UFOMYST
CaseFormation2004

Orland Hills, IL, USA

3 bright red lights(triangular formation)seen from Orland Hills

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-10-31
Where
Orland Hills, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 min.
Geo
41.585, -87.843 · exact
Slug
formation-over-orland-hills-il-2004-de60aa
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2004

    IL flap 2004-10

    IL, USA

    77 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2004 peak months 10–10; top shape light

    77 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

Orland Hills, IL logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2004.

Flap

IL flap 2004-10

This case is part of the IL flap 2004-10 — 77 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Orland Hills, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 220 sightings in 2004.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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