UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

McHenry, IL, USA

Brilliant white light, moving from south to north over McHenry, IL. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of International Space Station. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-04-12
Where
McHenry, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutess
Geo
42.333, -88.267 · exact
Slug
light-over-mchenry-il-2012-dbf838
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

  • McHenry, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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