UFOMYST
CaseFlash2005

Joliet, IL, USA

A large flash in the sky, only for a short time.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-15
Where
Joliet, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
half second
Geo
41.525, -88.083 · exact
Slug
flash-over-joliet-il-2005-437d81
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

  • This is one of 33 reports logged in Joliet, IL.
  • This case is one of 209 Illinois reports filed in 2005.
  • Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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