UFOMYST
CaseOval2011

Lakewood, IL, USA

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Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-18
Where
Lakewood, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 SECONDS
Geo
42.229, -88.355 · exact
Slug
oval-over-lakewood-il-2011-50356d
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

  • Lakewood, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 219 reports came from Illinois in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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