CaseLight2006

Cambridge, IL, USA

Single bright light, zigzag track with abrupt course changes. Fast moving, no sound.

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-02-19
Where
Cambridge, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
41.304, -90.193 · exact
Slug
light-over-cambridge-il-2006-814ecf
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

  • Cambridge, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 144 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.