CaseLight2014
Berwyn, IL, USA
BRIGHT RED/ORANGE LIKE LIGHT CONSUMED ENTIRE LIVING ROOM.
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-18
- Where
- Berwyn, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 41.851, -87.794 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-berwyn-il-2014-7ba994
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
- Berwyn, IL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 173 reports came from Illinois in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.