Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, we feature three videos that show the village as a popular place for UFO sightings over the years.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcaseTinley Park. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. For a village that doesn't have an airport near its boundaries just yet, Tinley Park seems to have become quite the destination for flying objects, especially unidentified ones. Maybe it has to do with the helipad that is situated next to the Tinley Park Fire Department's training area off of 183rd Street. Or maybe it has to do with the Tinley Park Village Board approving a measure last month that allows Santa Claus to land in the village Christmas Eve. Perhaps those reasons—and others have …
Years later, eyewitnesses still wonder if the well-documented lights are an elaborate prank or unknown phenomenon.
This summer, some Tinley Park residents will be watching the night sky for Unexplained Flying Objects, and say others in the Southland should too. After all, the communities of Tinley Park, Orland Park, Frankfort, Oak Forest and Mokena hold bragging rights for one of the most well-documented, unexplained UFO events in the nation: the "Tinley Park Lights." Tinley Park Patch interviewed local eyewitnesses and experts about this phenomenon, which includes several sightings of three lights in a triangular pattern, dating from Aug. 21, 2004. Sam Maranto, State Director of Illinois MUFON, said the first in the series of the Tinley Park Lights events had optimum conditions for eyewitnesses. "The night of the 21st was beautiful, people were …
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Tinley Park Mom
2:11 pm on Sunday, December 2, 2012
That explains alot... more ›