UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Unknown Lake, IL, USA

Triangle craft over Illinois highway

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Unknown Lake, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
49.787, -80.651 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-unknown-lake-il-1997-37f7ef
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Unknown Lake, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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