Kankakee (approx. 5 mi. S of), IL, USA
I was traveling north on I-57 just south of Kankakee, IL. I saw a single bright white light that either moved straight down or straight
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-18
- Where
- Kankakee (approx. 5 mi. S of), IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 41.120, -87.861 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-kankakee-approx-5-mi-s-of-il-2008-226730
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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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
- Kankakee (approx. 5 mi. S of), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 167 reports came from Illinois in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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