CaseCircle2019

Lockport, IL, USA

I first saw 2 faint yellow lights chasing each other east through the sky. 10 minutes later I saw 20 similar lights flying in a perfect

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-03
Where
Lockport, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.589, -88.058 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lockport-il-2019-b1162b
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

  • Lockport, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 166 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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