UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2011

Lake Forest, IL, USA

3 Triangular UFOs Sighted in Lake Forest, IL

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-04-11
Where
Lake Forest, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 Minutes
Geo
42.259, -87.841 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lake-forest-il-2011-0eb590
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Lake Forest, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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