Bartlett, IL, USA
I was driving and about to turn into my neighborhood and saw a cross shaped aircraft with white lights on the tips and one red and one
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-09
- Where
- Bartlett, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.995, -88.186 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-bartlett-il-2015-cf6d8d
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
- Bartlett, IL shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 182 reports came from Illinois in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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