UFOMYST
CaseFormation2020

Granite City, IL, USA

String of lights in the night sky

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-12-04
Where
Granite City, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 minute
Geo
38.701, -90.149 · exact
Slug
formation-over-granite-city-il-2020-5dcae3
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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Granite City, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 169 sightings in 2020.
  • Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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