Wheeling, IL, USA
Unable to notice any shape. White light with hovering then fast jolty movement. There was only 1 light. Starless night with a full moon
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-24
- Where
- Wheeling, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 hrs. Approx.
- Geo
- 42.139, -87.929 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wheeling-il-2021-4d6531
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
- Wheeling, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Illinois in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% 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.