CaseFormation2005

Orland/Tinley Park, IL, USA

Odd lights performing maneuvers never seen before near Chicago.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-07
Where
Orland/Tinley Park, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
45 Minutes
Geo
41.573, -87.784 · exact
Slug
formation-over-orland-tinley-park-il-2005-1a6229
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2005

    IL flap 2005-09

    IL, USA

    67 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2005 peak months 9–10; top shape light

Flap

IL flap 2005-09

This report belongs to the IL flap 2005-09 — 67 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Orland/Tinley Park, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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