Tinley Park, IL, USA
Numerous bright red, yellow,and green glowing objects that moved at a steady speed with no sound. Observed an explosion of one
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Tinley Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 1/2
- Geo
- 41.573, -87.784 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-tinley-park-il-2013-e9eaef
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
- This is one of 159 reports logged in Tinley Park, IL.
- This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2013.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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