CaseLight2017
Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Not a satellite. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 27s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-28
- Where
- Oak Lawn, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 27 seconds
- Geo
- 41.711, -87.758 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oak-lawn-il-2017-105507
Wave
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
- This is one of 51 reports logged in Oak Lawn, IL.
- This case is one of 93 Illinois reports filed in 2017.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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