UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Machesney Park, IL, USA

15-20 minutes of Extreme light in the sky with very strange noises.

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-13
Where
Machesney Park, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15-20minutes
Geo
42.347, -89.039 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-machesney-park-il-2004-445a2e
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

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Machesney Park, IL.
  • This case is one of 220 Illinois reports filed in 2004.

Report

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