Normal, IL, USA
Triangle craft with 3 lines of red lights underneath and white lights on the sides, flying at low altitude.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-05
- Where
- Normal, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5:00
- Geo
- 40.514, -88.991 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-normal-il-2013-e8819d
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
- Normal, IL shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 173 reports came from Illinois in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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