Sightings2000

St. Clair County police triangle sighting

When: 5 Jan 2000
Where: St. Clair County, IL
Sources: 3 public sources

Lebanon, Illinois, one of the towns whose police reported the object in 2000 Xing979 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Before dawn, a Highland business owner and police officers in Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt and Dupo, Illinois, reported a large, low, slow object with bright lights, which some described as triangular. The FAA suggested an advertising blimp; witnesses and some researchers dispute that.

Sources

PressOn Science: UFO sightings by reasonable people (opens in a new tab)St. Louis Public Radio (St. Louis Beacon, George B. Johnson) / 2008-07-23
OtherThe St. Clair Triangle UFO (Skeptoid #435) (opens in a new tab)Skeptoid (Brian Dunning) / 2014-10-07
OtherThe St. Clair Triangle UFO Incident of 2000: A Fresh Look (opens in a new tab)The Debrief (Jazz Shaw) / 2022-01-19

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