UFOMYST
CaseFlash2005

Carthage, IL, USA

it looked like a big roman candle shooting off

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-14
Where
Carthage, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.416, -91.136 · exact
Slug
flash-over-carthage-il-2005-f2bf98
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Carthage, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 209 sightings in 2005.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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