CaseFormation2019
ELMHURST, IL, USA
3 lights in symmetrical distance moving North East.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-05-26
- Where
- ELMHURST, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.899, -87.940 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-elmhurst-il-2019-54022c
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in ELMHURST, IL.
- This case is one of 166 Illinois reports filed in 2019.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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