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CaseTriangle2001

Machesney Park, IL, USA

COULD SEE HIGH INTENSITY LIGHTS (3) FROM 2 MILES. TOO HIGH TO BE STREET LIGHTS AND TOO LOW TO BE AIRPLANE. TRIANGLE 1 WHITE LIGHT ON

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2001-01-25
Where
Machesney Park, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 MINUTES
Geo
42.347, -89.039 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-machesney-park-il-2001-9dad10
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2001

    IL flap 2001-01

    IL, USA

    26 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2001 peak months 1–1; top shape light

    26 reportsOpen wave →
Flap

IL flap 2001-01

This report belongs to the IL flap 2001-01 — 26 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Machesney Park, IL shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

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within 30 days

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