CaseFormation2004

Glencoe, IL, USA

3 horizontal equally spaced lights in the sky way too big to be an aircraft

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-30
Where
Glencoe, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 min
Geo
42.135, -87.758 · exact
Slug
formation-over-glencoe-il-2004-3d975c
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…

In context

  • Glencoe, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 220 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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