UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Pontiac, IL, USA

four horizontal lights, dimly lit and flying in a unusual way

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-02-27
Where
Pontiac, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10-15 sec.
Geo
40.881, -88.630 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-pontiac-il-2004-14fd56
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 →

In context

  • Pontiac, IL has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 220 reports from Illinois.

Report

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