CaseLight2011

Elgin, IL, USA

bright white ball of light moving fast and smooth and silent

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-11-01
Where
Elgin, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 -30 seconds
Geo
42.037, -88.281 · exact
Slug
light-over-elgin-il-2011-6dd971
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

  • One of 26 documented reports from Elgin, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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