UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Kinaid, IL, USA

Triangular flash of 7 fast moving lights-speed of sound.

Report quality: Low38/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-11
Where
Kinaid, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
4-5 Seconds
Geo
—
Slug
triangle-over-kinaid-il-1997-a4a4ec
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Kinaid, 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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