CaseUnknown2020

Brookfield, IL, USA

Walked outside to take my dog out. Looked up at the sky and saw several things that looked like stars moving across the sky to the sout

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-04
Where
Brookfield, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.824, -87.852 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-brookfield-il-2020-679052
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…

In context

  • Brookfield, IL shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 169 reports came from Illinois in 2020.

Report

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