Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Five bright orange lights appeared on a staggered formation. The flew approximately 2 minutes this way. We noticed that two changed dir
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.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-03
- Where
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.241, -88.316 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-crystal-lake-il-2018-044b3c
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
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Crystal Lake, IL.
- This case is one of 104 Illinois reports filed in 2018.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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