UFOMYST
CaseLight2014

Mokena/Matteson, IL, USA

Five bright lights not in formation seemed to be flying quickly that disappeared within 20 seconds.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-02-25
Where
Mokena/Matteson, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~20 seconds
Geo
41.526, -87.889 · exact
Slug
light-over-mokena-matteson-il-2014-964748
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Mokena/Matteson, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 173 sightings in 2014.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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