CaseTriangle1987
Rockford, IL, USA
It about five after ten on a clear wind calm night. A friend and I were in a natural area on the property of a local hospital listening
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.
- Duration parsed: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-07-10
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-rockford-il-1987-8e1baf
In context
- Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Illinois in 1987.
- In the 1980s, 12% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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