CaseTriangle2001
Mt.Vernon, IL, USA
Bright lights shaped as a triangle
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-08
- Where
- Mt.Vernon, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- about 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.317, -88.903 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mt-vernon-il-2001-5beb47
In context
- Mt.Vernon, IL has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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.