UFOMYST
CaseFlash2020

Bloomington, IL, USA

They seem to be looking for something.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-13
Where
Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Rotating around the airpo
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
flash-over-bloomington-il-2020-be0ae5
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

  • This is one of 36 reports logged in Bloomington, IL.
  • This case is one of 169 Illinois reports filed in 2020.
  • Flash craft made up 1.1% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.