CaseDiamond2012
Brookfield, IL, USA
About 20 orange lights crossing the sky flying mostly in groups of 4
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-23
- Where
- Brookfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.824, -87.852 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-brookfield-il-2012-042bfc
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Brookfield, IL.
- This case is one of 270 Illinois reports filed in 2012.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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