Carterville, IL, USA
this did NOT fly like a plane as the speed was to fast and stopped to suddenly then seemed to go stait up out to space it was clear
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-12-01
- Where
- Carterville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3:00 minutes
- Geo
- 37.760, -89.077 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-carterville-il-2010-7cd7ff
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Carterville, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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