UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

North Riverside, IL, USA

Attempted abduction [?] of 2 people in Suburban Bike Trail by a U.F.O. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-24
Where
North Riverside, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
41.843, -87.823 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-riverside-il-2008-8c65da
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

  • North Riverside, IL shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 167 reports came from Illinois in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% 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.