CaseLight1979
Tinley Park, IL, USA
I wondered what idiot helicopter pilot was hovering so dangerously close above me
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-10
- Where
- Tinley Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- moments
- Geo
- 41.573, -87.784 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tinley-park-il-1979-a54dfc
In context
- Tinley Park, IL shows up 159 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Illinois in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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