Moline, IL, USA
The UFO I saw was near an airport, Quad Cities International Airport to be exact, so the craft I saw may just be a normal plane or Je
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-20
- Where
- Moline, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.507, -90.515 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-moline-il-2011-7a6d81
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Moline, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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