Niles, IL, USA
State policeman & 2 others observed large lights that looked like on a water or tower, but no tower. ((NUFORC Note: MUFON case. PD)
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-03
- Where
- Niles, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Several minutes
- Geo
- 42.019, -87.803 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-niles-il-2014-9ac0ee
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Niles, IL reports filed in July 2014.
In context
- Niles, IL shows up 10 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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