Lake Villa, IL, USA
Past midnight I spotted a fast, triangular shaped craft with 3 lights(white and red) shoot over the horizon.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-15
- Where
- Lake Villa, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.417, -88.074 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-lake-villa-il-2006-602c89
Part of a wave
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
- Lake Villa, IL shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 144 reports came from Illinois in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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