CaseTriangle1998
Elizabethtown, IL, USA
Triangular object traveling south crossed the highway in front of us hovered then turned east and left with no sound.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-01
- Where
- Elizabethtown, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 37.446, -88.305 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-elizabethtown-il-1998-e463a5
In context
- Elizabethtown, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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