CaseTriangle2002
Des Plaines, IL, USA
10 shapes were flying about a mile outside of Ohare field.
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 (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-05
- Where
- Des Plaines, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.033, -87.883 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-des-plaines-il-2002-194d1d
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Des Plaines, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 98 sightings in 2002.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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