UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Lake in the Hills, IL, USA

Small town Lake in the Hills, IL sees triangle formation similar to the ones over Tinley Park 4 years ago,

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-31
Where
Lake in the Hills, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-5 minutes
Geo
42.182, -88.330 · exact
Slug
light-over-lake-in-the-hills-il-2008-77689f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Lake in the Hills, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 167 sightings in 2008.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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