Roscoe, IL, USA
At the time I was about thirteen years old, but I remember it well. We lived near big apple orchard and had just finished picking a b
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-09-01
- Where
- Roscoe, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10minutes
- Geo
- 42.413, -89.009 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-roscoe-il-1990-0a8a2c
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Roscoe, IL shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Illinois in 1990.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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