East Moline, IL, USA
Two star-like objects one flew over the top of me hovered over the top of me. Didn't make any noise real bright like a star.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-24
- Where
- East Moline, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.501, -90.444 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-east-moline-il-2017-7dfcc8
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
- East Moline, IL shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 93 reports came from Illinois in 2017.
- 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.