CaseLight2008

not in one, IL, USA

it was a bright green square light that moved with incredible speed and changed direction in straight lines

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-14
Where
not in one, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 second
Geo
Slug
light-over-not-in-one-il-2008-d1522c
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…

In context

  • not in one, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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