Machesney Park, IL, USA
We were heading north on 251 near Forest Hills Road. We saw a huge triangular type ship in the sky; green, red, purple colors.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-12
- Where
- Machesney Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Driving home
- Geo
- 42.347, -89.039 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-machesney-park-il-2015-0491ae
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
- Machesney Park, IL shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 182 reports came from Illinois in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
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