UFOMYST
CaseChevron2012

Bloomington, IL, USA

A V-shaped craft with about 6 lights on each "wing" above Bloomington IL.

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-09
Where
Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
30-45 seconds
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-bloomington-il-2012-d34e5f
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Bloomington, IL reports filed in March 2012.

In context

  • Bloomington, IL shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 270 reports came from Illinois in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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