Mt. Prospect, IL, USA
Did anyone else witness the bright strobe light triangular objects in the sky over Mt. Prospect, Illinois 7-28-05
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-28
- Where
- Mt. Prospect, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.066, -87.937 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mt-prospect-il-2005-0e28eb
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 8 documented reports from Mt. Prospect, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 209 sightings in 2005.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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