CaseChevron2016

Beecher, IL, USA

Flaming wing. Quiet. Traveling east to west.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-22
Where
Beecher, IL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.341, -87.621 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-beecher-il-2016-8699cd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Beecher, IL shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 156 reports came from Illinois in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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