Elmwood Park, IL, USA
On the morning of july 4 2008, I went outside to the front lawn of my apartment to watch the 4th of july parade in Elmwood Park IL. I h
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Elmwood Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.921, -87.809 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-elmwood-park-il-2008-f14564
Part of a wave
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
- Elmwood Park, IL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 167 reports came from Illinois in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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