UFOMYST
CaseFormation2009

Joliet, IL, USA

traveling lights over joliet

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-04
Where
Joliet, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.525, -88.083 · exact
Slug
formation-over-joliet-il-2009-6d7af9
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…

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In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from Joliet, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2009.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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