CaseUnknown2019

Skokie, IL, USA

What appeared to be stars like the others in the sky. One started to move and stop. Phone pulled out and recorded the rest this is my 3

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-12-23
Where
Skokie, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
17:12
Geo
42.033, -87.733 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-skokie-il-2019-a2b35f
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Skokie, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 166 sightings in 2019.

Report

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