UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2015

Edwardsville, IL, USA

We saw numerous flashing lights in the sky which were very bright and continued for a long time.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-02-23
Where
Edwardsville, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
38.811, -89.953 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-edwardsville-il-2015-9e5c8e
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…

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In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Edwardsville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.

Report

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