UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Shelbyville, IL, USA

triangle ,3 huge bright lights, fly over me at 100 feet (silent)

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-09
Where
Shelbyville, IL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
39.406, -88.790 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-shelbyville-il-2008-05b987
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Shelbyville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 167 sightings in 2008.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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