UFOMYST
CaseFlash2005

Oak Forest, IL, USA

I observed a flashing, erratically wandering light in the sky south of my back yard.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-02
Where
Oak Forest, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 MIN
Geo
41.603, -87.744 · exact
Slug
flash-over-oak-forest-il-2005-3e1d50
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

  • Oak Forest, IL has 35 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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