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CaseTriangle2000

Rockford, IL, USA

MY SONS WERE GETTING READY FOR BED WHEN THEY CALLED ME INTO THEIR ROOM AND ASKED ME WHAT THIS THING WAS IN THE SKY.THE OBJECT WAS STATI

Report quality: High89/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2000-02-16
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-rockford-il-2000-a8298e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2000

    IL flap 2000-02

    IL, USA

    15 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2000 peak months 2–2; top shape circle

    15 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

14 reports came out of Rockford, IL in February 2000 alone — a local cluster.

Flap

IL flap 2000-02

Logged as part of the IL flap 2000-02, a 15-report space-time cluster.

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In context

  • Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
  • 2000 brought 96 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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