Montgomery, IL, USA
This happened 15 years ago. I had just finished helping my girlfriend move into her new home, and was heading home myself. I was travel
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-01-29
- Where
- Montgomery, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3-5seconds
- Geo
- 41.731, -88.346 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-montgomery-il-1989-3f7443
Part of a wave
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
- Montgomery, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 14 reports from Illinois.
Report
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