CaseTriangle1991

Highway 24 (near St. Louis), IL, USA

saw a triangle shaped craft, drove under it, it imploded into orange ball of light and shot straight up.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-06-01
Where
Highway 24 (near St. Louis), IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
Slug
triangle-over-highway-24-near-st-louis-il-1991-678a4e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Highway 24 (near St. Louis), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Illinois in 1991.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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