Petersburg, IL, USA
3 orange lights fly over petersburg Illinois
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-28
- Where
- Petersburg, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 40.012, -89.848 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-petersburg-il-2009-7ebfa1
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Petersburg, IL reports filed in November 2009.
In context
- Petersburg, IL shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate 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.