CaseFormation2004
Tinley Park, IL, USA
3 bright red lights going into formation in the eastern sky. First in triangle formation, then one seemed to disappear. Then they slo
Report quality: High89/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 55 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-31
- Where
- Tinley Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.573, -87.784 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-tinley-park-il-2004-f22de5
Wave
Part of a wave
IL flap 2004-10
IL, USA
77 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2004 peak months 10–10; top shape light
Local cluster
Local cluster
October 2004 was a busy month for Tinley Park, IL: 57 separate reports.
Flap
IL flap 2004-10
One of 77 sightings that make up the IL flap 2004-10.
Explore this area →In context
- This is one of 159 reports logged in Tinley Park, IL.
- This case is one of 220 Illinois reports filed in 2004.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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