UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2008

McHenry, IL, USA

I saw some lights in the back yard and grabbed my camera to take pictures. The pictures just looked black after I took them so I never

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-23
Where
McHenry, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 Minute
Geo
42.333, -88.267 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mchenry-il-2008-216c57
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of McHenry, IL in April 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • McHenry, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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