UFOMYST
CaseChanging2018

Pontoon beach, IL, USA

3 glowing dots that moved in formation of crescent type shape 20 seconds and glowing yellow orange. Dots were originally whitish-blue.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-17
Where
Pontoon beach, IL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2:45 minutes
Geo
38.732, -90.080 · exact
Slug
changing-over-pontoon-beach-il-2018-06c9e9
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Pontoon beach, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 104 sightings in 2018.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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