Minooka, IL, USA
Four lights were observed over Minooka, IL, exhibiting abnormal flight characteristics and lack of standard navigation illumination.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-06-21
- Where
- Minooka, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.455, -88.262 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-minooka-il-2014-2703d0
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Minooka, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 173 reports came from Illinois in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.