Elgin, IL, USA
At 8:00pm a cluster of orange lights appeared to be headed eastward to the northwest of Elgin.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-01-26
- Where
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 minute
- Geo
- 42.037, -88.281 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-elgin-il-2013-52ce3a
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 26 reports logged in Elgin, IL.
- This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2013.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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