UFOMYST
CaseLight2011

Oswego, IL, USA

I was coming out of the Best Buy in Oswego, IL . I put my two kids into their car seats , and looked up to stretch my back and from NW

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-02-11
Where
Oswego, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.683, -88.351 · exact
Slug
light-over-oswego-il-2011-b60d26
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

  • One of 17 documented reports from Oswego, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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