UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Leaf River, IL, USA

Saw 7-9 very dim lights moving SW-NE very fast in line , no flashing lights like a plane. ((Starlink satellites?))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-19
Where
Leaf River, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.126, -89.404 · exact
Slug
light-over-leaf-river-il-2020-92f549
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

  • Leaf River, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 169 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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