Peoria, IL, USA
Two sets of flickering orange lights in triangular form (6 lights total) seen over Rt 6 between Peoria and Chillicothe, IL, 9/15/12
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-15
- Where
- Peoria, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.694, -89.589 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-peoria-il-2012-628600
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
- Peoria, IL shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 270 reports came from Illinois in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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