UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Wilmington, IL, USA

I don't know what it is but it's ongoing and seemingly harmless, at this time

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-21
Where
Wilmington, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Ungoing
Geo
41.308, -88.147 · exact
Slug
flash-over-wilmington-il-2017-f63665
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 4 reports logged in Wilmington, IL.
  • This case is one of 93 Illinois reports filed in 2017.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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