CaseFlash2019

Lansing, IL, USA

A red blinking object hovering in sky and then moving erratically north to south. Object hovered, descended, rose and flew In circle.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-07-04
Where
Lansing, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.565, -87.539 · exact
Slug
flash-over-lansing-il-2019-5d6e4c
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Lansing, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 166 sightings in 2019.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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