UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Kirkland, IL, USA

Reddish orange light that got brighter and dimmed out, twice, the second time getting brighter and dimming out even quicker.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-08
Where
Kirkland, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.093, -88.851 · exact
Slug
light-over-kirkland-il-2017-1469ec
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…

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In context

  • Kirkland, 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%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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