CaseLight2010

Bloomington, IL, USA

Light traveling at high altitude flaring into a bright "star" then fading again

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-10-03
Where
Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
light-over-bloomington-il-2010-23e603
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

  • Bloomington, IL shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 208 reports came from Illinois in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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