CaseCigar2014

Mokena, IL, USA

My wife and I were siting outside when 3 cigar shaped neon blue lights about 7 to 10 feet long came out of no where very brite, traveli

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-12
Where
Mokena, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1-3 minutes
Geo
41.526, -87.889 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-mokena-il-2014-10bf66
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

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Mokena, IL.
  • This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2014.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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