UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Mokena, IL, USA

While waiting in my vehicle at my daughter's bus stop in -4 degree weather, we both witnessed a very large object in the northern part

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-23
Where
Mokena, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.526, -87.889 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-mokena-il-2008-5572f0
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…

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In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Mokena, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 167 sightings in 2008.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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