CaseUnknown2013
Wheeling, IL, USA
Dark object moving VERY FAST, north to south, Wheeling, IL
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-02
- Where
- Wheeling, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 42.139, -87.929 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-wheeling-il-2013-5670a9
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Wheeling, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 173 reports from Illinois.
Report
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