UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2006

Mettawa, IL, USA

Sitting in car and saw a large black triangular object hovering above the sky and then it suddenly shot up into the clouds.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-15
Where
Mettawa, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
42.233, -87.926 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-mettawa-il-2006-73e96c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Mettawa, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 144 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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