UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2018

Bloomington (just N of; on I-55 N), IL, USA

Large triangular hovering object with very bright white and red lights. ((anonymous report))

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-26
Where
Bloomington (just N of; on I-55 N), IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10-15 minutes and continu
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bloomington-just-n-of-on-i-55-n-il-2018-848256
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…

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In context

  • Bloomington (just N of; on I-55 N), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 104 reports came from Illinois in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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