CaseLight2018

Henry, IL, USA

Very large orb of light making a quick downard zigzag motion before disappearing. It was a very light blue.

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 (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-22
Where
Henry, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.111, -89.356 · exact
Slug
light-over-henry-il-2018-fc07ff
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 2 documented reports from Henry, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 104 sightings in 2018.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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