Tinley Park, IL, USA
I saw three bright red lights high up in the sky in the shape of a triangle that eventually aligned into a line and slowly disappeared.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 30 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-21
- Where
- Tinley Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.573, -87.784 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-tinley-park-il-2004-d72217
Part of a wave
IL flap 2004-08
IL, USA
41 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2004 peak months 8–8; top shape light
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 32 Tinley Park, IL reports filed in August 2004.
IL flap 2004-08
This report belongs to the IL flap 2004-08 — 41 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Tinley Park, IL shows up 159 times across the archive.
- 220 reports came from Illinois in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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