CaseCross2015

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
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

  • 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 days

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