is one of 144 Illinois reports filed in 2006.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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