Manteno, IL, USA
Last night around 9:15 my wife and I were sitting in our backyard when my wife thought she saw a shooting star, I turned to look but wh
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-17
- Where
- Manteno, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.251, -87.831 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-manteno-il-2020-72cdb4
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
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Manteno, IL.
- This case is one of 169 Illinois reports filed in 2020.
- Triangle craft made up 6.2% of 2020s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.