CaseTriangle1998
Brighton, IL, USA
The object moved very low and slow, triangle in shape, big, black, and very quiet.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-20
- Where
- Brighton, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.040, -90.141 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-brighton-il-1998-5f011f
In context
- Brighton, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.