CaseUnknown1989

Bloomington, IL, USA

In 1989, I was 14 years old and lived in Bloomington, IL, at that time with a population of around 60k people. I lived in a regular nei

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-30
Where
Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
multi
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-bloomington-il-1989-abf975
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • One of 36 documented reports from Bloomington, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 14 sightings in 1989.

Report

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