Jacksonville, IL, USA
A line of fast moving lights coming from the north west all disappeared into the same location. ((Starlink satellites?))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-26
- Where
- Jacksonville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 39.734, -90.229 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jacksonville-il-2020-8280c9
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
- One of 11 documented reports from Jacksonville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 169 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 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.