CaseUnknown2005

Montgomery, IL, USA

a slow moving light too far to be an airplane that faded away

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-06
Where
Montgomery, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 min
Geo
41.731, -88.346 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-montgomery-il-2005-1257bc
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

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Montgomery, IL.
  • This case is one of 209 Illinois reports filed in 2005.

Report

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