Rolling Meadows, IL, USA
Orb that pulsed on and off, that fly across the fly like shadows and if the go faster they light. They appear every other day here.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-16
- Where
- Rolling Meadows, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1601
- Geo
- 42.084, -88.013 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rolling-meadows-il-2015-80488c
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
- Rolling Meadows, IL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 182 reports came from Illinois in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% 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.