Palatine, IL, USA
6/24/05 Friday night at 10:40pm. I observed a formated shape in the sky that I knew was not from any country.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-24
- Where
- Palatine, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- parking lot
- Geo
- 42.110, -88.034 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-palatine-il-2005-46a922
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
- Palatine, IL shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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