UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Freeport, IL, USA

Huge, black,silent, triangular craft seen moving low over house with 2 witnesses present. What was this thing?

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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 (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-05-03
Where
Freeport, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-5 min
Geo
42.297, -89.621 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-freeport-il-1997-831958
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Freeport, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 55 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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