Woodridge, IL, USA
Bright orange light in sky. Got out cell phones to take pic & bright beam of light shot down from sky as I clicked pic IMG_0428.JPG.
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 (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-23
- Where
- Woodridge, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 41.747, -88.050 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-woodridge-il-2016-fd0b26
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
- Woodridge, IL has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 156 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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