Morton Grove, IL, USA
White oval light circled around for almost an hour. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising lights?? Anonymous source. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 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
- 2015-10-29
- Where
- Morton Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 42.041, -87.783 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-morton-grove-il-2015-fdf2bd
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
- Morton Grove, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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