UFOMYST
CaseChanging2017

Oak Lawn, IL, USA

I'm not sure if they were just balloons. 1st one I noticed was going left and the 2nd showed up 50 minutes. ((anonymous report))

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 (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-15
Where
Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.711, -87.758 · exact
Slug
changing-over-oak-lawn-il-2017-abf250
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • One of 51 documented reports from Oak Lawn, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 93 sightings in 2017.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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