CaseTriangle2013

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
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…

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 days

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