Cherry Valley (outside of), IL, USA
8/24/1990 cherry valley,il. triangle observed for approx. 15min. then next thing sitting in car parked on side of road missing 2hrs.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-08-24
- Where
- Cherry Valley (outside of), IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 42.235, -88.949 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-cherry-valley-outside-of-il-1990-5df7d0
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Cherry Valley (outside of), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1990 brought 9 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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