CaseTriangle2019

Highland, IL, USA

I witnessed a triangular shaped air craft with 4 lights flying at low altitude with no noise and at slow stall speeds

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-13
Where
Highland, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.739, -89.671 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-highland-il-2019-8ac16d
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…

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Highland, IL.
  • This case is one of 166 Illinois reports filed in 2019.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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