CaseTriangle2008
Lombard, IL, USA
light in the sky over lombard on 7/4 coming from the east
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 (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Lombard, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 41.880, -88.008 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-lombard-il-2008-27d1c0
Wave
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
- Lombard, IL shows up 25 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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