CaseChanging2019

Benld, IL, USA

UFO 3 flying in synchronized up down side ways one part of formation left left huge cloud line going up

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-02-17
Where
Benld, IL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
39.093, -89.804 · exact
Slug
changing-over-benld-il-2019-8eafbd
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

  • Benld, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 166 reports came from Illinois in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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