Mokena, IL, USA
We saw three red lights, in a triangle, in Mokena IL
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-16
- Where
- Mokena, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.526, -87.889 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mokena-il-2009-36cac9
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…
Local cluster
Mokena, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2009.
In context
- One of 23 documented reports from Mokena, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2009.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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