UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

Lincoln, IL, USA

Light(s) near a hot air balloon during a balloon festival at Logan Co. Airport. ((NUFORC Note: Possible lens flares? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-08-27
Where
Lincoln, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
at least 1 second
Geo
40.148, -89.365 · exact
Slug
light-over-lincoln-il-2010-c24879
Wave

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  • 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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Lincoln, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 208 sightings in 2010.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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