Chicago Ridge, IL, USA
Bright light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising light? Celestial body?? PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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 (24 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-04-12
- Where
- Chicago Ridge, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.701, -87.779 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chicago-ridge-il-2007-f3774c
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 5 reports logged in Chicago Ridge, IL.
- This case is one of 181 Illinois reports filed in 2007.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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