UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

Rushville, IL, USA

We saw a trianglar shaped craft in the back woods of western Illinois.

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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-16
Where
Rushville, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5-8 minutes
Geo
40.121, -90.563 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-rushville-il-2004-fb4e56
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

  • Rushville, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 220 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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