UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Ottawa, IL, USA

(a silent) streak of light, bright white, dropped at aprox. 80 degree angle nothing remarkable about the event, except with in 2 minut

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
2016-07-08
Where
Ottawa, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.346, -88.843 · exact
Slug
light-over-ottawa-il-2016-b25a6d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Ottawa, IL shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 156 reports came from Illinois in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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