CaseUnknown1989

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
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

  • Montgomery, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 14 reports from Illinois.

Report

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